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It has a built-in camera that would capture your TV screen and analyze colors in real time and projects matching hues onto the wall behind. Explosions glow orange across your wall, ocean scenes spread blue throughout the room, and forests extend green beyond the screen edges. This reactive lighting creates immersion that static backlights cannot achieve, pulling you deeper into whatever you're watching. The fish-eye correction function improves color accuracy along the edges where older systems struggled.

Gavin is the Segment Lead for the Technology Explained, Security, Internet, Streaming, and Entertainment verticals, former co-host on the Really Useful Podcast, and a frequent product reviewer. He has a degree in Contemporary Writing pillaged from the hills of Devon, more than a decade of professional writing experience, and his work has appeared on How-To Geek, Expert Reviews, Trusted Reviews, Online Tech Tips, and Help Desk Geek, among others.

Amazon saves its best Black Friday deals for Prime members, and this portable monitor shows why the membership pays for itself, quite literally. Non-subscribers see regular pricing, while Prime members unlock exclusive discounts that slash products down to absurd lows. The KYY 15.6-inch portable monitor handles both gaming and productivity with a Full HD IPS display that travels anywhere your laptop goes. Amazon dropped this to $66 for Black Friday, down from $99, but only Prime members access this record low pricing.

Traditional floor cleaning involves two separate passes with two different tools, vacuuming to pick up debris followed by mopping to handle the sticky stuff underneath. This routine is a total waste of time and leaves floors damp for ages while you wait for them to dry. Tineco pioneered the wet/dry vacuum category and remains the only brand really delivering truly refined products in the segment. The Floor One S5 vacuums and mops in a single pass and leaves floors clean and dry within minutes.

Flashlights are one of those things you never think about until you need one, and then you spend five minutes digging through drawers looking for the cheap plastic one that barely lights up anymore. Most of them do the bare minimum, offering a single brightness setting and maybe a strobe mode you'll never use. They're tools, not gadgets, and they certainly don't inspire any excitement when you're packing them into a bag or clipping them to a keychain.

But let's be real: 99% of the articles you encounter on this musty ol' web of ours aren't exactly awe-inspiring. They're a means to an end. The same is true for most videos, too. And in any such scenario, you aren't in it for the pleasure of reading or viewing and being entertained. You just want to get the gist of what's happening without wasting any time wading your way through unimaginative drivel.

Adaptive Equalizer in Samsung's earbuds analyzes the shape of your ear canal and adjusts the audio output for the best sound delivery. What you get is a kind of personalized listening that automatically improves from how the earbuds are fitted in your ears. You don't have to fiddle with EQ settings or guess which preset sounds best as the AI does everything for you and gets it just right.

Washing machines liberated women to get soul-crushing jobs that ate up their free time. Social media gave the world one revolution before it destabilised democracies everywhere else. Now AI is here, and its main job seems to be replacing screenwriters. It's easy to fall into techno-pessimism, but new documentary Seeing into the Future (Sunday 23 November, 8pm, BBC Two) has a different angle. For disabled people, tech has already brought about life-changing advancements. And we haven't seen anything yet.

Amazon loves to push its own brands during Black Friday, and the Echo Dot always gets the deepest cuts. By selling these smart speakers at razor-thin margins-or even at a loss-Amazons ensures Alexa finds her way into as many American homes as possible. The strategy works brilliantly for the company, but it also gives shoppers some incredible deals. The newest Echo Dot now drops from $49 to just $31 which is a record low price found only on Amazon.

Before I was an editor at Travel + Leisure, I spent five years working as an international travel consultant in New York City. I helped all sorts of travelers plan their dream trips, including guided tours, cruises, honeymoons, destination weddings, bachelorette parties, family vacations, holiday getaways, and last-minute excursions. I booked any and every type of experience you can think of-from flights to hotel stays to all-inclusive resort packages complete with daily activities.

Sometimes the most out-there Amazon finds prove to be the coolest, most useful things. And since this list is packed with bizarre little gems, you're sure to find a few items that you'll wish you had gotten sooner. Think unexpected home and travel items that make everyday life easier, lighting options that look odd but actually work so well, and a bunch of fun novelties that you'll find yourself using all of the time.

Also: Forget Samsung S25 Ultra: This OnePlus just topped the Galaxy in meaningful ways Nevertheless, I've been working with the OnePlus 15 review sample provided by OnePlus to see what the phone is capable of. When you want to find out if a camera is the best, you pit it against the best camera phone of 2025 (so far) -- the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.

The teaser image only shows a silhouette of a smartwatch, showing a circular body, a pronounced crown, and a sharp, angular case edge. These elements vaguely resemble the design of the recently announced Oppo Watch S, a slim 8.9mm smartwatch with a 1.46-inch AMOLED display. This similarity has led to speculation that the new OnePlus model could be a rebranded or adapted version of that device. If this is true, OnePlus may be preparing a lighter alternative to the OnePlus Watch 3, combining minimal styling with improved all-day comfort.

