OWLET SMART SOCK 3

LG SOUND BAR GX

£999, lg.com

The problem we’ve just invented with soundbars is that they’re just so conspicuous. They don’t blend in with our TVs in the slightest, the awkward things. Not this one, at least in certain specific circumstances. If you’re lucky enough to have one of LG’s super-thin GX Gallery series OLED TVs proudly hanging on your wall, this is the precise same width and thickness as the 65-inch model. It’s a front-firing speaker set specially engineered to hit the same style notes when wall mounted below it. Even if you don’t have a GX TV, it’s a feature-filled 3.1 soundbar, with £TBC, owletbabycare.co.uk

Sure, you can point a camera at your baby, but all that tells you is that they haven’t somehow teleported away from their cot. That’s useful to know, but those worrisome early months demand a little more data than that. Owlet’s third generation of its smart sock, gently placed on your baby’s foot, gives you live updates on their heart rate and oxygen level straight to your phone. That’s a lot more like it. The Smart Sock has been redesigned to now fit babies weighing anywhere from five to 30 pounds so you can use it as soon as you get home from the hospital, and support for Dolby Atmos, hi-res audio, and the ability to expand with a pair of rear speakers for a 5.1 field. It’s packed with connectivity options, everything from USB to Bluetooth to optical and beyond, and it includes LG’s crafty AI Sound Pro tech.

T3 SAYS: A packed-with-goodies soundbar whatever you use it with.

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COOLNESS INNOVATION FEATURES you can wirelessly charge it for 16 hours of monitoring in 90 minutes. “Parents of newborns should be able to sleep soundly knowing their baby is okay,” says Owlet’s marketing spiel. Perhaps ‘sleep soundly’ isn’t the right phrase. Have they met a newborn?

T3 SAYS: At least one of you will rest a little easier.

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