Top 5 Coolest Gadgets To Have In 2016
For all our gadgets do for us, we certainly repay them with loyalty, for a while at least. When something new comes along—and something new always comes along—we feel that same pull we felt toward our now-timeworn device just a year or two before. At first we tell ourselves the tech we have is enough, that we can admire without acquiring. But we inevitably give in.
So take a look at the following five coolest gadgets to have this year…….
1. Livestream Movi
Action cams are everywhere you look these days, but what Livestream has done with its new product Movi feels incredibly intuitive. This little 4K camera is meant to be used to capture live events as they happen, which is something people are wanting to do more and more these days. The Movi connects right to your iPhone and uses the corresponding app to let you edit up to 9 virtual cameras all on the fly. You can zoom, pan, cut, and even let the camera follow faces—all within the app. At just $399, the Movi feels like the next big step in livestreaming capabilities.
2. Samsung Notebook 9
Samsung is known for copying every one of Apple’s steps—and the Notebook 9 is no different. However, what Samsung has done here is take the whole “thin and light” laptop mentality and really run with it. Not only is the Notebook 9 incredibly thin, it also packs a punch, maxing out with an Intel Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of SSD storage. The only real disappointment is the 1080p display, which will have a hard time comparing to laptops like the MacBook Pro or Dell XPS. At the right price though (which is currently TBD), the Notebook 9 could be one of the big laptop standouts of 2016.
3. DietSensor SCiO Food Scanner
Trying to track what you’re eating for dieters is important, but it’s even more important for those with conditions like Diabetes. What this little gadget does is scan the chemical makeup of the food or drink at hand, analyzing whether or not it’s something you should eat given your dietary conditions. It can only do one piece of the food at a time and has to use a multi-step app to do the job, but it’s kind of astounding that it even works in the first place.
4. Samsung Modular TV
This one is more a tech concept than anything else, but the idea of a modular television is admittedly an interesting one. Essentially, each of these pieces of the screens can be used independently, as well as move together and form screens in different aspect ratios. The really cool thing is that when they form together, it’s totally seamless—meaning you can’t see the lines between the individual pieces.
5. Razer Blade Stealth
Razer has been trying to build the ultimate gaming Ultrabook for the last few years, but 2016 might be the year it’s actually succeeded. The Blade Stealth is everything you’d expect to see in a new ultrabook-type machine from Apple or Dell—it’s slim, fast, and fairly inexpensive. The kicker though is that the Blade Stealth also comes with an integrated graphics card that can supplemented by an exterior graphics card called Razer Core, which will deliver those desktop-level graphics that it was never able to power by a laptop before.
