Sleep & wellness

A pre-production leg-crawling massager that gave the deepest leg massage he has had, though it is intense.

A powerful hands-free robotic foam roller that covers your whole back efficiently and felt great.

The best under-desk elliptical he has tried: silent, low impact and easy to move, though the display feels dated.

Attractive, feature-rich alarm clock with a good app-blocking Drift feature, but Drift needs a $10 monthly subscription.

He owns one and sees a temperature-controlled bed as an easier fix than a fan.

His top pick: powerful leg compression recovery that works and showed him something he didn't know existed.

Scalp massagers that give tingles across the body in the best way.

Kept in the cinema room wellness section for football injuries.

They have fallen in love with these masks, which use red and blue light to clear skin.

Helped with snoring but too uncomfortable to be more than a temporary fix.

Fun for listening to music but did nothing for his sleep, and his wife hated the noise.

Temperature control helps him sleep through the night, a mild assist rather than a main driver.

A sleep headband using acoustic stimulation that he finds squishy and likely comfy, with testing still to come.

A red and blue light mask with massage that he has only just started using but expects to love as a wind-down tool.

A vibration mat for the bed that he is sceptical of but willing to test.

Painful headband that shocks at random intervals; he gave it 1 out of 10.

Surprisingly comfortable, well made and left him feeling warm and alert.

Looks freakish but kneads firmly and feels good, so he says it would be worth it.

A clever inflating duvet that makes the bed to hotel standard, but its temperature control and build trail Eight Sleep.

Over-delivered as a massager, but duplicates the car's own seats and the wire is awkward.

A mainstream $50 purifier that takes some thickness out of the smoke, but only managed about 30%.

The $1,000 Dyson cleared all the smoke in about seven minutes and he called it insane.

A bone-conduction snoring pillow that never arrived and showed plenty of red flags in its listing.

High-maintenance and awkward to install, but the rolling back massage is superb and earns 9.5 out of 10.