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New 4K streaming boxes to upgrade your TV’s smarts
You no longer need to settle for an inferior picture or trade in your television entirely when it gets too old to run the latest apps.
- by Adam Turner
Home coffee that doesn’t cost the Earth
Automatic coffee machine allow the convenience of pods, with the flexibility and sustainability of grinding your own beans.
- by Alice Clarke
Review
Gadgets
Luxurious listening, if you can afford it
The latest headgear from French brand Focal is far out of my price range but it’s well worth a test drive.
- by Peter Wells
Latest smart displays have even slicker, stranger ways to watch you
Amazon and Google have refreshed their Echo Show and Nest Hub devices with new tricks that some will love, and others will be nervous about.
- by Tim Biggs
Sonos’ first truly portable speaker is a pint-sized powerhouse
The Sonos Roam packs a lot of tech and sound into a speaker the size of a water bottle.
- by Adam Turner
Samsung’s Neo QLED TVs show why new tech is a game-changer
Mini LED TVs have almost the same amount of lighting control as OLEDs but with nearly twice the brightness.
- by Alice Clarke
Printers have become an untenable grift, but they don’t have to be
The days of cheap throwaway printers with extortionately priced ink cartridges may well be over.
- by Krishan Sharma
Analysis
Streaming
Lockdown didn’t save live broadcast TV as streaming, catch-up surges
While 2020 was the year of the Streaming binge, it seems we also developed an insatiable appetite for catch up TV during lockdown.
- by Adam Turner
A new generation of Wi-Fi to improve your home network
The technology, Wi-Fi 6, is designed to reduce congestion from devices. We put it to the test.
- by Brian X. Chen
Future bright for TVs with new display tech (and jargon) in 2021
As high-end OLED TVs get brighter, the introduction of miniLED also means less expensive LCD sets will look better than ever.
- by Krishan Sharma