A half wall of patterned peel-and-stick tiles in senior staff writer Elissa Sanci’s powder room. Elissa Sanci/NYT Wirecutter Measure your space and factor in extra materials Most retailers offer handy charts or calculators for determining how many tiles or packs you need to purchase, but to be safe, most recommend ordering at least 15% more…
This is an ode to the toggle bolt, an elegant and inexpensive fix for wobbly towel bars, not-so-floating shelves, and any other fixture that needs to hold some weight on a hollow wall. For less than $1 per bolt, I’ve purchased my freedom from wiggly wall mounts. The loose towel bar in my bathroom was…
Photo: Elissa Sanci This air mattress has six inflatable chambers that allow it to fit into a wider range of cars, including sedan back seats. It includes a car-compatible air pump, along with two inflatable pillows and a piece that fills the backseat footwells. The first thing you need to transform your car into a…
An AV receiver combines source switching, audio (and sometimes video) processing, speaker amplification, and volume control in one box. Think of it as the traffic cop of your audio-video system, routing video from your sources to your display and sending audio to your speakers. After you plug your source components—your media streamer, gaming console, cable…
The Amazfit GTS 4 Mini was an intriguing budget option, but after a promising start, it soon faltered. The GTS 4 Mini accurately tracks distance runs, and it advertises a 15-day battery life (in non-GPS mode). And it costs less than the Garmin Forerunner 45, our budget pick. But the band feels flimsy, and the…
Photo: Marki Williams Top pick This easy-to-use tracker is comfortable to wear all day and provides accurate measurements, without too much clutter on the homescreen. The Fitbit Inspire 3 gives precise readings, has a good battery life, and includes plenty of features to appease people with varying health goals. In some ways it’s a throwback,…
Most companies put two main surfactants in their dish liquid: sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) and sodium lauryl ether sulfate (SLES). As surfactant expert Brian Grady explained, SLES is a modified version of SLS, and it has the benefit of creating less soap scum. These surfactants aren’t a concern in and of themselves, but when you…
The signature symptom of long COVID and ME/CFS is post-exertional malaise—a worsening of symptoms following overexertion. Post-exertional malaise is under-recognized and poorly understood among medical experts, but a few key clues indicate what is happening. One way researchers study post-exertional malaise is by using a two-day cardiopulmonary-exercise test, in which patients exercise to exhaustion twice…
Cost Cost permonth Cost peraccountper month One-month individual plan $4 $4 $4 Three-month individual plan $8 $2.67 $2.67 12-month individual plan $20 $1.67 $1.67 12-month family plan (up to eight members) $35 $2.92 Between $1.46 (for two people) and $0.37 (for eight people) 12-month individual plan w/Expansion Pass $50 $4.17 $4.17 12-month family plan…
Soidram These cotton and nylon bags are neither too big nor too small and make perfect travel pouches for anything from toiletries to airplane snacks. A friend recently gifted Samantha and her daughter each a set of these green-and-pink Checkered Makeup Bags, and, well, they were a surprise hit, especially for a self-described pouch aficionado….