Upgrade your summer football watch party with these top tech gadgets

It’s officially watch party season, especially with a certain special football event happening right now. To celebrate the occasion, we’ve partnered with some cutting-edge tech brands to show you the best soccer watch party setups.

Here’s the part about hosting a watch party that no one is invited to. Hours before anyone shows up, you’re raking leaves, cleaning walls, and wondering how bad the floor is when no one’s been in yet. Again, the pool is the centerpiece—the whole reason you’re hosting outside in the first place.

The WYBOT S3 is built to completely eliminate this problem. It’s a cordless robotic pool cleaner, but what it actually does can be called a downgrade. WYBOT claims it’s the world’s first pool robot to combine full 3D mapping, AI-driven cleaning, automatic self-positioning, self-filling and self-draining in one system, and we’ve seen nothing to dispute that, at least on paper.

The smart ones start with the first run. The S3 uses 36 onboard sensors to create a three-dimensional map of your pool, then uses that map to plan an efficient cleaning route for each subsequent cycle, covering the floors, walls and waterline. In AI Vision Mode, it goes even further, actively detecting debris and quickly adjusting its path to clean the floor. Through the app, you can watch everything happen in real-time, redirect it to specific areas if needed, or just leave it to do its thing.

Once complete, it returns to the dock on its own and is recharged via a dual solar and DC power system, transferring all collected trash to a 10-liter bin located on shore. The drip robot cannot be removed from the water by hand. The bin uses a double filtration system with a 180μm filter and a 40 PPI sponge that handles everything from leaves to fine particles. Under typical conditions, WYBOT says, it only needs to touch the item once a month.

That’s the whole pitch, and it’s catchy. Guests come, the water is spotless, and you don’t even think twice. For anyone who hosts regularly and wants their outdoor space to truly reflect the effort they put in, the S3 makes a strong case for itself.

The WYBOT S3 is now on sale for $2,499.99, down from the regular retail price of $2,999.99.

Each viewer has a guest to talk to. This is not human!

The AGIBOT X2 Ultra is a half-sized humanoid robot, and we invited him as a future guest at this watch party. It goes by Lumi. Within about a minute of arriving, everyone in the party pulls out their phone to capture what they’ve seen, and that’s before they’ve even done anything impressive.

The X2 Ultra moves with a fluidity that immediately sets it apart from the stiff, jerky robotics that most people imagine. That’s up to 31 degrees of freedom, allowing for truly human-like rhythms between greetings, gestures and full dance routines. It turns to face the speaker, undulates, and even maintains subtle movement and micro-adjustments in standby mode, so it never feels like a prop in the corner. It feels like he’s actually at a party.

The interaction becomes really impressive. X2 Ultra responds to sound, touch, gesture and visual signals. Ask him something and he turns to whoever is talking and answers loudly. Its Flexible Control means you can control its arms naturally during a photo or greeting without the stiff, steady feel you might expect. It just moves with you. He can even carry a drink and hand it to you so you never have to leave your seat during the game.

The highlight, especially for a football watch party, is the interaction with the ball. Pass or roll the ball to it and the X2 Ultra reacts in real time with head tracking and body response. This is a live perception, not a pre-recorded animation. When the goal goes in, he doesn’t just clap—he does a full dance routine. If you have multiple units, they can synchronize coordinated group work, which is the kind of moment that ends up on everyone’s feeds.

It can even run your post-game rewards. X2 has a special presentation mode that takes the tray to the player of the match and hands over the trophy itself. AGIBOT also offers the D1, a quadrupedal robot that can perform for an audience or carry small items around a party.

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

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

That’s what it’s all about INMO Weather 3and it’s more believable than you might expect. These look like regular glasses. A flat lens, a clean goggle style, nothing that leaks into your phone, no external battery brick, no extra hardware to juggle. That’s the whole point of an all-in-one design, and it’s what separates the Air 3 from most AR glasses on the market. INMO calls it the world’s first all-in-one 1080P full-color waveguide AR glasses, and the specs bear it out.

What you’re actually seeing through them is a Sony Micro OLED display running at full 1080p at 600 nits of brightness with a 36-degree field of view, which INMO presents as a virtual 150-inch screen. It’s vivid, it’s sharp, and it feels truly cinematic, not like a little window floating off to the side. The design of the waveguide also means that the image is private by default. A passer-by sees only a man with glasses. The encounter is entirely yours.

Running Android 14 on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8-core chip with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, it’s not just a display accessory for your phone, but a full computing platform in your face. This means you can access Google Play, your usual apps, and most importantly, mirror or extend your Windows or Mac desktop directly from the glasses. If something urgent comes up in the middle of a match, your real desktop is right in front of you. Deal with it and get back to the game without wasting more than a minute.

Control is controlled by the touchpad that comes in the box, allowing you to move and resize screens, navigate apps, and control everything without touching anything else. The smart ring is a separate purchase at $159, but if you use the Air 3 regularly, it’s an upgrade worth prioritizing. Pointing and clicking on a floating desktop feels surprisingly natural, surprisingly fast. Are you going out? A sunglasses clip is included in the case to keep the image visible in brighter conditions.

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

That’s the problem with hosting 30 people for a viewing party. The pool is open, there’s food, there’s a power building, and everyone has to gather around the TV, which was never meant for that. If the screen is the center of the whole night, it really should be one.

The XGIMI Horizon 20 Max is a triple-laser 4K projector, and the most important number for an outdoor evening setup is its 5700 ISO lumen brightness. That’s enough to hold its own against string lights and the last bit of evening glow, meaning you’re stuck waiting until dark to light a match. It just works when you need it.

Color is where it really surprises you. The Horizon 20 Max BT.2020 covers 110% of the color gamut, which is wider than most TVs attempt. Grass looks like grass, sets pop with true vibrancy, and combined with a 20,000:1 contrast ratio (with DBLE enabled), you get true shadow detail in night match shots instead of everything collapsing into a dark blur. MEMC motion smoothing keeps fast-paced gameplay clean, too. On the counter-attack and when the ball flies up the pitch, it doesn’t get dirty, that’s the whole point of football.

The break time doesn’t end either. Someone runs a game on the big screen and the Horizon 20 Max manages that too with 1ms input lag and VRR support at 1080p/240Hz. There is no delay to blame when you lose. A party remains a party.

The part no one thinks about is built until the guests enter. The Horizon 20 Max runs XGIMI’s ISA 5.0 system, which automatically controls autofocus, auto keystone correction, intelligent screen alignment, and obstacle avoidance. You put it down, it sorts itself out, and you’re back to being a host. Sound is handled by dual 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 right in.

The XGIMI Horizon 20 Max is now on sale from $2,999 to $2,699.