The Best Devices of November 2025

This is it, people: the house stretch of 2025. We’ve obtained yet one more month left to go in our rotation across the solar earlier than a brand new yr dawns, and CES 2026 hits us with a wave of latest devices.

But earlier than that occurs, let’s look again at November, which was one way or the other filled with gaming bulletins. We reviewed a kickass 14-inch gaming laptop computer from Acer, a modernized model of the Nintendo 64, a pair of overkill $600 gaming headphones that hook up with all of your consoles, and obtained our first take a look at Valve’s Steam Machine, new Steam Controller, and Steam Frame VR headset. Sony even teased a brand new PlayStation Gaming Monitor with a built-in hook for charging up a PS5 DualSense controller.

As gaming-filled as November was, there have been additionally plenty of nice devices that had nothing to do with gaming. And if you happen to haven’t perused our Best Tech Gifts, Best Gaming Gifts, and Best Tech of 2025 Awards, you actually ought to.

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Nobody might have predicted that the unique phone-sized Boox Palma would discover such a cult following. Turns on the market is a market—area of interest, as it’s—for a phone-sized coloration E Ink machine. the Boox Palma 2 Pro is just too small to be a pill, but it surely’s additionally extra cellphone than earlier fashions. This time round, the colour E Ink machine has a 6.13-inch backlit display that may show a couple of shades of coloration, 5G connectivity, and helps a stylus, which is beneficial for notetaking. Is the restricted, coloration E Ink show going to make all of your comics and graphic novels actually pop like print? No, however even with the ability to see your e-book covers in coloration is progress.

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Got a pile of outdated Nintendo 64 video games within the attic that want some dusting off? Analogue, makers of the Pocket and different restricted version and really premium retro consoles, has an Analogue 3D to promote you. Assuming you should purchase one, the Analogue 3D is arguably one of the best ways to play unique N64 video games with both unique wired controllers (it additionally helps new wi-fi controllers just like the 8BitDo 64). Those outdated video games ought to look higher than ever when plugged into a contemporary 4K TV by way of HDMI. The console features a built-in upscaler and several other “Analogue Original Display Modes” that replicate the look of an outdated CRT, softening the pixels so they seem smoother. Games can be overclocked in order that titles with nearly unplayable body charges, like Superman 64, truly run.

Look, we didn’t need to consider it both, however as Gizmodo Senior Writer James Pero, who focuses on reviewing wi-fi earbuds, headphones, and audio system, assured us, the $70 Soundpeats Clip 1 open-style wi-fi earbuds actually throw down with Bose’s $300 Ultra Open Earbuds. They’re not essentially the most stylish-looking, however they’re very snug, the sound is great, and so they’re rattling inexpensive. More no-gimmick devices like this, please!

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This is precisely how competitors ought to work. Challenging the Whoop 5.0 is the Polar Loop, a well being and health wearable that additionally has no display. Our reviewer Claire Maldarelli praised its lack of a subscription (a rarity at the moment), lengthy battery life, and cozy design. The information collected from the Polar Loop’s coronary heart charge monitor might not be as complete because the Whoop’s, however if you happen to don’t need to be bombarded with an excessive amount of data, the wearable offers simply sufficient.

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Framework already proved it might make a modular laptop computer with swappable I/O ports and upgradable and repairable elements. For the 2025 refresh of the Laptop 16, the corporate provides a brand new GPU module that’s truly beefy sufficient for enjoying video games. Will you must decrease some settings to forestall this factor from taking off? Probably, however simply the truth that you may play video games (with the correct GPU module) in a laptop computer that’s as configurable as this (you may transfer the keyboard to both aspect, add a trackpad, and even throw on some extra panels, together with ones that mild up) is the form of whimsy that you simply gained’t discover on some other “portable” machine.

