Alex Cranz

Senior Consumer Tech Editor. Trained her dog to do fist bumps. Once wrote for Lifetime. Tips encouraged via Secure Drop, Proton Mail, or DM for Signal.
  • The Most Innovative Gadgets Of The 2010s

    The Most Innovative Gadgets Of The 2010s

    Last decade we saw the smartphone move from overpriced gadget to something more necessary than a laptop or desktop. We saw the e-reader settle on a design so perfect it’s barely changed in seven years. We saw games systems that made us rethink how we game and laptops that made us rethink what a good…


  • The Best Gadgets of CES 2021, and the Weirdest Ones Too

    The Best Gadgets of CES 2021, and the Weirdest Ones Too

    The weirdest CES ever staged is now over. But no one will be striking booths in Las Vegas or hustling out of $1,000 a night hotel rooms today with all the cool gadgets they’ve shown off all week. That’s because there wasn’t that much new tech shown off. Much of CES was a rehash of…


  • LG, The Best OLED TV Maker, Is Doing Mini-LED TVs Now Too

    LG, The Best OLED TV Maker, Is Doing Mini-LED TVs Now Too

    LG is officially getting into mini-LED TVs now. The company is known for crafting some of the most gorgeous OLED TVs on the market, and while its LED sets are respectable, they’ve rarely been lauded as much as its OLED sets. That could change with the new LG QNED MiniLED 4K and 8K sets.


  • Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman Is a Trash Friend

    Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman Is a Trash Friend

    Wonder Woman is supposed to be the best of women. This isn’t me starry-eyed about a fictional character and forcing her to be a defender and icon. William Moulton Marston created her to be the best of women. The character, besides being heavily rooted in Marston’s love of bondage, was also rooted in his love…