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Home office gear, smart home tech and creator setups, written up by a Queensland dad who actually lives with the stuff. No scores out of ten, no hype, no paid rankings. Just how it actually feels to own.

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Latest NewsAll news →
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Breaking
Honor Put a Robot Arm on a Phone and Actually Shipped It
A motorised camera on a titanium arm that pops out of the back, deploys in under a second and tracks you around the room. It launched in China today. Whether it ever reaches Australia is a different question.
More news coming
More news coming
Latest Write-UpsAll reviews →
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Laundry
PressCo Automatic Ironing and Drying Machine
An Australian machine that dries and presses a shirt without you touching an iron. In a house of six, the question is not whether it works, it is whether it earns the floor space.
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Desk
Journey ALTI Play Desk Mat
A desk mat trying to be more than a desk mat. Whether that is clever or just extra depends entirely on how much already lives on your desk.
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Desk
FlexiSpot H7 Pro Side Table
The maple side table that turns a single desk into a working corner. The useful question is whether you need more desk or just better desk.
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Lifestyle
SHADE Eyewear
An Australian sunnies brand out of Tugun. Queensland sun is a genuinely hard test, and most cheap sunglasses fail it in the first summer.
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Smart Home
Levoit Core 300S Air Purifier
The small smart purifier that turned up in Harvey Norman this year. In a house with a baby and three older kids, air quality stopped being a novelty pretty quickly.
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Desk
Orbitkey Desk Range
Three products from the Australian carry brand, all aimed at the same problem: the desk is where small things go to disappear.
Buying GuidesAll guides →
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Home Office
Home Office Gear: Where to Spend First
Most people build a home office in the wrong order. They buy the thing they can see on camera and sit on whatever chair was already in the room.
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Smart Home
Smart Home Gear That Is Actually Worth It With Kids
Most smart home advice is written for a quiet two-person apartment. Here is what survives contact with four children.
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How This Works

There is no score out of ten on this site, and that is deliberate. A number flattens the only thing that actually matters, which is whether a particular bit of gear fits your life.

So instead every write-up tells you who it suits, who it does not, and what it is genuinely like to live with after the novelty has worn off.

No scoresA number out of ten pretends to be objective. Whether a chair is worth it depends on how long you sit in it.
Time, not unboxingsNothing gets written up until it has been used properly. Months, where it matters.
Said plainlyIf a thing is not worth the money, the page says that, whoever sent it.
Disclosed every timeSupplied, paid or bought with our own money. It is on every page.
A real householdFour kids, a Queensland summer and not much spare time. That is the test.