Grant Clauser

Nov 30, 2024 | nytimes.com | Grant Clauser

If you greet the Monday after Thanksgiving with back-to-work dread, maybe you need a Cyber Monday pick-me-up. Great deals on headphones and earbuds may be just the thing. Searching through Cyber Monday deals, especially for popular categories like headphones and earbuds, can be confusing and overwhelming. Some manufacturers have multiple very similar models, and not all of them are worth your money at any price.

Nov 29, 2024 | nytimes.com | Grant Clauser

With Black Friday in full swing once more, many people are on the lookout for deals on the headphones they’ve wanted all year. But you should show a little more restraint when shopping than you might have with that pumpkin pie. That’s where we come in. Black Friday deals, especially on popular categories like headphones and earbuds, can be confusing and overwhelming. Not only are manufacturers trying to lure you in with their best models, but they’re also trying to lure you in with anything.

Oct 21, 2024 | nytimes.com | Grant Clauser

Ever since the movie Poltergeist hit theaters in the 1980s, people looking for haunting evidence have turned to technology as a way to detect otherworldly presences. Today, ghost-hunting clubs and amateur paranormalists pack an assortment of gadgets, many of which are readily available from Amazon or specialty online shops like GhostStop (which also sells canned Ghost Meat). Ghosts are a booooming business.

Apr 2, 2024 | flipboard.com | Grant Clauser

5 reasons why I use Waze over Google MapsThere are plenty of navigation apps out there, from Apple Maps to TomTom GO, but two of the most popular are Waze and Google Maps. Both are free …

Apr 2, 2024 | nytimes.com | Grant Clauser

I was in my car, miles from home, when a panicky phone alert shook me out of my NPR haze: An electrical fire hazard had been detected at my house. Immediately I called my wife, who told me the house wasn’t burning. Then I called the number in the alert to determine what it was all about. The alert came from Ting, an electricity-monitoring service whose device I’d plugged into an outlet a few weeks earlier and almost forgotten about.