Sony WF-1000XM6
The pair to beat in 2026 — flagship ANC and a real step up in sound over the XM5.
The pair to beat in 2026 — flagship ANC and a real step up in sound over the XM5.
Measured at the top of the market for noise reduction. Live translation and heart-rate sensing.
83% average noise reduction for under seventy dollars — the value pick of the year.
Feature-packed at half the price of the flagships. Adaptive ANC, LDAC, wireless charging.
Magnetic fluid drivers. The pick for people who care about sound before features.
All-round best wireless over-ears, with no serious weaknesses.
Two years running as the best cheap wireless earbuds you can buy.
Solid-state LiDAR and obstacle recognition in a body low enough to fit under furniture.
Full-service dock: empties, washes with hot water, dries, refills. Weeks without touching it.
The value pick among premium omni-station robots.
Best budget robot with a self-emptying station.
Unlocks as you walk up. Fingerprint, code, app or an ordinary key.
1kWh in a case you can actually carry. Full recharge in under an hour.
The one to start with — runs a laptop, a fan and a router through an outage.
65W in a postage-stamp footprint. Replaces every brick in the bag.
Card-thin, and the rare tracker that works on both Apple and Google networks.
Wearable recorder that transcribes and summarises meetings without a phone in your hand.
The smart glasses that normal people will actually wear.
Our pick over the big-name AR glasses this year — a proper private screen in front of you.
Sleep and recovery tracking in something you forget you are wearing.
Screenless, ninety-nine dollars, and Google's loudest pitch in years.
Shoot everything, reframe later. The invisible selfie stick still feels like a trick.
A gimbal, a 1-inch sensor and a flip screen in a pocket. The vlogging default.
Still the handheld to beat if you already own PC games.
Hall-effect switches, adjustable actuation, aluminium body. Endgame for most people.
More computer than most desks need, in a box the size of a sandwich.
HEPA 13 for one room, quiet enough to sleep next to.
Sunrise alarm and sound machine that gets the phone off the nightstand.
Long range, self-healing tyres, suspension that survives real roads.