In the past 2014, a large number of smart devices have emerged, ranging from smart routers, smart cameras, smart bracelets/watches, to smart projection and smart weighing from the middle of the year, to smart sockets, VR devices and various intelligent driving tools. This is the life year of cutting the handbags of the Communist Party

We can't hide for a while. Since we will buy sooner or later, we should focus on the philosophical proposition of how to buy.

Best smart bracelet: Xiaomi bracelet

Jawbone, Fitbit and other products ignited the smart bracelet market in 2013. In 2014, the war of smart bracelets spread to China unexpectedly.

This year, in addition to overseas Misfit Shine, Jawbone Up2, Fitbit Flex, there were also Gudong bracelets, Le Xin, Play Coffee and other conventional bracelets in China, and even Huawei Glory bracelet with Bluetooth headset function, Century Love Couple bracelet with focus on couple positioning, and child safety Sogou Tangmao/360 Children's Guard/Abating KT01 and other children's bracelets/watches, the inWatch π of the same model as moto 360, and Microsoft's bracelet is integrated with almost every conceivable sensor such as heart rate and ultraviolet light.

But the best smart bracelet this year is actually the Xiaomi bracelet with 79 yuan. As a classic price butcher, when Xiaomi entered the bracelet field, the price of the bracelet products was reduced to less than 100 yuan in one breath. In addition to step counting and sleep monitoring, mobile phone unlocking function is also added. Although there are not many functions, the workmanship and functions of the bracelet are quite good. Of course, the most important thing is the price that is friendly to the people.

Best Smart Watch: Moto 360

This is definitely a year of the rise of Android wear. Moto 360, LG G Watch (and G Watch R), Samsung Gear Live, Asus ZenWatch, and Sony Smartwatch 2 have collectively exploded; Samsung has also launched the Samsung Gear S with its own TIZEN system. If you don't mind the shape of the Microsoft bracelet, it must be the smart "watch" with the most sensors.

Among them are Pebble and WeLoop, which do not use intelligent systems and have a fierce endurance. Domestic products such as Zhiqi Z and inWatch Z bravely put full-size Android systems and sim cards into watches. Although Apple Watch has the greatest driving force, the product itself has not yet taken shape and will be launched in the second quarter of next year as soon as possible.

Moto 360, with its shape design closest to that of conventional watches, and the design of the first round dial on the earth, has completely changed everyone's expectations for the shape of smart watches, and has also attracted a group of manufacturers to imitate it. Although its TI OMAP3630 processor is slightly old, it is relatively smooth to run in Android wear system, and more importantly, tables are really for viewing

The Best Smart Router: Polar Router Polar One S

The first star of the intelligent routing market was Jirou, followed by Xiaomi Route with built-in 1T hard disk, 360 Secure Route with only security functions, Xunlei Route with offline download as its main feature, Xunlei Crystal Mining (in disguised form, selling bandwidth), the new ifi mini jointly launched by Lenovo and Baidu, and Huawei Glory Cube with NAS, TV box and routing functions.

However, with the help of high gain dual antennas and good hardware configuration, plus the most abundant plug-in support such as various web pages, upload acceleration, advertisement filtering, remote wake-up, offline download, and the price of 109 yuan for bare metal computers, it seems quite conscience.

Best intelligent projector: nut A3

"Thank you" for SARFT's ban on Internet content in TV boxes. This year, smart projection even overshadowed TV boxes. In addition to the increasingly mature DLP technology, there are smart projections with Android system in China, such as Shenhua X1, Jimi Z3, Nut A3, ZECO (Zhige) CX6, Shanshui X6, etc.

In the middle, the divine painting X1 made the projection the size of the palm of the hand, and after the price of Kimi dropped to 3000 yuan for 720P projection, the price of nut A3 was even higher than 2000 yuan; At the end of the year, Kuletv X5 focused on the return of image quality, and achieved the strongest image quality of micro intelligent projection by stacking materials.

