The Best Gadgets Of 2018
Hide your wallets... Or else you’ll be splashing out big! – Part I
A super thin laptop, best
fitness trackers and more has made 2018 a good year
A BREAKTHROUGH There have
been some great products in 2018, like the Apple Watch Series 4
APPLE
WATCH SERIES 4
Three letters. ECG. Yes,
a wrist device that can give you medical grade ECG anywhere and at any time.
The Apple Watch Series 4 has other great innovations like a bigger screen, an
eSIM built in, great call quality, better battery life, but the amazing ECG
feature built into this tiny form factor makes this the innovation of the year.
DELL
XPS 13
This laptop is just plain
awesome. It weighs just 1,200g, is ridiculously thin yet super powerful. But
it’s the near borderless screen that makes the real difference. The bezel is
just under 4mm, which is why the laptop is extremely portable. Plus you can get
touchscreen or non-touchscreen versions.
SAMSUNG
NOTE 9
Close run up between the
Note 9 and the S9+. Actually both should be on the list. The Note has that
extra edge with the stylus. This is a near perfect phone. From looks, material,
design, screen, hardware, features, optics and camera performance – there
literally isn’t anything that isn’t just right. And with Samsung finally
getting the price points perfect in India, you can’t go wrong with the Note 9
phone.
GOQII
VITAL AND ECG
I find GOQii to be one of
the most innovative fitness companies in the world. And the fact that it’s an
Indian company makes it 10 times better. This company makes some of the best
fitness trackers, has heart rate and now ECG built in, has an eco system of
coaches + doctors + insurance that is world class, and prices products and
plans that beat anything else globally.
HUAWEI
MATE 20 PRO
What can I say when a
phone is made to showcase the R&D and innovation ambitions of a company?
There is no other phone out there that compares right now. Curved glass front
and back, stunning OLED screen, gorgeous design, serious horsepower hardware,
triple focal length cameras, in display fingerprint scanner, wireless charge
give and take – this is the phone that literally has it all.
MICROSOFT
SURFACEBOOK 2 - 15”
Microsoft has been
totally killing it with the Surface Book series but with the SB2 15-inch, it
has pulled out all stops. Excellent build quality, a hinge that is an
engineering delight, four modes for the display, a screen that may well be the
most stunning ever, battery life that carries on forever, and sound that defies
its footprint. This is the ultimate hybrid.
SONY
WH-1000XM2 NC HEADPHONES
Other than the terrible
name, these are the best noise cancellation headphones out there. I’ve been a
huge fan of the Bose QC series, but finally they’ve been edged out. Better
noise cancellation, better sound, better battery life of up to 30 hours, excellent
touch controls and a better fit on the ear.
APPLE
MACBOOK AIR 2018
It took them 10 years to
get the Next Gen Air out, but boy did they get it right. It’s just perfectly
tuned in all ways. Thin, light, razoredge on one side, powerful enough for
anything you throw at it, a great screen, recycled aluminium chassis, great
sound and an excellent keyboard and touch pad.
ADIDAS
FUTURECRAFT 4D
These shoes are so high
tech they can make most other gadgets here look bad. The world’s first
commercially available true 3D printed shoe. It uses a process called Digital
Light Synthesis to create a unique lattice structure on the midsole that gives
outstanding energy return.
APPLE
IPHONE XR
With the same hardware
inside as the XS, better looking with better colours, a single camera at the
back that pulls off pure magic, a big LCD screen that looks better than most
other OLEDs and a price almost 35 per cent lower than the XS – this is Apple’s
undiscovered gem of the year.
Rajiv Makhni is managing
editor, Technology, NDTV, and the anchor of Gadget Guru, Cell Guru and Newsnet
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