5 most innovative gadgets launched in 2020

The year 2020 has been one of the most challenging years for everyone. But these challenges did not restrict technological innovation to amaze us. 2020 has got them all -from advanced smart televisions to laptops to other gadgets, the list remains long. With these inventions, there is room for everyone leaving us to invent, grow and change even more. Therefore, The-Electronics brings you the top 5 innovative gadgets of 2020.

1. Samsung Q950TS QLED 8K Smart TV – Rs 9,47,000 (Onwards)

The Samsung Q950TS QLED 8K Smart TV brings edge-to-edge viewing infinity screen for more immersive viewing experience. It features a massive 85’inch screen with Real 8K resolution with 7680×4320 pixels resolution.

The smart QLED TV is powered by Quantum Processor 8K to provide AI upscaling (reduces noise pixel by pixel) and adaptive picture (automatic brightness adjustment).

The television comes with Object Tracking Sound+ (OTS+), to track the motion in every scene for the realistic cinematic sound experience. With the Ultra Viewing Angle, one can get the full display experience irrespective of where they sit. The device brings in Quantum HDR 32X that allows the dynamic tone mapping of HDR10+ shifts color and contrast scene by scene.

The most interesting feature of the Samsung Q950TS QLED 8K Smart TV is its Multi-View Splits. This lets the users watch multiple shows at the same like – one side one can watch a movie while on the other side one can mirror their mobile.

Another feature that makes the TV stand out is its Active Voice Amplifier. The technology helps in enhancing the voices in dialogue to deliver it clearly. One can mirror the mobile screen with just a tap.

2. GeForce RTX 3080 by NVIDIA – Rs 62,000

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 is being considered as the greatest generational leap ever. The GeForce RTX 3080 supports 4K, 60 frames per second. The GPU works best for high-end gaming PC.

This packs 30 shader-teraflops (TFLOPS), 58 ray-tracing TFLops and 239 Tensor-TFLOPS. It is paired with 10GB of G6X graphics RAM. No wonder why it is being called the “world’s fastest graphics memory” with GDDR6X VRAM that can perform at a whopping 760 GB/s.

One can find a new dedicated ray-tracing hardware for even more immersive lighting and shadows in your favourite PC games. With GeForce RTX 3080, NVIDIA introduces a thermal-optimised design that plans 50% more airflow, 30% more efficiency.

It also can be up to three times quieter during heating gaming sessions. The GPU is built with enhanced RT Cores and Tensor Cores along with new streaming multiprocessors and superfast G6Xmemory.

With its new dual axial that flows through thermal design, reinforces the natural airflow in the chassis for a quieter and cooler gaming system.

GeForce RTX 3080 is powered by DLSS AI Acceleration. The AI rendering boosts the frame rates using a dedicated AI processing Tensor Cores.

3. Odyssey G9 by Samsung – Rs 1,99,000

Samsung Odyssey G9 is a 49-inch curved display monitor with a Dual Quad High-Definition 5,120×1,440 pixels resolution with 32:2 aspect ratio. Odyssey G9 features 1000R curvature that offers a more deep and immersive experience. Odyssey G9 comes with QLED, HDR1000 and DQHD resolution for total depth, details and gaming experience. It is the world’s first Dual Quad High-Definition monitor.

It comes with VA panel with 240Hz Refresh Rate and 1ms response time. The monitor comes with NVIDIA G-Sync support and HDR10+ and TUV Rheinland certification. It offers 92 per cent Adobe RGB coverage, 88 per cent coverage of NTSC colour gamut, and 125 per cent sRGB coverage. Some of its features include flicker-free technology, Eye Saver Mode, picture-in-picture, game mode, FreeSync Premium Pro, black equaliser, and low input lag mode.

With the Infinity Core, Lighting Design adds radiating a captivating glow in 5 different modes.

With Samsung’s screen-splitting easy setting box SW helps in multi-tasking by splitting the screen.

4. ThinkPad X1 Fold by Lenovo

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold is the world’s first foldable PC with 13.3-inch OLED screen with a Touch screen. It can be folded horizontally that can be used as a single display 13-inch notebook, with an optional detachable keyboard and easel stand. While folding it in 90 degrees and turning it vertically will make the device a miniature laptop. This comes with optional styles to take notes.

The laptop is powered by Intel’s Lakefield processors which are paired with 8GB RAM and up to 1TB of storage. ThinkPad X1 Fold comes with 50Wh battery and can supply power up to 8.5 hours depending on the usage.

The foldable laptop features Intel’s new Evo platform that certifies laptops to deliver long battery life, fast charging, and a quick boot time, and other features.

The interesting feature is its AI security feature that detects when you’re walking by and wake itself up, for example, and locks itself when you walk away.

The discrete Trusted Platform Module (dTPM) helps the laptop to encrypt data making it more difficult to hack and keeping your critical data more secure.

5. Sony’s Reon Pocket – Wearable AC – (Rs 9,100 approx)

Going out for work during summers can get worse if the temperature rises with each passing day. Sony gets a solution for this with Sony Reon Pocket – a portable air conditioner.

Reon Pocket is a smaller and lighter gadget that fits in an undershirt. The company claims that the gadget cools the body by about 13 degrees Celsius compared to the environment’s temperature.

Not only during summers, but the gadget is useful during winters as well. Reon Pocket can provide heat during winters by raising the temperature by about 8 degrees Celsius.

The wearable AC can be controlled by a smartphone app supporting both Android and iOS. The gets charged in about 2 hours for 90 minutes of use using a USB-C Type.  Reon Pocket uses the Peltier effect – a temperature difference is created by applying a voltage between two electrodes connected to a sample of semiconductor material. As of now, the product is only available in Japan.