John.Higgins

Soundcore, Anker's audio brand, has mostly lived in the budget-to-midrange world, but with its new Liberty 5 Pro earbuds, it's aiming at the big guys. The two new earbuds - the Liberty 5 Pro and Li...

Ten years ago Sony introduced the MDR-1000X headphones. They combined noise canceling, good sound, design, and comfort in a way that we hadn't quite seen before in a set of wireless headphones. (At...

For the better part of 12 years, Apple owned the 5K monitor world - primarily because it made basically the only options. LG's 5K UltraFine was a solid, if bland choice, but many people bought a 27...

At the Los Angeles Convention Center, two 85-inch TVs sat side by side inside the Nanosys meeting room at Display Week - a yearly business-to-business convention focusing on the technology that goe...

Last Thursday, in a staged home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, I sat on a couch that was a bit too low and a tad too deep in front of a small, beige-colored smart speaker sitting on the middl...

The Hisense UR9 - the first RGB LED TV to be released this year - is now available for much less than originally revealed. The 65-inch UR9 is now $1,999, while the 75-inch model is $2,999 and the 8...

Anker has announced its own custom silicon that the company says will bring local AI to audio devices, mobile accessories, and IoT devices. The Thus processor is the world's first neural-net comput...

Apple Silicon chips. The iPhone's dominance. Apple Vision Pro. During Tim Cook's 15-year tenure as Apple CEO there were highs - and in the case of the Vision Pro, maybe a low - that helped define A...

RGB LED TVs have been the talk of the TV world this year, with models coming from all the manufacturers, and the first one of 2026 is here - the Hisense UR9. It's the first look at the viability of...

Samsung has announced some more details about The Frame and Frame Pro, and the most interesting news is that this year's Frame Pro will be a little less expensive across sizes. While last year's Fr...

Ikea's $10 Kallsup Bluetooth speaker is fun and colorful and sounds better than its price suggests. It's not mind-blowing (it is a $10 speaker, after all), and there are no features to speak of, ot...

It's been over five years since the original AirPods Max came out. A minor hardware update in 2024 brought new colors and changed the Lightning port to USB-C (to meet EU regulations), and an update...

It's been nearly a year and a half since Sonos released a consumer product, and those last two releases - the Arc Ultra and Sub 4 - were updates to existing products. The $299 Sonos Play, however, ...

With all of the focus on RGB LED technology, it seemed like more affordable mini-LED TVs had been shooed to the side. But with the Hisense U7SG, we're getting our first great midrange general-use T...

Samsung promised "more than a design refresh" for its new top-end Galaxy Buds - it added upgraded woofers for improved, dual-amped hi-fi sound, a new blade design, clearer call performance, and bet...

Sonos is returning to focus on the system that made it a driving force in whole-home audio. And to support that system, it's releasing its first new consumer speakers since 2024, the Sonos Play and...

It's been almost exactly four years since Apple released the 5K Studio Display that so many wanted, even if it didn't really deliver as a high-end display. Apple has now revamped the Studio Display...

After the release of the Headphone 1 last year - Nothing's first over-ear headphones - the company is back with the Headphone A. They're a slimmed-down over-ear option that keep the Nothing design ...

We finally have an update to the Soundcore Space One that launched two and a half years ago. At MWC 2026, Soundcore has announced the Space 2, which will be available in the US on April 21st in thr...

Since I saw the TCL X11L SQD-Mini LED TV at a pre-CES event in December, I've been eager to get a close look at it in my living room. At first glance, the TV impressed me enough that I named it the...

The next Galaxy Buds have been announced, and Samsung again mimics Apple in design, ecosystem functionality, and pricing. The Galaxy Buds 4 and Galaxy Buds 4 Pro keep the AirPods-esque design of th...