The 12 best gadgets we reviewed in 2024

As 2025 approaches, we are reviewing all of our… reviews. Yes, everything we’ve nailed, projected and criticized this year. Alongside the inevitable smartphone and laptop upgrades (it’s been a particularly strong year for Pixel phones, while Apple continues to offer a premium phone experience on its pro iPhones), it’s also been a year of drones and cameras impressive, keeping Steve Dent very. busy.
Unfortunately, we can’t test everything, so we try to balance company devices with a history of making things people buy and weird, fascinating products and services that do something different. We’ve included the best gaming laptop of 2024 and Apple’s continued strong form with its Apple Silicone-powered MacBooks.
Oh, and we’ve included the other side of the coin: two of the worst products we’ve tested. Surprise! There are many AIs.
– Matt Smith
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The biggest tech stories you missed
More curved screens.
LG has just announced several of its new OLED monitors before CES 2025 begins in earnest. The new UltraGear GX9 series features curved WOLED panels, webOS, and an anti-glare, low-reflection coating. The standout is a 45-inch, 5K2K bendable screen that can move “from a completely flat bend to 900R in seconds,” according to LG.
A full series is coming to Disney+.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, which will take us back to Peter Parker’s early days as a high school superhero. The art leans in a classic comic book style, and it looks like the story itself will be a departure from the MCU version of things.
This year’s “extreme weather” has caused droughts, fires, storms and floods.
2023 was the hottest year on record. The past year is on track. We did it guys. The World Weather Attribution (WWA) has released its annual “Extreme Weather” report showing how the record 34.34 Fahrenheit increase in man-made warming since last year has caused “relentless heat waves, droughts, fires, storms and floods”. The report recorded 219 events from 2024 that meet its “trigger criteria” to identify impact climate events. In related stories, here they are . He’s not kidding.
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