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Contents September 2014 / Issue 233
Tech up: train like a pro 48
Uncover the gadgetry that top sporting bods
use for running, cycling and more – plus the
cutting-edge gear to do the same at home
Android Wear showdown 113
LG’s Google-fuelled G Watch arm wrestles
Samsung’s Gear Live. The prize? About five
square centimetres of your wrist real estate
ON THE COVER
Fix up, Fit Smart 73
The latest Adidas MiCoach band would
also like a spot on your lower arm – and the
more lights it shows you, the leaner it is…
E-bike invasion 61
Get your (small, battery-powered) motor
running, head out (quite slowly) on the
highway. But not before you’ve read our guide
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Travel camera supertest 105
“Did you pack this bag yourself, Sir? Well, you
certainly have great taste in tiny, pro-level
cams. Now, against the wall and spread ’em…”
Gastronomy gear 89
Industrial-grade juicers, blenders, vacuum
sealers and, er, magic instant-freezing boxes.
It’s the kitchen kit of culinary champions
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Editor’s letter 11 OPINION RATED

Why wearables need a style overhaul 43 360 review: Samsung Tablet S 97
Insight by Claire Duke-Woolley Samsung finally gets serious about taking
RADAR Rein in tech referees while we still can 44 on the iPad. But can this souped-up
Most Wanted: Google Project Ara 15 Stateside by Chris Smith Super AMOLED slate dethrone the king?
The modular phone you build and upgrade My online obesity-offence troll trauma! 45 Group test: student work stations 102
to suit you moves from concept to reality Truth by Duncan Bell Need a computer to see you through a
Need list 16 How Dr Dre put the “bass” in basic 45 demanding next term? We have the
The crème de la tèch for the coming month Finally… by Sean Keach laptops and tablets you’re looking for
Trend: wireless earphones 22 Supertest: travel cameras 105
Bluetooth your canals with these sporty Effortlessly portable yet capable of great
and cable-free cochlear companions FEATURES snaps, these are your new holiday pals
Innovation: NASA’s new monorail 24 The pro tech guide to fitness 48 Review: OnePlus One 112
You hear these things are awfully loud? The gear! The experts’ insights! The A flagship-grade phone at a blow-up
No, SkyTran glides as softly as a cloud! not-hugely-flattering, tight-fitting clothes! dinghy price? We delve for details…
News: Android L arrives 26 The e-bike rides again 61 Showdown: LG G Watch
Google adds design nous to mobile OS From commute to sci-fi, meet the best two- vs Samsung Gear Live 113
Spend: The original smartwatch 28 wheelers that charge up, then charge off The first Android Wear smartwatches
“Supercomplicated” Patek Philippe to buy Top-drawer kitchen kit 89 bid to inflict Chinese burns on each other
News: The 12K ocean-going AV show 29 Heavy metal gear for juicing, sous-viding,
Like massive tellies and ships? Then freezing and blending the life out of stuff
Quantum of the Seas will float your boat Shutdown 130 THE GUIDE
Icon: Dan Formosa 30 Wearables we’d like. All hail the Emoji helmet! Smartphones 116
Design don behind everything from the Cameras 117
first IBM PC to the modern New York cab Tablets 119
Inbox 32 TECH LIFE Laptops 120
Stats and updates on the big tech stories Gadget of the month 67 Gaming 121
Stuff 34 Electric motorbike Home audio 122
Likelihood of needing: low. Probability How to 68 Home entertainment 123
of wanting: above average to good Urban beekeep, GarageBand, hammer stuff Headphones 124
Incoming 35 Obsession: Kitesurfing 69 Televisions 126
Films, tech and events waiting in the wings Get board, wear kite, fly! (Maybe read Accessories 128
our expert tips first, though)
Test: Routers 71
PLAY The fifth-gen of wireless is here and we’ve
The Essential: SuperHot 37 got the hot boxes for intimidating internet
Virtual-reality bullet-time shooter will Upgrade 72
leave you goggle-eyed in multiple senses Summer backpacks to blow your mind
Games 38 Pulse 73
Metro: Redux scares, Valiant Hearts teaches Adidas MiCoach Fit Smart wrist tracker and
Music 39 the best Sunday League kit-bag additions
The Bug’s bass assault, Robert Plant’s Tech Dad 76
leather-larynxed croon and more sonics Eco buggy for environmental parents
Films 39 Home 77
The Raid 2 is a masterpiece. Calvary is, The most stylish barbecue you’ll ever see
too. Noah and The Double? Not so much… meets the quietest tech known to man
ON THE COVERS
Apps, websites and ebooks 40 Drive 80 PAULA & IVAN @ MODELS 1 PHOTOGRAPHED BY RICHARD GRASSIE
STYLING BY IVY WEIR-IKPEME HAIR AND MAKEUP BY FIONA MOORE
Parrot’s Freeflight 3 powers a drone army BMW and Peugeot’s new road players RETOUCHING BY GARY STUCKEY

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Editor’s letter September 2014 / Issue 233

Tired of years of crossed-cable dramas, wireless

Wearables, wearables, everywhere. On
wrists, atop heads, in ears or draped over
them, technological apparatus slung
round every last limb to make us… more.
Welcome to wearageddon, the final step
before we become one with machine.
Except, well, not quite. While the hype is deafening,
from Google Glass scare stories to Amazon adding an
entire channel to buy the stuff with a single click, sales are
hardly getting firms excited. Samsung, for one, is already
on its fifth smartwatch within a year, the new Gear Live
following the iterating-like-a-madman roster of the Gear
Fit, Neo, Gear 2 and the already archaic Galaxy Gear.
So this issue we’ve decided to have a good old look at
exactly why. Indeed, we go for an exploratory fumble
with the first two smartwatches to run Google’s dedicated
Android Wear software, with the aforementioned Gear
Live squaring up to LG’s new G Watch, on p113.
Then on p43 we ask experienced fashion tech analyst
Claire Duke-Woolley to investigate just what needs to
happen to attachable tech for this most marketable of
fledgling product categories to really fly with the masses
(spoiler: it may involve Apple).
in-ear headphones are a wearable craze we can certainly
get behind, and we investigate the growing trend (with ear
canal-based heart-rate monitors and without)
on p24. We also try out Adidas’s new MiCoach Fit Smart,
the sporty wristband that’s ready to take FuelBand’s
mantle now Nike is no longer interested in strapping
plastic things to your wrist, in Tech Life on p73.
Despite Nike stepping aside from the fitness tracker
market for now (spoiler: that may also end up involving
Apple), the sporting life remains the most understandable
and best use of wearable tech, available in all shapes, sizes
and performance levels to push us further and faster,
improving not just our health but our proficiency, too.
And come on, who doesn’t like being actually good at
something, rather than just blagging it?
So, inspired by editor-in-chief Kieran Alger’s latest
ridiculous ultramarathon effort – a mere 100km in 12
hours 39 minutes, chopping half an hour off his personal
best at Race to the Stones (read more at manvmiles.com)
– our cover feature on p48 hails the finest techy clothing,
professionally recommended gear and, yes, wearables
to up your footie, cycling, swimming and running game.
Surely you do at least one of them semi-regularly, right?
If not, don’t worry, we’ve got your lazy-ass back. There’s
our expert guide to e-bikes on p61 for when cycling uphill
is just too much of a chore, a travel camera supertest on
p105 for snapping lilting waves while lying motionless on
sun loungers, plus the finest kitchen gadgets on p89 that
will cook up such magnificent meals it would be simply
rude to not stuff your face. Fit or phat, the choice is yours.
Matt Hill, Editor
Twitter: @gethill / Email: matt.hill@futurenet.com

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Research’s fashion tech delving into the world has worked for the
analyst has spent 10 of imported Chinese likes of GQ, Esquire and
years in the style biz for phones to find out if Gillette. This month he
everyone from Kenzo to they fall apart and/or gets his Heston on with
Orla Kiely. And she has explode when you plug the finest kitchen gear
stern words for wearable them in. He hasn’t lost around and a shedload
tech makers on P43. a hand… yet. P112. of dry ice. P89.

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Radar
ESSENTIAL NEWS FROM TECH’S FRONTLINE

Phone Lego: Google

wants you to play
{ALSO CHANGING GAMES}

Wireless in-ears prepare for entry p22

NASA redesigns your commute p24
Android L nearly here, looking hot p26
The original 1930s smartwatch p28
12K TV-toting ocean liner p29
Dan Formosa’s iconic tech creations p30

M OST WA N T E D

with your blower

{PROJECT AR A}

BUILD YOUR OWN

SMARTPHONE
Google’s hotly anticipated, upgrade-it-yourself modular
mobile is finally with developers to get cracking on.
Things are about to change… then change again

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WE’VE BEEN LOOKING FORWARD

to Google’s Project Ara intently for some time.
Inspired by the Phonebloks concept of Dutch
designer Dave Hakkens, who now works
on the Ara team at the big G, it’s a modular
smartphone where you pick and choose your
components to update individually as the
tech world moves on. It might just be the
bespoke, future-proof gadget of our dreams,
or, more likely, a sort of smartphone answer to
Raspberry Pi. Either way’s cool with us and this
month we move a step closer to finding out.
1
Google has begun shipping the MDK (that’s
its module developers’ kit, not Murder Death
Kill) to cherry-picked devs who successfully
applied for the privilege. It’s hoping they’ll
have components ready for the first handsets
when they hit Stateside shelves next January,
at the comfortably low price of $50 (£30ish).
While Android, despite its supposed
“open” nature, is pretty proprietorial, Google
plans to be totally hands-off with Ara, setting
up system parameters then leaving it for
hardware and software developers to do as
they see fit. Obviously, once it’s been handed
over, the search giant will continue to support
the ecosystem – at least until it gets bored and
moves on to the next innovation on its list.
Ara will be built around three different
sizes of “endoskeleton”, which is what Google
calls the aluminium base plates to which
components are added. A spine and ribs divide
the handset into standardised module spaces,
each with an electromagnet to snap modules
into place. A standard electrical bus then
provides power and allows for data transfer.
The large, medium and mini sizes of the {DETA ILS}
endoskeleton handsets are defined by the
1 PRIZED PARTS
number of single modules that can be added:
28, 18 and 10 respectively, with more powerful Google’s incentivised devs
to build add-on modules for
modules taking up more space on the grid. its open-source Ara handset
You will be able to have anything from an with a $100,000 prize.
all-encompassing handset costing thousands,
2 HAND(MADE)SET
with the very latest upgrades, or a much
smaller, simpler device consisting of only The solid aluminium
endoskeleton phone frame
the bare essentials at a fraction of the cost. comes in three sizes, from
A particularly nifty idea is that Ara will mini (118x45x9.7mm) to
allow you to hot-swap modules without large (164x91x9.7mm), and
acts as module connector
having to turn the handset off; the frame even and power source.
incorporates a small backup battery so the
main one can be removed during use. While 3 SPECIAL SKILLS

each phone will accept only official modules Module upgrades (from 10
by default, a quick software-setting change to 28 per handset) will run
the gamut from cameras
means you’re good to go with third parties. and pico projectors to
What with this, Google Glass, self-aware expansive memory packs.
cars, a VR headset (p32), smart contact lenses
4 COLOURWAYS
and the first truly stylish version of Android
(p22), there’s no doubt Google is the tech As well as new tricks, the
3D-printed modules will 2
world’s premier innovation driver right now. allows for heavy colour
Here’s hoping this latest call is a good one. customisation. Making
£30, PROJECTARA.COM, OUT IN US JANUARY 2015, UK TBC phone cases will be fun…

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{SPEAK}
T3 news editor Jeff Parsons
muses on a modular future
Apple, Samsung or
HTC phones because
of the logo on the
front and the design
Modular smartphones, know-how funnelled
in theory, are a great into their construction.
idea. Surely we’d all If Ara modules are
want cheaper phones, made largely by lesser
less wastage and the known brands, and the
ability to upgrade a phones all resemble
device regularly that Nokia Lumias rendered
we look at, on average, in kitchen tiles, that
150 times a day? But it could be a problem.
won’t be for the masses. Like Raspberry Pi
Making the platform and custom PCs, Ara is
and its modules in sure to be popular with
standardised sizes a devoted community,
means that, unlike with full of mods and clever
PCs, which have been ideas. But the sad truth
“modular” for years, is that it will likely take
Ara is fairly easy for big-name involvement
punters to understand – be it Canon lenses or
Yet that’s only half Nvidia chips – to get
the solution. Those the wider public to buy
same punters buy into a modular future.

{FOCUS}
Modular might: a trio of bright ideas for customising your tech
PC: RAZER CHRISTINE PHONE: ZTE ECO-MOBIUS CAMERA: RICOH GXR

Crown prince of the exciting The Chinese firm threw These popular modular
“project” that never sees down its own switcheroo cameras don’t just let you
the light of day, US gaming smartphone at CES 2014. swap lenses, oh no. Each
firm Razer’s slick modular The project isn’t moving lens also comes with its
PC concept lets you swap forward with development own sensor and image-
processors and RAM in but, looking at the picture processing engine. Clearly
and out as your thirst for here, that’s not necessarily not cheap, but it does allow
next-gen specs grows. a matter to weep over. deep specialisation.

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LIST
Hot tech property
to start getting
your excuses in for…
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SAFE AS
CAMERAS
Piper Smart
We live in dangerous times,
with biker gangs roaming the
land, looting and murdering
indiscriminately… No, hang on,
that’s Mad Max. Even so, despite
not quite being in The Future
yet, it’s good to be secure in your
home, and Brit firm Piper lets
you do so on the cheap. A 180º
HD panoramic camera can be
accessed remotely, with motion-
detection sensors, an ear-splitting
105dB siren and the ability to text
you if you’re being burglarised:
“U been blagged :(” maybe?
£119, GETPIPER.COM, OUT NOW
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SHRINK-
O-PHONE
Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini
It’s the one that tiny-handed
Android fans have been waiting
for. A pocket-friendly version
of Samsung’s 4G- and KitKat-
boasting flagship phone, this
has a not-actually-all-that-mini-
really, 4.5-inch, 720p Super
AMOLED screen. It also has the
same fingerprint scanner, eight-
megapixel camera and quadcore
processor as its big bro. Plus:
dust and water resistant, too, so
no worries if you’re clumsy and
live in a dustbowl, near a lake.
£TBC, SAMSUNG.COM, OUT AUTUMN
{2}
PORTABLE
PLAYTHING
Medion Erazer X7829
Sehr gut! No, we haven’t just coughed phlegm
over your lapels, that’s German for “nice laptop”
(ish). This latest gaming notebook from Teutonic
chip wrangler Medion packs your choice of i7
and, for your polygon-shifting needs, an Nvidia
GeForce GTX Direct X11 dedicated graphics
chip, too. A 1TB hard drive is flanked by a 128GB
solid state drive for a ruthlessly efficient blend
of speed and capacity, while the display holds
up its end of the bargain, too, being 17.3 inches
in diagonal girth, full HD, made of LED and
non-reflective. More about effectiveness than
flair, this is a stereotype we get on board with.
£1,179, MEDION.COM, OUT NOW
{4}
SCREEN
STATEMENT
LG 77EC980V
Enjoy your viewing gargantuan and sweeping
majestically around you like the Colosseum
in Rome, but made of plastic and glass? This
curved OLED telly hits the spot. Designed to
fit into any living room that is both enormous
and circular, it uses LG’s very good WebOS
smart platform, with its Launcher interface
guiding you neatly through Netflix, YouTube
et al, with 4K content piped in through
HDMI, LAN or USB. Tactile control comes
via the Wii-aping Magic Remote or simply
your smartphone or tablet, if you’d prefer.
£19,999, LG.COM/UK, OUT OCTOBER
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TEMPLE OF ZOOM
Nikon D810
“Prosumer” snappers rejoice: Nikon’s new
premium DSLR is here to wow you with
stunning and really very large results from
its 36.3-megapixel sensor and Expeed 4
image processor. An ultra-wide ISO range {8}
up to a see-in-the-dark 51,200 and full HD
{5}
video at 60fps also add weight, the latter MUSI-PUCK
MEDIA DARLING boasting “significantly reduced moiré”, Crystal Acoustics
Apple iPod Touch 2014 which is the hideous strobing effect you WiDAC
Tim Cook and co have updated their sometimes get on complex patterns, so it’s Looking for an easy way to
phone-less portable media player with good news for lovers of loud shirt-and-tie upgrade your existing sound
minimal fanfare, knocking £40 off combos. The D810 is not cheap, but it will system to a wireless modern
the 16GB iPod price to boot. A rear-facing unlock your creativity like never before. streamer? Well, this packs a
£2,699, NIKON.CO.UK, OUT NOW
iSight camera joins the four-inch, 1136x640 decent Wolfson digital-to-
Retina display, A5 processor and 720p analogue converter (DAC),
front cam for video-chat japes. It also plugs in via a 3.5mm jack
now comes in a choice of space grey, silver, or optical digital input and
pink, yellow, blue or red coats. Whatever supports both DNLA and
your poison, it’s still the PMP to beat. Apple’s AirPlay, letting you
£159, APPLE.COM/UK, OUT NOW stream music from lots of
your lovely devices over
your network. If you’re one
of the few people in the
{6}
world who doesn’t yet
CHOC-A-MATIC possess a router, you can
also use its direct, device-
Chocedge Choc Creator V2
to-device paring, too.
A 3D printer, but for chocolate? Okay, we’re £60, CRYSTALACOUSTICS.COM, OUT NOW
in. A heated syringe spools out molten choccy
at about 30°C, letting you layer it to construct
intricate designs – Eiffel Towers, cartoon
{9}
characters, your penis, etc. Perhaps the greatest
use of science since penicillin, in short. LE TIME IS NOW
£3,888, CHOCEDGE.COM, TBA Cogito Classic
Like the pyramid outside the Louvre, this
Gallic smartwatch overlays modern on ancient,
a digital display beaming from its analogue
face. Give it une tap to show your phone’s
les notifications linked by le Bluetooth LE.
Water resistant to 100m, it comes in a varieté
of colours and your choice of metal, leather
or silicone bracelet de montre (that’s strap).
£130, DIXONSTRAVEL.COM, OUT NOW

