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I tried smart AR running sunglasses that show me a heads-up-display like Iron Man

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Engo 2: One minute review My calves are aching, and sweat is running down my back and soaking my shorts. I can feel my pulse in my neck: I’m not going a mile a minute, but my heart sure is. Or am I? I flick my eyes to the display in the corner of my mirrored sunglasses to check my splits and heart rate. It ain’t great, but I’m on pace still. For now, anyway. The display is the important part of the Engo 2 augmented reality glasses, which resemble Arnie’s shades from the Terminator flicks but house a secret. Tucked in around the nose piece is a monochrome OLED display that beams stats from your bike computer or smartwatch directly onto the lens in front of your eyes.  It’s like the head-up display fighter pilots use, and it’s made by one of the top suppliers. I’m wearing tech designed for F-15 pilots. I am invincible.  Other augmented reality glasses – like the Nreal Air or Virture One , or even the prototypes we’ve seen from Xiaomi and TCL and Lumus – aim to be platfo...

Hands on: Samsung S95B QD-OLED TV - worth the hype?

For years, TechRadar has offered the same advice: If you’re looking for the best TV you can possibly find, buy yourself an OLED set. OLED offers perfect black levels and the contrast ratios to match, and while the pictures aren’t as bright as those from LED televisions, they’re simply stunning.  And for years, regardless of which TV manufacturer you bought from – LG, Sony, Philips, whoever – the panel in your set came from one place: LG Display. Until now.  With the release of the S95B , Samsung has dipped a toe into the OLED display market, using a new panel technology that combines the best of both worlds. The QD-OLED panel in the S95B, manufactured by Samsung Display, combines the deep black levels and impossible contrast ratios of OLED with the brightness and wide color gamut of quantum dots, which the company describes as the secret sauce in its flagship displays, such as the Neo QLED 8K TV.  Given the Chinese companies like Hisense and TCL eating away at the LE...