{"id":654095,"date":"2026-06-23T14:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/654095\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T14:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:09:12","slug":"our-editors-favorite-50-gadgets-under-50-the-best-affordable-tech-weve-tested-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/654095\/","title":{"rendered":"Our editors&#8217; favorite 50 gadgets under $50: The best affordable tech we&#8217;ve tested so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe the most iconic cheap watch ever made, the Casio F91W is everything modern tech is not \u2014 and that&#8217;s why I love it. It&#8217;s small, plastic and honestly kind of ugly, but it&#8217;s functional, durable, accurate and lightweight. It&#8217;s not smart, not at all, but it doesn&#8217;t demand anything from me, doesn&#8217;t tell me when to stand up, doesn&#8217;t hit me with a shotgun blast of notifications every five minutes. There&#8217;s no computer, no watching eye, lurking within it. It just tells me the time, faithfully and comfortably. That&#8217;s it. And that&#8217;s enough. \u2014 Jeff Dunn, Senior Reporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maybe the most iconic cheap watch ever made, the Casio F91W is everything modern tech is not \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[786,219877,219878,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-654095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-gadgets","tag-gaming-console","tag-gaming-controllers","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}