Presto Nomad Review: A Portable Slow-Cooker With Serious Smarts

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In 2005, my friend Mike bought an old and unreliable Infiniti G20 sedan in England for the equivalent of $750, did some emergency repairs, then drove it across Europe and down to Senegal. That was a long time ago, and now that I think of it, I wonder if he ever showered on that trip. But he recently took one look at the slow cooker I was reviewing and immediately wished out loud that he’d had it with him.

“We had a plug in the back,” he said, reminiscing about cooking eggs on the radiator and eating uncooked ramen noodle packs. “This would have been perfect.”

Mike and I were marinara-making, getting ready to enjoy the kind of deep-flavored food you can make simply by letting something cook quietly over the course of the day. The appliance we used worked like an old-school slow cooker, but it looked like none I’d ever seen.

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The Presto Nomad is a short, squat machine that looks more like an Igloo Playmate cooler than a Crock-Pot. With a low, rectangular body, a large carry handle that swings up over the top, and eye-catching colors, it’s like they told a chef and a children’s toy designer who’d never heard of a slow cooker to invent one, adding one stipulation: that it be made to travel.

Slow cookers have struggled a bit trying to compete with the growing popularity of electric pressure cookers, many of which can also slow cook, albeit not always as well. Yet slow cookers’ convenience is undeniable: throw a few ingredients in a pot in the morning and return home to something with deep flavor that beats the pants off of most stuff you could blitz through after work.

In terms of cooking functionality, the Nomad is barely different from the slow cooker you grew up with. It has “warm,” “low,” and “high” settings on its dial. Its “crock” is a nonstick aluminum “cooking pot” that is heated with an element that runs around its sidewall.

The big difference is in the design of the thing, especially that low, cooler-like body, a large, flat lid with a glass window, and the huge handle that clamps the lid shut. It’s peculiarly interesting to see new life and whimsical thinking thrown into a staid genre by a company that isn’t known for innovation.

Like the Balmuda toaster, the fun, two-tone design of the Nomad makes your countertop a happier place. My wife Elisabeth took to calling it “the cute little red thing.” I think it’s going to be the belle of the ball come tailgating season.

When you want to hit the road with the Nomad, flip up that handle to lock the lid in place, tuck the power cord back into its slot, and it’s ready to roll. Stick it in the trunk or take it for a walk—then compare it to that old one in your pantry with its rattling lid and the way you have to hold it between someone’s feet so the lid doesn’t fall off in the car on the way to Uncle Charlie’s house. Yes, some newer slow cookers have clips to hold their lids in place, but the Nomad’s low center of gravity and one-handed ease make it much better suited to travel. As one Amazon reviewer put it, the Nomad is “the only way to eat ten sloppy joes in your car.” My friend Mike would approve.

Slow Motion

None of that would make any difference if it struggled in the kitchen, but in my testing it didn’t. Along with that marinara, I braised chicken thighs in kimchi, had fantastic mac and cheese for lunch several days in a row, and made a lovely Spanish tortilla. Every recipe I cooked finished in the recipe’s estimated cooking time. No dishes required special treatment. In fact, for most reviews, I take pages and pages of cooking notes, but I barely took any on the Nomad because it worked exactly like it should. I came to think of it like a new kid on the block who behaved like a grown-up.

One thing I learned during this testing is how the heat settings on slow cookers work, and I turned to an expert to help me figure it out.

“On the high setting, more energy is produced to heat the food both faster and to a slightly higher temperature than on the low setting,” explained Caitlin Huth, a nutrition and wellness educator at the University of Illinois Extension in Decatur. Huth explained that “low” and “high” settings are misnomers that might be better labeled “slow” and “a little faster.”

Really, if you think of the temperature just below boiling as a destination that both of them are heading toward, on most machines high just gets there faster than low. In the Nomad, it took just over five hours on low to bring four quarts of room temperature water up to about 200 degrees Fahrenheit, while the high setting took only 3.75 hours.

(Also, this isn’t a knock against slow cookers, but more of a PSA: during low-temperature cooking and while you’re transporting your meal, keep food safety in mind and avoid lingering in the danger zone between 40 to 140 degrees Fahrenheit.)

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Along with its portability, the Nomad features bells and whistles like a detachable spoon rest and a tiny dry-erase board and marker next to the dial so you can write “TUNA NOODLE CASSEROLE!!!” on the front and everyone will instantly know what goodness lurks beneath the potato chip crust.

