Articles by Carrie Marshall

A split image, showing a set of shelves with 4K Blu-rays on, with different lighting configurations on the shelves

Someone made Blu-ray shelves that use smart lighting to point you to the disc you want — the combination of a touchscreen library and LED strips is the coolest movie collection setup I've ever seen

By Carrie Marshall Published 11 November 26

An intrepid redditor has built a system that helps you choose a movie to watch and then lights up the shelf to show you where the disc is

The LG W7 OLED evo TV showing the front and rear

LG's 97-inch OLED TV panels are finally being upgraded to 4,000 nits of brightness and 165Hz — and the new screen is debuting in a bigger version of LG's awesome Wallpaper wireless TV

By Carrie Marshall Published 10 November 26

LG goes big and bright with the new evo OLED TV panel — and it's updated its transparent OLED TV too.

The Knit Form soundbar in Ember on a fancy-looking fireplace

This powerful new Dolby Atmos soundbar has 14 speakers and a fabric design that's meant to blend into the room — and it comes from a brand-new company with Denon and Marantz heritage behind it

By Carrie Marshall Published 10 November 26

The Knit Form soundbar comes from a former Sound United product leader and is designed to blend in, not stand out

A split image, showing an image on a monitor on the right, an HDMI cable in the middle, and then a blurry, recreated version of the first image on the left

This shocking video shows how AI can read the radiation coming from an HDMI cable to mimic the video being passed over the cable — not even wired connections are safe from spy tech

By Carrie Marshall Published 9 November 26

A new AI tool has improved text accuracy by over 60% in signals intercepted from ordinary HDMI cables

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Would you buy your kids an AI teddy bear? I'm a tech-loving parent but I don't trust these toys — and a new report backs me up

By Carrie Marshall Published 7 November 26

An AI teddy bear that's been marketed for three-year-olds has made unprompted references to suicide, a BBC report has revealed — amid calls for the industry to be regulated.

Rendered image of LG webOS 25 on a big wall mounted TV in an expensive, neutrally decorated apartment with a young man looking at the tv

LG faces legal action over alleged smart TV spying — and other manufacturers could be in the firing line over ignoring ACR opt-outs

By Carrie Marshall Published 6 November 26

LG's smart TV privacy woes continue as Portugal's Citizen Voice asks the court to investigate. Are smart TVs too keen to gather data?

Bluetooth 7 will bring a major hi-res audio upgrade in 2027 — HDT support almost quadruples bit-rates for wireless headphones and speakers

By Carrie Marshall Published 5 November 26

Bluetooth 7.0 Core has been published, with optional High Data Throughput for Bluetooth LE devices such as headphones and wireless speakers.

Jonathan Adler poses with a Ninja Luxe Café Pro Espresso Machine by Jonathan Adler

Ninja has turned to designer Jonathan Adler to give its top espresso maker a 'glamorous' makeover, but is it high fashion or an eyesore?

By Carrie Marshall Published 5 November 26

Ninja has unveiled the Ninja Luxe Café Pro Espresso Machine by the designer and ceramicist, and it's not what you'd call subtle.

A laptop showing a spectogram next to a propellor plane in flight

YouTuber discovers aircraft noise trick that can geolocate your videos to within 100m — 'Doppler effect' pinpoints locations from just 60 seconds of audio

By Carrie Marshall Published 3 November 26

Take one video, listen to the background and match it with airplane flight data to reveal where it was filmed.

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Photo showing empty Fort Huachuca freezers after a suspected cyberattack

Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by fresh 'Cold War' cyberattack — temperatures raised to 50C forcing grocers to throw away food

By Carrie Marshall Published 2 November 26

More suspected cyberattacks have targeted supermarkets across Europe, with the same M.O. as before: upping the temperatures to spoil the food.

Screenshot of the Hue app overlaid on an image of a couple on the couch with Hue lighting in the room

Philips Hue just launched its ambitious Custom AI Behaviors, but early teething troubles show the smart assistant might not be quite ready for prime time

By Carrie Marshall Published 2 November 26

The promised Custom AI Behaviors are now available in the Hue app for Hue Bridge Pro owners.

A split image. On the left is a Bose earbud held in a woman's hand with foliage in the background. On the right is the icon of the ChatGPT app on iPhone

Who needs Find My Earbuds when you have ChatGPT? Someone found their lost Bose bud in a field of gravel by asking ChatGPT to spot it in photos of the ground

By Carrie Marshall Published 31 October 26

It's probably not the most environmentally-friendly earbud finder, but it's better than having to buy a new pair — ChatGPT has better eyes than humans

Promotional image of the LG 97 inch OLED showing a panther against a light brown background. The TV is wall mounted in a room with contemporary decor and wood panelling on the wall

The dream home theater TV? 111-inch OLED TVs might be coming, as LG finally explores going beyond the 97-inch limit — but what will the performance be like?

