Skip to main content
  1. Home
  2. Press Releases

Digital Trends reveals its picks for Best Products of 2017

By

PORTLAND, Oregon — December 6, 2017: Digital Trends has revealed its overall favorite products of 2017.  To celebrate the best technology products with a 2017 launch date, the staff chose gear across 10 categories – Cars, Computing, Emerging Tech, Entertainment, Gaming, Home Theater, Mobile, Outdoors, Photography, and Smart Home.  Nintendo Switch, the much-coveted portable gaming device, earned top honors for the year.

“Our testing and judging procedure is focused on technological advancements, as well as the experience for the consumer,” said Jeremy Kaplan, editor in chief, DigitalTrends.com.  “We are especially excited with the advances in new and emerging categories like Outdoor and Smart Home, where the advancement seems to be happening at hyperspeed.”

The 2017 Digital Trends Best Products

 Overall: Nintendo Switch

Cars: Honda Civic Type R

Computing: Microsoft Surface Pro

Emerging Tech: Formlabs Fuse 1 (3D Printer)

Entertainment: Blade Runner 2049

Gaming: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Home Theater: LG C7 OLED

Mobile: iPhone X

Outdoors: BioLite Firepit

Photography: Sony A9

Smart Home: Google Home Mini

Digital Trends Staff
Digital Trends Staff
Former Digital Trends Contributor
Digital Trends has a simple mission: to help readers easily understand how tech affects the way they live. We are your…
Topics

Editors’ Recommendations

Digital Trends’ Jake Rossman to speak about DT Live programming at Brandlive
digital trends jake rossman to speak about dt live programming at brandlive brandlivesummitlogo

 

PORTLAND, Oregon -- September 25, 2018: Digital Trends announced today its partnership with leading live video platform Brandlive. As a pioneer in enterprise streaming services, Brandlive will engineer the premium live video experience behind Digital Trends' new video concept, DT Live.

Read more
Digital Trends welcomes new creative director on the heels of other major hires
digital trends welcomes new creative director on the heels of other major hires benhermel

PORTLAND, Oregon, October 15, 2018 -- Digital Trends, the world's largest independently owned technology review site, announced today that Ben Hermel is joining the company as creative director. Hermel joins a growing list of major new hires as Digital Trends expands, including former Facebook executive Bob Gruters as chief resource officer.

Hermel brings with him nearly two decades of international design experience with companies like Nike, Adidas, Microsoft, and Siegel+Gale. He has created brand identity systems for the Salt Lake City Olympics and the United States Air Force, and managed product and color design teams for the Beijing Olympics.

Read more
Digital Trends and HouseSpecial team up on the Tiniest Holiday Gift Guide
digital trends and housespecial tem up on the tiniest holiday gift guide screen shot 2018 11 28 at 12 56 15 pm

PORTLAND, Oregon, November 28, 2018 -- Digital Trends, the world’s largest independent tech publisher, has partnered with animation studio HouseSpecial to produce its annual holiday gift guide, which tells a gift-giving story in elaborate miniature scenes.

The guide showcases gift ideas for tech lovers, hand-selected by the editorial staff at Digital Trends. The visual stories created for the gift guide use human-sized everyday objects and tiny character models. Leading the team is Gee Staughton, HouseSpecial's director/art director, whose stop-motion work includes the awarding-winning Chipotle short, “Back to the Start,” and campaigns for Planters, Travel Portland, noosa, and Dish Network.

Read more