The Nomad has some deficiencies, most notably that the height of the cooking pot makes slow-cooking a whole chicken or ribs—which are doable in a taller 6-quart oval crock—challenging or impossible in the 6-quart Presto (4 1/4 inches high) cooking pot, though there’s more room (5 3/4 inches) in the 8-quart model. I’d also prefer a glass crock instead of the metal nonstick, but that would make the whole shebang notably heavier and less transportable. For now, there are two models; the 6-quart is white and red, and the 8-quart is white and an odd tan color. I wish the 8-quart had other color options. I also wish there was a little “power” light to indicate that it was on; More than once, I turned the dial to “low” and walked away without having remembered to plug it in.

Really though, you’d get over those faults in a heartbeat the first time you packed it up to go tailgating or just walked it up the hill to the neighbors’ place for a potluck.

The Nomad isn’t necessarily the best slow cooker out there. It doesn’t have the programmability of most modern models. It didn’t work noticeably better or worse than others I’ve used in the past, but since it has the basics down, head-to-head testing isn’t the point. What I’m so enamored with is its complete rethink of slow-cooker design. The Nomad is blazing a new trail for slow cookers and I hope the rest of the industry follows.

Food writer Joe Ray (@joe_diner) is a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of The Year, a restaurant critic, and author of “Sea and Smoke” with chef Blaine Wetzel.

Man Installs Night Vision Camera To Catch Whoever Keeps Bringing Him Newspapers

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The perpetrators have been identified, but other questions remain — namely, why do these foxes keep bringing newspapers and phone books to James Eubanks? Well, that’s anyone’s guess.

Chances are better than not, however, that he’s not the only one being affected by these unwanted deliveries. After all, the foxes’ papers have had to come from somewhere, and that somewhere is presumably the porches of paying subscribers.

In other words, this revelation will surely come as welcome news to one local paperboy who may or may not be recently out of a job.

Qualcomm says it will drop its massive $44B offer to acquire NXP

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Google takes on Yubico and builds its own hardware security keys

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Google brings its search technology to the enterprise

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Microsoft’s Xbox Adaptive Controller Gets an Accessible Box Design

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When the Xbox team at Microsoft first unveiled the Xbox Adaptive Controller back in May, the design drew applause from the gaming community. The fact that a prominent gaming hardware manufacturer was directly addressing the needs of disabled gamers with innovative product design was a moment worth noting. The controller, called the XAC, is remarkable for its simplistic design: On top, there’s a D-pad, a few menu buttons, and two giant round hand pads. Its back strip, though, has a multitude of ports that will let physically disabled gamers plug in any kind of assistive devices they need. The XAC is expected to ship later this year and will cost $100.

But when it came to inclusive design, Microsoft didn’t stop with the controller itself. The company’s designers took a hard look at the packaging for the XAC, both the cardboard that would contain the controller itself and the larger box it would would ship in. Gamers with mobility challenges don’t just need a controller that suits their needs, Microsoft’s thinking goes. They should also have an unboxing experience that makes them feel empowered. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about one in five Americans is disabled, with more than 13 percent of the population reporting mobility challenges or a physical disability; apply those numbers to the gaming population as a whole, and that means around 30 million gamers have some sort of physical disability.

In a video briefing with press last week, Microsoft’s design team shared more details on the research it’s done over the past year as it has designed the XAC package. The company said it plans to use the insights gained from the XAC packaging for future box designs, as well. “We treat packaging as part of the product,” said Kevin Marshall, creative director of design at Microsoft. “Packaging really has the potential to validate and shape consumer experiences.”

Getting Loopy

One of the first design elements of the XAC packaging that will stand out is its many loops—rings of plastic or ribbon placed strategically around the package at key access points. Through its research, Microsoft’s team of designers discovered that a lot of gamers with limited mobility use their teeth to unbox something. This is not only frustrating and potentially disheartening, but damaging to teeth. But if gamers can get an appendage through a loop, they can use that as a lever to open a box or remove a device.

As a result, there’s a looped ribbon at the seal of the product box. Pull on it and the box opens. The box’s top was designed with a hinge deep on the lower back of the box, “so you don’t need a broad stroke to lift the box top off,” Microsoft packaging designer Mark Weiser said. Once the box is open, there’s another loop, a wide, flat one that protrudes from underneath the controller. Pull on that loop, and the controller slides out. On that same “sled” with a loop handle—the one cradling the controller—is printed the XAC’s four-step, quick-start guide.

To get the controller out of the box, pull on the loop, lift from beneath the device, or just push the XAC out of its shallow tray.

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If you order the XAC directly from Microsoft’s own website, even the cardboard “shipper”—the box that goes around the XAC box—will have a giant loop at one end of it. If you can grasp that, you can peel off the center strip of packing tape. After that, each side of the cardboard shipper falls out of the way, revealing the product box.

