The best of CES 2024

The best of CES 2024

Hello and happy new year! Once again, team Engadget has set up shop in Las Vegas for CES, living out of suitcases so that we can scour the massive show floor and occasionally injure ourselves in the process. For CES 2024, we expected to see AI everywhere, and we were not disappointed. We saw more …

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Next-gen AR glasses in need of killer apps

Next-gen AR glasses in need of killer apps

Even though Apple didn’t have an official presence at CES 2024 in Las Vegas, the trade show still had a whole area dominated by mixed reality tech. One of the most popular booths there was none other than Xreal (formerly Nreal), which decided to ride on the Apple Vision Pro hype train and unveil its …

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The gaming smartphone is dead

The gaming smartphone is dead

Andy Boxall / Digital Trends The true, dedicated gaming smartphone is dead. No longer will we see a phone with the highest-resolution screen and fastest processor inside where the primary function is to play the most hardcore games for as long as possible, at the expense of other, more traditional phone features. It’s the arrival …

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AI company claims Nintendo Switch 2 launches this September

AI company claims Nintendo Switch 2 launches this September

Nintendo As part of the ongoing wave of AI-related news at CES 2024, Altec Lansing revealed an artificial intelligence-powered successor to GameShark called AI Shark. More interestingly, the press release regarding this software claims that the Nintendo Switch 2 will launch in September 2024. “Formerly known as GameShark, AI Shark is set to redefine the gaming …

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Alienware 32 QD-OLED review: a showstopping monitor

Alienware 32 QD-OLED review: a showstopping monitor

Alienware 32 QD-OLED MSRP $1,200.00 “The Alienware 32 QD-OLED is as good as gaming monitors get.” Pros Fantastic HDR gaming Incredible out-of-box color accuracy Excellent console monitor High resolution, fast refresh rate Three-year warranty is great Fairly affordable Cons Thick, plastic back No speakers Alienware earned itself quite a reputation a couple of years ago …

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The best gaming laptops we saw at CES 2024

The best gaming laptops we saw at CES 2024

CES is always flooded with new gaming laptops, but this year felt a bit different. Like the best laptops of CES as a whole, the updates to gaming laptops this year focused more on improved displays and new designs than just updated internals. Here are the four gaming laptops I saw this year that really …

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How one company is giving your Wear OS smartwatch superpowers

How one company is giving your Wear OS smartwatch superpowers

Doublepoint “This is a matter of building the next touchscreen, “said Ohto Pentikäinen, CEO of a company called Doublepoint, as he introduced Digital Trends to its fascinating, next-generation gesture control system. The best way you could think of it is as Apple’s Double Tap feature on steroids. I chatted with Pentikäinen over a video call …

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