Samsung televisions offer various intelligent features and image enhancements, but some settings should be adjusted before use. Enabling the correct settings can improve the brightness, speed, and performance of your television.
The Samsung Smart TV runs the Tizen operating system, which controls the apps, menu, and other features of your TV. It is recommended that you always have the latest version of the software installed on your device before streaming any movie or installing an app.
The best way to manually search for updates is to go to Settings > Support > Software Update. Some users disable Wi-Fi after the update is complete, since advertisements, suggestions, and applications can interfere with menu navigation. However, you can still connect the TV to Wi-Fi periodically to install other software updates. Other gadgets, such as Roku, Fire TV, and gaming consoles, can be used as alternatives for app downloads.
If your Samsung TV appears dimmer than you expect due to its energy-saving feature. The Samsung model offers several features, including the Eco Sensor and Brightness Optimization modes, which can be enabled. These modes operate based on environmental lighting information.
To enhance visual quality, the user can disable settings such as Eco Sensor, Brightness Optimizer, and Energy Saving Solution. The features can be found under Settings > General & Privacy > Power and Energy Saving. This is done so the TV can maintain a consistent brightness level, which will improve image quality.
This feature will come in especially handy when watching movies, playing games, or watching sports, since higher brightness is essential for clarity. Users who would like to enhance their HDR settings can navigate to Picture > Expert Settings and select High under Peak Brightness.
Intelligent Mode is one of the Intelligent Features on the Samsung TV, enabling it to regulate itself. The TV uses Artificial Intelligence, which allows it to adjust brightness, color, and sound based on room illumination and users’ personal preferences.
Furthermore, the Adaptive Picture and AI Customization options are available in Samsung’s Intelligent mode. They allow the television to adjust the image settings differently depending on the content – whether movies, sports, gaming, or regular TV shows. The learning process occurs as the user regularly uses the television, gaining more experience.
This feature is especially useful for users who do not want to spend time manually tweaking multiple picture settings. Intelligent Mode becomes more efficient as the television gets used to users’ viewing habits. The option can be enabled under All Settings > General > Intelligent Mode and may be turned off at any time.
Samsung also includes an Auto Motion Plus feature that creates smoother motion on the TV screen. The feature inserts artificial frames between scenes to reduce motion blur. While this may improve motion clarity, it often creates the “soap opera effect.”
The soap opera effect gives films and TV series a look that’s too natural and unrealistic. Rather than achieving the desired cinematographic style, the scenes begin to take on a daytime television or live-broadcast feel. Many viewers feel this removes the original film-like appearance from movies and streaming content.
This setting can be turned off by navigating to Picture > Expert Settings > Auto Motion Plus. Turning off this setting makes the picture look more natural for video streaming and films. However, when it comes to gaming, a bit of motion smoothing could still make a difference.
Samsung TVs have built-in features that enhance sound quality without requiring any additional equipment. Modern TVs are quite thin, which can hamper speaker performance. For this reason, Samsung offers various sound modes and enhancements in the Sound tab.
Among the many attributes, the one that stands out is the Adaptive Sound feature, which automatically adjusts audio settings according to the environment and the media being played. Presets such as Standard, Optimized, and Amplify are provided by Samsung TVs to help users choose the sound profile that suits their needs. Furthermore, there are multiple EQ settings available for bands.
For customers using Samsung sound bars that support Q-Symphony technology, there is no need to turn off the television speakers, as Q-Symphony ensures the two speakers work synergistically to deliver high-quality sound.
Robotaxi companies have thrived in California, where the good weather, enthusiasm for technology, and sophisticated labor force have supported their growth for nearly two decades. But a delayed decision from a state regulatory agency is now slowing Alphabet’s subsidiary Waymo, the US leader in driverless robotaxi service.
The holdup means that Waymo isn’t yet allowed to expand into parts of Northern and Southern California. And, in an upside for riders, Waymo still isn’t able to charge California passengers for rides in its new vehicle, a pale blue Chinese-made car it’s calling the Ojai, which started picking up riders last month.