Getting the XAC out of the product box was another step in the process that was in desperate need of redesign. (Even gadget buyers without disabilities have struggled with unboxing. Apple is well known for its soothing and relatively hassle-free product extractions.) Microsoft says there will be three ways to get the controller out: you can lift it out using the negative space on the underside of the box; use the giant loop in front of the device; or use your hand to simply push the controller out of its shallow tray. The device’s cables also come in looped packaging.

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Weiser and Marshall said their team worked directly with around 100 members of the gaming community, across “multiple spectrums of mobility,” during their year-long research process. But they also stressed in last week’s briefing that they think this kind of design ethos will improve the unboxing experience for all gamers, not just those with disabilities. “We didn’t want to create something that was ‘othered’,” Weiser said.

Efforts by other console makers to create accessible products have been mixed. Sony’s PlayStation 4 console has settings that let gamers use text-to-speech features, remap controller buttons, and magnify text. Nintendo was rightly criticized by the AbleGamers organization in the early days of the Nintendo Switch for the console’s lack of accessibility; though some blind gamers have been able to play games like 1-2-Switch on it, thanks to a “rumble” feature that gives haptic feedback. (Portable gaming, in particular, can be challenging for vision-impaired gamers.)

Microsoft gained attention when it revealed the XAC not just because the controller itself is so intriguing, but because in the broader context of the accessible gaming world, it meant a giant tech company was paying serious attention to the challenges faced by some gamers. And that meant not just thinking outside the box, but also about the box itself.

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iLife V8s Review: Far From a Clean Sweep

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Designing a budget robot vacuum is an unenviable task. Most robot vacuums already operate within a very limited set of engineering constraints. They all have to be about the same size and make below a certain level of noise. The batteries have to operate for a certain length of time.

Within this set of constraints, the two dominant companies, Neato and iRobot, already offer affordable smart robot vacuums for under $300. You can buy iRobot’s entry-level vacuum for $299, and you can find Neato’s for a mere $200.

Can a budget robot vacuum offer something else that iRobot and Neato can’t? With the iLife V8s, the most obvious addition is a mopping function. Unlike with the Roomba 690 or the Botvac D3 Connected, you can switch out the V8s’s dustbin with a water tank and cloth mop to clean hard surfaces in your home.

But other than that, the V8s skimps on features. It isn’t Wi-Fi-enabled, so you can’t use it with Google Assistant or Alexa. You can’t check maps or a dirt detect function on your phone. It has a large dustbin, but it was hard for it to collect enough dirt and dog hair to fill it up. In sum, in the several weeks that I used it, this robot vacuum failed to convince me that it was worth it.

Run for Your Money

Setup was fairly simple: Just plug in the docking station and set the botvac on it to charge. I discovered that three hours on the docking station was usually long enough for it to charge fully. I measured the V8s at 12.5 inches in diameter and a little over three inches high, which makes it slightly shorter than the Roomba 690 and perfect for getting under low cabinets and furniture.

You control the vacuum with the included remote, which takes two AAA batteries. On the remote, you can select different cleaning styles—spot mode, path, or borders—stop, start, manually direct the vacuum, tell it to go home, or bump it up to max mode. You can also control it via several clear and easy-to-read push buttons on the top of the botvac, which are set underneath an illuminated LCD.

While it was running, I measured it at a relatively quiet 60 decibels in normal mode, which went up to 67 dB in max mode. Even on max mode, the V8s was able to operate for almost 1.5 hours without recharging.

Using the botvac’s buttons to set a cleaning schedule was a little like using predictive texting on a flip phone. It’s not hard, but it is time-consuming, and you find yourself irritated that you have to do it at all. First, you manually set the time, and then manually set the cleaning days. It’s a lot of tedious, repetitive button pushing.

I did like the vacuum’s mopping function. The water tank fits about 10 ounces of water, which was enough to mop my 12 x 12-foot kitchen. The water tank regulates how much water can soak through the mop so that it doesn’t soak a small patch of floor where you start it.

If you have an open floor plan, as I do, you can place the V8s at the edge of the imaginary barrier between your kitchen and living room, with the botvac’s sensors facing in the direction you’d like it to go. The botvac will then mop behind a virtual line starting from where it was placed. Unfortunately, the V8s was not great at detecting the edges of a low-pile rug, so I couldn’t use it to mop our living room automatically.