$600 is some huge cash for a gaming headset. You should be very certain you’ll recognize the dwelling hell out of the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Elite. Should you be that individual, you’ll discover a headset that sounds terrific. The retractable microphone can also be crystal clear, in accordance with Gizmodo workers author Kyle Barr, who reviewed the headset. The supplies are very top quality, and the power to plug into a number of consoles and a PC is in the end what may make the costly headset well worth the comfort.

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It’s very nice to see extra gaming laptops look… much less like rainbow vomits of RGB. Acer’s Predator Triton 14 AI is a 14-inch gaming machine that screams for enjoying video games. Pretty a lot every part is premium, together with an OLED touchscreen with a 120Hz refresh charge, stylus assist on the trackpad, mini-LED per-key, and first rate battery life. The audio system are the one draw back, however if you happen to’ve obtained the cash to splurge on a monster of a gaming laptop computer, the Predator Triton 14 AI is certainly one of our favorites of the yr.

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DJI’s new merchandise could not be out there for buy within the U.S. (due to unfounded fears of spying), however that isn’t stopping the drone maker from innovating with class-leading merchandise. Case in level: the Osmo Action 6, which obliterates a GoPro with its “variable aperture” lens that may be adjusted from f/4.0 to a shallow f/2.0. The result’s a rugged motion digicam that enables customers to take much more inventive footage, like pictures and movies with extra bokeh (background blur). The variable aperture additionally improves low-light seize. Somewhere, GoPro is shaking in its boots as a result of it didn’t even trouble updating the Hero 13 Black this yr.

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Valve appeared on the Apple Vision Pro and mentioned… nah, let’s simply make the Steam Frame a VR headset that’s tremendous mild, tremendous modular, and works completely for streaming video games from Steam on a PC into a large digital 2D display with no lag. No spatial computing or 3D-generated avatars of your personal likeness or freaky eyes on the entrance of the headset. The Steam Frame is only a actually easy option to get an enormous digital display for PC gaming.

Valve swooped in with what might probably be a severe competitor to Sony and Xbox’s two-legged high-end console race. We don’t have any pricing for the roughly 6 x 6-inch Steam Machine but, however based mostly on the PC specs alone and what Valve has been suggesting, the console ought to have just below the facility of a PS5 Pro and value as a lot as a equally specced PC. The Steam Machine is launching in “early 2026,” so count on to listen to much more about it in only a few months.

Previewed for launch subsequent yr, the PlayStation Gaming Monitor is a 27-inch IPS LCD show with 1440p decision and a 240Hz refresh charge. It works with PS5 (although the console solely maxes out at 120Hz) and comes with a charging hook to maintain a DualSense controller juiced up and prepared on a regular basis. At first, it appears bizarre for Sony to make a PlayStation-branded gaming monitor, however when you think about the entire different PlayStation-branded {hardware} that’s coming subsequent yr, too (Pulse Elevate transportable desktop audio system and FlexStrike combat stick), then you definately begin to see that Sony is increase an ecosystem past its dwelling console.

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Anbernic is an organization that has discovered its personal area of interest, filling within the void with handhelds that Nintendo gained’t.  Its newest handheld is, after all, one for emulating DS video games (authorized ones that you simply personal). The Anbernic RG DS seems to be virtually similar to a Nintendo DS Lite, save for the 2 joysticks and bigger twin screens. We can’t vouch for what efficiency is like emulating DS video games, however if you happen to’ve been dying to take action, this is likely to be the closest factor.

In case you missed the memo, CD gamers are so again. Never heard of Shanling? Neither have we. Judging from the specs, this dangerous boy isn’t your grandpa’s Sony, Aiwa, or Panasonic. Yes, it performs CDs, however the EC Zero AKM additionally helps trendy facilities like wi-fi audio (so you may plug in a pair of AirPods or join it to a wi-fi speaker), two audio jacks (3.5mm and 4.4mm), a chargeable battery, and a real-time CD-ripping characteristic. It’s expensive, but it surely appears to do all of it.

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