TIME magazine has released its Top 10 lists for 2014, including Gadgets, Video Games, and Toys.
Apple products take three of the ten places:
#1: Apple Watch: The Apple Watch wants to do to your wrist what the iPhone did to your pocket: stick a computer there. For at least $349, watchwearers will access apps, weather, photos, texts, emails, payments and, through Apple’s HomeKit software, control thermostats, door locks, televisions and lights. The watch’s sleek interface is mounted on a customizable strap, and it actually doesn’t make you look like a geek. First revealed this year but not on store shelves for a few more months, it’s a daring foray into the wearable market: Apple could be the first company to make wearable computers ubiquitous.
#5:iPhone 6 Plus: Bigger is better, or so the critics cried, calling for Apple to make a supersized phone. That was before Apple quieted them with the release of the iPhone 6 Plus in September, the company’s largest iPhone ever. With an alluring 5.5-inch display that makes it feel something like a portable iPad, the phone is is a challenge to Samsung’s larger models. Along with a powerful 8-megapixel camera and longer battery life, the phone is more a statement than an answer.
#9: iPad Air 2: Apple is continuing its run of putting cutting edge technology into the smallest space possible, like stuffing fresh toppings into a tiny burrito. The iPad Air 2 is the thinnest iPad ever and it’s also the most powerful, containing an A8X chip, an 8 megapixel camera and at least 16GB in a 6.1mm-thin frame. The Air 2 runs 40% faster and starts at $499.
The rest of TIME’s Top 10:
#2: SmartThings Starter Kit
#3: DJI Phantom Vision+
#4: Oculus Rift Development Kit 2
#6: HERO4 GoPro
#7: Mophie Space Pack for iPhone
#8: Jawbone UP3
#10: The Doorbot
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]