If Waymo continues to operate these vehicles in its driverless ride-hail service, they could be gratis until the end of September and perhaps beyond. (The company continues to charge for rides in its Jaguar I-Pace robotaxis, which make up the majority of its fleet.)
Unlike other states that allow robotaxis to launch testing operations and later public service without much, if any, oversight, California doesn’t allow the vehicles to hit the roads without permission. To put their autonomous vehicles on the road, companies require approval from the state Department of Motor Vehicles. They also need permission from the California Public Utilities Commission, which regulates taxi and other transportation services, to carry paying passengers.
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Waymo applied to the CPUC in January to expand its service area and to add its Ojai cars to its fleet. In Northern California, its new proposed service area would span from Sea Ranch and Sacramento in the north, through Berkeley and Oakland, and into San Jose. In Southern California, it would grow past Los Angeles into Thousand Oaks and Santa Clarita, and down to the Tijuana border past San Diego.
But the process has been caught up in an unusual amount of controversy. In May, the agency asked for more information about how Waymo responds to emergency incidents, like December’s San Francisco power outage that stranded more than 60 Waymos in traffic. It also asked for new details about how Waymo makes sure that unaccompanied minors don’t ride in its cars—a violation of state law. The questions came after a labor union representing ride-hail drivers filed a formal complaint with the agency about Waymo transporting unaccompanied minors.
Now, CPUC’s Consumer Protection and Enforcement Division and Waymo have agreed to a new extension through September 25, according to Terrie Prosper, a spokesperson for the agency. Waymo’s request is “still under review, and the elements requested for approval have not been authorized,” Prosper said.
Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe captured rare close-up images of near-Earth asteroid Torifune, revealing a snowman-like shape made of two joined lobes. Phys.org reports: The fridge-sized Hayabusa2 skimmed asteroid Torifune on Sunday in a mission that demonstrated the ability to deflect a potentially dangerous space rock away from Earth. A new image released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Monday could aid such efforts, as researchers say near-Earth asteroids vary in their size, shape and surface characteristics.
“The moment I actually saw this image and the scientific data — it really gave me goosebumps,” JAXA scientist Yuya Mimasu told reporters, adding the asteroid “personally looked like a snowman.” The black-and-white image, captured by a telescopic camera, showed what appeared to be two round objects joined together. “You can actually see the rocks… I really hadn’t expected to be able to take a photo like this, so I’m absolutely over the moon,” he said.
[…] Moving at a speed of more than 18,000 kilometers (11,185 miles) per hour, the probe was due to fly within 800 meters (2,625 feet) of the asteroid, but JAXA said it would analyze the distance later. If confirmed, the mission would be one of the closest flybys of a near-Earth asteroid ever. JAXA also said Monday it succeeded in acquiring data from three other devices that can measure the distance from the asteroid and examine the existence of water.
Toyota will invest $3.6bn to expand its San Antonio plant and shift some Tacoma pickup production from Mexico to Texas over about four years, adding 2,000 jobs. Trump claimed credit for tariffs, but Toyota did not attribute the move to tariffs and is not leaving Mexico. The announcement lands amid USMCA uncertainty after the US declined to renew the pact in its current form on 1 July.
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Toyota will invest $3.6bn to expand its San Antonio plant and move some Tacoma pickup production from Mexico to Texas. The carmaker announced the plan on Monday, adding a second assembly line, according to CNBC.
President Donald Trump quickly claimed the move as proof his trade policy is working. “That’s what tariffs do, properly used,” he said during a visit to Ankara, Turkey.
Toyota told a different story, or rather, no such story at all. Its announcement did not attribute the expansion to tariffs, with North America chief Ted Ogawa citing “confidence in the region’s workforce, innovation, and long-term growth potential”.
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Crucially, the company is not exiting Mexico. Production will shift gradually from its Baja California plant over roughly four years, while Toyota keeps building Tacomas in Guanajuato and the Corolla in Mexico too.
