21 Best Tech Products of 2024

The products selected in this list help form Man of Many’s Top 100 Products of 2024. The comprehensive guide details the very best in Tech, Fashion, Automotive, Home & Living, Watches, Drinks and Outdoors, as chosen by our expert team of reviewers and editors.

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It’s been an interesting year for tech. Last year, we saw AI start to emerge, but in 2024 we saw the trend barrel forward full-steam ahead. Almost everything has been touched by it, and much of this list features it in some capacity.

That being said, a lot of it doesn’t. Rather, most of our favourite tech features some truly impressive hardware that takes some of our favourite types of tech into new and innovative places. From a phone made of three screens to a TV you can see through, there is a lot of awesome stuff here. Without any further ado, let’s check out the best tech products of the year.

Best Tech Products of 2024

Our list of the best tech product releases of 2024 includes the following.

• Best Overall: Apple Mac Mini
• Best Smartphone: iPhone 16 Pro Max
• Best Camera: Fujifilm X100VI
• Best Display: LG UltraGear 45” OLED
• Best Handheld: ASUS Rog Ally X
• Most Unexpected: Analogue 3D

Now that we’ve rounded up our favourites, let’s check out the full list.

iPhone 16 Pro Max

Stepping up its game in quite a few ways, the iPhone 16 Pro Max takes everything that was excellent about Apple’s previous Pro line-up and makes it bigger and better. The iPhone 16 Pro Max features some serious design genius, delivering the thinnest bezels on any Apple product and the largest display an iPhone has ever had at 6.9”.

But the improvements aren’t all external. The impressive A18 Pro chip delivers best-in-class performance with some serious battery efficiency gains—the phone can now last up to 17 hours on a single charge, thanks to its beefy 4,685mAh battery. Plus, the phone is about to get a big upgrade in the form of Apple Intelligence, which is dropping before the end of 2024. If you’re looking for a high-end smartphone that’ll last the whole day, while delivering incredible power, this is Apple’s answer.

Dyson OnTrac Headphones

For a company most people associate with vacuums, it came as a bit of a surprise that Dyson’s first major step into on-ear headphones didn’t suck. In fact, they’re really, really good. The OnTrac were made specifically for people that truly appreciate music, and want an incredibly rich and dynamic audio experience.

They were also made to offer some of the best noise cancellation we’ve had the pleasure of (not) hearing. According to Dyson, the OnTrac uses a custom active noise cancellation algorithm powered by eight microphones that cancels up to 40dB of sound. Plus, thanks to the headphone’s sizeable battery, it can do this for up to 55 hours.

Fujifilm X100VI

This cult classic compact camera got a welcome facelift this year. If you’re after a portable fixed-lens camera that not only looks great but performs well, Fujifilm’s X100VI fits the bill. The camera’s 35mm lens is bolstered by a new and improved 40MP sensor, which can deliver some truly impressive images and up to 6K video footage without adding any unnecessary bulk to the iconic design.

Plus, the X100VI adds 20 different ‘film simulation’ models to replicate the look and feel of classic film photography, using Fujifilm’s history and experience in the sector to great effect. Here, you get a classic camera with all the modern trimmings: what’s not to love?

Sonos Ace

When you think of sound, you probably think of Sonos—and for good reason. The brand has led the audio game for some time and finally launched its own premium headphones this year, the Sonos Ace. The business’ decades of experience came in handy with the Ace, nailing the premium audio experience from the get-go.

Not only are they a beautiful and understated piece of design, but the Sonos Ace manages to cram serious sound quality into a fairly understated product. Sporting 40mm drivers, impressive active noise cancellation, and some of the best sonic depth we’ve had the pleasure of experiencing, the Ace is an easy recommendation.

Nocs Design Monolith x Aluminum

The Swedish design gurus at Nocs had already delivered one of the best (and most expensive) speaker systems that double as a piece of artistic engineering in the Monolith, and, wanting to deliver the same concept to more people, they decided that it was time to downsize it.