{10}

THE BOOMBOX GOES BESPOKE

Bass Trunkies
Eco-conscious British firm Bass Trunkies repurposes vintage suitcases
into rechargeable, portable sound systems by chucking out all those odd
socks, tourist maps of Cleethorpes and ill-advised party hats, then replacing
them with a digital amp, a lightweight, rechargeable eight-hour battery
plus a 3.5mm input to link the system up to your favoured music device. The
result? A stylish, tailored boombox that’s an impromptu raver’s best friend.
FROM £200, BASSTRUNKIES.CO.UK, OUT NOW

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TANGERINE DREAM
Nokia Lumia 930
There’s been something of an onslaught
of great budget Lumias of late, but now
there’s a bright, fresh flagship blower on
the scene. Its five-inch, full-HD screen
makes the updated Windows Phone
8.1 ’s live tiles and extras like Nokia
Storyteller, which collates pics and vids
into a scrapbook, shine, while the 2.2GHz
quadcore processor competes with the big
boys. Star of the show? That’ll be the 20-
meg Pureview sensor with dual LED flash,
image stabilisation and Carl Zeiss lens.
£430, NOKIA.COM, OUT NOW

{11}

TURN YOUR DESK UP TO 11

Denon CEOL Carino
Don’t let your computer descend into a fusty old workstation; instead, make it
party central with Denon’s desktop audio dynamite. Minimalist in style, but with
sonics dialled to the max, each satellite pumps out a 25W roar ideal for playlists and
soundtracks. With Bluetooth and NFC onboard, they connect to phones and tablets
as well as PCs, with the OLED screen on the hub keeping track of what’s playing.
£229, DENON.COM, OUT NOW

{13} {15}

RECHARGE YOUR MODERN

RUNAROUND
Audi A3 Sportback e-tron
This is the first Audi motor to be given
an injection of e-power, adding a 75kW
electric motor to the hatchback’s
classic 1.4-litre engine. You can run
up to 31 miles and hit 80mph on leccy
alone, or choose a hybrid effort for a
brash 204bhp and top speed of 139mph.
It recharges in just 2.5 hours and if you
download the e-tron app to your phone,
it will even send you alerts when the
battery power’s running low.
£30,000, AUDI.COM, OUT WINTER
ESSENTIALS
Knomo Knomad Mini Power
As tech downsizes, the “messenger bag with
a padded section to protect your laptop”
travel solution doesn’t always cut the safety
mustard. So tech luggage king Knomo has
squeezed everything today’s gadget lovers
need into one, tablet-sized organiser. It
doesn’t just provide protection either, its
{14} tucked-away battery pack holding the juice
FRESH PICKINGS to charge a phone two and a half times over.
£119, KNOMO.COM, OUT NOW
Raspberry Pi Model B+
It’s been two years since the UK-made,
lo-fi computer sparked a DIY tech project
phenomenon and the time has come for
a system upgrade. CEO Eben Upton says
it’s “the final evolution of the original
Raspberry Pi, rather than Pi 2”, including
tweaks and improvements suggested by
the growing Pi-loving community. These
include two extra USB 2.0 ports, lower
power consumption, a sleeker design and
improved audio, all for the exact same
price. That sounds more A* than B+ to us.
£25, RASPBERRYPI.ORG, OUT NOW

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TREND
BUDDING GENIUS
Wireless earphones are the sound of the future, squeezing get-fit sensors in your ear canals
BRAGI “THE DASH” EARBUDS
With $3.3 million worth of crowd-funded gold in its coffers, Bragi’s smart,
waterproof in-ear headphones are already an online hit – and there’s an awful
lot of tech packed inside these 14g Bluetooth earpiece descendents to warrant
such investment. Not only do the buds connect to your phone’s music and
calls, they also have a heart-rate monitor, fitness tracker and 4GB storage built
in to keep tabs on your vitals as you run, flinging the data to most fitness apps.
$299, BRAGI.COM, OUT JANUARY 2015
EARIN WIRELESS EARBUDS
Sure, there are no fitness-tracking abilities here, but these earphones are
still suitably smart – and at 5g a piece, you may even forget you’re wearing
them. Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity delivers music wirelessly from most
smartphones or tablets – although a lack of mic means you can’t take
calls – while the winged edition has a specifically tight fit for gym fans. Each
bud also has its own rechargeable, three-hour-lasting lithium-ion battery,
with the pictured storage capsule acting as a clever on-the-go charger, too.
£99, EARIN.SE, OUT JANUARY 2015
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FREEWAVZ
These smart, sporty-fit earphones also track your workout via their
three-axis accelerometer system. Simply hit the “Fitness” button to interrupt
your wirelessly connected playlists for audio alerts on your progress, such as
calories burned, distance travelled and minutes till you can at last throw in
the towel. Pairing to your phone via Bluetooth, they also share all of that info
with a dedicated app as well. Thankfully, they’re sweat- and water-resistant.
$237, FREEWAVZ.COM, OUT OCTOBER
LG HRM EARPHONES
How about some wireless smart buds that you can buy right now? Well,
these T3 Hot 100 entries have been out in the US since spring if you’re feeling
import-y, though we hope for a UK release soonish. With a heart-rate monitor
built in (hence “HRM”), they keep tabs on your oxygen consumption, as well
as distance travelled and calories burned using a tiny accelerometer. Plug into
the little clip-on processing hub to send all findings via Bluetooth to the free
LG Fitness app for more detailed metrics that you can listen to while you jog.
$180, LG.COM, OUT NOW IN US (UK TBC)
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THE FUTUREPROOF COMMUTE

SkyTran’s NASA-designed magnetic monorail soars high above inner-city congestion
COSTING JUST £9 MILLION PER MILE
to construct, this Tomorrow’s World taxi
rank is a damn sight cheaper than Crossrail
(£202 million per mile, since you asked).
Developed in the US by NASA engineers for
eventual installation in Tel Aviv, the SkyTran
functions just like a mini-cab service – albeit
one that hovers above the streets on magnets.
Pods will reach speeds of up to 150mph
thanks to MagLev tech (magnetic levitation)
with each vehicle’s integrated magnet syncing
with the monorail coils to create a field. It’s
this, rather than mechanics, that holds them
in place, meaning no travel-slowing friction.
summoned to a chosen station using an app.
Set your destination and time of departure,
hop aboard, and let SkyTran whisk you away.
There’s even an on-board TV to distract you
from the speed and rather long drop below.
Thinking this sounds a bit science fiction?
SkyTran assures us it will be science fact by
late next year, with a 1,600ft test loop planned
to shuttle passengers a tentative 45mph
across the Israel Aerospace Industry campus.
If successful, it shifts to Israel’s financial
centre and the speed triples. Scream if you
wanna commute faster…
SKYTRAN.US, OUT 2016

Each pod holds a maximum of six

passengers and can be

THE CONSTRUCTION

SkyTran pieces together like Lego,

which makes it cheap and easy
to fix when damaged; ten times
less costly to run and maintain than
trains, reckons CEO Jerry Sanders.

THE “TICKETS”

SkyTran will operate with a taxi-style

ordering system, so there’s never a
queue to catch a pod. Set a time via
the smartphone app and bear
witness to unrivalled punctuality.

THE ENGINE THE BOOKING SYSTEM

Each individual, London Eye-like SkyTran will operate in a similar way to

pod will be driven by an electric taxi apps like Uber, so there’s never a
linear motor, which produces force queue to catch a pod. Book a pick-up
in a single direction rather than time, location and then just turn up, with
the rotational torque of a car. tickets coming in at around $5 per rider.

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THE EFFICIENCY PLAN

By recapturing braking energy, a typical {FOCUS}

jaunt will drain power no quicker than two The greatest
hairdryers. With the guide-ways coated in transport tech
solar-panelling to help foot the ’leccy bill,
SkyTran says it’ll be near energy-neutral. never made

1. HYPERLOOP

The $6bn brainchild of

SpaceX head Elon Musk,
this tube system also
uses MagLev pods to
cart people at 760mph.
Promising travel from
San Fran to LA in under
an hour, its feasibility,
alas, remains unproven.

THE TOP SPEED

Although the first test track proper is

to be capped at 45mph, a prototype
pod has reached a rather speedy
150mph without passengers aboard.

2. LAND AIRBUS

This giant, traffic lane-

straddling bus-cum-
tunnel was a 2012 spark
from TBS China Shipping,
circumventing traffic
by just driving straight
over it. A beautifully
simple idea that there
is unfortunately no
plan to actually build.

3. PASSING CLOUD

Dreamt up by designer
Tiago Barros back in
THE ECO CREDENTIALS 2011, this connects giant
The guideways will all be coated in balloons to a stainless-
solar panels to help foot the ’leccy steel frame to let us float
bill. SkyTran hopes that in sunny Tel around town. Although
Aviv it can make it close to energy direction and speed are
neutral; best of luck in Londres, folks. dictated by the wind, so
not ideal for the work run.

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GOOGLE’S GOT AN 4
{DETA ILS}
1
L OF A NEW LOOK
This stylish Android L OS upgrade
MATERIAL GAINS

Android L, Google’s
is with devs now and will be in our devices alphabetical sequel to its
by winter. So what exactly has changed? KitKat operating system
for phones and tablets, has
a new “Material design”
1 with a minimalist, Windows
Phone-meets-iOS,
clutter-free aesthetic.

2
NOTIFY THIS
5
Notifications are now part
2
of a card-based tile system
accessed from the lock
screen. Each app also has
an elevation level, with
animations running as
you flick or tap through.

3
WORK HEAD ON

Android for Work lets you

store office and home data
separately on the same
device. Time to ask your
boss for an upgrade…

4
FAMILY TREE

Personal Unlock means

Android L can disable
passcodes for you using
proximity authorisation
fuelled by other devices,
from phone to smartwatch.

5
6 7 KILLER FEATURE

Scared of having your data

swiped? Google’s added
a remote “kill switch” to
wipe your device if it’s
stolen – even if it’s already
been factory reset.

6
ALL OF THE THINGS

“Recents” is another
feature framed like a deck
of cards, letting multi-
8 taskers flip between active
apps and Google Chrome
tabs on one platform.

7
BATTERY BACKUP

Flash Gordon baddie

“Project Volta” squeezes
3 an extra 90 minutes out of
your battery, while Google
reckons the new ART
runtime option runs your
device “twice as fast”
thanks to RAM efficiency.

8
COMING SOON

Google’s released source

code to bring Android L to
the Nexi 4, 5, 7 and 10.
Third-party devices will be
supported in good time.
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It’s complicated: built

{EXTR A} especially for banker
Henry Graves in 1933,
RISE OF THE but available to buy
BARCADE again this autumn

Let’s embrace
drinking games

THE FOUR QUARTERS,

PECKHAM

South London’s feelgood

bar launch of the summer
lets classic Pac-Man,
Street Fighter II and
WWF Wrestfest arcades
rub shoulders with the
capital’s top craft beers,
with Camden Hells on
draft and Brixton Effra.
FOURQUARTERSBAR.CO.UK

LOADING BAR,
HACKNEY

Started in Cambridge
and shifted to Soho, this
fine gaming and drinking
institution (we’ll have a
Deus Ex on the Beach
please) is now out east at
Scenario. Retro cabinets
play nice with cocktails
and next-gen co-op
DRINKRELAXPLAY.CO.UK

THE ORIGINAL SMARTWATCH

THE SPEEKEASY, Patek Philippe’s iconic Henry Graves Supercomplication is a wearable tech titan
LEICESTER
WHAT IS IT? HOW DOES IT WORK? WHAT ELSE CAN IT DO? WHAT’S IT MADE OF? HOW DO I GET ONE?
Decked out, in true
BioShock style, like a The most sophisticated Eight years in the making Well, it tracks the monthly That’s 18-karat gold, that At the Sotheby’s auction
1930s speakeasy and timepiece ever made by – three of which were lunar cycle, sunrises and is, with legendary Geneva this coming November.
serving cocktails like the hand. Finished in 1933 for “research” – it boasts sunsets and, rather neatly, watchmaker Patek However, be warned: it
Beautiful Katamari, this banker and horological 24 complications, one for New York’s night sky. A Philippe using 900 different sold for $11 million in
café/bar has Xbox 360 collector Henry Graves, it each hour, including a built-in minute repeater individual parts inside it. 1999, making it the most
and SNES gaming, took computers till 1989 perpetual calendar that also boasts the exact Graves paid a cool 60,000 expensive watch ever; this
plus multiplayer events to beat its complexity. adjusts for leap years. same chimes as Big Ben. Swiss francs for it in 1925. time they want $18m-plus.
such as The Punch Up.
THESPEEKEASY.WORDPRESS.COM

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OCEAN COLOUR SCREENS

Quantum of the Seas’ 12K visuals and giant robot arms put on a titanic tech show
A CRUISE LINER SO TECHY THAT T3
Personality of the Year, The Gadget Show’s
Jason Bradbury, has to be drafted in to
explain it to the punters? That’ll be Royal
Caribbean’s new Quantum of the Seas.
Let’s be honest, while cruises can be trips
of a lifetime, the view can get a bit samey;
perfect, blue seas again, yawn. We prefer
our entertainment controlled by six, ceiling-
housed robotic limbs each moving a 100-inch
LED TV screen in time to music (below).
The Quantum’s 4,180 passengers can
also lap up a 270-degree-view performance
space with various worldly delights beamed
in wraparound 12K on to 20ft floor-to-ceiling
windows using an 18-projector mapping
system. You don’t get that in Club World.
£1,416 FOR EIGHT NIGHTS, ROYALCARIBBEAN.CO.UK, FROM NOVEMBER

{EXTR A}
AIR TRAFFIC REMOTE CONTROL

Sweden has just greenlit planes will actually be in the tower’s command could be very literal if not).
its latest air-traffic taking off and landing. centre (pictured left). With Norway and
control tower to begin The Saab Remote Everything is handled Australia also trialling the
directing flights; the only Tower System (RTS) remotely, with additional tech, could Heathrow’s
difference being that beams HD images in real cameras on standby in third runway be policed
these eyes on the sky time from Örnsköldsvik case of an emergency from a shed in Hounslow?
are some 61 miles away Airport’s airfield to the (and, we hope, back-up To the Boris phone…
from where any of the 350-degree LCD screens Wi-Fi; the wheel of death SAABGROUP.COM

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#7

DESIGN
DONS
DAN FORMOSA
The ergonomics doctor
who puts purpose
ahead of tech excess

WE BELIEVE TECH DESIGNERS, GRAND ARCHITECTS OF

commodity that they are, should have their efforts commemorated.
Joining T3’s growing roll of honour this month is aesthetic ace
Dr Dan Formosa, lecturer, consultant and founder of Smart Design.
Part of the team that designed IBM’s very first home computer
back in 1981, Formosa hasn’t slowed since. From lean, mean
Flip camcorders to the new, modernised New York yellow cab,
he specialises in forward-thinking, ergonomically minded ideas.
The ethos of Formosa’s firm Smart Design is to “improve
lives, designing for purpose, not just appearance”. So it’s clearly
just a bonus that all his work looks pretty good, too…

IBM 5150 1981
BULKY TODAY, YET SLEEK FOR THE
TIME, THE PC FIRM’S FIRST HOME
DESKTOP BECAME THE HUB FOR
MICROSOFT’S BURGEONING
SOFTWARE EMPIRE. WITH A MERE
4.77MHZ PROCESSOR AND 256KB
MEMORY UNDER ITS HOOD, TOO.
NISSAN NYC TAXI
OF TOMORROW 2013
THE ICONIC YELLOW WAS LEFT
ALONE, BUT FORMOSA ADDED A
SUNROOF, TVS AND USB PORTS TO
AN NV200. THE MAYOR APPROVED.
OXO GOOD GRIP TOOLS 1990
BORN OUT OF ANNOYANCE AT THE
LACK OF ERGONOMIC
KITCHENWARE, THIS UTENSIL
RANGE SPORTS OVERSIZED
HANDLES DEFIANTLY.
TOSHIBA LIBRETTO PREMIUM
NETBOOK 2010
LIKE A NINTENDO 3DS MADE BY
APPLE, THIS SUPER-COMPACT
DUAL-SCREEN LAPTOP SPORTED
A VIRTUAL KEYBOARD AND THE
FOOTPRINT OF A PAPERBACK.
FORD SMARTGAUGE 2010
IF SELF-DRIVING CARS TAKE THE
FUN AWAY, HOW ABOUT ONES
THAT TELL YOU HOW TO DRIVE?
TRIALLED IN THE FORD FUSION
{SPEAK}
Design Museum’s
Ria Hawthorn is
a Formosa fan
Trained as a product
designer, Formosa holds
a Masters and Ph.D
in ergonomics and
biomechanics, imbuing his designs
with a technical usability that’s
underpinned by serious research.
The Ford SmartGauge, for
example, has to communicate a lot
of information in the 0.5 seconds
that drivers can take their eyes off
HYBRID, THIS IS THE MOST USEFUL the road to look at the instrument
BACKSEAT DRIVER EVER, EVEN
HELPING YOU CONSERVE PETROL.
dashboard. It’s designed to reduce
DURING A TEST RUN IN HEAVY LA glance time, keeping drivers safe
TRAFFIC IT MANAGED 52MPG. while simultaneously helping them
improve their efficiency; man and
ENERGYHUB 2011
BEFORE ITS TIME, THIS DEVICE
machine working in harmony.
WAS CONTROLLING HOMES All of Formosa’s products,
AND LOWERING BILLS AHEAD from the simplicity of his kitchen
OF HIVE, NEST AND HONEYWELL. utensils to the complexity of IBM’s
FLIP CAMCORDER 2007 first personal computer, have a
HANDHELD VIDEO MAKER THAT positive impact on those who use
HELPED FUEL YOUTUBE’S them. His philosophy of inclusive
SOCIAL-SHARING BOOM. IT
BURNED BRIGHTLY BEFORE BEING
design is becoming ever-more
OUTGUNNED BY SMARTPHONES. integral to industrial design today.

