IFA 2026 will be remembered for the robots. Every hall had a humanoid, a quadruped, or a wheeled butler promising to fold your laundry by 2031 — and behind almost every one of them stood a nervous engineer with a PlayStation controller. But the product I actually brought home from Berlin wasn’t a robot at …
The most common question I’ve fielded in twenty-five years of this job has nothing to do with laptops, phones, or whatever chip NVIDIA announced on Tuesday. It’s some version of “what TV should I buy?” — usually from a friend, a neighbor, or a reader whose patience died three smart-TV interfaces ago. And for most …