The Curator: Hosting for the holidays? These high-tech cleaning gadgets do the dirty work for you

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If there’s one thing I’ll gladly outsource to technology without looking back, it’s cleaning. And thanks to smarter, quieter, and more innovative tech, we can now hand over a surprising amount of the grunt work to gadgets that genuinely make life easier (and dare I say, a little pleasurable to watch?). Here are my top picks for this latest round of smartest home helpers — all of them high-tech, thoughtfully designed, and worth your attention.

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These aren’t just cool for the sake of being cool. Each one brings meaningful innovation to your daily routine:

When tech gets this good, “cleaning day” starts to feel a lot more like “relaxing while robots do your chores” day — and that’s a future I can get behind.