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Wyze Labs delivers features like an integrated light sensor and energy monitoring that the pricier competition doesn’t offer.

An immature app isn’t the least appealing aspect of this smart air purifier

For its next trick, Wyze brings its unique blend of no-fuss capabilities and rock-bottom pricing to the smart plug space. At $15 for a set of two, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a better value in a Wi-Fi smart plug. From a hardware perspective, there’s not much to see here, either compared to other smart plugs or to Wyze’s existing product lineup. The rectangular box offers a single three-prong outlet. A button on the side can be used for manual control. Maximum load is 15 amps, or 1800 watts, which is plenty to control small motors as well as lights. Only 2.4GHz Wi-Fi networks are supp...

The sell is simple: Rather than requiring four wires, this switch only needs three to work: line, load, and ground. Even better, with the Enbrighten dimmer you don’t need to worry which wire is the line (bringing electricity to the dimmer) and which is the load (sending electricity to the light fixture). Thanks to Jasco’s SimpleWire technology, which we previously encountered in its Zigbee smart dimmer, this Z-Wave Plus switch can identify the line and load wires all on its own; so you can plug those two wires into either of the primary wire holes. There are also no pigtails and wire nut...

Star Wars movie. It’s another smart air purifier, Blueair’s HealthProtect 7410i. The HealthProtect 7410i is a sizeable unit, measuring more than two feet tall and weighing nearly 28 pounds. Its upright design makes it a bit awkward to move around, but two wheels on the back of the unit let you drag it like a vacuum cleaner, albeit this is a bit awkward. Smart features aside, one of the unit’s biggest selling points is its ventilation design. While the typical high-end air purifier draws dirty air in through the bottom and ejects filtered air through the top, the HealthProtect pulls air ...