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What if your robovac could detect spills and untangle its own brushes? You no longer need to wonder with Eurkea's new J15 Max Ultra.

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• Anker SOLIX is a waterproof beach umbrella with solar charging powers
• It has an output of 100W, through USB-C and XT-60 ports
• It's compatible with various Anker power stations and a cooler

The Anker SOLIX Solar umbrella is a beach parasol that can keep you protected from the sun and charge your devices at the same time. It's one of a few portable charging solutions being debuted by Anker at CES 2025, and it's already on my summer wishlist.

This satisfying two-in-one gadget seems like the perfect solution for, say, keeping your speaker juiced up while you spend a lazy day at the beach, or charging your phone on a summer camping excursion. In fact, it's also compatible with one of Anker's electric coolers (the EverFrost 2), meaning it could sort you with chilled beverages and shade at the same time.

It's 215cm tall and 190cm in diameter. It has an output of 100W, through USB-C and XT-60 ports, enabling you to plug in your gadgets to charge while you relax. We're a little light on specifics at the moment, but the press images suggest there's just one of each port, which means you might need to fight over whose need is greatest if you're on a group holiday.

(Image credit: Anker)

The sunshade's fabric is equipped with 'Perovskite' solar cells, which Anker says enhances the solar power generation by 30 per cent in bright sunshine, and makes it twice as efficient in low-light conditions too. If you're thinking of using it in a location where the sun cannot always be relied upon, be reassured that it's also IP67 waterproof rated, and 'durable'.

SOLIX Solar umbrella is compatible with a number of the brand's portable power stations (the C300 DC, C800 Plus and C1000), meaning you can use it to charge those up, for longer off-grid trips. Compared to traditional solar panels, this looks like a convenient, lightweight and packable option.

We don't yet have pricing or availability details, but the brand says the Anker SOLIX will be available to buy in Summer 2025 – hopefully in time for this year's beach trips.

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The wearable is available for preorder in the US today.

• Amazfit Active 2 unveiled at CES 2025
• The smartwatch boasts an AI voice assistant and offline maps
• It's super-cheap too, coming in at under $100 in the US

Amazfit has revealed the Amazfit Active 2, an AI-powered sports watch under $100 with a redesigned heart rate sensor and voice command functionality, and it looks like a serious contender for the best cheap smartwatch of 2025.

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Debuting at this year’s CES 2025 tech conference – ground zero for a load of cool fitness kit – the Amazfit Active 2 features a stainless steel body, 10 days of battery life, offline maps with turn-by-turn directions, 160 sports mode (including a new mode for the popular Hyrox competitive fitness events) and multiple strap and AMOLED display options.

The standard version, costing $99.99 in the US (around £80 / AU$160) features a red silicone strap, while the $129.99 (£105 / AU$208) premium version features both silicone and leather straps, an improved sapphire glass screen that's tougher to fracture, and an NFC chip allowing for contactless payments (in Europe only).

However, the real excitement for most comes from the AI Zepp Flow voice command software. Using speech recognition and the watch’s built-in microphone and speaker, the Zepp Flow app can adjust your calendar, control your watch’s settings by asking it to adjust the brightness and so forth, and help you compose Whatsapp replies with suggestions.

There are more AI features under the hood – the Wild.AI “mini app” also uses AI to create “personalized wellness insights tied to [women’s] menstrual and hormonal cycles”.

The Amazfit Active 2 is available for pre-order in the US now and available globally in February.

Analysis: a sign of things to come

Zepp Flow has already been tested on watches such as the Amazfit Balance, but this is the first time we’re seeing AI-powered voice assistants on such a cheap watch. The fact that it’s available for under $100 is very impressive given the sort of functionality on offer. Such a price places it squarely in Fitbit rather than Apple Watch territory, and it’s sure to be popular with Android users who are already AI fans.

This is what the AI-powered smartwatch is likely to look like in the immediate future, including those from the big Android players such as Samsung: voice commands, functionality requests, Gemini-style suggestions used when replying to emails and messages, and personalized wellness information, including sensitive stuff like menstruation tracking in addition to training plans.

The use of AI in period tracking might raise eyebrows: given the nervousness some consumers have about handing their data over to chatbots, asking potential buyers to offer up such sensitive information (especially in countries with strict abortion laws) could put people off.

