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I do not understand this chair

It started with a tweet from Roadshow editor-in-chief Tim Stevens. A picture of a chair that seemed to effortlessly skim the line between office chair, La-Z-Boy recliner, and Victorian throne. An utter affront to design, taste, and style. This chair: Stumbled across this chair online today. I find its middle-management, aspirational evil overlord aesthetic oddly… Read more

Best TV covers 2021: Keep your flatscreen protected from the outdoor elements and dust with a top sleeve

(Pocket-lint) – Putting a cover on your TV is the best way to protect it from the elements, giving you peace of mind that no harm will come to it if left outside. Most of the top outdoor TV covers are able to conceal your screen fully – including the bottom and back sections, whether… Read more

Spotify expands into audiobooks with Storytel partnership

Home News (Image credit: Spotify) After launching its paid podcast platform last month, Spotify has announced it has teamed up with audiobook service Storytel to let subscribers listen to books in-app. This partnership will allow users of both services to link their accounts and access a library of 500,000 titles from within Spotify’s platform. However, listeners… Read more

Amazon is shutting down Prime Now and folding two-hour deliveries into its main app

Amazon is shutting down its standalone Prime Now delivery app, with its speedy two-hour delivery options moving exclusively into the company’s main app and website, the company announced today. Prime Now services have already moved into the main app in India, Japan, and Singapore, while in other countries Amazon is already directing Prime Now users… Read more

Belkin’s $99 SoundForm Connect Audio lets you add AirPlay 2 to any speaker

Belkin’s new SoundForm Connect Audio is a $99 dongle that lets you turn any pair of speakers with either a 3.5mm or optical port into an AirPlay 2-compatible setup. In other words, it’s effectively an Apple version of the (now-defunct) Chromecast Audio. As someone who actually likes AirPlay 2, it’s a very interesting concept, especially… Read more

The PlayStation 5 is available at Walmart

Sony’s elusive PlayStation 5 console is in stock at Walmart. If you’re one of the many people who has struggled to get one for yourself, today is looking good for you, and it’ll look better if more retailers jump in with stock later today. As usual, Walmart might not immediately appear to be selling consoles… Read more

How Ford’s F-150 Lightning stacks up against the Tesla Cybertruck and Hummer EV

Ford has revealed its first all-electric F-150, the Lightning, and on paper it looks like a really compelling truck. It’s priced aggressively for an electric vehicle, has plenty of power, and looks to be more capable at towing and hauling than the cheapest gas-powered F-150s. But Ford’s not alone in developing an electric pickup truck… Read more

Deezer

Our Verdict Its ambition is to be applauded, but Deezer falls between the two stools of Spotify and Tidal and struggles to justify itself over either For Vast catalogue and device support CD-quality HiFi tier Envelope-pushing 3D audio Against No hi-res streaming Spotify does discovery better Tidal does hi-fi better Deezer appears to be stuck… Read more

Apple TV 4K (2021) review: The future of streaming or just more of the same?

(Pocket-lint) – The last Apple TV 4K launched in 2017. At the time it coincided with the start of the movement to embrace the growing trend of 4K content from the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime. In 2021 watching TV hasn’t changed that much, but we are doing a lot more of it. Subscription… Read more

The 10.3-inch Kobo Elipsa brings back super-sized e-readers

Kobo has a new e-reader out, and its the company’s biggest yet: the Kobo Elipsa, which features a 10.3-inch, 1404 x 1872 resolution (227 ppi) E Ink display, a bundled stylus, and the ability to not just read books, but to annotate, underline, and mark them up just like a real paper book. Gigantic e-readers,… Read more

Asus’ new Zenbook 13 offers an OLED display for a previously unthinkable $800 price

If you told me you’d found an OLED laptop for just $800, I’d have warned you against refurbished computers and deep-discount closeout sales. The inky blackness and gorgeous colors of OLED have not come cheap. Dell charges a $300 premium just for the screen. And yet Asus’s new affordable OLED laptop defies those expectations. The… Read more

Google details how interconnected Matter smart home standard will work on Android and Nest

Google is one of the major companies behind the upcoming interconnected cross-platform smart home standard Matter, and today, the company has explained how it’ll work to support Matter with its Android devices and Nest smart home products. To start, the company is promising that all of its Nest displays and speakers will be updated to… Read more

Amazon Echo Show 8 (2021) vs Echo Show 8 (2019): What’s the difference?

(Pocket-lint) – Amazon updated its Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 5 in 2021, with a couple of new features on both models. You can read how the new Echo Show 5 and old Echo Show 5 compare in our separate feature, as well as how the Echo Show models all compare in another feature…. Read more

With Apple and Amazon offering lossless streaming for no extra charge, what now for their rivals?

Home Features (Image credit: Apple) When Tidal began offering hi-res audio streaming in 2017, becoming only the second streaming service to do so after Qobuz broke that ground the year before, we didn’t expect hi-res streaming to be a two-player game for quite so long. Now though, not only have their rivals caught up but… Read more

Amazon PS5 restock today – 10,000 consoles sold in less than an hour

On the trail of a new PlayStation 5? Amazon has just finished rolling out its biggest ever PS5 restock but there’s plenty more ways to get your hands on Sony’s 4K console…