The expansion adds about 2,000 jobs and 2.5 million square feet, doubling the Texas site by 2030 and lifting annual capacity by 150,000 vehicles. It brings Toyota’s total San Antonio investment to $8.3bn since 2003.
Trump’s framing skips an inconvenient number. Toyota’s North American arm swung to an operating loss in the year to March 2026, with US tariffs stripping roughly $9bn from operating income.
Reshoring a line is one response to that pain, but so is raising prices or absorbing the hit. Automakers across the board are recalculating, with a dozen EV models pulled from the US market as tariffs and the lost tax credit reshape the maths.
The policy backdrop is genuinely turbulent. The US declined on 1 July to renew USMCA in its current form, opting for annual reviews, and is pushing to require that 50% of automotive value be made in America.
Toyota nodded to that uncertainty, urging a “quick resolution” to USMCA while reaffirming its commitment to all three North American countries. That is a carmaker hedging, not celebrating.
For Trump, the optics are strong regardless of Toyota’s framing, since a marquee brand is adding US factory jobs on his watch. His administration has argued tariffs and the shifting US market push carmakers to build domestically.
Toyota, meanwhile, is riding real US momentum, closing in on GM as hybrids surge and rivals’ EV sales soften. Expanding where your trucks sell well is a straightforward business call.
Both readings can be true at once, with tariffs raising the cost of Mexican production and Texas offering a growing market and workforce. The gap is only in who gets to take the bow, and the cross-border squeeze extends well beyond Toyota, reaching Tesla’s own tariff-driven sourcing shuffles.
Ubiquiti has released security updates to patch seven critical vulnerabilities in UniFi OS, including a maximum-severity flaw tracked as CVE-2026-50746 that can be exploited in command injection attacks.
The CVE-2026-50746 vulnerability affects UniFi Connect Application (versions 3.4.16 and earlier), a management software suite that Ubiquiti customers can use to automate and manage commercial building operations (including smart LED lighting systems and electric vehicle chargers) via a single interface.
“A malicious actor with access to the network could exploit an Improper Access Control vulnerability found in UniFi Connect Application to execute a Command Injection on the host device,” Ubiquiti explained.
The company advised users to update the impacted UniFi Connect app to version 3.4.20 or later to secure their systems against potential attacks.
On Thursday, Ubiquiti patched six more critical-severity security issues (CVE-2026-50747, CVE-2026-50748, CVE-2026-54400, CVE-2026-54402, CVE-2026-55115, CVE-2026-55116) in the UniFi Talk, UniFi Access, and UniFi Protect applications, in the company’s UniFi OS Server, and across a wide range of Ubiquiti routers, gateways, NAS, and surveillance systems.
Ubiquiti has yet to disclose whether any of these vulnerabilities were exploited in the wild before being addressed, but shared that six of them can be exploited in low-complexity attacks that don’t require user interaction.
Threat intelligence company Censys now tracks over 100,000 UniFi OS instances exposed online, most of them (nearly 50,000 IP addresses) found in the United States. However, there are no details on how many have already been secured against these security flaws or are honeypots.
State-sponsored threat groups and cybercrime hacking groups have often targeted Ubiquiti products in recent years, hijacking them to build botnets designed to conceal malicious activity.
For instance, in February 2024, the FBI dismantled Moobot, a botnet of Ubiquiti Edge OS routers used by Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) to proxy malicious traffic in cyberespionage attacks.
Four years earlier, in April 2022, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) also added a critical command injection flaw (CVE-2010-5330) in Ubiquiti AirOS to its catalog of actively exploited flaws and ordered government agencies to patch their devices within three weeks.
More recently, in June, CISA warned that hackers were actively exploiting three max-severity UniFi OS flaws that had been patched one month earlier and mandated that agencies secure their systems within three days.