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THE
BUZZ
“Now we’re going live
to breaking tech news.
You may find some
scenes disturbing…”

WHAT WE’VE
LEARNED THIS
MONTH
Yahoo wants you to
take the scenic route
The search firm is developing
a map algorithm to direct you
along the “most attractive”
roads. Using crowdsourced
opinion, the routes are on
average 12 per cent longer.

There’s an app to track WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?

attacks on Israel
Missile notification service Red
Alerts has teamed up with Yo
to warn of strikes. Thoughtful.
You can write a
novella on Twitter
When asked to promote his
new book, The Bone Clocks,
on Twitter, David Mitchell
decided to write a new story
instead. You can read The
Right Sort in just 280 tweets.
Ongoing updates on the tech stories that will not go gently
{V IRTUA L R EA LITY}
Gaming’s future gets a
low-tech reimagining
Then: The Oculus Rift and
Project Morpheus VR headsets
were hits at E3 and even bigger
hits as the stars of the last T3.
Now: Google’s Cardboard
headset (above) and rumoured
Samsung Gear VR goggles aim
to use your smartphone’s screen
and head-tracking software.
{ROBOTICS}
The robot uprising is
worrying politicians
Then: In last month’s issue we
said robots could replace 47 per
cent of jobs within 20 years.
Now: UK uni minister David
Willetts worries students by
claiming that jobs requiring “high-
level cognitive skills” were most
at risk. Ironically, he was then
fired – but not replaced by a droid.
{ P R I VAC Y }
UK government fights
for its right to snoop
Then: The European Court
of Justice stated that internet
providers should not keep data on
users as it infringed human rights.
Now: The Data Retention and
Investigation Powers Bill was
rushed through in just a week,
ensuring the police and security
services’ spy powers remain.

YOUR MAILS,
TWEETS AND POSTS
Virtual reality goes mobile
Being virtually dropped into a shark cage,
training with the England rugby team or
taking a stroll around Italy without leaving
your front room is great, but with Google
and Samsung working on VR headsets
that you slot your smartphone into, should
we expect mobile gaming apps to get the
virtual reality treatment, too? Candy Crush
the VR version. Tell me it won’t be so…
JAMIE MASON VIA FACEBOOK
We can’t make any promises, Jamie.
OnePlus One: phone or myth?
I cannot wait for the OnePlus One to
become available, but the firm should have
just kept quiet about it for a bit rather
than get everyone excited over something
that won’t be available for a while.
CRAIG ETHERIDGE VIA FACEBOOK
I saw one yesterday, in a room with Elvis,
Hitler, Shergar and the Loch Ness Monster.
MARK HAMILTON VIA FACEBOOK
We find, and then review, the hard-to-get
affordable smartphone over on p104.
Wristy business
Wearables? I don’t get what all the fuss is
about. They seem like gimmicks to me. I’m
used to not having to wear a watch now.
FULL CIRCLE VIA FACEBOOK
You’ll love this issue, Mr Circle. We have the
latest wearable tech for pros on (p54), plus a
look Adi’s MiCoach Fit Smart (p81). However,
if you want to take the piss, head to p130.
Indestructible iPhone 6?
So rumour has it Apple’s next phone
will have a sapphire glass screen? My
watch’s screen is made of that and it’s
ten years old and still flawless.
LEE JONES VIA FACEBOOK
Maybe it will be on the face of the iWatch as
well, then, Lee. Only time will tell…
SEND MAIL, WIN THIS
A Gioteck EX-06 Wired headset
with excellent sound quality
and removable mic boom.
Foldable and fantastic.
£34.99, GIOTECK.COM

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Can you digit? Yes you can!

SUCK IT AND MISS FORTUNE

$50
iPHONE C… Post Office
It will soon flog EE’s vast network

MILLION
of smartphone contracts alongside
FASHIONABLY novelty stamps and travel insurance.
YOUNG AMOUNT SPENT BY Deals go online in this very month

60 PER CENT
38%
GOOGLE ON ITS ‘MADE TO
CODE’ PROGRAM, WHICH
The right to be forgotten
AIMS TO ENCOURAGE
Google’s received 70,000 take-down
OF PEOPLE AGED
TEENAGE GIRLS TO
requests, with reference to 250,000
BETWEEN 18 AND 34
BECOME COMPUTER
individual pages since May in the UK
OWN A WEARABLE THE NUMBER OF TWO-
PROGRAMMERS.
alone. That’s a lot of drunken photos…
FITNESS DEVICE, YEAR-OLDS THAT NOW
COMPARED TO JUST USE MOBILE DEVICES. (TECH TIMES)
Scotland
19 PER CENT
(COMMON SENSE MEDIA, SAP)
Said to be leading the race to build
the UK’s first spaceport by 2018. Okay, it
OF OVER 55s.
*SAMSUNG MHEALTH RESEARCH HANDSET
HYSTERIA
THE NUMBER OF PHONES
$30 MILLION might not be in the UK by 2018, but let’s
cross that bridge when we come to it

BEAST OF A CAR RELEASED BY APPLE WINNING

3…
AND SAMSUNG IN THE
LAST 18 MONTHS
HOW MANY LEGEND
BLACK BESS VEYRONS
35
THE T3
BUGATTI IS TO PRODUCE,
RETAILING AT AROUND…
30
WINDEX
25 What’s going up and
£1.7 M EACH 20
down in Techsville?

*AUTO EXPRESS
15

10 FAILING
NO GAME BUDGET “INCREASE”
5

1.5 MILLION
BETWEEN THE 1998 Brazil
0 AND 2014 GODZILLA S. The country’s 7-1 thrashing by
NUMBER ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION, Germany is the most tweeted-about
OF ILLEGAL APPLE IT’S ACTUALLY $30M LESS. football game ever, with 35.6 million
DOWNLOADS SAMSUNG (BOXOFFICEMOJO) 140-character taunts and memes sent
OF THE GAME (THE UNOFFICIAL APPLE WEBLOG) during the 90-minute-long pasting
OF THRONES
SEASON 4 Samsung
FINALE IN THE BIG IN T’MEDIA “Evidence of suspected child labour”
12 HOURS AFTER found at the Korean firm’s Chinese
BROADCAST. supplier Dongguan Shinyang Electronics.
CH

(TORRENTFREAK) All ties very quickly severed

IN
5

Michael Acton Smith

4.

20
PLAY TO WIN After reaching the pinnacle of his career

$10.9 MILLION
– a T3 Award for Outstanding Contribution

44%
to Tech – the Mind Candy CEO is stepping
TOTAL PRIZE MONEY down, to take a “more creative role”
ON OFFER AT DOTA 2 THE NUMBER OF E3
INTERNATIONAL GAMING EXPOS TO DATE.
CHAMPIONSHIP 2014, PERCENTAGE INCREASE NINTENDO’S DOOMED
NOT BAD FOR BEING OF DATA USAGE ON VIRTUAL BOY (PICTURED)
GOOD AT PC GAMES… SCREENS 4.5” OR ABOVE. LAUNCHED AT THE FIRST.
(VALVE) (NPD) (IGN)

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STUFF
Inessential tech brings
all the boys to the yard.
And damn right, it’s
better than yours…

AUTOGRAPHER MOUNT ADAPTER ATTACH YOUR

FREE-SNAPPING WEARABLE CAMERA TO THINGS
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YE ENERGY BAR BATTERY CHARGER AVOID

FALLING FOUL OF US AIRPORT SECURITY’S NEW
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WHAT’S ON YOUR RADAR?
Tech occurrences it would be amiss to miss
3 6 9 Months away
TECH
Android Auto
Following Apple’s CarPlay
cue, Google is at last getting
into your motor, projecting
info and content from your
Android handset to your
car’s dashboard. Some 25
car makers are signed up,
with the first compatible
motors out by year’s end.
FILM
Taken 3
Despite his “special set of
skills”, Liam Neeson just
can’t shake this franchise.
Filming in LA as you read
this, beleaguered CIA agent
Bryan Mills will be kicking
down doors and being
framed for a murder he
didn’t commit next January.
GAME
Hotline Miami 2:
Wrong Number
Developer Dennaton has
had to censor this rather
violent sequel to its cult
lo-fi serial-kill-’em-up due
to a backlash, but new fight
styles such as twin Uzis
and a level editor will give
it legs on PC, Mac and PS4.
EVENT
Performance
Car Show 2015
Lamborghini, McLaren and
Ferrari will be on the floor
in Birmingham’s NEC on
January 8-11, alongside
high-octane, precision-
driving displays, drift
teams, stunt drivers and
wheel-to-wheel racing.
{THE HIGHS A ND LOWS OF T3’S COMING MONTH}
YEAH!
T3 is turning all those hours of World Cup
watching into info fuel for our fantasy football
team, as the EPL kicks off on August 15. Want
to get more actively involved? We’ve got pro
MEH!
kit (p48) and Sunday League essentials (p74).
WWW FOR MORE NEWS GO TO T3.COM
NEWS BLIP THE XBOX ONE’S KINECT IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PCs. STOCK TO SHIFT?
Months away
TECH
Sentri
This funded Kickstarter
project lands next March
and wants to join all
the dots of your connected
home, with app-controlled
motion and temperature
sensors, an HD camera,
mic, plus the ability to sync
existing smart home tech.
FILM
Jurassic World
So, Spielberg’s series isn’t
extinct after all. This latest
visit takes place 22 years
after the first and features
new scenery-chewing
dinos. Steve hands the
camera to newcomer Colin
Trevorrow, with “June 2015”
Sellotaped to the top of it.
GAME
Yoshi’s Wooly World
Little Big Planet meets
Super Mario in a playful
and colourful ball of literal
platforming yarn featuring
the plumber’s Jurassic
Park escapee pal. Set in a
Wii U world craftily made
of thread and cloth, it will
hopefully land next spring.
EVENT
The Gadget Show Live
The big, mass-market tech
event to end all others,
with live turns from Jason
Bradbury and the show
team, gaming challenges
and workshops presented
by T3’s sister site TechRadar.
Book now for April 7-12 at
Birmingham’s NEC (again).
Apple typically launches its new iPhone in
September (on the 20th for the last two years,
in fact), but according to Taiwan’s, erm, ever-
reliable Economic Daily News it’s planning an
August attack. We’re not convinced, but the
office will be at high alert until it’s denied.
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TECH
Tesla Model X
The third model from Elon
Musk’s electric garage has
a bigger 85kWh lithium-ion
battery that’ll send it from
0-60mph in four seconds.
Not sold? It will also feature
DeLorean-style gullwing
doors. There we go… Due
to hit the road next year.
FILM
Terminator: Genesis
With the RoboCop reboot
doing good business, Arnie
now wants a fifth Terminator
instalment. It’s the start
of a fresh trilogy set even
further in the past than the
80s, with Game of Thrones’
dragon lady Emilia Clarke
as the new Sarah Connor.
GAME
Project Phoenix
Kickstarter-funded indie
RPG meets real-time
strategy with a roster of
talent in charge, including
Final Fantasy artists and
game designer Vaughan
Smith of L.A. Noire fame.
Will debut on PS4, PS Vita,
PC and mobiles next year.
EVENT
Wimbledon 2015
The All England Club may
have only just cleared away
the overpriced Pimm’s
and trampled “Come on
Murray” banners, but it’s
now time to enter your
names into the draw for
the chance to score tickets
for 2015’s Championship.
So, you’ve voted on the T3 Awards longlist
and now your opinion and that of our judges
will be used to whittle those down until only
the best remain. Are you ready for a whole
new round of voting? Check out the new
shortlist on p86 of this very issue…
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Play
This month… Metro sings on next-gen / The Bug on bass /
The Raid 2 on rhythm section / Parrot on drones

TH E CONTENT FOR YOU R K IT

THE ESSENTIAL

BROTHERS OF BULLET TIME

SuperHot redefines the shooter, handing us yet another
reason to get excited about Virtual Reality into the bargain
he environment is sparse. The you can even look around the bullets,

T depth of perception is crystalline.

Three figures stand opposite, their
appearance minimalist, their actions
soundless. What we’re most concerned
about, though, are the bullets flying out
of their guns, streaming towards us like
rivulets of death. Then we realise we can
stop them any time we choose.
See, if you don’t move in PC title
SuperHot, everything halts; gunfire
hovers in mid-air, like The Matrix’s slo-mo
setpieces, their trajectory betrayed by
streams trailing behind. You can turn
left and right – and, if Oculus Rift-ed up,
contorting your head out of their path
– just as long as you don’t move. The
moment you advance, so does death.
It’s one shot, one kill.
With its strikingly graphic looks
and intriguing premise, SuperHot’s
Kickstarter success blasted it past a
$100,000 target in under 24 hours
and became the demo everyone wanted
to play at Oculus’s E3 stand this summer.
Created by Polish studio Blue Brick,
it was borne out of a desire to make
one of gaming’s toughest genres
accessible to all.

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WorldMags.net GAMES

Aim: grab the gun on

the floor before your “Okay, people, get
brains are blown out your Travelcards out”

« “The idea was to create a first-person

shooter where you don’t just rely on reflexes,”
Blue Brick community manager Luke
Spierewka tell us. “It’s based around giving
the player a different sense of empowerment.
It’s a balance: on the one hand you feel like
a badass, because you can stop time, but
on the other you feel vulnerable, because it
only takes one bullet to kill you.”
It’s certainly an interesting angle, playing
out almost like a puzzler as you line up your
next mad dash, via weapon upgrades such
as shotguns on the floor. But the real lift to
the project came when, having been crowd-
funded and greenlit on gaming store Steam,
the developer decided to incorporate Oculus’s
virtual-reality headset into the gameplay.
“YOU FEEL LIKE A
BADASS BECAUSE YOU
CAN STOP TIME, BUT
ONE SHOT KILLS YOU”
Xxxx xxxx xx
METRO: REDUX
Gaming’s most terrifying commuter
route gets a next-gen lick of paint
lassic titles being given a graphical network, a labyrinth of dark tunnels filled
C brush up to appeal to next-gen fans
is becoming a calling card of both
PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, from The Last
with not just rats and Mind The Gap signs
but increasingly bloodthirsty mutants.
Metro: Redux has been reworked from
of Us: Remastered to Halo: The Master the ground up with a loving touch, in both
Chief Collection. Now Ukrainian developer its visuals and the way it plays. Some of the
4A Games is re-polishing its two great, series’ shonkier mechanics are streamlined
post-apocalyptic shooters, Metro 2033 and while all of the DLC content is now bolted
Metro: Last Light, in one bumper package. on. With new weapons, bonus missions and
Based on a Russian horror novel haunted monsters more horrifying than ever when
by the ghost of Chernobyl, both games
unfold in a world where nuclear war has put
rendered in full 1080p resolution, and with
scare-’em-ups like Outlast finding a next-gen
paid to civilisation as we know it. Survivors audience, this is a stop well worth making.
£30, ENTERTHEMETRO.COM, OUT AUGUST 29 ON PC, PS4 AND X1
are forced to live in Moscow’s underground

