Gear News of the Week: LG Debuts an RGB LED TV, and Google Brings Find Hub to Wear OS

Cancel immoderate outdoor plans for adjacent twelvemonth due to the fact that LG is dropping a flagship RGB LED TV successful 2026. The caller MRGB95B TV volition usage an upgraded processor and a brighter panel, and it volition execute 100 percent sum of BT.2020, DCI-P3, and Adobe RGB colour gamuts. Translation: insanely close color. The astir breathtaking portion of this caller exemplary is that it volition travel successful much “everyday” surface sizes than 1 mightiness expect, ranging from a monolithic 100 inches to a much mean modern size of 75 inches, meaning consumers mightiness really bargain this for their posh caller surviving room.

RGB LEDs let for brighter displays with much close color, not to beryllium confused with micro LED displays, wherever each pixel is its ain self-emmisive LED. RGB LED uses clusters of red, green, and bluish that illuminate aggregate pixels astatine once. It’s the adjacent measurement successful colour accuracy successful TV displays, pursuing the quantum dot displays that person been fashionable for respective years. —Parker Hall

Samsung Teases New Micro RGB TVs

Samsung is besides getting successful connected the caller technology, with Micro RGB TVs that volition scope successful sizes from 55 to 115 inches successful 2026. The caller models correspond the smallest RGB LED surface sizes we person seen from immoderate marque truthful acold (though we expect contention from much affordable RGB players similar Hisense and TCL to come).

Just similar LG, Samsung is announcing a next-generation, heavy AI-optimized chipset for its caller TV, and Samsung besides claims it hits 100 percent of BT.2020, which again should mean jaw-droppingly close color. We’ll person to get eyes connected it to archer you which marque does it better, but it’ll beryllium breathtaking to spot the adjacent procreation of TV tech yet deed store shelves successful 2026. Let the South Korean marque conflict commence. —Parker Hall

Google Adds Find Hub connected Wear OS

It wasn't agelong agone that Google wholly redid its instrumentality tracking app to align overmuch much intimately with Apple's Find My. Now, the adjacent measurement is introducing it connected adjacent much platforms. The institution brought its Find Hub app to Wear OS this week, allowing anyone moving a Wear OS smartwatch to motorboat the app and spot wherever their devices were past seen.

This isn't immoderate half-baked version: you tin way your instrumentality via Google Maps consecutive from the watch, play a dependable to ping its location, unafraid the device, and adjacent mill reset it. You'll conscionable truly request a cellular mentation of the smartwatch to marque the astir of this capability, particularly if your telephone is lost.

Nvidia May Cut Consumer GPU Supply successful 2026

A representation shortage is looming connected the skyline successful 2026, and we're each bracing for interaction arsenic to however wide-ranging the effects volition be. The pricing of immoderate of the champion graphics cards, for example, has remained unchangeable truthful far. But volition it last? A caller study indicates this planetary representation crunch could impact Nvidia's proviso of graphics cards successful 2026. A rumor posted by Taiwanese tech tract Benchlife claims that Nvidia volition beryllium reducing its current-gen, RTX 50-series graphics cards by up to 40 percent successful the archetypal fractional of adjacent year. That simplification was based connected a nonstop examination to the disposable proviso of Nvidia GPUs successful the archetypal fractional of 2025.

While I wouldn't chalk this up to much than a rumor astatine this point, it feels progressively probable fixed the circumstances. Nvidia was primitively rumored to motorboat the mid-generational refresh to the RTX 50-series (typically known arsenic the "Super" line) successful aboriginal 2026, but the latest reports accidental that precocious 2026 is present much likely.