Actually innovative

Voice-reactive and mind-bending, he called it the coolest gadget ever to enter the building.

The most versatile cable he has seen, with swappable magnetic ends, a rotating head and 60W support.

Impressed by how quickly and precisely Daisy takes apart iPhones, though its capacity is tiny next to Apple's annual sales.

Fourth in the test, but strong for a 120Hz phone and could top the table at 60Hz.

Rated 9 out of 10; a headband that reads your visual cortex to steer a drone.

Rated 8 out of 10; lets you climb vertical glass, metal or brick with no ladder or harness.

Scored 7 out of 10; two layers of graphene could stop bullets while being practically invisible.

Rated 3 out of 10 as a superpower, though the idea of a display on the eye is impressive.

MIT's radio-wave AI system tracks people through walls and he finds it incredible.

Turns any object into a speaker using vibration and delivers surprising bass.

One of the coolest things he has ever seen: a cheap lens-sheet invisibility cloak, rated 8 out of 10.

Gave Neuralink the top 10 out of 10 for the monkey controlling a game by thought alone.

Tiny rugged phone whose two-way radio mode gave clearer, free calls than a normal call over about a kilometre.

Absurdly loud speaker, thermal and infrared night vision and a built-in flashlight impressed him.

A chandelier with living algae leaves that purify the room's air, rated four out of ten.

His number-one pick: clear solar glass that could turn every window into a power source.

Drones that plant 20,000 trees a day at about 50 cents each, tackling deforestation at scale.

Mealworms can digest plastic, and mass-producing their enzyme could solve plastic waste; rated nine out of ten.

A sponsored first look at a very camera-focused flagship with excellent build and standout night photography, though he notes some features…

Impressive laser engraver that etched his phone case straight from an app, though clearly dangerous.

The Pro is a smaller jump over the standard model than last year, but the steel frame, matte back and LiDAR make it a nicer phone.

Joint best money-no-object phone, with the best screen, camera and battery life, refined almost to perfection.

Hyped as a cinema-camera phone, but the cameras were worse than flagships and the promised modules never arrived.

Digital humans with human mannerisms that could blur real and artificial people, rated 10 out of 10.