Home Gadgets
These home gadgets handle the chores you repeat every week with less effort and in less time. They're practical, rechargeable, and easy to store, designed to keep your home and your clothes looking like new.
Xiaomi Mijia Electric Lint Remover
Price range: $1899 through $3499It's a small device that helps you with a specific household task, like caring for your clothes or keeping your home tidy, without needing a large appliance. Ideally, it's easy to use, fits in a drawer, and saves you time from the first use.
Home Gadgets That Save You Time
The Xiaomi Mijia electric lint remover removes pills from sweaters, blankets, and sofas in just a few minutes. It has 5 blades behind a 0.35 mm mesh that cuts only the fuzz without damaging the fabric, and its rechargeable battery lasts up to 90 minutes.
What to Check Before Buying Home Gadgets
- Power: USB-C rechargeable models save you from buying batteries. Most use lithium-ion batteries, so it's a good idea to charge them even if you don't use them often.
- Battery life: check how many minutes the battery lasts and compare it with how long the task takes you.
- Care for materials: if the gadget touches your clothes or furniture, make sure it has protection, like a mesh guard or a height adjustment.
- Maintenance: check whether it's easy to clean and whether replacement parts, like blades or filters, are available.
- Size: choose one you can store in a drawer or take on a trip.
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Home Gadget FAQs
The ones that solve a task you do often and that currently takes you time or effort. If you'll use it every week, like a lint remover for your winter clothes, it pays for itself quickly.
Friction from wearing and washing causes loose fibers to tangle together and form small balls on the surface. It happens more with wool, cotton, and polyester blends, and you can remove them with an electric lint remover.
For frequent use, a rechargeable one is cheaper and more practical, since you charge it with the same USB-C cable as your phone. Disposable batteries only make sense if you use it very rarely.
