Top 5 best gadgets in the world today:
Here we present the best gadgets available right now in 5 key categories, to save you the hard work of doing all the research yourself. In short, if you're starting from scratch and want the very best there is, then this is your new shopping list.
1. Best TV - LG OLED E7 & G6 Series
Combining stunning contrast with an ultra-thin design and exceptional sound
+ Amazing black levels
+ Stunning thin design
- Very expensive
The OLEDE7's incredibly slim 'picture on glass' design technique creates simply the most gorgeous TVs ever made.2017 MODEL. Each OLED pixel produces its own light and colour independent of its neighbours. Unprecedentedly deep black colours sit right alongside even the brightest HDR whites without a hint of light 'bleed' - something just not possible with current LCD technologies. The OLED E7 series delivers levels of contrast and light control just not possible with LCD.
This works wonders for high-contrast HDR sources, as well as making today's standard dynamic range sources look better than on any other TV. The OLEDE7's lose some detail in very bright HDR areas, and occasionally suffer fleeting colour noise. They're not cheap, either. But none of that stops them being utterly brilliant.
A sound bar attached to the bottom of the screen, meanwhile, produces sound quality that wouldn't be out of place on an external audio system.
+ Amazing black levels
+ Stunning thin design
- Very expensive
The OLEDE7's incredibly slim 'picture on glass' design technique creates simply the most gorgeous TVs ever made.2017 MODEL. Each OLED pixel produces its own light and colour independent of its neighbours. Unprecedentedly deep black colours sit right alongside even the brightest HDR whites without a hint of light 'bleed' - something just not possible with current LCD technologies. The OLED E7 series delivers levels of contrast and light control just not possible with LCD.
This works wonders for high-contrast HDR sources, as well as making today's standard dynamic range sources look better than on any other TV. The OLEDE7's lose some detail in very bright HDR areas, and occasionally suffer fleeting colour noise. They're not cheap, either. But none of that stops them being utterly brilliant.
A sound bar attached to the bottom of the screen, meanwhile, produces sound quality that wouldn't be out of place on an external audio system.
2. Best tablet - iPad Pro 9.7
The iPad Air 2 ruled the roost here for ages as, really, it has enough power and perfomance to satisfy most people. However, finally the iPad Pro 9.7 has taken it down, with its awesome 2048 x 1536 resolution screen, A9X CPU and 4K video shooting capability helping it take the crown.
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3. Best laptop - HP Spectre 13
CPU: 2.5GHz Intel Core i7-6500U (dual-core, 4MB cache, up to 3.1GHz with Turbo Boost | Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 520 | RAM: 8GB LPDDR3 SDRAM (1,866MHz) | Screen: 13.3-inch, 1,920 x 1,080 FHD IPS UWVA BrightView Corning Gorilla Glass WLED-backlit display | Storage: 256GB SSD (PCIe; NVMe; M.2)
#Sleek and lightweight
#Tactile keyboard
#Standard 1080p display
HP's most luxurious laptop borrows the Lenovo Yoga 900S's style and the MacBook's bag-friendly dimensions. The Spectre 13 is so thin that tapping away on its tactile keyboard almost feels like your fingers are tap-dancing on the table. Its biggest advantage over the MacBook is its Intel Core-series processor inside, which lends it the winning combination of dazzling looks and computing muscle. Packing three USB-C ports for hooking up peripherals (note that you'll need a converter to use your old USB-A ones), the Spectre 13 doesn't just look like a laptop from the future - it has one eye trained on it too.
4. Best headphones - Bose QuietComfort QC35
The best Bluetooth headphones, with noise-cancelling to boot
Ridiculously good noise cancelling
# Excellent sonics
# Great comfort
# Dull looks belie the price
The audio in general, as ever with Bose, is very solid rather than world beating. In ideal listening conditions, we prefer Bowers & Wilkins' headphones.
However, allied to the noise cancelling, the overall result is very hard to fault. It's forceful when it needs to be, but the silence generated by the anti-noise tech allows room for plenty of subtlety.
Does it sound 'natural'? No of course it doesn't. It's digitally compressed, wirelessly-transmitted sound, which is generally going to be from music files that are compressed in the first place, that's then had digital ambient de-noising applied to it.
But the QuietComfort 35 is a suitably involving and enthralling, yet very easy listen.
Add 24 hours of battery life, easy pairing to two devices (you swap between them with the flick of a switch or via a mobile app), and pillowy ear pads, and you have the best Bluetooth headphones to date.
Even Bose's styling, which for many years was only really suitable for estate agents travelling Premium Economy, is now quite contemporary and verging on cool. It's not the most substantial-feeling pair of headphones ever, but the positive side effect of that is the QC35 is also very light.
Expensive but worth it, in short.
5. Best smartwatch - Apple Watch Series 2
The original Apple Watch was far from a perfect product, however it was still streets ahead of the rest of the competition on launch. Series 2 is what Series 1 should have been originally, with a number of improvements and fixes, such as 50-metre water resistance and in-built GPS, making it an even more compelling package. When reviewing Apple Watch Series 2, T3.com's Editor Dan Grabham said that:
"Apple Watch remains one of the nicest-looking devices you can own. And with watchOS 3 and the extra features, it's now properly useful throughout the day, too."
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