3 Greatest New Tech Devices of 2025: A Breakdown

One extra yr down, and yet another yr on which to look again in any respect the devices that made their debuts in 2025. Here’s a backward look on the three greatest items of tech of the yr that impressed me essentially the most.

1. MacBook Air M4

The MacBook Air M4 is the perfect MacBook for most individuals. Gone are the times wherein you needed to steadiness the MacBook Air’s portability and entry-level value (for Apple, that’s) in opposition to efficiency.

Serious video and photograph editors will nonetheless wish to choose up the MacBook Pro, however the MacBook Air M4’s Apple-designed M4 chip is greater than highly effective sufficient for many duties.

2. Sony WH-1000XM6

Sony’s over-the-ear noise-canceling headphones obtained a sequel this yr within the type of the (deep inhalation) WH-1000XM6. These are the primary new flagship headphones from Sony for the reason that predecessor, the WH-1000XM5, launched in mid-2022.

The WH-1000XM6 was extra evolutionary than revolutionary. Sony says the WH-1000XM6’s HD Noise Canceling Processor QN3 is seven occasions quicker than the processor of the previous-generation WH-1000XM5, and its 12 microphones “allow for more accurate and adaptive noise cancellation to fit the user’s environment” in comparison with the WH-1000XM5’s eight microphones.

3. DJI Mavic 4 Pro

Chinese model DJI dominates the buyer drone market, and so it was with frustration that American followers realized they couldn’t obtain the newest mannequin, the Mavic 4 Pro, earlier this yr, together with the remainder of the world.

Well, DJI lastly launched it in October, forward of a December 23, 2025, deadline by which it finally was placed on an FCC checklist prohibiting it from introducing new drones to the American market. DJI is allowed to maintain promoting drones that it launched to the US earlier than the ban, so the Mavic 4 Pro is protected. It simply is perhaps the final new DJI drone the US will get for fairly some time.