{FOCUS}
“We didn’t originally think about how the Metro: Redux features the legendary
game would work with the Rift,” continues “Ranger Mode”, which dials up the
Spierekwka, “but once we implemented VR, difficulty by reducing available ammunition
it became much more fun.” and breathing apparatus. Only the
The Rift certainly gives SuperHot an extra very hardest of hardcore need apply…
layer, tracking the player’s head movements
so that they can literally duck out of the way
of trouble. The E3 taster was only an alpha
{BEST OF THE R EST}
demo, though, and the Rift’s involvement has
presented Blue Brick with teething problems.
The fun tour from touchdown to nuclear fallout
“It increases the immersion, but comes
with constraints,” adds Spierewka. “At 720p,
in some instances the opponents firing at you
becomes too small. We had to work around
the processing demands of the device.”
You won’t actually require an Oculus Rift Madden NFL 15 Diablo III: Reaper of Valiant Hearts: Counterspy
to play SuperHot when its live beta launches PS4, PS3, X1, X360 Souls – Ultimate Evil The Great War PS3, PS4, PS VITA
on Steam early next year – in fact, it runs on While the core gameplay PS4, PS3, X1, X360 PC, PS4, X1, PS3, X360 A slick, 2.5D stealth
in EA’s gridiron multi-seller Blizzard’s sprawling Absorbing adventure shooter that mixes comics,
a fairly low-spec PC – but for those willing hasn’t changed a lot since dungeon crawler gets a meets heatfelt history Bond and a hint of Shadow
to take the step into VR, it is a fine showcase last season, there’s new noob update with all lesson in this ace period Complex, as you save the
of the medium’s possibilities. We’re certainly rosters and new-gen expansion packs included, piece that’s like Tintin in world from nukes each
graphics to make sacks new modes and the best Where The Wind Blows. level against the clock.
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“It’s fun to
stay at the…”

THE BUG
Angels and Devils embodies moral
duality of fuck-tonnes of bass
eteran low-end terrorist The Bug (aka

V Curse of the Golden Vampire, Techno

Animal and, to his mum, “Kevin”) takes
a dual approach with his new album. What
used to be called “side one” has tunes that
are largely female-voiced and more sensual,
although still rather tense. Then side two’s
male vocalists issue threats and hurl abuse
while percussion hailstones down on brutalist
edifices of dub. And very bracing it is, too.
£11 CD, £9 MP3, OUT AUGUST 25
{BEST OF THE R EST}
Rockin’ and jackin’ OAPs
ROBERT PLANT
Lullaby and...
The Ceaseless Roar
Planty’s voice is less the “ceaseless
roar” of old; more a weather-worn
croon. This is how to age with dignity.
£12 CD, £9 MP3, OUT NOW
ROYAL BLOOD
Royal Blood
This duo pulls deep from the teats of
Queens of the Stone Age. Efficient, if
a bit danga-langa-heard-it-all-before-
wheeeeeoow-skronk-badoom!
£9, £8 MP3, OUT AUGUST 25
THE RAID 2
Not much raiding, but lots of awesome, pulse-racing
action in the middle of just enough acting and plot
elshman-in-Indonesia Gareth Evans’ The Raid was a
W patchily exciting martial-arts-’n’-firearms movie that
followed a big police raid on a tower block and somehow
became a phenomenon. The Raid 2, contrastingly, involves little {HD MOMENT}
actual raiding, but is one of the all-time great action movies. It’s most A pitched
easily comparable to John Woo’s Hard Boiled, with its familiar-feeling battle on a
prison yard
undercover-cop plot serving as a means to move its protagonists
from one action set piece to another. Yet Evans actually outdoes churned into
the original gun-fu sensei, with the fluidity of his camera work and a quagmire
editing skills putting you in the midst of the violence – of which there by rain sets
is tonnes – without ever becoming a blur. Star Iko Uwais is a better the “violent
fighter than actor, but given the dazzling skills he shows, we wouldn’t ballet” bar
say that to his face. This film drips cool and blood – it’s a triumph. high early on
£13 BLU-RAY, £14 HD DOWNLOAD, OUT AUGUST 11
{BEST OF THE R EST}
Take a trip to Ireland, Wales, England and Mesopotamia

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Guardians of the Galaxy
Tarantino-esque soundtrack, except
with some blindingly obvious 70s
tracks mixed in with the forgotten
gems. Quality throughout, mind.
£8 CD, £7 MP3, OUT NOW
BASEMENT JAXX
Junto
It’s 20 years on, yet the Jaxx still show
no signs of sucking. Gently maturing
ravers everywhere: don your Adidas
Gazelles and prepare to “have it”.
£11 CD, £14 2CD, £9 MP3, OUT AUGUST 25
CALVARY
BLU-RAY, HD DOWNLOAD
On the face of it: Father Ted,
the Misery Years. In fact:
a thought-provoking film
about forgiveness, faith and
humanity that you should
all watch. Also: the most
Irish thing ever made.
£18 BD, £14 DL, OUT AUGUST 11
LOCKE
BLU-RAY, HD DOWNLOAD
Who’d have thought you
could make a gripping film
about a man driving a car
whilst taking phone calls
largely relating to cement?
Tom Hardy’s mesmeric
“Welsh” accent is the star.
£13 BD, £14 DL, OUT AUGUST 11
THE DOUBLE
BLU-RAY, HD DOWNLOAD
Jesse Eisenberg is equally
tiresome in two roles
here, and helmer Richard
Ayoade’s influences –
Gilliam, Jonze, the Coens –
are too obvious. The ending
is good… but also welcome.
£16 BD, £14 DL, OUT NOW
NOAH
BLU-RAY, HD DOWNLOAD
Star Russell Crowe and
director Darren Aronofsky
bring to bear all the subtlety
and understatement for
which they’re famed on
this Biblical epic. In short:
rain, beards, shouting.
£13 BD, £10 DL, OUT NOW

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{IOS}
Apple’s little crop of crackers
Embark
IOS 6.1+: IPHONE, IPAD, TOUCH
Matches you to a user in a different
country who then acts as your virtual
tour guide, sharing pictures and
experiences. A new guide every week.
FREE, EMBARKAPP.CO

Musikki
IOS 6.0+: IPHONE, IPAD, TOUCH
Combines music news sources and
official band pages to keep you hip
to the scene. Soon to add support
for Spotify, Deezer and Rdio, too.
FREE, APP.MUSIKKI.COM

MakerBot PrintShop
IOS 6.1+: IPAD
Customise existing 3D CAD designs
or create your own. Once done, keep
an eye on your 3D printer’s progress
remotely via its built-in camera.
FREE, MAKERBOT.COM/PRINTSHOP

Damn Little Town

IOS 4.3+: IPHONE, IPAD, TOUCH
Like Rollercoaster Tycoon but with
mobsters instead of rides. Build your
town up from scratch – then attempt
App of the month to save it from blasted corruption.
FREE, ITUNES.APPLE.COM

PARROT FREEFLIGHT 3 Fly

Drones learn new tricks as the app-fuelled
Jumping Sumo and Rolling Spider take off
ired of buzzing mockingly above
IOS 7.0+: IPHONE, IPAD, TOUCH
Easy video editing tool where you can
add transitions, voiceovers, music
split screens and control multiple
and even across ceilings. Packed with an

T our heads, the new drone army from

French wireless firm Parrot has
added some impressive acrobatic specialists
accelerometer, gyroscope, ultrasound for
precision, near-ground flying and a down-
facing camera for snapping footage of any
devices to produce multi-angled clips.
FREE, EDITONTHEFLY.COM

to its ranks. And controlling them from your
phone or tablet is the Freeflight 3 app, where
complex manoeuvres are tackled with
simple swipes, taps and tilts. Away from
Photoshop Mix
IOS 7.0+: IPAD
dramatic u-turns or flips, it’s a badass bug. Streamlined take on Adobe’s picture
Its Wi-Fi-only pal, Jumping Sumo, is a editing software. Connect to Creative
Cloud to continue editing on your
ground-based tumbler robot, designed to desktop, or just save and share.
speed around or straight through obstacles. FREE, MIX.ADOBE.COM

movement, you can access live video feeds
and even plot obstacle courses to take on.
But what exactly are you controlling?
Well, the Bluetooth-connected Rolling
Spider (top) has removable wheels that
can travel along the ground, up walls
Its party trick, though, is a spring-mounted
Unread for iPad
propulsion system that helps it leap nearly a IOS 7.0+: IPHONE, IPAD, TOUCH
metre. It also has a wide-angle front camera A swish RSS reader with customisable
that’s ideal for spying/capturing action. fonts and backgrounds, plus
automatic updates. It will even read
APP FREE, ROLLING SPIDER £90, JUMPING SUMO £140,
articles out loud to you if you like.
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{U PDATE}
HailoExec lets you THREE
upgrade your cab TOP SITES
FOR SOCIAL
Brit taxi app Hailo has journey towards you in CAMPAIGNERS
always prided itself on real-time on the map
being a friend to black through the app, but
cabs, unlike US rival you can now request a Globalvoicesonline.org Do-it.org.uk Socialdocumentary.net
Uber, with 23,000 of more plush ride, from FOR UNREPORTED NEWS FOR VOLUNTEERING FOR RAISING AWARENESS
them on its books. But Mercedes to BMW. This is the Huffington Post Want to give your time, Not just an affordable way
in a move that could Aimed at business for the world’s activists, not just your up-thumbing for photographers to get
upset the cabbie cart, users, it’s an Addison with breaking global online support? This is an their work viewed, oh no,
it’s now added a luxury, Lee-like add-on, not a stories uploaded by locals. easy-to-use database of this site links to the NGOs
HailoExec service. replacement for exisiting Separated into continents volunteering opportunities and charities behind the
You still order your drivers, but we doubt and themes, and available in your area. Whatever your causes highlighted in its
taxi, accept a fare and they’ll see it that way. in multiple languages, it’s a specific skills, this website stunning online exhibitions.
track your chosen car’s APP FREE, HAILOCAB.COM an international news pipe. finds a use. Yes, even that. Information through art.

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{ANDROID}
Google’s great and good
App in-depth
BrightNest
ANDROID 4.0.3+
We all know that the key to housekeeping is to do little
chores often, but without resorting to bullying, nagging or
paying a cleaner, you still seem to end the week buried
beneath dirty laundry and dust. This app, however, does
everything short of scrub the bath for you. Set up your
home’s profile, including your appliances, flooring type and
number of rooms, and it schedules tasks and reminders
so you know what needs doing and when. It spreads chores
out across the week and chimes in with tips for trickier jobs.
FREE, BRIGHTNEST.COM
Yahoo Aviate Launcher
VARIES WITH DEVICE
Learns where and when you use
certain apps, organising them
into more orderly categories and
switching them on automatically.
FREE, AVIATE.YAHOO.COM
Daily News
ANDROID 2.3.3+
GAMES: NICK COWEN. MUSIC & MOVIES: DUNCAN BELL. BOOKS & WEBSITES: CLARE SARTIN. APPS: PETE DREYER
Feeds from all the top news sources
sorted and stylised. It also keeps
track of what stories you read to
better pinpoint what interests you.
FREE, PLAY.GOOGLE.COM
Path Talk
ANDROID 4.0.3+
The purporsefully limited social
network’s answer to Facebook
Messenger. Chat and share photos,
with everything deleted a day later.
FREE, PATH.COM
Tapiture
ANDROID 4.1+
A cross between Pinterest, Instagram
and Etsy. Search for feeds by topic or
person, and click on a product, audio
file or video to find out more, then buy.
FREE, TAPITURE.COMFREE
Topia
ANDROID 2.3.3
Here, it’s okay to play god. Build
a whole world from scratch, from
landscape to flora and fauna, then
watch it evolve. Isn’t it beautiful?
£1.18, CRESCENTMOONGAMES.COM
{W INDOWS PHONE}
Feeling the live tile love
Remindory
WINDOWS PHONE 8+
Much like Reminders in iOS, this uses
your live GPS location to elbow you in
the ribs to do certain tasks, such as
picking up milk or going into the office.
FREE, REMINDORY.COM
Vivino Wine Scanner
WINDOWS PHONE 8+
Instant wine expertise by scanning the
label, with reviews, tasting notes and
food picks on tap. Still went for the
one on special offer? No one will know.
FREE, VIVINO.COM
Kabbee
WINDOWS PHONE 8+
The taxi app craze finally hits
Windows, forming a squad of minicab
companies to give you live updates,
bookings and card payment options.
FREE, KABBEE.COM
Heroes of Order & Chaos
WINDOWS PHONE 8.1+
The first MOBA – that’s multiplayer
online battle arena, for the unitiated
– on mobiles, with over 40 characters
and incremental equipment upgrades.
FREE, GAMELOFT.COM
Hotel Tonight
WINDOWS PHONE 8+
Book a last-minute crashpad across
Europe and the Americas in as little as
three phone taps. It’s the Amazon
1-Click of spontaneous city breaks.
FREE, HOTELTONIGHT.COM
GT Racing 2
WINDOWS PHONE 8+
Check the pre-race stats: 1,400
events, 67 cars, 30 manufacturers,
13 tracks and four camera angles.
Mind the in-app pit stops, though.
FREE, WINDOWSPHONE.COM
Moovit
WINDOWS PHONE 8+
A crowd-sourced Citymapper,
this amalgamates public transport
info with live updates from people
doing your commute right now.
FREE, MOOVITAPP.COM
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CarManager
BLACKBERRY 10.0.0+
Share a car, or just want to track
your mounting motor costs? This
collates receipts, mileage and
average fuel consumption for you.
£0.75, APPWORLD.BLACKBERRY.COM
Marine Assistant
BLACKBERRY 10.0.0+
Browse the waves using AIS
(Automatic Identification System) to
display the speed, position and type
or vessels in your patch of water.
£2.50, APPWORLD.BLACKBERRY.COM
Manage It
BLACKBERRY 10.0.0+
Make the cloud a more manageable
place by accessing all storage
services, such as Google Drive,
Evernote and Dropbox, in one place.
FREE, APPWORLD.BLACKBERRY.COM
Photo 360 Effects
BLACKBERRY 10.0.0+
Let’s face it, no BlackBerry cameras
are that great. These 150 filters and
200+ adjustments should be able
to transform the results, though.
£0.75, APPWORLD.BLACKBERRY.COM
Real Football 2015
BLACKBERRY 10.0.0+
This latest kickball update pits fans
against fans across the world, with
improved graphics – now in full 3D
– and more definied playing styles.
FREE, APPWORLD.BLACKBERRY.COM
Papyrlus
BLACKBERRY 10.0.0+
Draw custom fonts and graphics
that can be used in your documents.
The desktop app lets you carry on
editing when you’re back home, too.
FREE, APPWORLD.BLACKBERRY.COM
Action Trigger
BLACKBERRY 10.0.0+
Customise actions for your phone
to perform automatically. Turning
off mobile data when it detects the
office Wi-Fi is our new jam.
FREE, APPWORLD.BLACKBERRY.COM
The Bone Clocks Lock In
DAVID MITCHELL JOHN SCALZI
In Cloud Atlas, Mitchell’s This is no ordinary political
characters existed across thriller. The mastermind
multiple timelines; this time has locked-in syndrome,
it’s one character, one so is unable to talk or move.
lifetime. But with a plot that A novel scientific discovery
bends the laws of reality, it’s may just help with that…
no less complex. £7.49, OUT AUGUST 28
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Too Much Information
The Children Act DAVE GORMAN
IAN MCEWAN Can you stay away from the
Questions of parenthood and internet and your phone long
faith here, as a young boy enough to read this book?
refuses life-saving medical Gorman seriously doubts it
aid on religious grounds. and here he’ll explain why.
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Opinion TECH STE E L F RO M THE AN VIL OF T3’S COMMEN T-MON GERS

{THIS MONTH}
Claire Duke-Woolley pleads for style
Chris Smith says tech is no ref
Duncan Bell chooses to be outraged
Sean Keach can’t forget about Dre
Edited by Duncan Bell

CLAIRE DUKE-WOOLLEY

{INSIGHT}

WEAR’S
THE STYLE?
This fashion tech analyst argues
that wearables will remain the
emperor’s new but unbought clothes
until they truly embrace luxury

espite the increasing hype surrounding

D wearable technology, it does feel that

wearables, on the whole, are proving
a hard sell so far. Nike is bailing out of the
sector, while smartwatch sales remain less
than stellar, everyone awaiting the iWatch.
This is actually not as surprising at it may
seem. Many of the products that have come
to market are directed at very specific, and
increasingly crowded, areas such as sport,
fitness and wellness, and much development
has been based around technology innovation
However, wearables – or “clothes” as we
used to call them – are, by their very, nature
consumer-centric products. The prevalent
thinking – that if the tech is cool enough,
people will buy it – fails to recognise that
wearable products are not just an extension
of your smartphone; they have an inherently
intimate role that requires a deeper level
of engagement from us all.
The tech world should really know
this from hard-learned lessons that form,
styling and marketing are also hugely
important factors. Compare Apple’s impact
in the phone market with reactions to
Google’s launch of Glass. The first iPhone
was not the most cutting-edge device of its «

