JANUARY 2022 T 3 17Top 10COOLNESS
INNOVATION
FEATURESTECH-O-METERCOOLNESS
INNOVATION
FEATURESTECH-O-METERCOOLNESS
INNOVATION
FEATURESTECH-O-METERcoach you to a better shave. It’s
water- and foam-proof, there’s a
cleaning pod included, and the
battery should manage 20 shaves on
an hour’s charge. Watch out for
SenseIQ shavers on UK soil soon.T 3 SAYS: Rash-free stubble removal
is as valid an application of AI as
there’s ever been.PHILIPS NORELCO SHAVER 9500
$200 (around £150), philips.comNot content with offering its Sonicare
toothbrushes AI capabilities, Philips
has now brought its SenseIQ tech to
the gritty world of the face. In this
updated version of the 9 500,
SenseIQ monitors how hard you’re
pushing the blades against your chin
and lights up to direct you to
applying the ideal pressure, all while
somehow working out how dense the
hair it’s mowing is and tweaking its
cutting power 500 times per second
to make sure it’s gliding effortlessly
through your fuzz rather than tearing
it out. All that data gets fed back to
an app, which can, like any good dad,
MOTO G POWER 2022
Around £150, motorola.comIt’s rolling out at pace, but honestly,
who needs 5 G anyway? Ahem.
But what might look like a glaring
omission on the spec list for
Motorola’s 2022 spin of the G Power
might not be quite so bad, as long as
you’re looking at this as the budget
phone it is. What you save in the very
latest radio chipset gets passed on in
the form of a triple camera array,
4GB RAM, a 6.5-inch 9 0Hz display,
and (like G Powers before it) a
massive 5,000mAh battery, this time
with proprietary 1 0W fast charging.
MediaTek’s new Helio G37 makes its
first appearance here to do theheavy lifting. We know precisely
nothing about it, but it’s safe to
assume it’s an evolution of the G35,
so we should see similar on-chip
camera functions, beefed up to
support the 5 0MP main sensor on
the G Power’s rear.T 3 SAYS: For gaming, media, or just
giving to a clumsy teen, try this.OPTOMA UHZ 50
£2,500, optoma.co.ukLaser projectors are a huge upgrade
over DLP and LCD, with better colour
reproduction, stronger contrast,
higher brightness over time, and
much easier maintenance than their
lamp-based cousins. Laser projectors
are also stupidly expensive, at least in
terms of initial investment, though
Optoma is doing its best to correct
the disparity with the UHZ50. The
company reckons this entry-level 4 K
beamer – which, admittedly, is still
only entry-level if you happen to find
the extra £1,500 it costs compared to
the DLP-based UHD3 8 down the
back of the sofa – will endure up to
30,000 hours, can output 3 ,
lumens and, neatly in terms of
powers of ten, can stretch its image
out to 300 inches. Latency and input
lag is remarkably low at 4 .2ms for
1080p gaming, and it can go as fast
as 2 40Hz.T 3 SAYS: Almost (almost) cheap
enough that we might consider it.IMAGESOURCE:PHILIPSIMAGESOURCE:MOTOROLAIMAGESOURCE:OPTOMA