I'm Christine Zierclicette, and you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.

Hey, it's Christine.

If you read Wirecutter, you probably know that our writers test a ton of products, thousands of products in fact each year, from tech gadgets to home goods to everyday essentials.

And of those many, many products, sometimes we find absolute gems, things that we just talk to our friends and

family about, the things we say, you got to get. And we actually recently launched an award

for this type of recommendation, our best new picks awards, which highlights the best things we

tried over the past year. The new things our writers are loving, the things they just are gushing about nonstop.

This episode, we're going to hear from some of our staff members about the particularly

delightful, surprising, and useful things they tried this past year. And if you're curious

about the full list, which includes over 70 products, we'll link to those in the show notes.

Stick around. We'll hear from our

staffers after the break. We're back. We're back. and now we'll hear from some Wirecutter staff members about the items they tested this year that they really, really loved.

These are part of our best new picks awards. Enjoy.

My name is Brittany Ho. I am a supervising editor on the newsletters and programming team,

and I am very much obsessed with my shark cryoglough LED face mask. I will say from the jump,

it's like slightly terrifying. You strap it on. It looks like a hockey mask and lights start glowing and it starts like wearing a fan

it can be kind of scary at first glance but it feels like so so so incredible to use it's the best

five minutes of my night every single night easily the fit is really really comfortable it's a hard shell

mask so it has these straps that you can kind of connect

behind your head and make it so that it fits snug, will never slip and slide. I really like

that it hovers just over my face rather than directly touching it like other masks. So I never

have to worry about any breakouts. The mask also has these cooling iPads that come in direct contact with your

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