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A lot of smart speakers could pass for normal wireless speakers with mics jammed in, but the Pure DiscovR is a little different.It’s a smart speaker Read more

Lenovo has announced three new premium Yoga-series laptops, the Yoga C930, Yoga Book C930 and Yoga S730.The Lenovo Yoga C930 is the priciest of the three, Read more

Lenovo has announced a new entry in its much-loved ThinkPad X1 series, the X1 Extreme.Many of the touchstones of X1 Carbon laptops are here. In a climate Read more

Olloclip’s Multi-Device clip lets you use the company’s iPhone X camera lenses on just about any Android.Since 2011 Olloclip has made lens attachments Read more

Harman Kardon announced a new series of home cinema soundbars at IFA, the Enchant range.There are two models, the Enchant 800 and 1300. Read more

JBL has announced a new pair of true wireless earphones, the Endurance Peak.These might be the sportiest true wireless earphones around. Read more

Sony has updated its high-end MDR-Z7 headphones in a second-gen version, the Sony MDR-Z7M2.This new pair looks like its predecessor, with a moody black Read more

The Sony SRS-XB501G is a portable speaker for those who need much more oomph than a UE Boom 2 can provide.It looks like a miniature PA speaker. And it’s Read more

The Sony FES Watch U is a watch with a strap and face design you can change with the press of a button.Its face and strap have a layer of e-paper, which Read more

Sennheiser has finally announced its first true wireless earphones, the Momentum True Wireless. Read more

Polaroid has announced an insta-print camera, the Mint 2-in-1, and a standalone Mint printer. Both will be available at Argos from October.This isn’t Read more

Apple has bought Akonia Holographics, a company that specialises in the kind of “waveguide” displays used in augmented reality glasses.Big companies Read more

The DTS Play-Fi platform has incorporated Alexa Cast support, a handy addition for streamers like the Pioneer F4, Arcam rPlay and McIntosh MB50.Alexa Cast Read more

The Jaybird X-series of sport headphones has been around for half a decade, and the latest Jaybird X4 pair levels them up with the best water resistance Read more

Asus has trimmed down its Flip 13 and 15 360-degree hinge laptops to make them more portable than ever.We’re no strangers to Asus’s Flip laptops. They Read more

Asus showed off new versions of its 13, 14 and 15-inch ZenBook laptops at IFA 2018, complete with military spec frames and NanoEdge displays.Asus’s standard Read more

Ever looked at a smartwatch and thought, yeah it’s nice, but I wish it were bigger? That’s what the Diesel Full Guard 2.5 is here for.Sure, we’ve Read more

Facebook’s video streaming platform Watch has launched globally, a year after arriving in the US.Facebook Watch was originally announced back on 9 August Read more

Acer has lifted the lid on the Swift 5, which it showed off earlier in 2018 as the “lightest 15-inch laptop in the world”, and tweaked Swift 3 models. Read more

Acer has announced its new Aspire line-up, full of laptops for people who want plenty of substance without the cost of a super-slim and stylish model.The Read more

Dell has announced new Inspiron laptops perfect for people who don’t want to spent the amount an XPS model costs.First up is the Dell Inspiron 7000 2-in-1. Read more

Images of rumoured upcoming Motorola Moto One and a new version of the Moto G6 Plus have been published online. Read more

The YouTube app has now added “digital wellbeing” features designed to stop us getting too addicted to video streaming and social media. Read more

Skagen’s Falster 2 takes the pretty design that made the original Falster smartwatch so superficially appealing and adds to it all the features missing Read more

The HTC U12 Life is expected to be announced later this week and, just in time, a mystery HTC phone has shown up in Geekbench’s database. Read more

Samsung and Panasonic are the first to plug HDR10+ support into their TVs. Read more

LG’s next flagship phone, the V40 ThinQ, has been brought to life in a 3D rendered video. Read more

The Pure Elan IR3 and I5 are Spotify Connect speakers and internet radios that’ll supply tunes on holiday as well as at your bedside. Read more

The Motorola One and One Power have been leaked online, and look like quite the pair of tasty mid-range Androids. Read more

Want the smug satisfaction of an electric vehicle without the cost of a Tesla? It’s time to check out the Vespa Elettrica. Read more

Apple’s next iPhones will be official in less than a month, and one of the few specs we have a good idea of is its processor, the Apple A12. Read more

The Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 is a hybrid laptop with 360 degree hinge. It's expensive, but it's an excellent multi-form laptop for designers & photographers Read more

The price and hardware may be right for an affordable phone, but the Honor 7A’s real-world performance is not. Shame. Read more

When you think the laptop has got about as slim as it can get, a company pushes the envelope. Which is exactly what Acer has done with the new Swift 7 Read more

The Dell XPS 13 is thinner than the last version and has a new fingerprint scanner too. As laptops go it's one of the best Windows options available. Read more

The Yoga 920 is Lenovo's latest take on a hybrid laptop for people with plenty of money who want something worth showing off. At £1,399 with no extra Read more

Shop for a laptop with a good budget to play with and you have to make one key choice pretty early on: do you want a very light laptop you can take anywhere, Read more

These days, home assistant speakers are hot stuff. We've signed all the T&Cs and asked Alexa and Google Assistant all the weird questions a five-year-old Read more

Asus was the original pioneer of modern hybrid computers. Give us half a chance and we'll start reminiscing about the old Transformer tablets, a bit like Read more

Laptops used to come in about three flavours: sleek and portable, big and powerful, or cheap and nasty. What a choice, eh?The HP Envy 13 is a laptop that Read more

For a while tech seemed to be getting cheaper. Bargain phones, affordable all-metal laptops and the like gave the careful buyer something to be happy about. Read more

Not every portable laptop secretly wants to be a MacBook. No other series quite nails the "not a MacBook" angle like the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, while Read more

In the early days Chromebooks were fairly limited things without an internet connection and would only let you install a handful of Chrome extension apps. Read more

The main aim of most Chromebooks is to offer a decent computing experience for little cash. That price proposition is changing, though, with higher-end Read more

Chromebooks have been around for years, but we still meet plenty of people who don't know what they are. If you're going to buy a laptop, it might as well Read more

The Asus Transformer Mini T102HA is a hybrid for people who want a Surface Pro 4 but can't face the price.It's smaller, far cheaper and, simply put, not Read more

There are a few kinds of hybrid laptop: ones with screens that pull off; those with 360-degree hinges; and (now rarer) ones whose screens flip around, Read more

Windows laptops have a bit of an identity problem. Everyone knows about MacBooks, but a lot of people who ask us for advice don't even know where to start Read more

Where Apple goes, others follow. The Asus ZenBook 3 is this effect in action, taking the much-loved ZenBook design, removing most of the ports and squashing Read more

Tech is getting more expensive. Apple, Tesla, Nescafe and just about every other company out there has either already put up prices in the UK, or is planning Read more