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« time tech-wise, yet every handset now
looks and acts like it. Glass, by contrast,
is at tech’s vanguard, yet arrived looking like
a prototype and has attracted derision and
even outright public aggression.
This is my central point: tech and fashion,
long thought to be impossible partners,
really need to get into bed together – and
here’s why: the fashion industry knows how
to tap into people’s brains. High-end style
brands understand not only how to deliver
cool products with a strong design ethos,
but they are also able to convey intimate,
intangible, perceived values of desirability.
In short: technology has the brains, fashion
has the looks, let’s make lots of money.
We’re already beginning to see how
these tech/fashion collaborations might
work. Going back to Apple and Google, we
can see how both companies are adopting
multidisciplinary approaches. Apple has
hired key fashion players including former
Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts, ex-Yves Saint
Laurent chief Paul Deneve and most recently
Patrick Pruniaux, former VP of sales at Tag
Heuer. All three moves strongly suggest the
iWatch, when it comes, will not be a techy,
plasticky strap as most of its wrist-borne
forerunners, but something of real luxury.
APPLE’S FASHION
HIRES SUGGEST THE
iWATCH WILL BE A
THING OF LUXURY
Google, meanwhile, has been stepping up
its game, girlfriend, through collaborations
with fasion designer Diane Von Furstenberg
and eyewear specialists Luxottica and
Ray-Ban. Without changing core tech
components, there are now version of Glass
that a human might actually want to wear.
There have long been independent
designers championing this approach, from
Dominic Wilcox collaborating with
engineers to create his No Place Like Home
GPS shoes to Machina creating the sleek and
youthful Midi Controller Jacket. But it seems
the big boys are catching on.
This isn’t just about aesthetics. Our
research at Beecham suggests that, on their
current path, the wearables market will be
worth $3 billion by 2018. With a fashion-tech
approach, however, we predict a value of
$18 billion. Which would be just fabulous.
Claire is a fashion tech analyst. For more details
read Beecham Research’s new report Wearable
Technology: Towards A Multidisciplinary
Approach, available at beechamresearch.com
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CHRIS SMITH
{STATE SIDE}
SPOIL
SPORTS?
The World Cup proved tech can
help clarify crucial calls but an
over-reliance on it will remove the
drama that makes sport thrilling
ow, I think we can all agree that tech
N was a massive boon to the World Cup
of your English soccer-ball, wasn’t
it? Goal Control both worked and confused
the living crap out of Jonathan Pearce.
Super slow motion meant that any
incident could be put into bullet time,
clarifying whether Arjen Robben had
suffered a mis-timed tackle, or simply been
shot by an invisible sniper. And on one
memorable occasion the BBC slowed
an image of a gesticulating Algerian in
figure-hugging shorts, so his member
swayed majestically in full HD at 5fps for
what felt like five minutes.
As a result, there are suddenly calls for
the wankers in the black to be aided by video
replays for blatant offsides, to punish divers
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who’ve completely mugged them off, and
everything in between. Vorsprung durch
Technik and all that, right?
Now, I won’t deny that refs and umpires
can often use a hand – and in some of the
UK’s other favourite sports that’s already
happening. It works particularly well in
tennis because a ball is either on the line
or it’s not, and Hawk-Eye can tell you
that in about a second.
It also works well in test cricket
because the rules for video review are
incomprehensible, inconsistent, interminable
and often still result in the wrong decision
being given – all of which are in keeping
with what makes cricket, er, great.
However, before we set about
eliminating the drama of potential human
error completely, here’s a cautionary tale
from across the pond.
In the NFL, every scoring play is
reviewed by a video official before play can
restart and coaches can throw challenge
flags whenever they disagree with a call
on the field. Referees will huddle around
a TV screen, view the call from every
conceivable angle for an eternity before
making a decision. Add replays to a sport
defined by its stop-start nature, and 20 to
30 seconds of play can take 45 minutes.
It adds to the drama, but also makes the
sport practically unwatchable at times.
In baseball, a sport dripping with so
much nostalgia and history that blokes
still play in pyjamas, new replay rules
have been introduced for the 2014 season
to determine whether runners have
reached bases successfully.
Sounds great right? Well, it’s not.
Coaches spend two minutes watching
replays before deciding whether to trudge
on to the field to challenge the ump. And
the fact is that, most of the time, after five
minutes of replays and the obligatory
commercial break, the video umpire
confirms eventually the person who made
the decision from inches away was correct.
In the NBA, basketball umpires can
review close calls in 14 possible scenarios
and it’s on the way to ice hockey, too,
perhaps the most unrefined, anti-tech sport
of them all. Clarity is important, but do we
really want a bunch of football refs huddling
around screens whenever there’s a moment
of contention? In a free-flowing sport, that’d
be about every 15 seconds.
Tech has enhanced the games we love
in many ways, but be careful what you wish
for. You might end up deciding that
all those “useless” human refs actually
weren’t so bad after all…
Chris is a Limey journo in Yank-land

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{TRUTH}
CRIMINAL
OFFENCE
Welcome to Man v Food v Internet
in a surreal and sweary tale that
manages to sum up everything
that’s wrong with the online world
magine in 100 years’ time, the internet no
I longer existed. How would our children
explain what it was like to their children?
Well, they could do a lot worse than to
recount the bizarre tale of Adam Richman.
Mister Richman, for those of you not
familiar with his work, hosted Man v Food
on the Food Network. In this show, he
would go from American town to American
town taking restaurants’ eating challenges.
Richman, I thought, always came over as
a fair bit smarter and cooler than he really
needed to be to do his job, given that his job
was to stuff his pie-hole with burgers the
size of a cow in one dive bar after another,
full of people called Brad and Skyler.
He’s now semi-retired and a bit funny
about his weight. He likes to regale his social
media followers with his fat-loss exploits
and to this end, he recently Instagrammed a
shot of himself in a suit, noting that he was
pleased he could now fit into it. He added as
a hashtagged afterthought: “Thinspiration”.
At this point, hell was unleashed.
The post was seen by a campaigner for the
rights of fat people who was, as it happens,
quite full figured. They immediately took
offence because “thinspiration”, it turns out,
is used by pro-anorexia groups as a slogan
for those attempting to starve themselves to
skeletal thinness. They posted on Richman’s
“feed” – ho ho! – that the hashtag “glorifies
negative media self-imagery that being thin
is better as opposed to any other body style.”
Long story short, the fat activist then got
their followers to bombard Richman with
further complaints, he, er, said some things
he perhaps shouldn’t have (“c**t”, “go kill
yourself” – just banter, really) and his new
show, which was due to premiere that week,
was pulled. For a bit. It’s now back on.
Meanwhile, the commentariat in part
I
were horribly abusive to the fat person who
was campaigning against abusing fat people,
but mainly to Richman for being so rude,
given that he’s in the public eye and all.
Now, just to be clear here regarding
Richman’s “role model” status: he’s famous
not so much as an advocate or politician
but for, hmm… what was it again? Oh yeah…
eating his own fucking bodyweight in fried
cheese sandwiches covered in chilli sauce.
So there you have The Internet. Minor
celebs, arguably with anger-management
issues, losing their rag over the idea they
should know everything and be “role models”.
Marginal groups becoming Media Kings for a
day – I expect many of you never even knew
of the existence of obesity rights campaigners
or pro-anorexia groups before today – and
everyone queuing up to tell you how terribly
offended and hurt they are. Remember
when arguments happened in private?
In fact, the only group that didn’t have its
say were members of the burger community,
demanding the fat activist apologise to them
for implying they weren’t yummy.
So yes, imagine in 100 years the internet
didn’t exist. Maybe it wouldn’t be all bad….
Duncan is T3’s managing editor
{G E T I N VO LV E D}
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SEAN KEACH
Opinion
{ F I N A L LY… }
YOU CAN’T
BEAT ’EM
Haughty soundsters love giving
Beats by Dre a verbal kicking for
their ho-hum cans, but the firm’s
services to music deserve credit
eats by Dr Dre is a seriously big bucks
B corporation – we’re talking $3 billion
big, thanks to Apple. So it’s little wonder
that you can hardly walk down the high street
without seeing some slouching tosser, two
b’s strapped to either ear, bobbing to some
bastardised funk-house Gangnam remix.
I don’t really want to talk about that guy,
though, because he’s not the reason Beats is
so freakishly successful. That’s the middle-
aged suit enjoying double-bass dexterity on
the Tube. It’s the kid hearing music through
something other than bundled buds for the
first time. This is clearly good expansionism,
so why is Beats so often the subject of ridicule?
Well, first off, when you buy a pair of
Beats, you’re investing in a singular gimmick:
jumped-up bass. Look elsewhere for stellar
tuneage, because brands like AKG, Denon
and Sennheiser run rings round them. As a
result, audiophiles will tell you Beats are the
headphone equivalent of a vajazzle-toting
lady of the night, but this still doesn’t matter.
Why? Because those snobs are listening to
Emerson Lake and Palmer on cans that cost
an entire pay cheque – forget them.
The reason why Beats is a perfect match
for Apple is because, like Tim Cook and co, it
knows how to flog premium-priced goods to
the masses, but also has access to areas even
Cupertino hasn’t penetrated. Dre’s a hip-hop
giant who’s surrounded himself with people
that tap to the same beat: co-founder Jimmy
Iovine launched Interscope Records (read:
Eminem) and Beats prez Luke Wood PR’d
Nirvana and signed TV on the Radio.
Beats is about spreading sound. Without
its wares, our cities would be full of people
half-hearing chart music on crappy earbuds.
They’re the middlemen to a better-sounding
future, and because of that they’re necessary.
Sean writes for T3.com
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The LG G3:
global superstar
LG’s awesome G3 is the phone of the
summer, and on Three you can use it on
holidays abroad without extra charges
Looking for a new phone this summer? It works in 16 great destinations including Feel At Home
There are so many reasons to buy LG’s latest the USA, Australia and now France – the in all of these
flagship smartphone, from the piercing, full list is on the right. destinations…
5.5-inch Quad-HD, 2560x1440-pixel display That means you can boast about your
– that’s considerably more hi-def than a hols on Twitter, text pals in the UK updates AUSTRALIA
full-HD telly – to the fast 2.46GHz quadcore on your antics, upload hot-dog-legs AUSTRIA
processor and brilliant 13-meg camera selfies to Facebook or Instagram – rather DENMARK
with high-speed, laser-boosted autofocus. brilliantly, the LG G3 has a dedicated selfie FINLAND
Add a premium, metallic body and you have cam that you trigger just by clenching FRANCE
a phone that’s impossible to resist. your fist – all without racking up roaming HONG KONG
Want to make the decision to acquire charges or having to do battle with your INDONESIA
the LG G3 for your travels this summer hotel’s dodgy Wi-Fi. ISRAEL
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so it’s created Feel At Home, letting you use and enjoy yourself. All that’s left for you to NORWAY
the LG G3’s multitude of features abroad do is ensure your battery’s topped up – and REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
without worrying about coming home to a luckily, the LG G3’s is up for a full day of SRI LANKA
hefty bill. With Feel At Home, you can use holiday fun, before recharging while you SWEDEN
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Specification

SCREEN 5.5-inch,
1440x2560
OS Android 4.4 Kit Kat
PROCESSOR/RAM 2.46GHz
quadcore/2GB
REAR CAMERA
13-meg/4K at 30fps
FRONT CAMERA
2.1-meg/1080p at 30fps
STORAGE 16GB
plus microSD
CONNECTIVITY Wi-Fi,
Bluetooth 4.0, USB, NFC
DIMENSIONS
146x74x8.9mm/149 g

KEY FEATURES

QUAD-HD DISPLAY

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LASER AUTO FOCUS

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and laser-guided autofocus get the
best possible 13-megapixel snaps

MARATHON BATTERY

You may tire after a full day’s

sightseeing, but the LG G3
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T H E - P R O - T E C H - G U I D E - T O - F I T N E S S

HAS THIS YEAR’S

SUMMER OF SPORT
INSPIRED YOU TO UP
YOUR FITNESS GAME?
TIME TO TAKE IT
SERIOUSLY, OLD BEAN.
JOIN T3’S NEW SEASON
SCOUTING TOUR OF
THE TECH-LADEN KIT
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THIS AUTUMN – AND THE
WEARABLE ARMY READY
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WE CAN

REBUILD
YOU. WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY
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HE WEARS
NIKE TECH HYPER JACKET
£95, NIKE.COM/UK
NIKE BLUE T-SHIRT WITH
PRINTED POCKET
£22, NIKE.COM/UK
GARMIN FORERUNNER 620
£360, BUY.GARMIN.COM
ADIDAS RESPONSE
7-INCH SHORTS
£25, ADIDAS.CO.UK
NIKE ZOOM PEGASUS 31
£85, NIKE.COM/UK

SHE WEARS
HEADBAND
STYLIST’S OWN
NIKE SWOOSH SWEATBANDS
£4, NIKE.COM/UK
UNDERARMOUR UA HEAT
GEAR ALPHA SPORTS BRA
£16, UNDERARMOUR.COM
SAMSUNG GEAR FIT
£149, SAMSUNG.COM/UK

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FOCUS:
FOOTBALL
2

HE ALSO WEARS
PUMA PR CROSS 7-INCH SHORTS
£25, UK.PUMA.COM
3

Adidas MiCoach
Smart Ball
Suspended, dead-centre,
inside this ultra-modern
pig’s bladder is a sensor
that detects the speed, spin,
power and flight of every
kick, flinging data over
Bluetooth to its app. With its
help, your accuracy should
be less messy, more Messi.
£250, ADIDAS.CO.UK

2
3
Nike Pro Combat
Hypercool Wahoo Tickr Run
Compression They may be building
This skin-tight compression heart-rate monitors in
gear is crafted from Nike’s phones these days, but for
Dri-FIT fabric to keep sweat reliable results a dedicated
a stranger. Perforated side, chest strap is the way to go.
shoulder and back panels This one works with all the
are there to keep you cool, top fitness apps and sends
while the snug fit fends your beats per minute and
off the dreaded chafing. calories burned via Wi-Fi or
£38, NIKE.COM/UK Bluetooth to your devices
for further analysis.
£50, UK.WAHOOFITNESS.COM

Puma evoPower
Messrs Fabregas, Giroud and
Matic will all be lacing these
1 kick boots up in the locker
room this season. They can
boost your score rate, too,
with a stretchy upper that
MORE aids freedom of movement.
SUNDAY
LEAGUE KIT As close to playing barefoot
UPGRADES you can get without risking
ON P74
a career-ending, Monday-
4 night metatarsal injury.
£140, UK.PUMA.COM

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WITH THE LUDDITES AT FIFA EMBRACING

GOAL-LINE TECH AT LAST AND PREMIER
LEAGUE TEAMS TRACKING EVERY LAST
STEP OF THEIR PLAYERS’ DAY, FOOTIE’S
IN THE MIDDLE OF A TECH REVOLUTION. INSIDER TECH

HOW CAN YOU HARNESS IT AT HOME? StatSports GPS Viper

NATHAN MILLER, PERFORM SPORT SCIENTIST
AT THE FA’S NATIONAL SPORTS CENTRE

“There is no substitute for hard work

when it comes to improving fitness,
but technology is now crucial in making that
process easier. At Perform we use the high-tech
Statsports Viper system, an accelerometer and
GPS device that we attach to players’ clothing
during training and practice matches.
“The tracker, which is also used by the
clubs themeslves, feeds us a huge amount
of data, including heart rate, running speeds,
and distance and areas covered. We then use
these statistics to build a profile of each of our
athletes which, combined with our knowledge
of sports science and fitness coaching, helps
us produce individual training plans to suit
every sports person’s needs.
“Whether you’re a Premier League regular or
a wannabe pro, it can help you train for longer,
faster and harder, as well as speed up recovery.
The GPS element not only helps fitness staff,
but tactical coaches, too, who use the findings
to make sure players are positionally sound.”
SPIREPERFORM.COM/SGP, STATSPORTS.IE

Not got a sponsorship deal and a house in Alderley Edge? Try this lot instead…

A B C

Suunto Ambit3 Sport GPS Watch
The nearest wearable to the Viper for us amateurs,
with built-in GPS that tracks your ground coverage,
uploading stats to the Movescount app. Stuck out on
the wing? You can check texts, calls and notifications.
£325, SUUNTO.COM
Coach’s Eye App
Pundit-worthy video analysis on the cheap. Record
HD video, then watch it back in slo-mo, with the
option to scribble what you should have done over
the top. Captured a corker of a shot? Share it online.
FREE ANDROID, £2.99 IOS
Nike Mercurial Superfly
You might have spied these knitted boots on the
feet of many a World Cup player. Now you can get the
same sock-like feel, deftness of touch and explosive
speed. Try not to wear odd colours though, yeah?
£230, NIKE.COM/UK

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FOCUS:
SWIMMING
WITH THE OUTLAWING OF SPEEDO’S
LZR ONESIE, WHICH TOOK CREDIT FOR
94% OF WINS AT THE 2008 BEIJING
OLYMPICS, THE POOL’S BEEN LOOKING
FOR OTHER TECH WAYS TO MAKE WAVES
Live life in your local pool’s fast lane with this pro-style tech…
A B
Finis Freestyle Snorkel
Olympic swimmers use snorkels to train because you
can concentrate on technique and body position far
better when you don’t have to worry about breathing.
Note: a good breathing rhythm also comes in handy.
£25, FINISINC.COM
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INSIDER TECH
Apollo Performance
RAM MYLVAGANAM OF APOLLO MIS,
DATA EXPERT FOR BRITISH SWIMMING
“We embrace performance software to
give athletes an honest appraisal of their
skill that allows British Swimming to direct
resources effectively. The end result is plucking
podium potential from the UK’s pool of talent.
“Athletes complete a ‘My health and
wellness’ digital diary, which covers everything
from trackable data such as heart rate and body
weight to questions about how energetic an
athlete’s feels or on soreness from injuries. We
also collect data from training sessions. Some
of this will be from wearable devices, some will
be cognitive data and some will be objective,
with coaches adding their own view of the
athlete’s training on that particular day.
“We then collate all that data, allowing
coaches to get an overview of performance
indicators. A dashboard, with a colour-coded
system – dark blue for under performing and
red for excelling – lets athletes see, at a glance,
if they are meeting the necessary criteria.”
APOLLO-MIS.CO.UK
C
Garmin Swim Speedo Aquapulse Max Mirror IQfit
This pool-specific smartwatch accurately tracks your Advanced head-scanning studies have helped make
strokes, lengths, distance and even style. Once on these the first goggles with a 3D seal, which hugs
land it wirelessly uploads your vital stats to Garmin your face contours to ensure they’re completely
Connect for deeper inspection. watertight without branding you with red marks.
£130, BUY.GARMIN.COM £27, SPEEDO.CO.UK
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FOCUS: 1

