The Best Gear to Help You Clean Up Your Act—and Your House
If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED
Despite the implicit promise of many a cleaning-product commercial, I have never achieved deep personal satisfaction from scrubbing crusted strawberry oatmeal off my kitchen table (thanks, toddlers!). Routine household cleaning is thankless, tedious, and begging for automation—the second you pick up the living room, someone tumbles through the front door and messes it all up again. But one of the best parts of my job is tackling the disaster swamp that is my house with the latest, greatest cleaning tech and passing on my findings to you. Whether you're looking for an air purifier that literally destroys pollutants or a sustainable way to get your cleansing suds, we have you covered.