Today
Ecovacs’ Deebot X8 Pro does a stellar job cleaning, until it doesn’t
Dirt isn’t the only thing robovacs need to handle nowadays – they must have the capacity to cope with complexity, too.
Yesterday
Fancy a robot to clean your windows? This one will give it a shot
It’s early days in the advent of window-cleaning robots, and they don’t do a terrific job. But Ecovacs’ Winbot W2 Pro Omni doesn’t do a bad job, either.
March
There are travel chargers, and then there’s the PlugBug Travel
Twelve South’s new lightweight charger is not without its flaws, but it does have one feature that could save your next holiday from disaster.
Apple’s new MacBook Air comes with a perfect excuse to buy it
There might never be a better time to purchase an aluminium laptop from an American company.
What does spending $18,000 on an Apple PC get you?
Mathematically, our Mac Studio is a Mac mini with a $17,550 dongle half the time we use it. But it’s the other half the time that might make it worth the money.
Apple prepares dramatic software overhaul for iPhone, iPad and Mac
The revamp – due this year – will fundamentally change the look of the operating systems, updating the style of icons, menus, apps, windows and system buttons.
Beware, this laptop battery life will leave you stranded
Acer’s new Copilot+ laptop shows Intel is taking strides to catch up to Apple’s chips, but it gives you far less time than advertised to use it.
Apple debuts new MacBook Air, Mac Studio with AI-ready chips
The tech titan has rolled out updated laptops and desktops, seeking to maintain a sales resurgence for the company’s computer line.
Apple debuts faster iPad Air in bid to sustain tablet growth
The tablets come in 11-inch and 13-inch size options, a new M3 chip, and are capable of running Apple’s suite of artificial intelligence features.
February
Amazon’s new Alexa is like an easier-to-use ChatGPT. It could be huge
The company says its often-mocked smart voice assistant has been given a new purpose thanks to generative AI. If it works as advertised, it’s relevant again.
Apple launches low-cost AI phone for the cost-of-living crunch
The new model will have enough computing power to run Apple Intelligence, and will bring communications in-house for the first time.
How I finally came around to Beats headphones
Apple’s new Powerbeats Pro 2 have the Lab staff questioning the belief that the Beats brand is just for celebrity-obsessed suckers.
Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Ultra is a perfect phone, with four slip-ups
Did the company fail to add magnets to its new handset just to be annoying? Maybe not. It could signal a broader trend we like to call “peak phone”.
January
A laid-back guide to Epson’s new home theatre projector
Gadget reviewing is not normally a privilege we would take lying down, but this cast an image so big we had to watch it on the ceiling.
Nintendo’s Switch 2 Is Here. Now it’s all about the games
After all the rumours and years of anticipation, we know what Nintendo’s next console is. It’s the Switch 2.
The biggest news at the biggest gadget festival wasn’t even a gadget
Nvidia has grown to be the world’s biggest company on the back of artificial intelligence. Now it’s giving back to the AI community.
Like clockwork, the world’s biggest gadget festival brings the crazy
The annual CES trade show in Las Vegas wouldn’t be complete without some gadgets you didn’t realise you needed.
PC makers spruik half-price AI laptops at year’s biggest trade show
The industry launched chips, PC graphics cards and laptops that it says will drive down the cost of running AI models while increasing performance.
Robot puts a sock in it for world’s biggest gadget fest
CES – formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show – starts officially on Wednesday, but already a theme has emerged, and it doesn’t take AI to figure out what it is.
December 2024
These were our favourite gadgets of 2024
Last year might have been the year AI made it into the public consciousness, but 2024 was when the new technology made it into devices.