Choosing aluminium as the base material, Nocs created something more environmentally friendly than its larger brother that is also far more portable. CNC-machined from a single piece of aluminium before being sandblasted and anodized, the Monolith x Aluminium features a 5-driver array that can deliver studio quality sound. Plus, if you’re particularly rich, you can pair up to eight of them together to create a truly spectacular audio experience.

MSI Claw A1M

Handheld gaming is clearly becoming the next major battleground in the gaming space, and the MSI Claw is an impressive bit of kit that delivers AAA-quality gaming on the go.

But it isn’t just a powerhouse: MSI took pains to ensure that gamers wouldn’t, collecting thousands of pieces of data from players around the world to make sure the Claw was comfortable, and light, enough for extended play sessions. Further, since the Claw is a Windows machine first and foremost, you can simply hook it up to a monitor, keyboard, mouse, or external gamepad to enjoy your games on a bigger screen.

Google Pixel 9

In a crowded smartphone market it can be hard to get a phone to stand out, even when you’re Google. But with the Pixel 9, Google improved just about everything that needed an update, redesigned the form, and upped the function. Simply put, the Pixel 9 is our favourite Android phone to come out this year. It’s fast, powerful, beautiful,

While the real impact of having particularly powerful AI features at your fingertips is probably a bit too early to call, there are some genuinely useful additions, such as being able to more easily add yourself or a friend into a photo (or remove someone, if that’s more your speed), and Google’s Gemini is getting more improvements constantly. We said it in our review, but if you’re in the market for a high-end Android phone, this is the one to pick up.

LG UltraGear 45” OLED

It’s expensive, but damn it if LG’s UltraGear 45” OLED gaming monitor isn’t a fantastic bit of kit. You’ll need a pretty beefy rig to be able to push this thing to its limits, but even if you have a midrange PC you’ll be able to power some decent ultrawide gaming.

The real advantage here (aside from the size) is the impressive colours. Blacks are deep, and colours are vibrant thanks to LG’s commitment to using OLED technology in this monitor. It’s rare for a screen this big to also be an OLED display, let alone one that is also 240hz, so you’re really getting the best of all worlds. LG really pulled out all the stops with the UltraGear, which is easily one of the most impressive monitors we’ve used in recent years.

Analogue 3D

Do you have good memories of sitting around the TV as a kid playing GoldenEye with your friends? Or Smash Brothers? Or Super Mario 64? Or the best Zelda game (Majora’s Mask, obviously)? Then you’d probably absolutely love the Analogue 3D.

It’s an N64 console brought up to date with modern technology and displays. It’ll play at higher resolutions than the original console ever could, connect easily to any HDMI-capable TV, and sync with Bluetooth controllers while also retaining the ability to pop in a cartridge and just get stuck in.

It’s not made by Nintendo, but it’s very legal, and since it launched earlier this year has been almost exclusively sold out. If you’re interested, you can jump on a waitlist to be told when it’s available again, but we’d advise you get in quick before it sells out again.

reMarkable Paper Pro

ReMarkable finally improved upon its fantastic paper-like tablet, the reMarkable 2, with the launch of the Paper Pro. It’s similar to what came before but for a few major changes, one of which is that it now sports a true colour-ink display.

Writing on the reMarkable does genuinely feel like you’re writing on paper, but if that paper is infinite, and syncs easily with the reMarkable app to keep your notebooks updated and present across all of your devices. The new colour display opens the Paper Pro up to artists and designers in a way that the original reMarkable couldn’t support, as well as making it a great place to read comics or graphic novels. It won’t replace your laptop, but it might replace your notebooks, journals, ebook readers, and more.

CMF Phone 1

Nothing is already a pretty established brand within the tech scene, and even though its products aren’t exactly expensive, it launched CMF with the express goal of making budget products exciting again. The CMF Phone 1 is the brand’s first effort at a ‘flagship’ budget Android phone, and boy did it deliver.

For starters, the CMF Phone 1 uses the same custom Android system, Nothing OS, that powers its bigger brothers: The Nothing Phone (2) and (2a). But, it also has some unique tricks up its sleeve. Unlike other phones on the market, the CMF Phone was created with the idea that the maker community, which has already rallied around Nothing, can utilise a specially designed ‘accessory point’ to attach whatever they want to the phone.

