Tag: World Wide Worx

Home projectors take on new meaning during the World Cup, especially when a crowd is watching. Think of the biggest white wall you have in your home, or that of any friends or family. Now imagine that entire wall turned into a movie screen. This is precisely the role a high-definition data projector plays in a home or office.

Innovations kept coming in 2022, and drives my choice of the year’s best tech. As consumers keep tightening their belts, manufacturers have to find new ways to convince them to go out and spend. As a result, the pace of innovation has speeded up, even as spending seems to slow down.

The new nova 10 has a front camera that, not long ago, would have done any smartphone’s main lens proud. Is it possible to redefine the selfie camera? Huawei makes a good argument, as it steps out with a new device that blows up the standard expectations for front lenses on a smartphone. Literally and figuratively.

On-the-spot printing from a smartphone. Printers are fare from extinct, and keep being reinvented, as the new Instax smartphone printer shows. Three years ago, Fujifilm startled the market with the Instax Mini Link, a portable printer designed specifically for smartphone photos. Now, it has released a second generation of the device, the Link 2, which draws on the learnings of the original, and adds enticing new features.

Nokia enters rugged territory and Nokia’s first rugged phone ticks many of the handset boxes, but leaves a few wanting. The rugged smartphone market, catering for people working mostly outdoors or in harsh environments, has been dominated in the past decade by the CAT brand.

An active smartwatch that automatically charges in sunlight is a boon for outdoor enthusiasts. Garmin’s Fēnix 7S Sapphire Solar takes multisport smartwatch performance to a new level, with a combination of astonishing battery life and solar charging.

LG’s Tone Free earbuds bring us several of those ‘why-was-this-not done-before’ moments. A wireless earbud is a wireless earbud is a wireless earbud. Apple, Samsung and Jabra compete annually to raise the bar on in-ear sound quality. As a result, it becomes increasingly hard to differentiate between the numerous models on the market, and the purchasing decision is usually based on price or brand loyalty.

It is common knowledge that blue light from screens is bad for sleep, but it is uncommon to do something about it. Innovative new glasses could change that.

As phones become less differentiated, their target markets become more important. Tecno has been making inroads across the African continent for the past decade with affordable phones that still contain high-end specs.

The new flagship smartphone from Samsung changes the rules of photography. Legendary pop artist Andy Warhol once said: 'The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do'. Warhol lived and worked in an era when the output of a camera was the final word, or picture, on the subject being captured.