Upgrade your summer football party with these high-tech gadgets

It’s officially watch party season, especially with a certain special football event taking place right now. To celebrate the occasion, we’ve teamed up with brands that produce cutting-edge technology to show you the best setup for a football party.

This is the part of hosting a viewing party that no one invites. Hours before anyone shows up, you’re removing leaves, scrubbing walls, and wondering how the floor got so bad when no one’s come in yet. And yet, the pool is the centerpiece – the main reason you’re hosting your outdoor event in the first place.

He WYBOT S3 is designed to make that problem go away completely. It’s a cordless robotic pool cleaner, but calling it that understates what it actually does. WYBOT claims it is the world’s first pool robot to combine full 3D mapping, AI-guided cleaning, automatic self-docking, self-charging and self-emptying into a single system, and at least on paper, nothing we’ve seen disputes that.

Intelligence begins in the first race. The S3 uses 36 built-in sensors to map your pool in three dimensions, then uses that map to plan an efficient cleaning route for each subsequent cycle, covering floors, walls, and even the waterline. In AI Vision mode, it goes further: it actively detects debris and adjusts its trajectory on the fly to clean the floor. You can watch everything happen in real time through the app, redirect it to specific areas if necessary, or just let it do its job.

When finished, it returns to the dock on its own and recharges via a dual solar and DC power system, transferring all collected waste to a 10-litre container on shore. There is no need to manually remove a dripping robot from the water. The canister uses a dual-layer filtration system, with a 180μm filter and 40 PPI sponge that handles everything from leaves to fine particles. Under normal conditions, WYBOT says you only need to touch the object about once a month.

That’s the whole speech, and it’s convincing. The guests show up, the water is pristine, and you didn’t even think about it. For anyone who hosts regularly and wants their outdoor space to truly reflect the effort they’ve put into it, the S3 makes a good case for it.

The WYBOT S3 is available now for a pre-sale price of $2,499.99, reduced from its regular retail price of $2,999.99.

Every viewing party has that one guest that everyone talks about. In this one, he is not human!

He AGIBOT X2 Ultra He’s a medium-sized humanoid robot, and we invited him to this watch party basically as a guest from the future. Her name is Lumi. About a minute after you arrive, everyone at the party whips out their phone to capture what they’re seeing, and that’s before you’ve even done anything impressive.

The X2 Ultra moves with a fluidity that immediately distinguishes it from the stiff, choppy robotics most people imagine. This is due to its 31 degrees of freedom, which allow for genuinely human rhythm in greetings, gestures and entire dance routines. It turns to face whoever is speaking, waves, and even in standby mode it maintains subtle movements and micro-adjustments, so you never feel like an accessory in the corner. It feels like you’re really at the party.

The interaction is where it gets really impressive. The X2 Ultra responds to voice, touch, gestures and visual cues. Ask him something and he answers out loud, on the spot, turning towards the speaker. Its flexible control means you can guide its arms naturally during a photo or greeting without that stiff, resistant feeling you’d expect. It just moves with you. It can even bring you a drink and deliver it directly to you so you never have to leave your seat during the game.

Specifically for a soccer watching party, the highlight is the interaction with the ball. Pass or roll a ball toward it and the X2 Ultra will react in real time with head tracking and body response. That’s a live perception, not a pre-recorded animation. When a goal goes in, he doesn’t just applaud: he does a full dance routine. And if you have multiple units, they can execute coordinated, synchronized group routines—the kind of moment that ends up all over people’s feeds.

It can even run your post-match awards. The X2 has a dedicated presentation mode, bringing a tray to the player of the match and handing him the trophy. AGIBOT also offers the D1, a quadruped robot companion that can act as a crowd entertainer or carry small items around the party.

The X2 Ultra is a commercial product available through AGIBOT’s sales and partner network.

What if you could watch the entire game on a big screen without being tied to a wall, a TV, or even a room?

That is the premise of INMO Air 3and it’s more compelling than you might expect. They look like a normal pair of glasses. Flat lenses, clean glasses style, nothing sneaking up to your phone, no external battery pack, no extra hardware to juggle. That’s the goal of the all-in-one design, and it’s what separates the Air 3 from most AR glasses on the market. INMO calls them the world’s first all-in-one 1080P full-color waveguide AR glasses, and the spec sheet backs it up.

What you’re actually seeing through them is a Sony Micro OLED display that runs at full 1080p with up to 600 nits of brightness, with a 36-degree field of view that INMO renders as a virtual 150-inch display. It’s vivid, crisp, and really feels cinematic rather than a little window floating off to the side. The waveguide design also means that the image is private by default. Someone passing by sees a person with glasses. The game is entirely yours.

Because it runs Android 14 on an 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon chip with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, this is a complete in-your-face computing platform, not a display accessory for your phone. That means access to Google Play, your regular apps, and most importantly, the ability to mirror or extend a Windows or Mac desktop right from the glasses. If something urgent comes up mid-match, your real desk is right in front of you. Face it and get back in the game without wasting more than a minute.

Control is via a touchpad that comes in the box, allowing you to move and resize screens, navigate apps, and manage everything without having to touch anything else. The Smart Ring is purchased separately for $159, but if you end up using the Air 3 regularly, it’s worth prioritizing the upgrade. Pointing and clicking on a desktop floating in the air becomes surprisingly natural and surprisingly fast. Are you going outside? A sunglasses clip is included in the box, keeping the image visible in brighter lighting conditions.

The INMO Air 3 is now available for $999, down from $1,099. Use code ANDROIDAUTHORITYNE15 for an additional 15% off, exclusive to this offer.

Here’s the problem with hosting 30 people at a viewing party. You’ve got the pool open, the food out, the energy buildup, and everyone’s supposed to crowd around a TV that was never designed for this. If the screen is the centerpiece of the entire night, it has to be.

He XGIMI Horizon 20 Max It’s a triple-laser 4K projector, and the number that matters most for an outdoor nighttime setup is its 5,700 ISO lumens of brightness. That’s enough to withstand string lights and the last bit of nighttime glare, meaning you won’t have to wait until dark to strike the match. It just works when you need it.

The color is where it really surprises you. The Horizon 20 Max covers 110% of the BT.2020 color gamut, which is a wider gamut than most TVs attempt. Grass looks like grass, kits pop with real vibrancy and, combined with a 20,000:1 contrast ratio (with DBLE active), you get genuine shadow detail in shots of night matches rather than everything collapsing into a dark blur. MEMC motion smoothing also keeps fast gameplay clean. When there is a fast break and the ball flies down the field, it doesn’t get stained, which in soccer is the point.

It also doesn’t mark rest. Someone fires up a game on the big screen and the Horizon 20 Max handles it too, with 1ms input lag at 1080p/240Hz and VRR support. There is no delay to blame when you lose. The party is still a party.

The part no one thinks about until the guests come in is the preparation. The Horizon 20 Max runs XGIMI’s ISA 5.0 system, which automatically handles autofocus, auto keystone correction, intelligent screen alignment, and obstacle avoidance. You leave it, it sorts itself and you go back to being a host. Sound is handled by two 12W Harman/Kardon speakers with Dolby Audio and DTS-HD support, and everything runs Google TV, so Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video and the rest are built in.

The XGIMI Horizon 20 Max is now available for $2,699, down from $2,999.