Nothing makes their own accessories, of course, but there’s nothing stopping someone with design experience from mocking up their own accessories and attaching it themselves, making the phone even more personal. If you consider yourself a bit creative, there’s a lot you could do here.

Apple Mac Mini

For all of Apple’s products launched in 2024, the renewed Mac Mini is probably the most surprising. The addition of the M4 processor significantly improves the Mini’s performance, and paired with its smaller size and price tag, this powerful puck is a really solid buy.

The addition of several Thunderbolt 5 ports allows for the Mini to power multiple 6K monitors at once (such as Apple’s Studio Display Plus, funnily enough), and, thanks to the device’s size and price point, it’s both an impressive computer and an attractive gaming console alternative. Also, the fact that this is Apple’s first totally carbon-neutral product is pretty impressive, considering it doesn’t feel like any corners were cut to get there.

LG Signature OLED T

Have you ever wondered what the wall behind your TV looked like while you were watching a show? Well, LG is trying to show you. That sounds a bit silly, but it’s actually pretty clever—LG isn’t the only tech company trying to make TVs fade into the background of your home a bit more, but the OLED T is definitely the only one we’ve seen that could be put up against a window without actually blocking the view.

Unless you want to. The TV comes with the ability to raise a black background behind the ‘screen’ that blocks out whatever is behind, and allows you to use the OLED T as a regular ol’ TV. But when it’s not in use, you can let the light stream into your home, or you can see whatever is normally locked behind your TV. It’s a niche use case, sure, but as we keep moving into smaller and smaller living spaces, making the most out of that space is incredibly important.

Oh, and it’s also totally wireless and features the colour advantages that OLED technology offers—just in case you need more reasons.

Apple iPad Air

There’s an iPad out there for everyone, whether that be a Mini for content consumption, a Pro for content creation, or an Air for everything in between. In general, it seems Apple’s Air line of products is made to be used by most people, and that remains true here: the iPad Air is a fantastic, lightweight tablet that does a lot right.

The Air features Apple’s M2 processor and stunning Retina display, and comes in two sizes: 11” and 13”. Plus, the iPad can become a pretty decent writing or drawing tablet with the addition of the company’s Pencil or Pencil Pro, and can even serve as an ultra-light laptop by snapping on a magic keyboard.

The iPad Air is one of the most compelling tablets on the market for good reason: it’s an incredibly versatile bit of kit that can fit into most people’s lives with little effort. Now, which colour do you like best?

ASUS ROG Ally X

ASUS delivered a very solid Windows gaming handheld in the original ROG Ally, and the company essentially improved on everything with the launch of the Ally X earlier this year. In our opinion, the Ally X is the best Windows handheld available today, and probably one of the best gaming devices on the market period.

See, in the Ally X, you’re getting a powerful PC condensed into a portable form factor, built with the express purpose of making PC gaming something you can take anywhere. The downside of other powerful handhelds is usually the battery life, but with the Ally X ASUS doubled the battery capacity, while also boosting its memory, storage, and ergonomics.

It’s still a bit heavy in the hand compared to some others on the market, but the Ally X is a great device regardless, especially for those of us without the time or space necessary to research, buy, build, and optimise our own gaming rigs.

Samsung Galaxy Ring

A wearable for people who don’t like wearables, the Samsung Galaxy Ring brings sleep tracking and fitness analysis off your wrist. For people like us (and you, since you’re here on Man of Many with us) who tend to prefer more traditional timepieces, the Galaxy Ring is a welcome addition to our tech collection.

Connecting with your smartphone, the Galaxy Ring uses an optical bio-signal sensor to monitor your health and activity during the day and night and deliver that information to you through the Samsung Health app. It’ll even assign you a ‘sleep animal’ to tell you whether your nighttime routine is more similar to a penguin or a lion. Ultimately, it’s a handy little piece of tech for those of us who want the power of fitness and sleep trackers without wanting the rest of a smartwatch.