Otherwise, it’s a pretty standard cheap fitness watch, albeit a nice-looking one: designed for the “everyday athlete”, if current Amazfit trends are anything to go by, the activity and sleep tracking are probably very solid, although those 160 different sports mode are likely to be mostly different names with a smattering of GPS-enabled workouts with unique metrics, such as stride and cadence for running and power for cycling. We’ll know more for sure once we get our hands on the device.

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At CES 2025, Sony reveals a release date for its smart car, the Afeela along with new movie magic innovations from its film division. Watch our recap in 6 minutes.

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Samsung has just unveiled its new The Frame Pro TV, which finally adds the company's Neo QLED mini-LED tech to The Frame range that previously relied on edge-lit QLED displays.

Not only that, but The Frame Pro also adds a Wireless One Connect external connection box, meaning that you can hang The Frame Pro on the wall with a power cable going into it and nothing else – all your set-top boxes and so on connect into the wireless external streaming box, which you can place anywhere within 33 feet of the TV (including inside a cabinet), and the video is beamed in 4K 144Hz over to the TV. Samsung says there should be no noticeable latency here – specifically, the latency is said to be around 1.5 frames, and well under 20ms.

I saw The Frame Pro in action next to a regular 2024 The Frame TV, and the difference is staggering. We've always had a slightly cool relationship with The Frame TVs here on TechRadar, because they're wildly popular and we understand why people like them, but it always rankled that they used such mediocre image tech.

For those who know Samsung's range, The Frame has always been equivalent to the Q70 models, meaning and edge-lit QLED panel with Samsung's Dual-LED tech, but with a matte display that elevates back tones and weakens the already-middling contrast.

Now, The Frame Pro is still equivalent to Samsung's Q70 range… it's just that in 2025, we're talking about a model called the QN70F that's a new cheaper mini-LED model. On top of all this, Samsung has also added variable refresh rate support up to 144Hz, making it a better gaming TV.

That's the background, but the important thing is that in practice, the new screen is a total game-changer.

(Image credit: Future) Wow, actual HDR!

The difference between the classic The Frame model and the Pro is night and day. Local dimming when watching movies and TV means that it produces something much closer to real black tones in dark areas, while the bright highlight areas are several levels more vibrant, and have a far more realistic sheen to them. The extra brightness also means that colors are massively richer and bold.

It gives the feeling that the picture you're seeing is just a lot more solid; the shadows actually look shadowy, and the light areas gleam, as if it's real light hitting an actual object.

The old model looks hazy and washed out by comparison, and with black tones pulled towards being gray and light tones also being pulled towards being gray, it's just fundamentally unclear in comparison to the Pro.

It's not just about the small highlights, though – the fullscreen brightness is massively better, which means things like TV and sports are much clearer and more rewarding to watch.

(Image credit: Future) Careful with the art

You might be worried that all this vibrancy may not be a great fit for the Art Mode that makes The Frame such a success. But I saw a direct comparison of that aspect with the old model, and they look incredibly similar.

Samsung says that when Art Mode is active, local dimming is switched off, which means you've got an even light across the screen and no 'HDR' effect. I suspect Samsung may also be limiting the brightness of the backlight so it appears to be a level of light that's closer to ambient light, but that's just speculation on my part.

Either way, it looks basically the same as the old The Frame models, which is to say: a very nice-looking bit of digital art reproduction.

(Image credit: Future) What about wireless?

I don't have much to say about the wireless box from my time staring at The Frame Pro, but that's probably a good sign – the whole point is that you shouldn't notice it if it's working properly!

But one thing to note is that it's much smaller than the old wired One Connect box the previous The Frame models use – it looks like it must be half the size by volume, easily. It looks a little bit like a tiny PlayStation 2 which I personally love to see.

I couldn't do anything to try to break its wireless signal or test its limits, so we'll have to try that when we get our hands on a set for a full review.

The big piece of information we're missing about The Frame Pro is its price. I expect that it will cost significantly more than the Samsung QN70F, given it's the equivalent of this screen in terms of image quality, which will probably keep it out of our list of the best TVs – we value bang for your buck too much.

But if Samsung can find a decent balance here, we'll definitely be able to more wholeheartedly recommend The Frame Pro as a TV that works as well for the motion arts as for the classical arts.

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• LiberLive C1 is the world's first stringless guitar
• It'll cost you $799 when it isn't on sale
• It comes with plenty of customization options and advanced features

At CES 2025 I get to demo the LiberLive C1 – the “world’s first stringless guitar” – and yes, it is basically Guitar Hero in real life.

