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Who doesn’t want their devices streamlined? (Rhetorical question. The answer’s no one.) Google Home Hub houses all your everyday gadgets—calendar, speaker, computer—in a sleek 7-inch display. Keep it in your kitchen; Google Assistant can pull up recipes and YouTube tutorials if, say, you need to know how to tie a chicken for roasting when you’re wrist deep in said chicken. Post it in your living room to play your favorite Spotify playlist and put your favorite photos on rotation using Live Albums. Or, keep it in your bedroom to get up-to-date weather and traffic updates when you get ready in the morning. It’s so handy, but don’t be surprised if you need to suppress the impulse to holler out Hey, Google when you get in the office. — Brittany Smith, Senior Editor

[$149; google.com]

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