By Carrie Marshall Published 30 October 26

LG Display and its partner are reportedly investing 1 billion extra yuan to upgrade large OLED panel production

Samsung S99H with One Ui Tizen home page on screen

A hacker claims Samsung's smart TV software is doing secret reporting and looks for mics on connected devices — but this doesn't look like a privacy scandal on the face of it

By Carrie Marshall last updated 29 October 26

Samsung TVs are being accused of sinister snooping online, but it looks like the discussion is based on some false assumptions about features Samsung has actively marketed to everyone

The MacBook Pro PROLED XDR on a stand at its launch event, with people crowding around it

What's the tech inside the touchscreen MacBook Pro's 'PROLED XDR' screen? Here's why the 'tandem' OLED panel is important

By Carrie Marshall Published 28 October 26

The first OLED MacBook Pro screen has a weird name — here's what's behind it, and the benefits it delivers

A sign for Samsung Display outside its HQ, combined with a photo of the Samsung S26 Ultra's OLED display

Samsung's next-gen OLED tech might actually arrive before LG's — the brighter and more efficient pixels seem to be aimed at phones and smartwatches rather than TVs and monitors

By Carrie Marshall Published 23 October 26

Typical! You wait all day for a fine metal mask-free OLED manufacturing process and then two arrive at once

Apple's fully working iPod on the Apple Music error page

Apple's hidden a fully functional original iPod in the new Apple Music site — here's how you can 'Give this a spin'

By Carrie Marshall Published 23 October 26

What a blast from the past — take yourself back to 2001 with the right URL

Sony has stopped selling 4K Blu-ray players in Japan — the rest of the world still has stock, but the Sony X700K is the best budget 4K player, so you may want to get it while you can

By Carrie Marshall Published 22 October 26

From today, the PS5 will be the only Blu-ray playback device Sony sells in Japan, and that doesn't exactly have a bright disc-based future either.

The Bluesound Pulse M at a three-quarters angle

There's finally a proper Sonos alternative for Apple-loving audiophiles — Bluesound is getting Apple Music as a free upgrade soon, and not just on its own devices

By Carrie Marshall Published 20 October 26

Bluesound has updated BluOS with Apple Music integration. In addition to Bluesound devices, the platform also powers devices by big brands such as DALI and Monitor Audio.

An iPhone with Audiophile.fm app on the screen, next to a pair of high-end Bowers & Wilkins headphones

There's a new free hi-res music streaming app on iPhone and Android with no ads and no subscription — I tried it, and immediately I'm having more fun with discovery than on Spotify

By Carrie Marshall Published 19 October 26

Audiophile.fm is a completely free way to tune in to lossless internet radio on iPhone, Android and in your browser

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The Apple TV 4K 2022 with its remote on a grey background

Someone got Blu-ray's Dolby Atmos TrueHD sound working on the Apple TV 4K — but I'm not sure the elaborate system, that goes from Atmos to Apple's custom spatial audio system back to Atmos, is something I'll try myself

By Carrie Marshall Published 18 October 26

The Nuvio media client can deliver really impressive Blu-ray audio, but keeping things open source requires a bit of effort

A young woman with dark hair wearing a pair of Sonic Lamb headphones

'Visceral sound': These headphones promise better bass by transmitting it through your skin, not your ears — we tried the first generation of the tech, and it's astoundingly good, so we're excited by this upgraded version

By Carrie Marshall Published 17 October 26

Sonic Lamb's new Beyond headphones deliver low-frequency pulses through your skin for 'visceral sound'

LG Display announces its FLiPP next-gen OLED production technology in August 2026

LG confirms its next-gen OLED tech is coming to laptops and monitors first, and gives us a rough timeline — but don’t expect it to come to TVs soon

By Carrie Marshall Published 16 October 26

LG Display is developing a new OLED manufacturing process called FLiPP to deliver bright LEDs with much higher yields and less wastage

A woman in an expensive, sparse room watches a video of the grand canyon on a huge wall thanks to her XGIMI Horizon 30 Series

Xgimi's new 4K 120Hz triple-laser projector gets fully unveiled in three different versions, and it looks very tempting for a gaming-friendly home theater setup

By Carrie Marshall Published 16 October 26

The new Xgimi Horizon 30 Series adds three new 4K projectors with 4K 120Hz and up to 10,000:1 contrast, with gamer friendly features including VRR and ALLM

'Somebody’s gotta pay for all the useless Siri AI no one likes': I love my Apple TV 4K, but there's nothing compelling about the more-expensive new model — and Apple fans online feel even more strongly about it

By Carrie Marshall Published 13 October 26

The new Apple TV isn't significantly better than the existing model, many users say, but it's more than double the price

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