PS5 Pro

The PS5 Pro dropped earlier this year with promises of improved frame-rates, resolutions, and overall stability to some of your favourite PlayStation 5 games. Thankfully, despite the initial uproar about the device’s price and lack of a disk drive, the console actually did deliver on the power front.

Depending on which game you’re looking to play, you can see a number of improvements: though most of them won’t be apparent unless you’ve got the PS5 Pro hooked up to a pretty good display. Sony’s first-party games are going to be the best represented here, with titles like Horizon Forbidden West and Spiderman 2 bringing more consistent frame rates and advanced ray tracing features that can really show off how beautiful the games can be.

If you’re one of the people that can’t tell the difference between 30 fps and 60 fps, I wouldn’t bother upgrading, honestly. But if you’re like me, and notice even the slightest dip below a set target, this is the PS5 to get.

Huawei Mate XT Ultimate Design

It feels like we’re only just starting to see bi-fold phones be actually purchased and used by everyday people, and Huawei had to just go ahead and show off a tri-fold phone. The Mate XT Ultimate Design is incredibly impressive from a technical and engineering perspective, but its presence has only whet the tech communities appetite for more: bigger phones, more hinges, more screens.

When fully extended the Mate XT reaches a full 15cm, or 10.2”, putting it right in the space of an Android tablet, but it can also be folded down to a more mindful, demure 6.4” size.

For what it’s worth, the Mate XT is only currently available in China, though there’s a roadmap for it to be released internationally. For now, it exists as an example of where flagship phone technology could go

LG CineBeam Q 4K UHD Smart Portable Laser Projector

There are a lot of great projectors out there, but LG’s CineBeam fills a particularly useful niche in that it is both light and portable, and really, really good. We spent quite a bit of time with the CineBeam this year, and came out the other side impressed.

You’re getting a tiny projector that can push out 4k footage and simulate a 120” TV against a wall, a screen, or, really, whatever you point it at. The built-in audio leaves quite a bit to be desired, but that’s not a hard problem to solve these days. It also sports an adjustable stand that doubles as a carry handle, and the ability to be powered purely through a USB-C power bank, so if campings your jam you can bring a 120” TV along with you.

GoPro Hero 13 Black

GoPro seems to consistently set the standard for action cameras, and they’ve done it again with the Hero 13 Black. This time, though, GoPro decided to completely redesign and rethink the Hero and delivered probably its most customisable camera to date.

The Hero 13 sports a bigger battery, which is already a plus, but also features hot-swappable lens mods, such as macro, ultra-wide, or anamorphic lenses, that are automatically recognised and configured by the camera. It’s incredibly easy and makes taking great photography easier than ever. It features the same 13.4mm sensor that previous models sported, which means 5k60fps or 4k120fps footage is on the cards, alongside 27MP photos. It’s impressive stuff.

DJI Neo Compact Drone

If you’re after the perfect beginner’s drone, this is it. The DJI Neo nails everything you need from a drone if you’re a casual user dipping your toe in for the first time, or someone who uses drones more often and wants something small and compact to toy around with between bigger sessions.

Weighing just 135 grams, this is a 4K drone with a single-axis gimble, subject tracking, and six shooting modes that take the skill out of drone piloting. You’ll also get 18 minutes of runtime, 40 minutes of 4K30fps video stored on 22GB of internal memory, and a form factor perfect for travel. Did we mention it’s small enough to fit in your palm, and can be flown from your phone?

How Man of Many Chose the Best Tech Products of 2024

To arrive at this list of products, the Man of Many team went through hours of rigorous testing, implementation, and analysis before culling it down to the very best. Over the last 12 months, we’ve worked on curated products that push boundaries and pioneer new fronts, across the automotive, fashion, lifestyle, and technology verticals. Sure, we love getting the latest piece of kit in our hands, but being able to point out the benefits and shortfalls objectively is at the heart of what we do.

As a result, the Top 100 Products is primarily comprised of products we’ve tested in-house and have used extensively first-hand. While there are a few exceptions to this rule, generally due to scarcity and availability, we made note of the cultural significance surrounding each product should we not have been able to review it personally.

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