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| | It's a personal assistant, fitness tracker, communicator, mobile wallet and elegant piece of jewelry all rolled into one. But for the Apple Watch to win us over, it really needs to do two things: 1) Save us time and 2) Do enough to justify the high price — and the need to charge another gadget each night. Apple's first wearable (starting at $349, $699 as tested) succeeds on both counts. It's the best designed and most useful smartwatch yet.  | | | |
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|  | | |  | Batteries: They never seem to last long enough. But that will change in the coming years, as several new technologies take power delivery to new heights and open up possibilities like phones that run for days or electric cars that go and go. | | | |  | We recently attended a 90-minute Halolens workshop, where we learned about the features of the Windows Holographic platform and what it's capable of. Here are five important things we know about HoloLens and five we still don't. | | | | | | |
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|  | | |  | | | The Surface 3 ($499 to start, $599 as tested) runs full Windows 8.1 on an Intel Atom processor, and throws in an eye-popping 10.8-inch, 1920 x 1280-pixel display and a three-point kickstand for good measure. Even the Type Cover keyboard, which still costs $129 extra, has been upgraded and now provides some of the best tactile feedback we've experienced on a mobile device. Though the Surface is not the most powerful tablet you can buy, it is one of the most versatile. | | | | | |
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