RUNNING

SHE ALSO WEARS

ADIDAS TECHFIT SPORTS
BRA AND CAPRI PANTS
£28, ADIDAS.CO.UK
NIKE AIR ZOOM PEGASUS 31
£85, NIKE.COM/UK

HE ALSO WEARS
THE NORTH FACE BETTER
THAN NAKED 3/4 ZIP VEST
£40, THENORTHFACE.CO.UK
NIKE ZOOM PEGASUS 31
£85, NIKE.COM/UK
4

1 2 3 4

BlueAnt Pump Polar V800 GPS Under Armour Technogym Run

HD Sportbuds
Don’t let cable tangles break
your stride. These Bluetooth
headphones clip over ears,
with a link elastic that snaps
them to your head for eight
hours of music, on track and
in pool (waterproof, see?).
Still running after that? We’d
advise you sit down for a bit.
£85, MYBLUEANT.COM
Sports Watch
Strap on professionally
accurate run tracking, with
an integrated GPS sensor
and accelerometer to
analyse when you’re heading
uphill. Its heart-rate monitor
also gives a full report on
your progressing fitness and
even judges recovery times.
£399, POLAR.COM
ColdGear
The US sports firm’s
compression gear is a pro
staple. Not only do these
fetching leggings keep you
warm on runs, the tight hold
they take of your muscles
improves circulation and
oxygen flow to keep lactic
acid at bay (that’s good).
£35, UNDERARMOUR.COM
Personal Visioweb
The iPad of treadmills, this
gym-grade fitness centre
is built for those that crave
sprint stimulation. Speed
and incline are a cinch to
adjust, as is the VisioWeb
touchscreen, with TV, iPhone
syncing and web browsing if
you’re a master multi-tasker.
£9,980, TECHNOGYM.COM

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FROM UNDERWATER
TREADMILLS TO ALTITUDE
TENTS, PRO RUNNERS
ARE TAKING TECH-AIDED
TRAINING TO ANOTHER INSIDER TECH

LEVEL. IF YOU WANT TO VO2 maximising

LIZ SHENTON PERFORMANCE AND TRAINING

FORCE YOURSELF THROUGH MANAGER FOR POLAR UK

THE WALL, IT’S TIME “VO2max is a measure of the maximum

TO AMP UP YOUR APPAREL rate at which an athlete’s body can

consume oxygen and a VO2 tester’s job is
basically to push runners until they collapse. As
athletes get fitter, their muscles and lungs work
harder, taking in and absorbing more oxygen
through blood cells; a VO2 – volume of oxygen –
score on the rise reflects this. The more oxygen
you can process, the harder and faster you can
train, so it’s a really good indicator of fitness.
“Elite athletes sleep in high altitude tents to
push their VO2 test scores. At altitude, there’s
less oxygen, so the body becomes tired more
quickly. These tents teach the athlete to get
used to that lack of oxygen, meaning that when
they run in regular conditions their body is
processing oxygen quicker than competitors.
“Underwater treadmills are also a valuable
tool, especially for injury recovery, with the
water supporting joints and muscles to reduce
impact. Not got an underwater treadmill to
hand? A few laps of your local pool will help.”
POLAR.COM/UK

Make like Mo, with this pro-grade gear for pavement pounders…

A B C

Altitude Tent
One for marathon men rather than weekend joggers,
this will help boost your VO2max (see above). The
sealed tent and generator reduce the amount of
oxygen in the air, making you work even in your sleep.
TENT £350, GENERATOR £3,599, ALTITUDECENTRE.COM
inov-8 0.5 Ultra Bottle
You need to hydrate, but clasping a water bottle
wastes precious energy – why marathon gods, why?
Well, this flattened fluid carrier is easier to hold and
its adjustable straps mean you needn’t grip. Effortless.
£5, INOV-8.COM
Adidas Adizero Adios Boost
Still got a spring in your step at the 26th mile?
Seems unlikely, but the “boost foam” midsole on
these marathon-ready kicks returns energy on
every stride, helping you stay light on your feet.
£110, ADIDAS.CO.UK

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FOCUS: CYCLING
IF YOU’VE GOT UPWARDS OF TEN GRAND
INSIDER TECH
TO SPLASH, YOU COULD BUY THE EXACT
Power Meter
HUNTER ALLEN CO-FOUNDER OF TRAINING SAME BIKE SETUP AS YOUR LE TOUR
PEAKS WKO+, SOFTWARE PARTNER TO TEAM SKY
RIDER OF CHOICE. TO TRULY TRAIN LIKE
“In the last few years we’ve seen nearly A TRUE PRO, THOUGH, YOU’LL NEED TO
every pro cyclist using power meters
and talking about wattage. A power meter uses TACKLE THE BIKE TRADE’S MORE
strain gauges located in a bike’s pedals, cranks
or rear hub to measure the force put into the
drivetrain. This force, multiplied by a rider’s
ANALYTICAL TECH BREAKTHROUGHS
pedalling rate, equates to power output. Pros
that have fully adopted the principles of power-
meter training have found a five, even ten, per
cent improvement in their performance level.
“Managing form is a really major thing. When
data shows a rider is on form, it gives the whole
team more confidence, so no one gets on a pro
team without first supplying their power data.
“Amateurs can use a power meter to train
like a pro, too, of course. Record every ride,
download the data into analysis software such
as Training Peaks and follow the key principles:
establish a Power Profile and test your
functional threshold power, the maximum effort
you can maintain for an hour without fatiguing.
Map your gains regularly for best results.”
TRAININGPEAKS.COM

Yellow jersey-worthy tech to turn commutes into the Grand Départ…

A B C

Stages Power Garmin Edge 1000 LeMond Revolution Turbo Trainer

As used by Team Sky, this power assessment meter
is unique in that it measures at the left crank only,
doubling the number for total output. The benefit?
It’s super light and easy to swap between bikes.
£599, STAGESCYCLING.COM
What’s the point of all that power data if you can’t
view it while you ride? This cycling satnav puts that
info on your handlebars, with turn-by-turn navigation,
plus call and text alerts through smartphone syncing.
£440, GARMIN.COM
Put the training miles in without leaving the house,
with this tool that turns your road ride into a gym
bike. It has its own cassette, too, so won’t wear out
your rear tyre while you’re spinning on the spot.
£450, SADDLEBACK.CO.UK

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Look Cycle 695

Aerolight
The frame of this dream
machine uses layers of
carbon to keep it crazy light
– just 925g! – yet stiff. The
front brake is Integrated into
the fork leg for more efficient
aerodynamics and braking.
£6,999, FISHEROUTDOOR.CO.UK

2
2 Giro Amare
Find yourself getting a bit
hot-headed when faced
with belligerent bus drivers?
You can’t blame this helmet,
which keeps your bonce
well ventilated, channelling
a breeze through its 26
1 air vents, but doesn’t
compromise on safety.
3 £123, GIRO.COM

Sugoi RS Pro
performance wear
Aerodynamics are important
for speeding up rides and
this outfit’s ultra-light and
ultra-tight fit is ideal. No
seams means no unseemly
rubbing, while the microfibre
fabric keeps sweat at bay.
JERSEY £110, SHORTS £130,
SUGOI.COM

Sportful Bodyfit
Pro Glove
Mostly Lycra, but with a
synthetic suede palm,
these grace the mitts of the
4 Tinkoff Saxo team. Their
silicone dot pattern is there
to give extra grip on the
handlebars and well-placed
padding prevents blisters.
£30, WIGGLE.CO.UK

Giro Espada
Locking your feet into your
pedals will boost that power
output and these cycling
shoes, with a stiff carbon
sole and streamlined
design, look good enough
to be worn “off bike”, too.
Although you will sound
like you’re wearing spurs…-
£160, GIRO.COM

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IOS, ANDROID
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IOS, ANDROID
A do-it-all app for running and cycling
that tracks your workouts using GPS
and links smoothly to Wahoo’s line of
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IOS, ANDROID
This personal trainer gamifies your Connect to compete
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yourself by awarding points for effort
that then unlock achievements.
FREE, FITOCRACY.COM
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IOS, ANDROID
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An incredibly comprehensive calorie No pain, no gain rate, this app can track your
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THE E-BIKE RIDES AG AIN

HIGH VOLTAGE W O R D S R O R Y B U C K E R I D G E P H OTO G R A P H Y J O B Y

THERE MAY BE NINE MILLION BICYCLES IN BEIJING ACCORDING TO KATIE MELUA – AND WHO ARE WE TO
ARGUE? – BUT THERE ARE ALSO A STAGGERING 181 MILLION E-BIKES NOW ON CHINESE ROADS. AN ELECTRIC
REVOLUTION IS IN FULL SWING AND IT’S TIME THE UK JOINED THE CHARGE, SO T3 HAS PUT TOGETHER
THIS ULTIMATE KICKSTART GUIDE. THERE’S NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME TO GIVE YOUR PEDALLING A POWER
BOOST EITHER, WITH PRICES FALLING AND CHOICE WIDENING, FROM THE FOLD-UP COMMUTER CLASS
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T H E A DV E N T U RE R
E-LOM
C29ER
X -CROSS
T H E A P P : RU N TASTI C
M O U N TA I N B I K E P R O
The affordable way to get a complete
picture of your ride, with accurate GPS
tracking, elevation calculation to let
you know how steep this hill really is,
and the ability to keep tabs on time
spent riding, top speed and distance
travelled to share with friends,
adding any pics you snap en route.
£2.99 ON IOS, RUNTASTIC.COM
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H E R O 3 + B L AC K E D I T I O N
Soaring down mountain tracks on a
bike with a battery-powered boost?
That kind of thrill deserves to be
captured on cam. The GoPro will
record it in 4K, or snap 12-meg stills
at up to 30 frames per second. It’s
waterproof, immune to bumps and
connects via Wi-Fi to phones and tabs.
£360, GOPRO.COM
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IGNORE THE 446W BATTERY
PACK STRAPPED TO THE
FRAME LIKE A LIMPET AND
THIS LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE
A REGULAR MOUNTAIN
BIKE. IT RIDES LIKE ONE,
TOO, WITH PROPER
30-SPEED GEARING, THE
POWER SOURCE KICKING
IN WHEN GEAR-SHIFTING
ALONE CAN’T TACKLE AN
INCLINE. THE X-CROSS
KEEPS CONSTANT WATCH
ON CRANK TORQUE AND
SPEED, PLUS OVERALL
SPEED OF TRAVEL, TO
JUDGE HOW MUCH
ASSISTANCE YOU REQUIRE.
WITH ITS HELPING E-HAND
GOOD FOR UP TO 60 MILES.
£3,999, JUSTEBIKES.CO.UK
T H E TO P : A I N E S E M A N IS
PERFO RM A N C E A RM O U R
While the GoPro is immune to bumps,
you are very much not. Plates made of
synthetic polymer on the chest and
shoulders should sort that out,
absorbing impacts and preventing
abrasions. Planning to do something
really risky? The removable back
protector tries to keep your spine intact.
£165, DAINESE.COM
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T H E C L A S SI C
GOCYCLE
GR2
T H E S H A D E S: RU DY
P R OJ EC T RY D O N I M PAC T X
These photochromatic lenses will
adjust to changing sunlight – letting
between 18 and 78 per cent of rays
through – so you always have the best
view of the road ahead, no squinting
required. The lenses are made from
military-grade, bullet-proof material,
so ready for the bike-lane battlefield.
£139, YELLOW-LIMITED.COM
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R A M H A N D L EBA R M O U N T
While the GoCycle’s handlebars
are more teched up than most, you
will probably still want to add a
smartphone or GPS device like the
Garmin Edge 1000 (right). This
universal mount is spring loaded to fit
any screen size, while rubber-coated
tips minimise scratching and damage.
£97, AMAZON.CO.UK
ELECTRIC PELOTON
THE MOST RECOGNISABLE
E-BIKE ON THE STREETS
KEEPS ITS ADVANCED
TECH DISCREET, HIDING
A LITHIUM-ION BATTERY
THAT’S GOOD FOR UP TO 40
MILES INSIDE THE ULTRA-
LIGHT MAGNESIUM FRAME.
ITS 250W MOTOR, ALSO
OUT OF VIEW, WILL ZIP YOU
ALONG AT UP TO 15.5MPH
(IT COULD DO MORE BUT
E-BIKE SPEEDS ARE CAPPED)
WHILE THE HANDLEBAR
DISPLAY GIVES UPDATES
ON SPEED AND CHARGE
WHEN IT’S NOT DOING ITS
BEST “KITT FROM KNIGHT
RIDER” IMPRESSON.
£2,749, LEFTFIELDBIKES.COM
T H E T R AC K ER :
G A RM I N ED G E 10 0 0
Speed and battery not enough info
for you? Strap this hub to your
handlebars and it’ll clock a GPS signal
in seconds, providing accurate cycle
routes and spitting out info on altitude,
power, heart rate, cadence, calories
burned and distance. It even loads
motivational workouts if you need ’em.
£440, GARMIN.CO.UK
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THE COMMUTER

VIKING
HARRIER ELECTRIC ASSISTANCE
CAN ONLY GET YOU SO FAR
AND SOMETIMES A TRAIN
RIDE IS STILL ESSENTIAL.
HANDY, THEN, THAT THIS
BIKE FOLDS IN TWO FOR
EASY STASHING ON BUSY
COMMUTER ROUTES.
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YOU FOR UP TO 28 MILES.
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THE SAFETY SENSOR: T H E C R AS H H AT: T H E B AG : T I M B U K 2

I C ED OT CA RRER A FO L D U P H EL M E T M ED I U M C O M M A N D
This sensor attaches to your helmet Just like the Viking Harrier itself, this Don’t want to bulk out your bike with
and fires an alarm on your phone if you is bright orange to get you noticed panniers and add-ons? A classic
take a tumble (if you’re an Apple fan, on the road and folds down for easy messenger bag is the best option. This
that is; Android is incoming). If the storage. In fact, squish it together and is waterproof, with a seriously padded
alert’s not stopped, the app texts your its bulk will reduce by 25 per cent, laptop and tablet compartment to
emergency contact and sends your making it possible to stash entirely protect your tech when clipped by
GPS coordinates to get ye to A&E. in your bag. Fear not, it still meets all passing taxis. There’s even loops
£140 ($10 PER YEAR MEMBERSHIP AFTER of the requisite safety standards, too. for attaching extra bike lights, too.
THE FIRST YEAR), CYCLESTORE.CO.UK £60, CARRERAWORLD.COM £100, TIMBUK2BAGS.CO.UK

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T H E F U T U RE

M55
TERMINUS LOOKING LIKE IT’S BEEN
SENT BACK BY JOHN
CONNOR, ONLY 275 OF
THIS LIMITED-EDITION
E-BIKE WILL BE MADE. IT’S
TAILORED TO THE HEIGHT
AND WEIGHT OF THE RIDER,
WITH A 14-SPEED ROHLOFF
HUB CLAIMED TO BE THE
>
MOST ADVANCED GEARBOX
TU
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FU
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THE ELECTRICS. SENSORS

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IN THE PEDALS JUDGE THE

BI
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RATE AT WHICH YOU’RE

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SPINNING THOSE WHEELS,

PROVIDING JUST THE RIGHT
AMOUNT OF EXTRA BOOST
FROM THE BATTERY, WHICH
ALSO KEEPS THE LIGHTS ON.
£22,000, FULLYCHARGED.COM

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T H E S EC U R I T Y S E RV I C E :
LO C K 8
Spent 20 grand on a bike? You’ll be
taking a keen interest in keeping it
safe, then, no doubt. This lock syncs to
its app via Bluetooth, unlocking when
you approach; “Look Mum, no keys!”
A GPS tracker keeps tabs on your ride
if it’s nicked, and the 120-decibel alarm
hasn’t scared the tea-leaves off first.
$249, LOCK8.ME
T H E C R AS H H AT:
L I F E B E A M H EL M E T
The first head defender to use an
optical sensor to track your heart rate,
too, this figures out the calories you’ve
burned as well as your work rate,
before flinging all of that data straight
to your phone via Bluetooth 4.0. It’s
plenty tough as well as smart, offering
great protection in case of accidents.
£250, LIFE-BEAM.COM
T H E G LOV E S: G O R E
B I K E W E A R X E N O N 2 .0
Clasping the handlebars tightly as that
electric boost kicks in? You’ll need a
decent pair of cycling mitts to protect
your city hands. These are lightweight
with mesh segments to keep you cool,
but feature strategically placed
shock-absorbing gel pads in the palms
to prevent blistering during long rides.
£42, GOREAPPAREL.CO.UK