But other than that, the V8s’s navigational capacities were excellent. Although the botvac didn’t come with any barriers, I found that it didn’t get stuck, either. The robot’s 11 obstacle-avoidance sensors and three sets of floor sensors helped it navigate smoothly around my house. Its cliff sensors weren’t fooled by steps, and it stayed within the door jambs when I left the French doors open in the kitchen. In two weeks of testing, I never had to rescue it.

Dirt on My Boots

Of course, these great attributes are negated by the fact that the V8s was not that great at cleaning. Instead of a roller brush, the V8s uses tiny rubber flippers as carpet agitators, set around a small suction nozzle.

At a mere 5.9 pounds, the V8s doesn’t weigh nearly enough for these tiny flippers to agitate the carpet. It was ineffective at pulling dog hair out of our low-pile carpet, so much so that my spouse started using the push vacuum on our carpets and rugs after every cleaning cycle.

Each time I ran the V8s, it continued vacuuming for the full 1.5 hours until the battery drained. 1.5 hours should be fully sufficient to clean a 300-square foot house–some premium botvacs finish the job in around a half-hour–but I found high-traffic areas to still have dirt and dog hair when each run was finished.

One time, I ran the V8s only to find that it had pushed all the accumulated dog hair tumbleweeds out from under the couch, and laid them all precisely in a row where your feet go.

The V8s has a large dustbin capacity of 0.75 liters. At first, I was happy to not have to empty the dustbin once or twice during a run, until I realized that the V8s wasn’t filling the dustbin at all—even in my filthy, dog hair coated garage. I suspect that one reason for this was that the V8s’s suction nozzle kept clogging. Once or twice during a cleaning run, I had to flip the bot over and dislodge the wads of fur with a chopstick.

The large bin was also difficult to empty. The HEPA filter sticks down into the middle of the bin, and dirt and dog hair gets trapped behind it. I can empty most botvac dustbins by shaking them into the garbage can. But with the V8s, I used a cocktail shaker spoon to swipe out the dirt from behind the filter (don’t worry, I washed them both afterwards).

iLife’s Too Short

Excellent navigation is one of the most important attributes a robot vacuum can have, and it’s one at which the iLife V8s excels. It’s quiet, simple to operate, and well-priced. It also has certain thoughtful touches, like an automatic mopping navigation system that won’t cross into carpeted areas of your home.

However, if you’re looking for a robot vacuum to make a significant dent in the amount of futzy detritus lying around your house, you’ll be better served with another option. For just $30 more, you can control my mid-range pick, the Roomba 690, with your phone and get a much better clean.

So, I’m calling it: skip the iLife V8s. If you’re going to have to be a bot babysitter full-time, you might as well just pick up a Swiffer, and clean the floor yourself. Spend the time you might have devoted to digging around this robovac’s congested innards with your family instead.

Maglite ML300L: The Illuminating Origins of This Tough Flashlight

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Back in the early ’70s, an ex-cop gave Tony Maglica a hot tip. He told Maglica—a machinist who churned out artillery shells—that police had a beef with their flashlights. The torches, usually plastic, broke too easily. The former deputy sheriff wondered if Maglica could make something solid, maybe out of aluminum. Maglica delivered a product so sturdy, it did double duty as a billy club. Patented in 1979, the rugged light anticipated needs that cops didn’t know they had—and made the inventor’s company hundreds of millions of dollars. A twist of the head could adjust the beam from flooding a crime scene to narrowing in on a suspicious bootprint. And there was the ingenious mechanism that rotated the battery contact, scraping away corrosion whenever the user clicked the power button. By the ’80s, the Maglite was standard gear for first responders. And a scaled-down version—powered by AA batteries instead of burly D-cells—made Maglite a hit with consumers. Newer models often use LEDs instead of incandescent bulbs. But most cops stick with the Maglite they got as a rookie. The dents are a kind of semaphore, signifying that the officer is as experienced as their knurled aluminum flashlight.

Maglite ML300L

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Apple’s MacBook Pro Heating Problem Gets a Software Fix

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When Apple revealed its newest MacBook Pro laptops in New York City two weeks ago, it naturally emphasized the computers’ performance capabilities. Apple’s line of pro laptops is targeted toward creative professionals who do processor-intensive work on their PCs, and Apple was eager to appeal to them. There was just one issue, as some early buyers soon found out: In certain scenarios the machines were underperforming due to thermal throttling.

Apple now says it’s aware of the issue and is releasing a software fix to address it. In a statement released today, the company says it’s discovered a bug that’s been slowing down processor speeds when the machine gets hot. “Following extensive performance testing under numerous workloads, we’ve identified that there is a missing digital key in the firmware that impacts the thermal management system and could drive clock speeds down” under heavy loads on the new laptops, an Apple spokesperson said. “We apologize to any customer who has experienced less than optimal performance on their new systems.”