Bishop Fox later demonstrated that the vulnerabilities could be chained to achieve remote code execution with elevated privileges and released a free detection script to help defenders discover vulnerable instances in their environments.
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Emissions will have to increase further, by more than 10pc annually until 2030, to meet the national climate target of a 51pc reduction on 2018 levels.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published the provisional greenhouse gas emission figures for Ireland for 2025 and what stands out, is that since 2024, emissions have fallen by 2.2pc, with reductions across Ireland’s main sectors.
There are still significant changes to be made however, as the data also found that if Ireland is to reach the future target of reducing the 2018 figures by 51pc, emissions will have to fall by more than 10pc each year until 2030.
Commenting on the findings of the report, Dr Eimear Cotter, the EPA director general, said, “This is the fourth year in a row that Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions have reduced which is welcome in the context of a growing economy and population. However, with just four years to 2030, Ireland needs to accelerate delivery and achieve much deeper annual reductions to meet our climate targets.”
She added, “The evidence shows that clear prioritisation and sustained investment can deliver emissions reductions. Since 2005, emissions covered by the Emissions Trading System, including large point sources such as power generation, have fallen by over 52pc. By contrast, greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, transport and buildings have collectively fallen by only 12pc.
She said this highlights the challenges Ireland faces in reducing greenhouse gas emissions across multiple sources, explaining that the priority now is on accelerating delivery in select sectors by removing barriers and focusing on low-carbon choices that are practical, affordable and attractive.
The reduction in emissions was as a result of a number of factors, including energy generation coming from renewables, an increase in the share of imported electricity, an increase in electricity consumption for road transport, a reduction in cattle numbers and the decreased use of fossil fuels.
While Ireland remains under allowed figures as dictated by the carbon budget, the assessment also found that several sectors such as energy industries and buildings are closing the narrow gap, while others, such as transport and industry have exceeded it.
Dr Conor Quinlan, the EPA programme manager, said, “Sectoral ceilings are intended to make climate progress measurable and accountable. The fact that some sectors, such as energy industries and buildings, are provisionally on track is encouraging, but the overshoots in transport and industry show that the overall carbon budget remains at risk unless delivery strengthens across all sectors.”
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As the point of contact between the lawn mower and the lawn itself, the underside of a mower deck sees a lot of action. Access to it is necessary both for cleaning and repair of key mower parts. While giving it a tilt seems like an easy enough task, doing it wrong is among the most common mistakes everyone makes with their lawn mower. What many don’t realize is that there’s a correct way to do this, thought it does come with some additional steps beyond simply tipping it on its left or right side.
First, disconnect the spark plug wire to prevent any unintentional starting. Slowly yet firmly pull the starter cord until it reaches a tight point mid-pull. At this point leave it and don’t pull any further. This closes the mower’s valves and centers the piston, preventing fuel or oil from leaking into areas it shouldn’t. Next, identify which side of the mower the carburetor and air filter are on. When you tilt the mower, these should be on the top while the muffler should be on the bottom. Only once you have done all that should you carefully tilt the mower on the correct side.
Now you have easy access to clean the underside of the deck after mowing, remove the blade so it can be replaced or sharpened safely, inspect the self-propel belt, or other key maintenance tasks. On top of that, you’re not at risk of sending any fluids out of the machine or into any sensitive internal areas of the mower. If this tilting process is a bit too involved, though, there is a quicker and easier yet imperfect alternative.
As safe and effective as the aforementioned mower tilting method is, the preparation involved might be overkill for a quick underside inspection. If you need to get underneath your mower, just get a quick look around or remove a piece of debris stuck underneath, you have an easy alternative option. You can just push down on the handlebars to lift up the front end so the mower rests on the back set of wheels and the deck is revealed. This method doesn’t risk any leakage or internal damage, but it comes with some drawbacks.
