Best Outdoor Tech

HOVERAir X1 PRO and PROMAX

I love a space-saving gadget and the folding design of the HoverAir drones mean they won’t take up extra room in your travel bag. Intelligent flight modes make snowboarding or downhill mountain biking look cinematic without any controller necessary.
Jeff Parsons - Tom's Guide

 

 

Best Health Tech

Samsung Galaxy Ring

The Galaxy Ring has brought a genuinely innovate way to monitor people's health, with a stylish design and excellent integration with Samsung's other products. I expect to see many imitators popping up in 2025 - a mark of just how groundbreaking this product is.
Matt Hanson - TechRadar

Best AI

Samsung 2025 AI Features

Samsung's AI additions to its TVs for 2025 look legitimately useful. Click to Search builds on the Circle to Search feature I enjoy on Galaxy phones, allowing you to easily search what you are seeing on screen. Samsung Food Experience leverages this same tech to show you how to make a meal you see in a movie or show. It can also create closed captions using live translate for shows not available in your language.
Sean Riley - Laptop Mag

Best Earbuds

JLab Go Pop ANC Earbuds

Getting access to ANC in a pair of earbuds costing $30 is an incredible bargain but these little buds from JLab also offer transparency mode, multipoint connection and a 6 hour battery life (with a further 24 in the case) which is excellent for the price.
Jeff Parsons - Tom's Guide

Best Portable Speaker

Brane X

The Brane X promises to make your music on the go sound better than ever, with the company specifically catering to music lovers that want all the base they can handle. Up to 12 hours battery life, Alexa support, and virtually every type of connectivity immaginable, make it a winner for anyone wanting to share their portable audio.
Sean Riley - Laptop Mag

Best Laptop

Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable

It's rare that we see a laptop that truly breaks the mold, but Lenovo's ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 does just that, introducing the world's first extenable display. Just hit a button and the 14-inch screen extends to 16.7 inches, also growing from a 2000 x 1600 resolution to 2000 x 2350. The icing on the cake is Lenovo's ThinkBook Workspace utility, which helps you make the most of the added screen real estate.
Avram Piltch - Tom's Hardware

Best Computing Accessory

Snapdragon X

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and Pro chips have already turned the laptop world on its head with some truely exciting innovations - and that looks set to continue with the Snapdragon X, which could bring some of the best things about the Snapdragon platform to much more affordable laptops. This could be huge.
Matt Hanson - TechRadar

Best Gaming Computer

Alienware Area-51 Desktop​

The Alienware Area-51 desktop makes upgrading a breeze by putting QR codes next to the components you might want to swap out. You scan the codes then get help changing out key elements such as you power supply or RAM. And all of this pairs with Alienware's legendary build quality and sci-fi aesthetic.
Avram Piltch - Tom's Hardware

Best Gaming Laptop

OMEN MAX 16 Gaming Laptop

HP's most powerful gaming laptop yet? Yes please! Add the usual touch of design flair and HP's offering stands apart from the myriad other options in this ever-growing space.
Mike Lowe - T3

Best Gaming Accessory

Lenovo Legion Go

The first gaming PC handheld that runs SteamOS and which isn't a Steam Deck, this could usher in a new wave of gaming handhelds. Windows 11 has proved to be unsuitable in many cases for these handhelds, so I love the idea of more versions coming out with the linux-based Steam OS.
Matt Hanson - TechRadar

Best Home Security

Lockly Vision Prestige Duet Series Smart Lock

I really like the extra security that 3D face scanning provides, and the lock has a great design. The internal screen is also a nice touch, giving people inside the home information as well as being able to see who is at the door. There's some interesting tech put into a device that some people are still wary of.
Matt Hanson - TechRadar

Best Cleaning Tech

eufy Robot Vacuum 3-in-1 E20

Having used eufy robot vacuums before I’m really intrigued by this product because it addresses one my biggest pitfalls with a ‘bot vacuum. If there are use cases when you have to manually clean an area the robot can’t reach - like inside the car - you can detach the suction motor and go handheld without needing to buy a separate product.
Jeff Parsons - Tom's Guide

Best Home Tech

Yarbo

Living in the northern U.S., where the weather shifts massively throughout the year, a single autonomous device that's able to handle mowing the lawn, clearing snow, leaf blowing, and towing up to 3,500 pounds sounds like a dream product.
Sean Riley - Laptop Mag

Best Phone Accessory

Belkin Stage PowerGrip

Photography is one of the main uses for my smartphone and this Belkin gadget makes the most of MagSafe to boost battery and make snapping shots a more tactile experience. The price could make or break this product but I love the idea of making my phone more like a “proper” camera.
Jeff Parsons - Tom's Guide

Best TV

Hisense 136” MicroLED TV

Micro LED is being tipped by many to dethrone OLED as the ultimate TV screen tech, and I like what I've seen so far. This new 136-inch set from Hisense is, quite literally, huge news. Powered by the company's Hi-View AI Engine X chipset it's use of AI algorithms to improve picture quality sounds interesting as does the black crystal nanocoating which claims to reduce reflections which can sometimes be a problem in brightly lit rooms.
Andy Madden - What Hi-Fi?