The fix will be available through a macOS High Sierra supplemental update going out today.

The fix will be available through a macOS High Sierra “supplemental” update going out today. It’s not just on the new 15-inch MacBook Pros running on Intel Core i9 processors (which is what many of the early complaints were about), but on all new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros. Apple plans to post the results of some of its latest internal tests—including a test that replicates a YouTuber’s experience running Adobe Premiere on a new MacBook Pro—on its website today.

The MacBook Pro software fix is the latest admission (verbal or otherwise) that newer models of Apple laptops may have scattered issues. It comes on the heels of Apple having to launch a repair program for the keyboards on newer MacBooks. But unlike the keyboard issue—which Apple has never apologized for and maintains has only affected a small percentage of users—the company is explicitly acknowledging here that it has found a bug in the software running on the new MacBook Pros.

Hot Metal

Apple first announced the new MacBook Pros earlier this month, in an airy Tribeca loft where a dozen Mac-happy professionals were on hand to vouch for the performance of the laptops. Initial reactions to the new machines (including my own) ranged from impressed—the 15-inch model is running on a six-core, Intel Core i9 chip for the first time, and can be configured with up to four terabytes of SSD—to sticker-shocked, since a fully loaded MacBook Pro costs $6,700.

There were also questions as to why Apple didn’t upgrade the 13-inch, non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro to include the latest Intel chips. This means that if customers want an Apple laptop running the absolute newest chips, they have to buy a MacBook Pro model with a Touch Bar. Buy a model without the Touch Bar and you’re running on outdated silicon.

But shortly after the new MacBook Pros began shipping, some early users and reviewers began to notice that their Core i9 machines weren’t performing as promised. It was assumed by many that the machine was being throttled so that it would generate less heat. One YouTuber, Dave Lee, demonstrated how his new Core i9 MacBook Pro actually performed worse than last year’s laptop running on an Intel Core i7 chip. He even ran a test of his new laptop in a freezer, rendering files in Adobe Premiere, and discovered that the render time was twelve and a half minutes less than it was when his laptop, well, wasn’t in the freezer. However, Jonathan Morrison, another YouTuber, ran a series of tests on two brand new 15-inch MacBook Pros—one with an Intel Core i7 chip and another with a Core i9—and didn’t have the same negative outcomes as Lee.

All of this happened after Apple estimated that its new, top-of-the-line MacBook Pro was “70 percent faster” than the previous model, all features and specs combined. (Apple doubled down in this claim in its statement today, repeating that customers can expect the new 15-inch MacBook Pro to be up to 70 percent faster, and the new 13-inch MacBook Pro to be two times faster, than previous models.)

Off Key

The software fix for MacBook Pros is also coming on the heels of “Keyboardgate.” Late last year writer Casey Johnston of The Outlinedetailed the issues she was having with her MacBook Pro keyboard, which were believed to be the result of particles getting stuck in the ultra-thin butterfly switch keyboards. Other customers came forward with their own stories of unresponsive keys on newer machines. Eventually, the company launched a free keyboard service program for any newer MacBook keyboard that has letters or characters that repeat unexpectedly or don’t appear at all; or if there are keys that feel sticky.

In order for something to be magic, it has to work in the first place.

At the MacBook Pro launch two weeks ago, Apple pointed out that the new keyboards were notably quieter (they are). But company representatives failed to mention one interesting detail, even when pressed by members of the media for more information about the keyboards: The keys on the new MacBook Pros now have a thin, silicone barrier beneath them, which was discovered by iFixit when the techs there tore down the new laptop. Though unconfirmed by Apple, it’s believed the keyboards were designed this way so debris wouldn’t get under the keys and the keys wouldn’t get stuck, not solely for the sake of quietude.

This may be a decent solution—you might even call it clever—to the sticky-key problem. But the real problem is larger, and that’s a lack of transparency on the part of Apple as to what’s really going on in the products it sells and how it’s managing the problems that arise.

You could rightly point out that Apple has always operated within a shroud of secrecy, so it’s not surprising that certain aspects of its engineering aren’t just blurted out in press briefings. But the recent issues with the MacBook Pro goes beyond the “magic sauce” it doesn’t want to share. In order for something to be magic, it has to work in the first place. These are premium products that don’t always live up to their maker’s promises. Apple sometimes openly acknowledges its products’ flaws, as it has now done with the software bug. But then again, it sometimes doesn’t.

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