For one, access is limited due to the presence of the handlebar. Sending the mower on its back wheels brings the handlebar to the ground. The deck won’t be able to tilt any more than around 45 degrees. That limits your workspace, and there’s the other limiting factor of the deck’s weight distribution. You’ll also have to hold it up while you try to work on the underside of the mower. Assuming you don’t have a jack to help out, this is a major hindrance for thorough cleanings or extensive repair jobs. You can try to tilt the mower back on a ledge, or other place where there’s clearance to push the handle further down and the mower can stand on its own, but not everyone will have that accomodation.
While it may not look like a big deal, tilting a lawn mower incorrectly can come with consequences. These are just some of the issues users can experience upon tipping their mower the wrong way.
Without taking the right safety measures to tilt your lawn mower, you risk harming its internal elements. When a mower is tipped on its side the wrong way, there’s a strong possibility oil will seep into areas of the mower where it shouldn’t be. Take the carburetor, for instance, where the only two things allowed in should be gas and air. Depending on how long the mower is tipped and how much oil enters that mixture, it can fail to start as normal or start with a big cloud of white smoke as the invading oil burns away.
If oil isn’t the problem when tilting your mower, gas certainly could be. If the gas cap is bad or not on correctly, gas could leak out while the mower is slanted, wasting fuel and making a mess. If you use pricier premium gas in your lawn mower, that’s even more money lost. Not to mention, mowers get incredibly hot when they run, so this is a fire hazard, too. Gas could also seep into the air filter, warranting cleaning if there’s only a little or complete filter replacement if it’s really covered. Before replacing the filter, the housing should be wiped clean to remove any residual fuel.
New Zealand’s government has ruled out banning or restricting VPNs as part of its planned under-16 social media ban, after PM Christopher Luxon and Education Minister Erica Stanford moved to quell a fierce privacy backlash. The idea surfaced via a report that Stanford had floated VPN restrictions; ministers now say it was never on the table, though coalition partner NZ First warned an early proposal could have led to VPN limits and digital IDs. The episode mirrors a global tension between age-verification laws and encryption tools.
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The New Zealand government has ruled out restricting or banning VPNs as part of its planned under-16 social media ban. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Education Minister Erica Stanford both moved to kill the idea after a rapid privacy backlash, TechRadar reports.
“I can reject that outright. There’s no plan to ban VPNs at all,” Luxon told reporters.
Stanford’s office followed up to say the government is “not looking at restricting or banning VPNs”.
The row began with a report in The Post that Stanford had floated VPN restrictions as part of the ban. Because a VPN can mask a user’s location and slip past network blocks, some officials reportedly saw it as a threat to enforcing age checks.
Accounts of how serious the idea ever was now diverge. Stanford says a ban was never considered, according to Stuff, though coalition partner NZ First reportedly warned an early proposal could have opened the door to VPN limits and digital IDs.
Whatever the intent, the reaction was swift and cross-partisan. Coalition partner ACT reportedly treated any anti-encryption measure as a strict red line, and the Free Speech Union called the concept “censorship infrastructure” rather than child protection.
The pushback landed because VPNs are not merely a teenager’s workaround. They are everyday security tools for businesses, journalists, and ordinary people guarding data from hackers, ISPs, and surveillance.
New Zealand’s under-16 ban is still being finalised, part of a wave of similar laws worldwide. The country was weighing its options as neighbours and allies pressed ahead with their own age-gating regimes.
The episode is a smaller echo of a fight playing out globally. The UK’s own under-16 ban has drawn warnings that parallel plans to curb children’s VPN use would force intrusive age checks on adults too.
The pattern repeats across borders, from proposals that could see EU lawmakers bar under-16s from major platforms to Greece’s planned under-15 ban. In each case, VPNs surface as both the obvious loophole and a line regulators are wary of crossing.
Enforcement is the recurring stumbling block, as even Australia’s pioneering ban has struggled to work as intended. Age verification has redrawn the internet, and governments are still hunting for borders that hold.
For now, New Zealanders keep their VPNs, and privacy advocates have their win. The harder question, how to police a teen ban without weakening everyone else’s security, remains stubbornly unanswered.