Poco has confirmed that the upcoming Poco F8 series launch on November 26 will include more than just smartphones. The company will also unveil its new Pad X1 and Pad M1 tablets alongside the F8 Ultra and F8 Pro.

A new wave of AI-powered gadgets on the market aims to integrate artificial intelligence into our daily lives like never before. Some of these AI wearables-including necklaces, rings, and wristbands, as well as portable devices- serve as productivity tools, while others claim to act as friendly companions listening to your everyday thoughts. Even OpenAI is working on a compact AI companion device.

The s equential read speed of 7,450 MB/s represents the ceiling of what PCIe Gen 4 technology can do. You boot Windows in under 10 seconds, fire up applications in an instant, and transfer large files between drives in a matter of seconds-not minutes. In-game loading, when the game is loaded on this drive, is faster than on SATA SSDs or hard drives, with some titles eliminating loading screens altogether through DirectStorage support.

The Surface Pro's place in the tech world is unique, as it's rivaling both premium tablets like the iPad Pro and full-fledged laptops. You get a device that works just as great for professional tasks like spreadsheet work and presentations as it does for entertainment, such as streaming and casual gaming. Demand for Microsoft's Surface Pro is consistently high throughout the year, which makes it seldom discounted.

Several months ago, reports surfaced that Google would soon roll out a long-requested feature for its Chrome browser -- vertical tabs. The time has arrived, and you can officially try out vertical tabs on Chrome. The relocation of tabs from the traditional top spot to a sidebar might seem like a small change, but the feature is a fan-favorite among browser enthusiasts and something other browsers like Edge, Vivaldi, Firefox, and Brave have had for a while.

The ExpertBook P3 is a compact laptop that's easy to tote around, measuring 12.31 x 8.94 x 0.71 inches and weighing just under three pounds. Asus uses the available space quite effectively here. The all-black keyboard is surprisingly comfortable, with a good amount of travel distance that avoids mushy keys. It even has a full-sized number pad that doesn't overly compress the key sizes.

In 2024, HP disabled the HEVC (H.265) codec hardware on select devices, including the 600 Series G11, 400 Series G11, and 200 Series G9 products. Customers requiring the ability to encode or decode HEVC content on one of the impacted models can utilize licensed third-party software solutions that include HEVC support. Check with your preferred video player for HEVC software support.

Most of our gifts to friends now are quick messages, emojis, or mobile vouchers that arrive instantly and disappear just as fast. They're convenient but rarely feel as meaningful as a handwritten note or a physical card you can pin to a wall. Favor AR Message is a concept that tries to bring some of that effort and ceremony back into how Gen Z says thank you, sorry, or congratulations, without abandoning phones entirely.

It's the most wonderful time of the year, but it can also be the most exhausting. Between hunting for gifts and getting the house ready for guests, it's easy to get overwhelmed. Thankfully, we're already seeing steep discounts on robot vacuums ahead of Black Friday, which can at least make the cleaning part feel a little more manageable.

The countdown is over. Black Friday deals 2025 are here, and the travel gadget deals are rolling in faster than a red-eye to New York. For globetrotters, digital nomads, and anyone eyeing an upgrade before the year ends, this sales season is one of the best chances to grab premium travel gadgets without the premium price tag. Retailers big and small are launching extended offers, online exclusives, and flash sales. Many of these are already live.

The Nikon Z5 II is a 24.5-megapixel full-frame camera capable of grabbing images at 14 frames per second while using the mechanical shutter. But this is the age of mirrorless cameras. Photographers can now shoot with an electronic shutter. The Z5 II allows for 30 frames per second capture in electronic shutter mode. Making it extremely easy to capture action shots.

Deals on Sony's PlayStation 5 are much more common than those on its PlayStation Portal, the handheld that can remotely stream games from the console via Wi-Fi. But for Black Friday, the Portal just got its first major discount to around $178.99 ($21 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. Additionally, you can save up to $100 on every configuration of the PlayStation 5, including the more powerful PlayStation 5 Pro.

the first Wacom offer to make me sit up is 11% off the brand new MovinkPad 11, bringing it down to 372 in the UK and $399 in the US. Movink 11 is Wacom's latest portable sketchbook, running on Android 14. It's an iPad-like alternative for artists and pairs beautifully with the Pro Pen 3, and its 11.45-inch textured display gives you that familiar paper-like drag without slowing you down.

Black Friday shoppers typically hunt for televisions and gadgets, but the smartest deals often hide in less flashy categories. Water filtration doesn't generate the same excitement as a new laptop, yet it's something your household uses dozens of times daily. The difference between adequate and excellent water quality affects everything from morning coffee to how your appliances age. Waterdrop Filter's Black Friday lineup shifts the conversation from discount hunting to genuine value, offering filtration systems that pay dividends long after the sale ends.

If you're looking into options for the best GPS running watch and feeling overwhelmed by the options and their price tags, you're not alone. As runners, many of us are deeply committed to the sport, and some of us have a thirst for our personal data rivaling the overlords at Meta. Then, others of us want a simple watch to keep track of time and maybe measure our heart rate.