Aspiring rockstars can enjoy and share their music courtesy of the C1’s inbuilt speaker system comprising a 3-inch Mid-Woofer and 0.8-inch Tweeter. Simply play the guitar by holding one of the chord buttons on the fretboard and then strum the switch on the body, with the strength of your strumming translating to different dynamics in playback.

Beginners can use the app to show them interactive chord sheets which help to learn new songs. Then, when you want a more advanced setup, you can rely on the transpose knob to modulate the guitar’s standard chords, use the app to create custom chords which you can assign to the neck's 21 buttons (seven rows of three), and even emulate an acoustic guitar with the C1’s fingerpicking pad and six virtual strings.

You can also have the C1 sound more like a bass or piano to further customize your music-making experience.

Not for purists, but it is for me

(Image credit: LiberLive)

The music purists amongst you will likely be a little horrified at the LiberLive C1, and may even scoff at its $799 asking price – it’s currently on sale for $499 – but I think it’s a lot of fun and I can’t wait to test it out properly.

Yes, I don’t expect the next world-famous frontman will be relying on a LiberLive at their band’s next concert – nor will musicians like Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran swap their trusty acoustic for a stringless guitar. For performers who love to sing but haven’t mastered another instrument, however, the C1 seems like an excellent choice to simply play your own custom backing rather than relying on a premade track.

And while buskers might want to consider a speaker with a bit more oomph eventually – in the noisy convention center it wasn’t the loudest – as a starting out all-in-one package (ignoring a microphone for your singing, which you might not need at first) it doesn’t seem like a bad choice, especially with its up to six-hour battery life on a single charge (using the in-built speakers, it goes up to 12 hours with an external sound system).

I’ll want to try it out further before delivering a final verdict, but in terms of tech solutions for democratizing music-making this seems like a far better solution than a soulless AI beat generator.

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• Samsung TVs will use AI to identify dishes on-screen and find recipes.
• The technology links with the Samsung Food app.
• The feature links with meal planning, grocery list-making, and related features.

A delicious meal on TV can make your mouth water even if you have no idea how to make it. Samsung wants to turn that craving into action using AI through its new TVs and the Samsung Food app. The feature uses AI vision to recognize food on the screen and fetch you the recipe.

Say you’re watching a cooking show, and someone pulls a steaming beef bourguignon out of the oven. With Samsung Food enabled, your TV can recognize that dish and suggest a recipe so you can make it yourself. It doesn’t stop there—Samsung Food on TV can also display updates on grocery or takeout orders placed through its mobile app. While you won’t be stirring the pot from the comfort of your couch, this kind of integration aims to make cooking more accessible and engaging.

Samsung Food already offers AI-guided cooking steps and suggests recipes based on uploaded photos. Now, with Samsung Food coming to TVs, the technology is stepping directly into your living room. Of course, recipe tools that try to identify dishes based on photos or videos haven’t exactly been flawless, as I've learned from playing with ChatGPT.

"We’re bringing dishes from movies or TV right to your dinner table with Samsung Food. Leveraging our AI processor, it recognizes the food on your screen and provides recipes for bringing it to life," Samsung wrote in a press release. "Samsung Food can also analyze what’s in your fridge and build a shopping list of missing ingredients. Plus, you can purchase groceries or takeout using provider apps and monitor delivery right from your TV. It’s truly the ultimate AI sous chef."

AI Grocers

Hungry AI eyes on your TV pair well with the cameras Samsung announced will order food from you from Instacart. The AI in Samsung Bespoke refrigerators can see into your fridge, and Instacart’s product-matching system can suggest what you need to replenish and let you place an order with a few taps. You’ll be able to browse your grocery list right on the fridge’s touchscreen and have items delivered the same day.

The AI chef's help is part of several new AI features for Samsung TVs branded under Vision AI. There's also the Click to Search tool that allows viewers to identify on-screen actors or filming locations, while Live Translate offers real-time subtitle translations. The inclusion of Samsung Food is one more step toward creating a home ecosystem where your TV is as involved in your life as your phone or smart fridge.

This push into culinary AI is both ambitious and a little quirky. On one hand, it’s fun to imagine recreating the il timpano from Big Night after a movie marathon. On the other, it’s a reminder that AI can only do so much. No algorithm is going to dice your onions or make sure your soufflé doesn’t collapse. And let’s be honest, if you’re the type who orders takeout while watching The Great British Bake Off, you might not be Samsung Food’s target audience. But for the adventurous cook, this tech could be a game-changer—or at least a nifty way to impress dinner guests.

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