It was a great year to be a forward-looking consumer. We saw a number of products bust the ceiling with innovative designs, smarter software, and entirely new experiences.
Here you'll find the Gadget Lab staff's selection of 2015's best consumer electronics. The list is not comprehensive across every category—What, no tweeting toasters?—but that's because some of the best gadgets in the biggest categories came out in 2014, and they weren't usurped during the last 12 months. You won't find a better streaming box than the Roku, or a better sub-$200 wireless speaker than the UE Boom 2. Xbox and PlayStation still rule the console world. But 2015 was a good year for companies releasing big upgrades to marquee products and improving on previously winning designs. You'll see a few of those picks here alongside the entirely new stuff.
So here's a list of our absolute favorite new things we saw in 2015. And of course, you can consider all of these products no-brainer purchases. If you're in the market for something new, you can't lose with any of these picks. Well, except for maybe the TV that costs as much as a used Hyundai.