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The launch of Meta’s latest set of AI Glasses not only reignited, but also intensified public anger surrounding the devices. Critics have raised concerns about how the glasses are being used to creep on women and about privacy in general, especially since modders had already found a way to disable the LED lights indicating that the user is recording. Some modders had even turned removing Meta glasses’ LED lights into a business. Now, Meta is attempting to assuage people’s worries with an FAQ, where the company addresses the backlash against the devices.
In the FAQ, Meta explained that its glasses come with a white light called the “capture LED,” which blinks briefly when the user takes a photo and continues blinking as long as they’re recording. The capture LED, it wrote, has no off switch and is there so everybody around the user knows that they’re recording. But what about the workarounds users have discovered so they can record secretly?
Its devices’ camera will automatically be disabled if it detects the capture LED has been blocked, Meta said, and that safeguard has been in place since the second generation of its glasses. The device won’t be able to take more photos and videos until its system detects that the capture LED has been uncovered.
Meta admitted in its post that it has seen some people “go beyond using tape to sophisticated efforts to modify or destroy the capture LED.” It’s now updating its devices to disable the camera if its system detects that the capture LED had been physically tampered with or destroyed. The company has confirmed to Engadget that the software update is mandatory and is currently rolling out.
In addition, Meta said it has been removing ads, posts and Marketplace listings that advertise individuals’ and businesses’ capture LED tampering services. It vowed to ban accounts that advertise those services and to take legal action against them, even if their advertisements are off Meta’s own platforms.
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Collecting tools costs money, but savvy shoppers know that there are always deals to be had if you know where to look. Major retailers often offer special deals and sales that can allow you to get pricey gear at a fraction of the cost. These are constantly changing, however, so it’s always handy to stay informed about what deals are happening and where.
Right now, there are several different tools on sale at one of the biggest hardware retailers in America: Lowe’s. The big box store has a wide range of discounted products from some of the best hand and power tool brands on the market that are available for well below their usual MSRP. Several tools that received deep discounts at Lowe’s in June are still on sale today, such as the DeWalt 20V Max ½-inch Brushless Drill, but even more have been added to the sale stack since then. Thus, it’s definitely worth taking a look at some of the best deals available in July.
Craftsman has been considered one of the best hand tool brands on the market for decades, known for quality and reliability as well as its infamous lifetime warranty. The company hasn’t quite been the same since it became one of the thirteen tool brands owned by Stanley Black and Decker, but it’s still widely regarded as one of the better midrange options. Right now, you can get a Craftsman Versastack 242-piece Metric and Standard Mechanics Tool Set from Lowe’s at a steep discount. The set usually goes for $229.00, but it’s currently marked down to $99.00.
You get quite a lot for that price, too. It comes with a set of low-profile ¼-inch, ⅜-inch, and ½-inch drive quick-release 72-tooth ratchets; three extension bars; 95 sockets; 10 combination wrenches; two universal joints; 12 nut bits; 88 specialty bits; 28 hex keys; and a nut driver. On top of the tools themselves, you also get a hard carrying case with three removable drawers to store them in. Since it’s part of Craftsman’s Versastack line of products, this can also stack and interlock with other Versastack roll-out cases as well.
The kit has a stellar 4.8 out of 5 on the Lowe’s website from over 500 user ratings. Buyers generally seem to like the quality of the tools and the selection included in the kit. There are a few isolated complaints about ratchet failures, but these seem to be a relative minority.
DeWalt has a well-earned reputation for quality, and it’s often regarded as one of the better table saw brands out there. Unfortunately, the company’s saws tend to be on the more expensive side, which is why it’s always exciting if you can find one on sale. That’s exactly what Lowe’s has to offer, with the DWE7485 DeWalt 8 ¼-inch 15 Amp Portable Jobsite Table Saw available for $329.00, down from $429.00.
