February's Best Gear: New Wireless Headphones and Fancy PCs

The new $150 BeatsX are the cheapest of the company’s options. They’re wireless, but not like the [AirPods](https://www.wired.com/2016/09/review-apple-airpods/) or even the [Solo3](https://www.wired.com/2016/10/review-beats-solo3-wireless/) or [Powerbeats3](https://www.wired.com/2016/12/review-beats-powerbeats3-wireless-headphones/). They’re what you might call neckbuds: a band around your neck, connected to two tiny earbuds. When you’re not wearing them, they dangle like a chunky rubber necklace. The upside is the buds themselves are light and simple and nearly impossible to lose. The downside is that these wireless headphones don’t feel all that wireless. [Read the full review](https://www.wired.com/2017/02/review-beatsx-wireless-headphones/).

Microsoft is competing against its decades-old reputation as the company that makes stuff you hate but need, next to Apple as the creator of lustworthy hardware that inspires cult-like devotion. That’s hard to reverse in one device, especially when that device costs three grand. But a funny thing kept happening in the weeks we spent with a [Surface Studio](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-studio/overview), Microsoft’s love letter to creative types: We learned to love it*.* The Surface Studio is a complicated, complex spin on a desktop computer. It’s not perfect, and it’s probably not for you. It’s not for us, either. We love it anyway. [Read the full review](https://www.wired.com/2017/02/review-microsoft-surface-studio/).

Life’s a little quieter when you're wearing the [Here Ones](https://hereplus.me/), a new pair of earbuds from Doppler Labs. These $300 buds are headphones and then some. They put a volume knob on the real world, letting you control what you hear and what you tune out. The Here Ones are a terrific, if slightly hamstrung, set of headphones. They’re also pretty solid evidence that you might want computers in your ears. Soon. [Read the full review](https://www.wired.com/2017/02/review-here-one/).

The [Gita](http://gita.piaggiofastforward.com/) is a round rolling robot that can carry up to 40 pounds of cargo for miles at a time. Rather than get you from A to B as fast as possible, it’s meant to get you there more easily. More than that, Gita is a way to begin to explore what the world looks like when humans and robots share the sidewalk. And, hopefully, to make that idea seem a little less scary. [Read the full story](https://www.wired.com/2017/02/piaggio-gita-drone/).