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Top Picks 2025: Best Home, Tech, and Health Products

Our annual roundup of the best products we've tested across a collection of product categories—kitchen gear, mattresses, TVs, vacuums, and more

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Photos: Ben Goldstein and Manufacturers

Stellar performance and reliability. Smart safety features. Great prices.

Each year, CR puts thousands of products to the test. Many earn high marks in our ratings for a mix of these attributes. Those featured here are at the top of the heap. Some do their job better than anything else out there. Others solve problems you didn’t know you had. They’re the products our experts would personally recommend (and in some cases, the ones they own themselves): our Top Picks.

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Below, we highlight Top Picks in several popular categories—2025 winners that could make your life easier and more comfortable—from microwaves to comfy sheets, battery lawn mowers to televisions. We also developed a list of new, cool, and clever products that caught our attention this year.

For exhaustive product rankings—and a look across all the product categories we test and cover—dive into our ratings of appliances, home goods, electronics, health products, and more.

Coffee Makers

Dishwashers

Large Microwaves

Upright Vacuums

Mattresses

Sheet Sets

Battery Self-Propelled Mowers

Battery String Trimmers

Cordless Drills

Laptops

Soundbars

Televisions

Blood Pressure Monitors

Insect Repellents

Sunscreens

Editor’s Note: This article also appeared in the November/December 2025 issue of Consumer Reports magazine.


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