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2/ TOURALITY – BUZZ APP THAT

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PLAYGROUND, WITH CHALLENGES
AND RACES BASED ON YOUR GPS-
Austrian-designed Johammer J1 refines the electric motorbike DEFINED LOCATION. TOURALITY.COM

If our e-bikes over on p61 seem too much like hard
work, why not jump aboard this steed instead? Okay,
the Johammer J1 e-motorcyle looks like it’s formed
from corrugated iron, but that’s a super-light, torsion-
controller are integrated into the rear wheel for a
lower centre of gravity and improved balance, while
heads-up displays in the mirrors show off your revs.
Sure, speed is capped at 75mph, but that means it can
3/ MYSUGR – A TRACKING APP
FOR DIABETICS THAT RECORDS AND
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HACK YO UR
LIFE WITH TE
CH
1 You’ve heard the buzz: bee numbers are falling, with
LAY DOWN A TR ACK
USING GAR AGEBAND
Sound desk tips from your digital roadie,
tutorial school Lynda.com’s Garrick Chow
1/ Specify the key – Do this from the off, so
any loops you use will match. You’ll also have
an easier time applying pitch correction if
GarageBand knows what you’re aiming for.
2/ Keep the beat – GarageBand’s metronome
is hard to hear, so add a drum loop instead.
3/ Record multiple tracks at once – Select
the Track Header menu, then tap the Record
Enable button for each track, setting each
input in the Smart Controls pane in the Info
section. It will then let you capture every
instrument’s output simultaneously.
4/ Cut out lag – Lock tracks that you aren’t
recording or editing and GarageBand will
save a “frozen” version to your hard drive,
freeing up some needed processing power.
2
STOP BUTTON
M ASHING
Pro gamer Ryan Ahn teaches you to ditch
your pad and master arcade fighting sticks
1/ Get a grip – Joystick handles come in two
shapes: bat tops and ball tops. Most players
prefer to hold a ball top like cupping a wine
glass and bat tops with a pencil grip. But that’s
a guide, you should do whatever feel right.
2/ Practice hard – Motions and combos
should become muscle memory, as then you
won’t need to think and your hands will react
by instinct. It’s repetitive but it works, and
it’ll stop you panicking and mashing buttons.
3/ Double-tap buttons – This doubles your
chances of timing moves correctly. Just walk
your middle and index finger across buttons
quickly – you can even triple tap for luck.
4/ Play “Footsies” – This is fighting game
lingo for the art of hitting your opponent
without getting hit yourself. Read up on this
virtual martial art at Sonichurricane.com.
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BE AN UR BAN BEEK EEPER
two species now extinct in the UK. Urbanbeekeeping.co.uk
helps you do your bit: building your own hive
BOSCH
DH1020VC
DEMOLITION
HAMMER
Ready to do some
serious damage? This powerful
tool is loaded with 17ft lbs of
impact energy, which, in short,
lets it bash through concrete as
if it was MDF. The handle has
an anti-vibration system, which
is handy, while 12 hammer
settings help you wield it with
Thor-like ease.
£1,140, boschtools.com
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THE TECHQUATION
How to not be a water-waster
Iro Sprinkler Controller
Use your smartphone to control your
garden’s sprinklers, making sure they only
shower plants in need. $249, rach.io
Karcher K4 Premium Pressure Washer
Less tap-hungry, but no loss of
dirt-blasting power. Wanna win one? Head to
p78, immediately. £317, karcher.co.uk
1/ Get the kit – A hive needs to keep bees warm, dry and in the
dark. Try to find a local manufacturer who uses sustainable
timber if you can. You will also need protective clothing to
avoid a Macauley Culkin in My Girl-like end. A veil will give Eco Showerdrop
some safety, but a full suit and gloves is advisable for beginners. Monitors how much water you’re using,
2/ Find some friends – The easiest way to start is with a small alerting you when you’ve overstayed your
beginner colony, called a nucleus. Bees are imported from welcome in the shower. £12, showerdrop.com
around the world, but you want healthy, locally bred bees if
you can find them. Charity begins at home, you see?
3/ Crown your queen – That one massive bee is the queen.
A nucleus will also include up to 50,000 worker bees, all
daughters of the queen, and a few male drones. The drones will
begin building comb, which the queen lays eggs into. It’s the
workers’ task to tend the young and make the honey.
4/ Begin husbanding – You will need to visit the hive
every week during spring and summer, checking for disease
and making sure there is enough room for the honey. A wet (but not wild) time
5/ Harvest honey – But not too much. Remember to leave No more extortionate water bills and feelings
plenty for the bees to feed on through the winter. of guilt when the hosepipe ban hits.
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KITESURFING INTO GEAR…

So, why kitesurfing? summer. And make sure

Master two elements at once, riding the crest of the wave while DL: Every session is
unique. It’s not like going
staying afloat on the ocean breeze. Faster, and with more potential to the gym, you need
for tricks, than trad surfing, it’s time to get tech and wild… the right conditions.
TC: It’s certainly not
for the faint of heart. It’s
physically demanding
WHAT YOU’LL NEED… and exhausting, but that
also makes it satisfying.
Okay, we think we’re
in. Where do we start?
DL: Find your nearest
kitesurfing school. You’ll
need lessons before
hitting your first waves.
Other than the tech
here, what do we need?
TC: Invest in a good
full-body wetsuit and a
spray jacket if you’re
surfing in Britain – the
water is cold even in
your harness is snug – if
it doesn’t fit your waist
perfectly you won’t be
in control of your kite.
DL: Don’t buy used gear
until you understand
exactly what you’re
looking for, either. The
potential savings really
won’t be worth it.
Cheers. Any tips before
we attack this spray?
DL: Take your time. If you
don’t feel comfortable, or
the wind’s too much, just
wait for another day.
TC: And always carry a
rope knife. If the wind
picks up unexpectedly,
being able to cut yourself
loose may save your life.
Excellent.

f i
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1/ Blade Trigger
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extreme responsiveness light neoprene build. PLAN YOUR NEXT SURF DAY
make this kite great for £59, mysticboarding.com
ambitious beginners. KITE SURF PRO
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This board’s concave ON PRIME-CONDITION LOCATIONS,
2/ Trace base and angled central PLUS WHEN EXACTLY TO HIT THE
Kickstarter-funded fin give you great grip WAVES AND EVEN WHICH KITE TO USE.
tracker built for action. and control on the water. FREE, IOS AND ANDROID
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record stats on every £550, naishkites.com WANDERLUST? THIS COLLATES ALL
trick, calculating speed, THE BEST KITESURF TRAVEL GUIDES
jump height and rotation. 5/ North Double Action FOR YOUR SWIPING PLEASURE.
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DIAL ‘AC’ FOR
ROUTERS!
The wonderful fifth-gen of wireless is handing us 802.11ac
to futureproof our home networks. But as we can’t connect
much up to that yet, these all have dual-band N Wi-Fi, too
1/ Belkin AC1750DB “Idiot proof” is a much
over-used term in technology, but Belkin’s
data middleman delivers, with wonderfully
simple setup and seamless operation. Given
the price, however, we’d call the feature set
merely adequate and the performance solid
rather than spectacular. £180, belkin.co.uk 3/5
3/ TP-Link Archer C7 The tri-antennaed
monster that lives in the cupboard under
your stairs, this offers low price, good features
and decent speed. It only loses out due to
being the only unit on test that required the old
“turn it off and back on again”. If you can live
with that, it’s decent. £85, uk.tp-link.com 4/5
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Kiddie chariots and internet hubs TECHlife
T
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EST RESPECT YOUR ROUTERS
MORE THAN JUST AN INTERNET PLUG,
G
T EC E A R O N YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED WHAT
H TR
IAL THESE UNSUNG HEROES OF YOUR
DOMESTIC TECH ARMOURY CAN DO…
1/ BE A MEDIA SERVER
YOU CAN CONNECT TO HARD DRIVES TO
GRAB ENTERTAINMENT FILES ON YOUR
NETWORK VIA USB PORTS – 3.0 IN MOST
CASES – AND, IF YOU WANT TO BURROW
INTO THE SETTINGS’ SCARIER AREAS,
FROM REMOTE DEVICES OVER WI-FI.
2/ BE A PARENT
YOU CAN CUSTOMISE ACCESS TO
PREVENT YOUR OFFSPRING/PARTNER
FROM ACCIDENTALLY/PURPOSEFULLY
SEARCHING FOR FILTH. IF ANDY COULSON
HAD KNOWN ABOUT THIS, ALL MANNER
OF FACE COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED.
3/ BE AN ATTENTIVE HOST
GUEST LOGINS ARE THE NETWORKING
EQUIVALENT OF A TRADESMAN’S
ENTRANCE, LETTING VISITORS USE
YOUR WI-FI WITHOUT USING UP TOO
MUCH OF YOUR PRECIOUS BANDWIDTH.
4/ BE A TIME TRAVELLER
THOSE USB PORTS MEAN YOU CAN
ALSO RUN A BACK-UP DRIVE TO REVISIT
DELETED FILES, ALTHOUGH CHECK TIME
2/ Netgear R7000 Nighthawk Our winner MACHINE COMPATIBILITY IF YOU’RE
LOCKED INTO APPLE’S WALLED GARDEN.
on speed – especially via AC, giving those PC
gamers who can actually make use of it yet
another thing to be smug about – and wireless
reach, this is pretty over-specced for most MIGHTY MODEMS
users’ needs. As a T3 reader, you may not Free yourself from the shackles of
mind that, though. £160, netgear.co.uk 4/5 ISP-supplied plastic boxes! (Warning:
your ISP will almost certainly have
deliberately made it hard to do so)
TEST
WINNER
Asus DSL-N55U
£86, asus.co.uk
TP-Link Archer D7
£116, uk.tp-link.com
4/ Asus RT-AC56U Cheap, and with a list
of features as long as the arms of even a very
long-armed man, this offers features, stability
and speed if you’re an AC wireless head. Netgear DGN2200
N Wi-Fi reach was, in terms of “bars”, less £46, netgear.co.uk
impressive than the rest but real-life speeds
didn’t seem to suffer at all. £90, asus.co.uk 5/5
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UPGRUA
P,
FIX
DE
T
LOOK SMAR

BACKPACK
AND E-SACK
Ditch dull laptop bags and grab
a smart, tech-friendly holdall
1/ Knomo London has a cavernous interior
Falmouth If you’re with a drawstring top.
something of a utilitarian Its poly cordura build is
so-and-so, this sleek pack reliably tough and the
has just the right amount metal clasp keeps your
of Boy Scout chic. The belongings locked down.
shockproof 15-inch laptop £55, penfield.com
compartment keeps your
tech safe, while the wide, 5/ Fjällräven Kanken
padded straps do the Laptop This Swedish
same for your shoulders. outdoorsy firm made its
£119, knomobags.com name making rucksacks
for schoolkids, but this
2/ Beara Beara Luigi laptop-ready number
Backpack Mmm… smell is all grown up. Padded
that leather. There’s compartments for a 13-,
more premium cowhide 15- or 17-inch laptop,
here than in Suzi Perry’s a water-repellent body
walk-in wardrobe and that’s built to last, and
it’s sizeable enough to a carry handle win it
fit a 17-inch laptop. The points for simplicity
sneaky back zip pocket and versatility. From
stashes away valuables £80, fjallraven.co.uk
from tea leaves, too.
£175, bearabeara.co.uk 6/ Piquadro Computer
Backpack Squint and
3/ YMC Zip Backpack it looks like a miniature
Each of those nautical golf bag, but this leather
stripes is, in fact, a zip number is the ultimate
pocket; throw open the traveller’s assistant.
top one and gain access Dedicated pockets for
to the main canvas body. pens, passport and
Doesn’t offer as much umbrella, two pockets
protection for your kit as sub-divided into storage
some, but hey, it’s light. slots for gadgets, plus
£155, youmustcreate.com a clasp on the bottom
to attach a rolled-up
4/ Penfield Idelwood jumper or scarf. Luxury
Day Pack Colourful and at its most practical.
practical, this backpack £545, piquadro.com

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THE POWERED PACK:
NORTH FACE SURGE II CHARGED

THIS HOLDALL DOESN’T JUST

TRANSPORT TECH, ITS BUILT-IN
BATTERY PACK CAN ALSO CHARGE
YOUR SMARTPHONE TWO AND A
HALF TIMES OVER. WITH ENOUGH
ROOM TO FIT A 17-INCH LAPTOP IN
PADDED LUXURY, PLUS POCKETS
FOR TABLETS, PHONES AND THE
LIKE, THE CHALLENGE WILL BE
DECIDING WHAT TO PLUG IN.
£170, THENORTHFACE.CO.UK

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 WorldMags.net Bag it up; work it out TECHlife

TRACK STAR
Fit Smart, the latest recruit to
Adidas’s MiCoach training squad,
will work you harder and smarter
The newer, leaner, more toned sibling of the MiCoach Smart Run, the Adidas Fit Smart casts
off half-arsed smartwatch-like features to focus firmly on fitness and nothing else. Even GPS for
tracking runs is noticeably absent, with simple training info displayed on the LED screen instead
and a heart-rate monitor on the strap’s underside prompting the tracker to vibrate if you’re not
exercising at your optimum beats per minute. A traffic light-style system lets you see how hard
you’re working and up to ten hours of workout data can be saved and beamed to the MiCoach
Train and Run app via Bluetooth for Gary Neville levels of analysis. £179, adidas.com, out August 15

P U L SE
TECH PUT THROUGH
ITS PACES

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THE FUTURE OF FITNESS WEARABLES:

SIMON DRABBLE, ADIDAS’S MICOACH
DIRECTOR, GIVES US THE INSIDE TRACK

“GOOGLE FIT AND APPLE HEALTH WILL

NEVER FULLY REPLACE INDEPENDENT
WEARABLE FITNESS TRACKERS.
INSTEAD, YOUR SMARTPHONE WILL
SIMPLY PLAY THE ROLE OF DATA
AGGREGATOR, CONNECTED TO SEVERAL,
INCREASINGLY DIVERSE PRODUCTS.
“WE’RE ACTUALLY WORKING CLOSELY
WITH GOOGLE’S ANDROID WEAR
TEAM ON CERTAIN PROJECTS. BUT
FOR ATHLETES WANTING TO IMPROVE
THEIR PERFORMANCE BY HARNESSING
ACCURATE DATA AND INFORMATION
ON THE RUN, FROM HEART RATE
READINGS TO PACE ZONES, TECH
LIKE THE MICOACH FIT SMART WILL
CONTINUE TO BE THE CHOICE.”

TECH UP YOUR
TR AINING R EGIME
Three ways to make your gym
session work even harder 1/ SKLZ Speed Chute Pro 2/ Bad Boy Weighted Training Vest 3/ Muninsports M-Station Talent
Drag these resistance-increasing chutes Strapping an extra 10kg to your chest This handy rebounder boosts fitness and
behind you to develop explosively is a low-tech but effective way to reaction times, just add a ball. Up next:
speedy sprints. £59, brandfusionltd.co.uk build muscle. £70, badboy-uk.com more footie gear. £489, muninsports.com

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H P PA
G H
PITCH PERFECT
TEC ITS Upgrade your Sunday League swag with
this season’s most free-scoring footie gear

THE BOOTS

OLD-SCHOOL KICKS
Bye bye neon show-offs, hello Guv’nor

1/ Puma King Top

The return of thumping design
classic. No knitted polymer or tech
extras here, just glove-like leather.
£125, prodirectsoccer.com

2/ Asics Lethal Testimonial
Strong kangaroo leather, a solid 4-2
stud placement and lacing straight
down the middle. No messing.
£120, asics.co.uk
3/ Pantofola d’Oro
Lazzarini Deluxe
This fine Italian craftsmanship has
a selection of stud formations.
£180, pantofoladoro.com
THE BOOTS
1/ Mizuno Basara
Japan’s premier boot purveyor has
historically been a sucker for speed.
The Basaras are no different, injecting
pace by swapping kangaroo leather
for synthetic Prime Skin. Weighing
just 185g, they’re more malleable yet
still durable enough for rain-drenched
pitches. Perfect for pacey wingers.
£140, mizuno.eu
2/ Warrior Skreamer II
Many modern boots are sacrificing
protection in favour of quickness and
a more natural feel, but Warrior aims
to achieve both with its lightweight
Thorax Exo-Skeleton. Essentially a
cage around the mid-foot, it will fully
protect you when you decide to hoof
the ball the length of the pitch. ’Ave it.
£130, warrior.com
3/ Under Armour ClutchFit Force
This is compression wear for your feet,
hugging the contours of your muscles
nice and tightly. The subtly textured
surface also gives good feel and control
of the ball, making these a fine choice
for the engine-room roamers among us.
£130, underarmour.com
THE KIT BAG
4/ Trusox
Ever been asked to “pull your socks
up” by the Gaffer? No more. These
clever foot sacks, sported by Bale,
Suarez and “Cor” Vidal, have grip pads
on the inside and out that secure your
feet. These not only add power to your
late, darting runs, but also gain grip as
you get sweatier to prevent sagging.
£23, trusox.com
5/ Hexoskin
This biometric shirt contains a packed
midfield of stitched-in, stretchable
sensors, measuring heart rate,
breathing and the volume of your lungs
in real-time. Data is sent to an iOS or
Android app, where you can study just
how ineffective you were strutting
about in the “Makélélé role”.
£233, hexoskin.com
6/ Mitre Aircell Pro Guard
The honeycomb structure of these shin
guards promises to alleviate the hell
of sweaty shin syndrome, as well as

