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If you want to make your home more efficient, tidy and full of life, you can take a look at the few good items mentioned in today's article that are very suitable for home use!
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1. A Machine That Self-Cleans, Narwal T10
Robot vacuums have been scooting around our living rooms and sucking up dust for years now. But robot mops have had a few kinks to work out—most notably, after a few deep cleans of your kitchen, you’ll have to tidy up the robot mop yourself. The Narwal T10 ($549) takes its hygiene into its own hands with a self-cleaning charging station, where it washes and dries its own mopping pads with a refillable water tank. By swapping out the pads, you can also use the Narwal as a vacuum, though you’ll have to map the space’s layout on the device’s companion app if you want to keep it off the carpet.
—Patrick Lucas Austin
2. Meals Made Easy, CHEF iQ Smart Cooker
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The multicooking renaissance continues: after the Instant Pot brought food-prep machines to the masses, the Chef iQ breaks ground by upping the tech factor and making it dummy-proof. The wi-fi-enabled cooker features sensors, software and a screen to guide you through some 200 recipes, with more added every day. But the Chef iQ ($200) isn’t just for newbies: an internal scale, variable pressure and release, and a “ferment” mode make the machine highly tweakable for gastro geeks. “We’re still missing restaurants,” says Chef iQ CEO Ralph Newhouse, “but people have been able to use this to get some seriously good results.”
—Jesse Will
3. The Ultimate Indoor Garden, Gardyn
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If you want a garden but lack a backyard, consider a Gardyn instead. The AI-powered vertical indoor-growing system lets you choose from 32 fruits, vegetables, greens, herbs and flowers that will ripen right in your living room. Load the seedpods into Gardyn ($799, with an additional monthly fee for membership and seed delivery), and its companion app monitors light, humidity and soil saturation, keeping tabs on growth via cameras to let you know when the crops are ready. Getting kids to eat a salad is a lot easier when they harvest the greens themselves, so feel free to ask them to chip in and help nurture your new garden: founder FX Rouxel made Gardyn with parents (and the family dinner table) in mind.
—Marjorie Korn
4. Simpler Composting, Sepura
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Each year, Americans generate roughly 40 million tons of food waste—the vast majority of which ends up not in compost piles but in landfills, or down the drain. “It’s easier to throw things out in the sink than compost,” says Victor Nicolov, the mind behind Sepura ($580), an eco-friendly disposal system. “No one wants to deal with odors or the pain of having to scrape a plate into a bin.” The Sepura remedies the annoyance, turning your sink’s garbage disposal into a composting system, and making the entire process mess-free. Whereas conventional disposals grind kitchen scraps, the Sepura separates and collects solids in a stink-free, 2.6-gal. bin beneath the sink. Once full, the odorless bin is easy to remove and empty into a compost pile or collection box. Sepura expects building developers to be its system’s biggest customers, and plans to ship the first 2,000 preordered units in the early months of 2021.
—J.R. Sullivan
