Popular science began writing about technology more than 150 years ago. There was no such thing as “gadgets” when we published our first issue in 1872, but if there had been, our mission to demystify the world of innovation for everyday readers means we’d have been all over it. Here in the present, PopSci is fully committed to helping readers navigate the increasingly daunting array of devices on the market right now.

Our writers and editors have combined decades of experience covering and reviewing consumer electronics. We each have our own obsessive specialties—from high-end audio to video games to cameras and more—but when we review devices outside of our immediate wheelhouses, we do our best to seek out trusted voices and opinions to help people make the very best the recommendations. We know we don’t know everything, but we’re happy to live through the analysis paralysis that internet shopping can induce so readers don’t have to.

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