All the Gear We Loved This Month

This desktop docking solution has all the ports you’d ever need and then some. Got a bunch of stuff you routinely plug into your MacBook Pro? There are five of the traditional rectangular USB 3.0 ports. It’s got Firewire 800, S/PDIF, a headset jack and a full-sized SD card adapter for photo enthusiasts. You can plug a total of six devices in series to one TB port on a laptop. And it doesn’t end there. At $300, think of the dock as an investment. You’ll wanna use it for a while to get your money's worth, but the utility it offers is worth the price. Read the full review.

Airports are making it harder to use a smart suitcase as your luggage of choice, but if you still think that owning a smart suitcase is worth it, the Away is a great option. It’s attractive and durable with a hard polycarbonate shell. At seven pounds, it may not be as light as some other pieces of luggage, but it’s still pretty light, especially considering the Away’s enticing price point. When your phone dies and you’re stranded in the airport, the battery-charged Away Carry-On has got your back twice with two USB outputs and one micro USB input. And compared to its competitors, $225 is a steal. Read the full review.

Moog is testing the waters of percussion with its newest product, the Drummer From Another Mother. It’s a monophonic, semi-modular, analog percussion synthesizer, but you can think of it like a drum machine. What you need to know is that when you switch on the DFAM and start twisting the knobs, it makes really cool synthetic drum and percussion sounds—deep throbs, hypersonic plinks, and everything in between. You can explore its knobs and patch bays and synthesize your own beats for $599. Read the full story.

These cameras are attractive and unobtrusive, and are an easy addition to the Nest universe. They come with spectacular 1080p HD resolution on a 130-degree wide angle lens that covered the whole front yard, with motion sensors sensitive enough to be triggered by a tarp flapping gently in the breeze. A bevy of features, like video clips, make it more versatile than your standard home security device. Sure, for $160, it's pretty expensive, but how else are you going to watch your cat roll around the living room all day? Read the full review.

Your prehistoric ancestors would beam at the sight of these Stone Age–­inspired slicers sitting in your kitchen. The lightweight construction makes them easy to command, and the soft, graspable handles won’t punish your paws during marathon ­cubing ­seshes. The near-diamond-hard ceramic blades of all five knives—from the chef’s to the ­santoku—will hold an edge far longer than steel, so you’ll be able to shred through entire steers between sharpenings. Make your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother proud. Read the full story.

DJI’s latest drone, the Mavic Air, weighs a shade under a pound, fits in a jacket pocket, and is capable of flying itself. Its built-in camera shoots 4K video and 12-megapixel stills, and it can take 32-megapixel panoramas of your local park. That camera is mounted on a newly designed, three-axis stabilizing gimbal. Flight time is quoted at 21 minutes—impressive given the little folder's small size—and it hides antennas in the landing gear, giving the drone a flight range of 2.4 miles. The speed tops out at 42 miles per hour, a smidge faster than the Mavic Pro, and 11 mph faster than the Spark. Big things come in small sizes, for $799. Read the full story.

Yuneec’s first racing drone is nimble and zippy, as you’d expect from a remote-controlled flyer made to whip around obstacles and across the finish line before everyone else. It also has a neat “Flip-Up” feature, which automatically gets the drone facing right-side-up and back in the air after you inevitably crash it. The HD Racer goes on sale at the end of this year for only $180. Not bad! See our other favorite finds from CES 2018.

The Timex Ironman GPS watch is light, waterproof, and ready for all of your travel adventures. Use its easy GPS function to navigate a running route, with a battery capable of staying strong through 12 hours of GPS tracking. Review your data by scrolling through your workout summary on the watch, or upload them via USB to a computer. The Timex app connects to Facebook and Twitter, as well as fitness sites like Mapmyfitness and Strava. No Bluetooth, which can be a drawback, but for $99, it’s a great deal. Read the full review.

It would be an understatement to call the Nintendo Switch a hit. Now, Nintendo’s bringing you a line of cool accessories for it. The Labo line boils down to a lot of new games, and a lot of cardboard toys. You build the toy, attach the controllers and console, and use it as a new accessory. Think of the steering wheel you bought for the Wii's Mario Kart game, or the gun you used to use to play Duck Hunt. This is that and then some, all made of cardboard. The Labo line starts with two products: a "Variety kit" with several accessories for $70, and a robot suit for $80. Listen, being Iron Man ain't cheap. Read the full story.

With its 700-watt motor, Braun’s latest immersion blender blows through foodstuffs that lesser sticks can’t crack. Below the soft grip is a compression zone—push down and the spinning slicer moves closer to the bottom of your vessel, ensuring every last bit of basil and garlic becomes pesto. Squeezing the trigger speeds up the blades and takes your mix from chunky to smooth. No apron? No problem. Those funkily shaped feet are designed to keep splatter to a minimum. You can buy this mean blending machine for $150. Read the full story.

There are many things Gboard can do that your current smartphone keyboard simply cannot. For instance, with Gboard, you can draw a cat on your screen to view all the cat-related emoji, or you can draw a house to view all the building emoji. The shortcut to understanding the scope of its powers is the knowledge that it has Google built right in. That means you can search the entirety of the internet directly from your keyboard. You can translate words and phrases in real time from any app that allows typing. It supports voice-to-text in dozens of languages. It’s a pro-grade multitool in a world full of butter knives. Oh, and it’s free. Read our rave review.

Lenovo’s thin and portable Miix 630 tablet looks like a Microsoft Surface on the outside—but inside, it’s packing a power-sipping Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. Lenovo’s touting the Miix's built-in 4G LTE and 20-hour battery life as two big wins against the typical Intel-based systems. For $800, Lenovo throws an active stylus and a keyboard cover into the (ahem) mix, making it a tempting deal for shoppers looking for a portable, long-lasting Windows system. Check out our other favorite gadgets from CES 2018.