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One of the great things about this job is that we get to write about all sorts of gadgets. Many times, the stuff that catches our eye isn't the hot-ticket item like a new iPhone, but the smaller, stranger, and sometimes more obscure stuff. These are things you might never have known existed, but they enter your life and change it for the better.

And looking at the list of top-selling gadgets that ZDNET readers have been buying so far in 2026, it seems that readers share our taste for smaller gadgets that turn out to be super useful.

So let's take a quick look at what our readers have been buying from the beginning of the year through April. Note: (Your privacy is protected -- we only have access to aggregate data from our user base, and there is no way for us to identify individual people's purchases.)