This saw takes an 8 ¼-inch blade and has a 15-amp motor that runs at 5,800 rpm. Of course, it has more going for it than just raw power. It has a set of rack-and-pinion telescoping fence rails giving it 24.5 inches of rip capacity, a power-loss reset feature that stops the saw from automatically restarting in the event of a power disruption, a blade brake, and a metal roll cage base for durability. The saw also comes with a micro-adjustable fence, a miter gauge, a push stick, and a modular guard system.
This one has a 4.5 out of 5 score that has been aggregated from over 400 ratings. The tool has been praised for its portability, accuracy, and performance. There are a few scattered claims of issues with bevel adjustment and dust control, but not enough to raise concern.
Another quality brand that you’ll find on the shelves at Lowe’s is Metabo. The company is particularly well known for its battery-powered nailers and staplers, which is why it’s so exciting that one of these models is currently on sale. Lowe’s is selling the Metabo HPT 2-inch 18-Gauge Cordless Straight Brad Nailer kit, which usually retails for $249.00, for just $169.00.
As you may have gathered from the name, this device shoots 18-Gauge straight brad nails between ⅝-inch and 2 inches in length. The nailer comes as part of a kit that includes an 18V 2.0Ah battery and a charger. In spite of the relatively low capacity, Metabo claims that the nailer can shoot up to 700 brads per charge. In addition to the usual benefits of being cordless and not needing to rely on a compressor, the nailer has no ramp-up time between brads, boasts an LED in the nose so you can see what you’re nailing, has a toolless depth drive dial, and is fairly light at just 5.5 pounds.
The Metabo HPT Brad Nailer has a 4.7 out of 5 rating on the Lowe’s site from over 300 buyer ratings. Customers like the convenience and quiet operation, and have stated that it performs very reliably. Some have found that it can jam occasionally, but this doesn’t seem to be a deal-breaker for most.
Pneumatic tools are powerful and affordable, but they’ll require a good compressor as well. One you might consider is the Craftsman Portable Electric 6-Gallon 150 PSI Pancake Air Compressor. This is usually $169.00, but you can currently find it at Lowe’s for $99.00.
Most of the specs are right there in the name. It has a 6-gallon capacity and is able to generate up to 150 PSI of pressure. This puts it in the upper range of the air compressor sizes that are generally recommended for most common pneumatic tools. It does this using a single-phase 120V 12-amp motor with an oil-free pump. It has dual gauges for pressure control, two quick couplers so you can run two tools at once, a large regulator knob, and rubberized feet. This Craftsman compressor runs at 85 decibels, according to the company.
This compressor has a 4.5 out of 5 rating on the Lowe’s site from more than 700 responses. Customers generally like how compact, lightweight, and effective it is, stating that it’s strong enough for tire inflation and general work projects. Most seem generally pleased with the overall performance, and the biggest complaints appear to be primarily from people who aren’t keen on how loud it is.
Those looking to take on bite-sized projects might really only need a small tool, and that’s where Dremel excels. The Bosch-owned company specializes in handheld rotary tools and specialized bits, focusing on precision rather than raw power. Another great deal available at Lowe’s is the Dremel Blueprint 12V Oscillating Multi-Tool – a tool that can be used for cutting, scraping, sanding, polishing, and more. This would usually run you $139.00, but you can get it now for just $79.00.
This comes in a seven-piece kit that comes with the 12V 2.0Ah battery and charger that you need to run it and 10 swappable accessories to get you started. These include scraping and cutting blades as well as several sanding pads. Don’t let the 12V battery fool you, though: This tool has variable speed settings and can generate anywhere from 5,000 to 20,000 oscillations per minute. It’s designed to make accessory swaps easy and has a backlit LED panel for added control. This panel also has a battery gauge to let you know when you’re nearly out of juice.
This one has only managed to accumulate 52 ratings so far at the time of writing, but the average score of those reviews is an impressive 4.9 out of 5. Customers generally consider it to be precise, lightweight, intuitive, and easy to use.
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