Although the nut A3 is the lowest price, Conscience Workmanship and Deyi's DLP chip make its projection effect and system fluency in the horizontal evaluation good, and greatly reduce the threshold for everyone to cut hands.

Best TV box: Tmall Box 2

This year, the smart TV box suffered a bad time. It met the ban on radio and television, but still could not prevent the manufacturer from launching subsequent models. Xiaomi Box Plus, LeTV Box C1S, Tmall Magic Box 2, Huawei Secret Box M310, Baidu Shadow Stick 2S and other products are basically upgraded products.

Among so many projects, the best equipment of TV box is the most difficult to choose, because their homogeneity is really too serious... Similar performance, interface, appearance, and even price are the same 299.

However, Tmall Magic Box 2 is equipped with Amlogic M802's quad core A9 (1.9GHz) processor+Mali-450 MP6 GPU, 2G memory and Alibaba Cloud system, which makes it a very high system speed. In addition, it also has the courage to sell 399 yuan, a native distribution handle, and a good TV shopping UI design. In addition, the highly available voice remote control makes it the most unique TV box in 2014.

Best smart socket: small K second generation

It is estimated that smart socket is the cheapest smart device at present, with the price between 69-149. There are crowdfunding small K 2 IVYPlug、 A magic box, and Broadlink SP2 LifeSmart 、 Auribo S20 and Xiaomi socket.

In addition to the basic remote and timing switch functions, the small and medium-sized K, IVYPlug, Broadlink SP2 and other products also have power statistics and wifi relay functions.

However, in addition to all the functions of similar products, the second generation of small K has also added the concept of night light and function plug-in. The latter can add environment (temperature, humidity, luminosity), mobile object detection, remote control and other plug-ins, making it the smart socket with the strongest function expansion and playability.

Best intelligent camera: Hikvision F1

In the field of intelligent/security cameras, it was ignited by Google's acquisition of Nest this year. Lenovo launched two generations of three models of jiabao, ZTE has Xiaoxing. Hikvision has F1 and a complete set of C2S, R1 (equipped with NVR and TV box functions at the same time) packages. Big manufacturers such as Xiaomi's Xiaoyi camera, Baidu's Xiaodu I ear and eye, 360 Family Guard have also launched their own products.

In addition to stable cloud services (7-day cloud storage) and good software experience, Hikvision F1 is the only product equipped with environmental (temperature and humidity) sensors, status displays and voice intercom functions at the same time, and its cost performance is even higher than that of its own C2S.

Best VR device: Samsung Gear VR

Virtual reality (VR) devices have always been the target of YY fans of games and animation, and this year domestic and foreign manufacturers are also very competitive. Among them are Oculus Rift, which has a powerful configuration but is only for developers, Sony HMZ T3, which focuses on audio-visual experience, Air VR, which is fierce enough to use iPad as a display device, Goolge Cardboard, a mischievous paper box glasses, Samsung Gear VR (only supporting Samsung Note 4), and Storm Mirror, which has two generations in a year.

In addition to capturing the user's head and eye movements with the built-in sensor, Samsung Gear VR is the only product with its own sensor among the following products, which has more advantages in virtual experience. In addition to Samsung's appeal, it is also the product that most game manufacturers respond to (including the VR version of Temple Escape).

The best intelligent driving equipment: Tencent Lubao Box

On board intelligent equipment mainly includes OBD (on-board diagnostic system) boxes, in car purifiers, on-board cameras, etc. This year, Air Story and Desai's car purifiers have done quite well. Mobileye's car camera even uses one camera to realize the car collision avoidance system. Skyworth's intelligent rear-view mirror makes navigation in the rear-view mirror very creative. In the field of OBD, manufacturers such as Yuanzheng, Dina, Botai iVoka MINI X and Tencent Lubao's OBD are also inseparable.

Tencent Lubao can collect vehicle OBD data, provide instantaneous fuel consumption analysis, fuel cost display, historical travel cost analysis, on-board diagnosis of vehicle fault information and other functions. Its function and price may not be the strongest, but with its powerful mother, its appeal and ability to attract money must be the strongest in 2014.