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Motorolas wireless earbuds are better than most but still not good enough to buy Don�t blink, because there�s another new pair of earbuds promising the dream of true wireless on the market: the Motorola VerveOnes. Debuted at Mobile World Congress and on sale this month, they start at $200, and they skip things like heart rate monitoring and fitness tracking. These buds are all about audio, and to be clear, the name is just a licensing deal, as they�re really made by a company called Binatone. I�ve been testing the $250 version � the IP57 waterproof VerveOnes+ � for the last week. While they get a few things right, the experience is still a far cry from what you�d want from truly wireless earbuds.  Let�s start with the good, because there actually is some � in the right light. In these early days of truly wireless earbuds there are two connections you have to worry about: earbud to earbud, and earbud to phone. The VerveOnes are, in both respects, the best at maintaining their wirele...

Why the MiniKicks Still Win Everytime or my scooters are better than your bikes It seems that during the week in which my boys learned to crawl they also held a meeting wherein they decided that from that day onward the stroller just would not do. Even under the circumstances of extreme exhaustion, they agreed never to settle for anything less than Mommas back or Dadas neck. For a long stretch of time, we found ourselves doing things like carrying toddlers while pushing an empty stroller. Fools at best; suckers at worst. Eventually we just stopped bringing the stroller and embraced our temporary state as pack-mules for the tiny totalitarians.  One of the steps is acceptance, right? But then they got a lot heavier and a bit more reasonable. I decided to reintroduce the stroller as more of a royal livery--they could climb in to rest their weary limbs if need be, take a drink, grab a snack, and then disembark when they felt the need to stretch their limbs. Straps are never acknowledge...