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Hello! In this packed issue we’ll reveal all the essential tech you need to own in 2023. First up that means showing you the hottest gear from the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, before hurtling head-first into a mammoth list of 101 essential products for this year. Our list combines the best of ’22 with the most likely upcoming launches, and is the result of some serious time spent with the crystal ball as well as our inside track on what’s expected over the coming months. Elsewhere, we have a thorough selection of new must-download apps (whether you’re on iOS or Android) plus – in case you’ve been overdoing things – a bit of a new year fitness frenzy. But we’ve still found room for plenty of reviews,…

Along with miserable periods of abstinence, doomed attempts to get fit and Red Squirrel Appreciation Day (it’s on the 21st, get it in your diary), January is the month when all the big TV makers show off their new wares – and the spec sheets for Samsung’s latest Neo QLEDs make for much better reading than our bathroom scales. Available with both 4K and 8K screens, all the new models are powered by the rather Skynet-sounding Neural Quantum Processor – although Samsung says this uses Shape Adaptive Light Control and Real Depth Enhancer Pro tech to deliver a more lifelike picture, not threaten the very existence of humanity. There’s also an Auto HDR Remastering mode that uses AI to analyse and improve non-HDR pictures on a scene-by-scene basis. And there’s more cleverness:…

While some people are doing everything they can to cut down their screen time, Lenovo’s dual-touchscreen Yoga Book 9i will double it in an instant. With a pair of 13.3in 2.8K OLED PureSight screens, it’s a bit like a folding phone that’s been gigantified – but you also get a detachable Bluetooth keyboard and stylus, which opens up all kinds of different ways to use it. Unfold it fully and you’ve got a massive space to browse the web on; open it up like a book and you can work on two documents simultaneously; turn it landscape to take notes on the bottom while joining a video call on top; or prop it up on its edges and you can control a presentation from one screen while people view it on…

Do you ever wish you could change the colour of your car as often as you change your pants? BMW’s all-electric i Vision Dee concept (it stands for Digital Emotional Experience, before you ask) is covered in E Ink panels – 240 segments in total – that can be controlled individually. You get a choice of 32 colours for each one, so when you wake up in the morning you can make sure your motor matches your outfit. And if you’re one of those weirdos who stick eyelashes to their car’s headlights, you’ll love the front grille, which can display different facial expressions to reflect the car’s ‘mood’. Presumably that means it frowns if you park it badly or fail to indicate. Which you probably will, being a BMW driver and…

Erik Buell knows a lot more about bikes than he does about spelling. As founder of the Buell Motorcycle Company, which was bought by Harley-Davidson in the ’90s, Erik’s innovative engineering made him a legend of the road and track. So while it might look like a couple of typos slipped through when he was naming his latest project, don’t let that put you off this electric two-wheeler. While Fuell designed the Fllow with short journeys in mind, it still has a range of up to 150 miles, so you won’t have to plug it in every night – and when you do, the 10kWh battery integrated into the bike’s chassis can be charged in as little as half an hour. Its 35kW motor has enough oomph to hit 62mph in…

If you’ve got the money to buy yourself a 97in TV, you can probably also afford to neatly squirrel (don’t forget, 21 January) the cables away in the wall behind it… but with LG’s latest giant OLED, wires are not an issue. The M3 comes with a voice-controlled Zero Connect box, which happily accepts all the wires from your consoles, set-top boxes and such like, and beams the signal wirelessly to the actual telly. That means you can stow all your stuff out of sight and not have to worry about spoiling the look of your new gogglebox by having a load of spaghetti hanging out of the back. Now, picture purists will no doubt be very concerned about the quality and latency of those wireless transmissions, but LG reckons it can…