Gear News This Week: Adobe Wants to Make iPhone Photos Better, and TCL Brings Flexibility to Atmos

The larger JBuds Party ($70) offers 30 watts of powerfulness to make it “one of nan astir powerful speakers astatine its price,” according to JLab, though, dissimilar astir speakers astatine this level, it’s not afloat dunkable, offering conscionable IPX6 h2o resistance. Finally, because each marque needs a karaoke speaker, there’s nan $150 Epic Party pinch a 360-degree soundstage, 4 2.5-inch drivers, a 5.25-inch woofer, and up to 16 hours of claimed artillery life. Like its siblings, nan Epic boasts RGB lighting and includes some a 3.5-mm aux relationship and a quarter-inch jack for adding a microphone. All 4 speakers are disposable this week, and we’ll beryllium checking them retired soon to spot really they stack up to nan best Bluetooth speakers we’ve tested. —Ryan Waniata

TCL Z100 Speaker Makes Atmos Sound More Flexible

More than 18 months aft it was first teased astatine IFA 2023, TCL has confirmed nan motorboat of nan Z100—the world’s first Dolby Atmos FlexConnect speaker. The purpose present is to present Atmos sound wirelessly and flexibly, pinch a scope of configurations available—from 2 to 4 speakers.

As they are wireless, nan Z100 speakers tin beryllium placed wherever is convenient successful nan room, and will activity on pinch nan sound from compatible TCL TVs arsenic good arsenic immoderate different Z100s you own, creating a 5.1.2-channel aliases 7.1.4-channel Atmos sound. Each speaker packs 4 drivers, including 1 upwards firing, to present 170 watts of full power.

The Z100 is presently compatible pinch nan latest procreation of TCL QD-Mini LED TVs, for illustration nan QM6K, and will besides double up arsenic a Bluetooth speaker (without Atmos). It’ll beryllium disposable first successful France starting July 2025, pinch further European and US launches to follow. —Verity Burns

Philips Hue Debuts nan Wall Washer

The latest smart lighting release from Philips Hue is nan Hue Play Wall Washer. This sleek, black, aluminum instrumentality is conscionable 6 inches gangly and is designed to beryllium connected your TV furniture aliases sideboard and, arsenic nan sanction suggests, lavation your wall successful colorful light. Employing a caller ColorCast projection technology, nan Wall Washer sprays ray astatine a wide perspective and supports aggregate simultaneous colors and a ton of lighting effects. You tin sync it pinch your existing Hue lights and systems, including nan Hue HDMI Sync container and nan TV and PC Sync apps. Folks tin group nan intensity, speed, brightness, 3D positioning, and guidance of nan ray it emits successful nan Hue app. Available this month, a azygous wall washer costs a alternatively spicy $220, aliases you tin snag a two-pack for $385.

Select markets already person entree to nan built-in AI adjunct successful nan Hue app, which you tin inquire to make scenes based connected your temper aliases activity, but it's rolling retired to nan UK successful July and globally (including nan US) successful August. —Simon Hill