Gadgets
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The ’90s are back: Why see-through tech is in style again
From keyboards to vacuum cleaners, transparency is trust and people want machines they can see into.
- Tim Biggs
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What is a Whoop? The cult fitness band causing a stir at Australian Open
A controversy during Carlos Alcaraz’s tennis match has shone a spotlight on the fitness trackers, which are widely used by professional athletes.
- Tim Biggs
The best retro-feel cameras to kickstart your photography hobby
If you want Instagrammable results but also like fiddling with chunky controls and manual focus, these are the camera to check out.
- Tim Biggs
‘I think I’m going to die’: ‘Hand-me-down’ earbuds save teen’s life after 80m fall
The 18-year-old Queenslander was on his first solo hike when disaster struck – he was stranded on a mountain with a fractured spine, broken ribs, and a smashed phone.
- Laine Clark
From trifold phones to singing lollipops: The best and worst gadgets of CES
From the world’s biggest consumer tech show, here are the best pocketable gadgets, potentially useful future tech, and the products awarded worst in show.
- Tim Biggs
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- Analysis
In Trump’s America, smart robots and AI mask an uncomfortable future
The world’s largest gadget show promised a future in which technology handles everything. Outside the Las Vegas bubble, reality had other plans.
- David Swan
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The new TVs vying for your living room (and wallet) in 2026
From pencil-thin OLEDs to screens the size of a small car, there are some genuinely impressive displays coming – albeit at somewhat terrifying prices.
- David Swan
Lego releases the smart brick but how does it work?
Tom Donaldson, head of Lego’s Creative Play Lab, unveils the smart brick at a news conference ahead of the CES tech show in Las Vegas.
Lego unveils ‘smart bricks’, its biggest innovation in 50 years
Eight years of development have produced a computer small enough to fit inside a classic 2x4 brick. But do kids really need a microphone and speaker chip inside it?
- David Swan
The AI earbuds shattering the language barrier in sport dressing room
With tiny AI translators in their ears, Sydney FC’s players and coaches can hold an effortless conversation in several languages. We tried it out. It’s genuinely mind-blowing.
- Vince Rugari