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holding firm against the raking studs of
back-four hatchet men. Dual-density
foam adds an extra level of shock
absorption, without layering on too
much bulk, which is ideal if you favour
a Thomas Müller-esque, socks-down
look on match days.
£15, mitre.com
7/ Tombag Waxed Canvas bag
Sponsorship deal still out of reach?
Keep your kit stylishly understated
and refreshingly unbranded, then, in
this waxed, 22-litre canvas bag, which
can be held like a duffel or slung over
the shoulder nonchalantly. London
firm Tombag’s designers are ex-Royal
Marines, so it should be more than up
to the odd locker-room beating.
£105, tombag.com
WorldMags.net Football fever TECHlife
FOR THE GOALIE
8/ Nike Football
It may have taken longer to arrive than
an England goal, but the sports giant’s
latest bespoke app was well worth the
wait. You can use it to chew the latest
soccerball fat, arrange local games
and participate in live Q&As with
pros. Best of all, it alerts you to Nike
Academy trials nearby, for when you
decide you can be arsed to turn pro.
Free on iOS and Android, nike.com
10/ McDavid Long-Sleeve Hex 11/ Adidas Predator Zones Ultimate
Goalkeeper Shirt Dive II Designed for, and with the help of,
THE KEEPER’S NET STASH
Hanging out between the sticks can German shot-stopper extraordinaire
9/ Reusch Goalie
For “Keeps”, no piece of kit is more get chilly if your defence is doing its Manuel Neuer, these mighty mitts
precious than gloves. So keep them job. This compression top will keep maximise the surface area with grippy
suitably safe and separate from the rest you toasty, while shock-absorbing pads latex, while it even has removable
of your dirty togs in this waterproof bag. protect you during full-length dives. spines to protect your poor fingers.
£5, reusch.com £65, mcdavid.eu £130, adidas.com
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PUSHCHAIR TEC
FOR
THE
IT ’S H O N E
K I DS
ST
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PLAYTIME
The flexible eco buggy that’s
also a lampshade or an elephant
The Joolz Day Sense uses a Dutch-designed,
all-in-one aluminium chassis that’s not just
incredibly manoeuvrable but compact enough,
when folded, to squeeze into tiny car boots.
With a cottton and hemp cot for newborns
and an adjustable bucket seat for kids aged
up to four, it grows up as your nipper does. In
fact, it’s so easy to adjust, you’ll free up time
to turn its reusable, “second life” packaging
into a chair, lampshade or, most usefully, a
pachyderm. It’s not just kids that like playing
with boxes, after all. £899, my-joolz.co.uk

THE TECH
Why the Joolz Day makes Sense

1/ It cushions
Removable rear pneumatic tyres and integrated
suspension ensure sleep’s not interrupted as
you navigate pavement potholes, while the
front, lockable wheels offer excellent handling
to speed up harrowing high-street visits.

2/ It stows
Press a couple of buttons, give the buggy a
gentle nudge and it all folds down into a tidy
package for easy hiding. No more wrestling
matches in car parks or plane gangways.

3/ It matures
Start off with the travel cot setting and as soon
as your child learns the bonuses of sitting up,
switch to the two-way, multi-adjustable seat
that expands to fit kids up to the age of four.

TECH DAD SELECTS I’LL ONLY TELL YOU ONCE!

Alternative modes of tot transport With decades of gadget wisdom under his belt, Tech Dad has the answers to your familial conundrums

BabyZen ZEN
Adjustable all-terrain buggy that folds completely
flat in under five seconds. £575, babyzen.com
Foppapedretti MyoTronic
Too posh/lazy to push? Try this award-winning
Italian motorised stroller. £1,990, myotronic.it
Dear Tech Dad,
I have trouble getting my 10-month-old to
stay asleep. Oddly, the sound of the vacuum
helps, but surely there’s something quieter?
HENRY/ISLE OF MAN
The Prince Lionheart Premium Slumber
Bear has a built-in MP3 player with soothing
sounds, from ocean waves to white noise, that
play when it detects your tyke’s moving. No
vacuum tune, but you can record your own.
£30, mothercare.com
Dear Tech Dad,
Got any tips how to keep my tearaway
toddler in sight when we’re out and about?
JENNIFER/BRADFORD
Put him on a leash! No, it’s not as bad as that
sounds; the 2-in-1 Harness Buddy is a cuddly
animal backpack (that he’ll love) with a lead
attached (that you can keep a firm hold on).
£20, gadgetbaby.co.uk
Dear Tech Dad,
My two kids have destroyed two sets of
headphones a piece already this year.
I need something that’s indestructible.
MICHAEL/BATH
HeadFoams are colourful cans made from
pliable EVA foam, which can be stretched and
twisted without breaking. They also refuse to
exceed 85 decibels, keeping young ears safe.
£21, ebay.co.uk

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 WorldMags.net Le barbecue TECHlife

GRILL’S The French do things differently. The Sculpture Brasero Barbecue Cesarré Kara, then,
isn’t so much a barbecue as an ooh-la-la-becue. The auteur behind this work of culinary art,
GONE WILD Bertrand Charrier, says he created the range to “take into account that barbecues spend more
time unlit than lit”. It looks like a portal to another dimension, or an altar on which evil space
Part barbecue, part work of art, priests make sacrifices to ancient gods. But it’s actually a big grill on which rich people cook
all French: this is outdoor cooking large prawns. Made of black, electro-galvanized steel, it weighs 150 kilos, with a 50cm2 grill
straight from your sci-fi dreams that’s removeable for easy cleaning. Is it a tad costly? Mais oui, bien sûr! $7,300, cesarre.fr

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THE KARA IS PART OF THE

SCULPTURE BRASERO RANGE
ALSO AVAILABLE: ARAL AND
JAVA BBQS, CERAM COFFEE
TABLE WITH CENTRAL HEARTH
(PICTURED TOP) AND IYO SEATING,
IN POWDERED STEEL FOR YOUR
BUM-NUMBING CONVENIENCE.
DESIGNER BERTRAND
CHARRIER COMES FROM “A
LONG LINE OF VENDÉE CABINET
MAKERS” AND IS INSPIRED BY
“TRIMMING, SUBTLE PATINA,
MATERIALS, TOOLS, SMELLS,
MELTING, FINISHING”.
YES, HE’S FRENCH.

OUTDOOR EXTR AS
Ensure perfect meat, get your party
on with some tunes (You Can Call
1/ Heston Blumenthal Precision 5 in 3/ London Undercover Premium
me Al Fresco , perhaps?), then take 1 digital thermometer, £50 and Dual 2/ Monitor Audio Climate Jubilee Line umbrella
shelter from inevitable showers Timer £15, uk.salterhousewares.com From £250, monitoraudio.co.uk £175, johnlewis.com

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SHUT YOUR
’KIN NOISE!
Oi! Quiet! We want some frickin’
tranquility from our tech! Luckily,
these whispering gadgets oblige

1/ Lexus NX and Quiet Dyson, it might be more

Mark One of a relatively accurately called “a fair
small number of cars to bit quieter than the last
debut at a flower show – one”. It’s a beautiful thing,
the Royal Horticultural anyway. What’s that? Oh
Society’s shindig at alright then, a Helmholtz
Hampton Court – the cavity is an acoustically
NX belies its squinting- favourable hole. In this
attack-dog exterior with case, the motor sits in one,
near-silent running in so it’s quieter, especially
town (it’s a hybrid, you around the 1,000Hz
see). Inside, there’s a mark identified by boffins
charging tray for your as the most irksome of
tech, electrically folding all frequencies. £300,
back seat – please do not dyson.co.uk
use while a passenger
is in situ – and a 360º 5/ Bamix Swiss Line
Panoramic View Monitor Blends the Swiss virtues of
that lets you monitor the precision craftsmanship,
NX from above, like an peace and quiet, and
out-of-body experience. aesthetic boringness.
The structure it’s rather It’s also an excellent
haphazardly parked by hand blender, which
is the treehouse of Quiet comes with a multi-
Mark, which endorses purpose blade, whisk,
several of the hushed mini-processor bowl and
gizmos here. From “beaster”, whatever that
£29,495, lexus.co.uk is. £160, bamix.com

2/ Panasonic NP- 6/ Miele WKR770WPS

B6M1FIGB The AEG All of this German firm’s
ProClean is actually washing machines are
even quieter than this quality; this one’s quiet,
at 39dB, but we had that too, at 46dB – about the
in the mag three months same as a polite cough
back. This is a still to indicate your flies are
hardly uproarious 44dB, undone. It also serves
with space for 13 place up an A-rated wash
settings, a half-load programme that lasts an
economy setting and hour. £1,799, miele.co.uk
intelligent filth blasting.
£1,399, panasonic.co.uk 7/ Kenwood Artisan
kettle With five water
3/ AEG UltraSilencer heat settings from 50ºC
Our new friend AEG to boiling, this maintains
also makes the world’s hush via thick, steel-
quietest vac. Here, the walled construction.
self-explanatorily named £100, kitchenaid.co.uk
Silent Air tech focuses
air flow, thus boosting 8/ Philips PerfectCare
suckage while cutting Aqua Silence
decibels. So you can Product nomenclatures
chat and vac, and put deconstructed #57: this
the freshness back… into offers “perfect care” of
both relationships and your clothes by using hot
carpets. £200, aeg.co.uk “aqua” (that’s French for
water) to steam them flat
4/ Dyson AM08 This at lower temperatures.
towering pedestal fan You can literally leave it
has a Helmholtz cavity, on top of a silk tie and it
and we’re sure we don’t won’t burn. And it does it
need to tell you what that in “silence”, near enough.
means. Described as “near Textbook gadge naming.
silent” by the folks at £260, philips.co.uk

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 WorldMags.net Sonic space TECHlife

The Kärcher K7 Eco Beast high-pressure washer has the

COMPETITION: power to blast grime to smithereens, yet uses 50% less
water than a standard hose, plus a further 20% less when
WIN A MONSTER you engage its Eco switch. It doesn’t even need a tap, it
JET WASHER! works from a water butt for greater eco-smugness points.
Accessories include a dedicated patio-cleaning head, no less.
To enter head to t3.com/competitions

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TEC YO U
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TAK ACE S
PL BMW has somehow placed a less powerful engine under the new M3’s
hood, performed some kind of carbon-fibre alchemy and produced a car
that’s both faster and more efficient. Now that’s a showstopping stunt…

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PRICE AS TESTED £66,785

TOP SPEED 155MPH
0-62MPH 4.1 SECONDS
1/ Innsbruck
ENGINE 2,979CC ROUTE M ASTER
SIX-CYLINDER, TURBO
We headed from Innsbruck in Austria,
GEARBOX SEVEN-SPEED
AUTOMATIC through the Alps to Zurich, back over and
POWER 431BHP down to Cortona in Tuscany, then legged it
TORQUE 406LB/FT
back through Germany via Stuttgart and
FUEL CONSUMPTION 34MPG
CARBON EMISSIONS 194G/KM the Nürburgring. As road tests go, it was a
WEIGHT 1,520KG rather fine showcase of the M3’s abilities,
from motorway cruising to paddle-shifted
pizzazz over mountain passes. 2/ Nurburgring

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 WorldMags.net BMW M3 TECHlife
It’s the sort of thing car companies claim
constantly, but this time it’s actually true. The
latest super saloon from BMW’s M Power
division is lighter than its predecessor, with
better fuel efficiency and slashed carbon THE TECH
emissions, but before you start bemoaning the INSIDE
death of fun in motoring, it’s also faster, more
powerful and more exciting to drive, too. 1/ Total control
The MDrive Manager
Out goes the old M8’s maniac V8 engine, system lets you adjust
in comes a new turbo straight-six. Peak power the amount of throttle,
may only be up marginally, but overall power punch and steering help
from the wheel. You also
is increased massively across the rev range. get two memory presets
This is largely thanks to the new carbon for family driving styles.
componentry, including the entire roof
2/ Digital style
panel, drive shaft and various strengthening The high-tech interior
gubbins that make the new road-going M3 includes a built-in
stiffer than fully roll-caged BMW race cars heads-up display, a
digital rev counter on
of just a few years ago. Impressive. the dash and illuminated
And, Lordy, the new M3 is relentlessly fast, logos on the head rests.
with 431bhp and the ability to hit 62mph in a
3/ “On location”
fraction over four seconds. With seven speeds A bespoke in-car app
from the optional dual-clutch gearbox and the lets you control GoPro
turbo engine’s endless thrust, it will monster cameras from within
the BMW iDrive dash.
almost anything this side of a McLaren P1 Great for recording epic
ultracar. Okay, it doesn’t rev with quite the journeys like T3’s M3
same incandescent sparkle as the old V8 cross-Europe test drive.
engine, but if you want theatre, it will do that
courtesy of an optional gearbox setting that

IT MIGHT LOOK MILD

MANNERED, BUT THE
M3 IS FAST, FURIOUS
AND MORE EFFICIENT
lights up the rear tyres and makes the exhaust
crackle and fart on upshifts like a touring car.
Yet the M3’s real party piece is that it can
do all that one moment and then cruise like
an elegant luxury limo the next, all the time
offering more miles to the gallon and reduced
carbon emissions over its predecessor.
“What about the tech?” we hear you cry.
Well, BMW has that sorted, too. There’s a
heads-up display and internet-connected
in-car entertainment, as well as “MDrive
Manager”, a global controller for all of the M3’s
dynamic systems, including active suspension,
Servotronic steering (which tweaks hydraulic
assistance depending on car’s speed, upping
it during manouevring) and the dual-clutch
box, where you can choose between smooth
shifts or whip-crack ratio changes.
Producing an M3 that’s more exciting than
ever but also massively more efficient is one THR EE TO 1/Mini Five-door 2/ Porsche Cayman GTS 3/ Cadillac CTS
Purists will squeal in How do you make the Born in the US of A,
hell of a tall order. Yet that’s what we have TEST DRIVE pain, but there’s demand best sportscar better? this 272bhp saloon
before us. Forget the M5 or even the i8, this Kerb your enthusiasm for this more practical Incrementally. A smidge has more to offer than
is the most complete car BMW makes right hatchbatch with the more power and a few you’d imagine. Just one
same dynamics and in- more gadgets make the problem: it only comes
now; fast, refined and dangerously good fun. car kit as the three-door. best a little bit better. in left-hand drive.
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E PUNCHIER
DRIV
The racing division of French car firm Peugeot hasn’t exactly been
racking up the World Rally Championship wins over the last few years,
H TO
TEC YO U
K E
TA ACE S
PL PEUGEOT
Tuned to the limits, the new
but engineers have at least been busy injecting some serious racing cred
into the RCZ, its answer to the Audi TT. The Peugeot RCZ R has been
given a full tune and upgrade – so much so that, despite carrying just a
RCZ R boasts the world’s measly 1.6-litre engine (turbo-boosted, of course), it packs 270bhp of
most powerful 1.6-litre engine spine-tingling acceleration and agile handling. £31,600, peugeot.co.uk

The RCZ R in detail

1/ Built for speed
The RCZ R’s new look, from the rounded tail,
to the twin exhausts, fixed spoiler and bulging
British-made wheel arches, does its best to
imply there’s more under the hood than a
1.6-litre engine. Major aesthetic tips have been
taken from the Audi camp, we’re saying.

2/ Fine tuning
Peugeot’s racing division has squeezed every
last drop of horsepower from the engine by
reinforcing the cylinder blocks and redesigning
the pistons, catalytic converter and exhaust
manifest completely. The result is 40 per cent
more power than the previous RCZ.

3/ Rally up!
You can turn off the traction control and
stability if you’re after a little more fun.
The difference is tangible, as you can feel the
back-end step out during fast cornering, though
the wide wheelbase – extended using those
distinctive arches – yields enough grip and
forgiving handling to ease any worries.

{CONCEPT}
NISSAN CONCEPT 2020
GR AN TURISMO
Gaming unlockable becomes star of Goodwood
We’re getting a bit obsessed with the PS3’s Gran Turismo 6 and its
garage of not-quite-real-but-almost motors. This latest free game
update was glimpsed for real at Goodwood’s Festival of Speed, to show
off Nissan’s future vision for the GT-R. The front’s dominated by a
huge air intake, at odds with hybrid reports, and packs a 3.8-litre twin-
turbo V6 with a KERS boost, developed with the Williams F1 team.
nissan.co.uk

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opening a power bill – or clicking on the billing section of your supplier’s
website, if you’ve helped save the planet by turning off paper billing – is
a scarier prospect than opening up for a dentist with a gleam in his eye.
Now you could take a low-tech approach to this problem – putting
on a particularly fetching jumper, for instance, or turning the boiler off
entirely. But what you should do is take the high-tech road, and turn
your home into a smart home. And not just any old smart home, but
one where you have full, zone-by-zone control of temperature from
anywhere in the world.
The market is currently flooded with app-controlled devices that
let you monitor and control your heating while away from home.
That’s great as far as it goes, but Honeywell’s evohome system takes
smartness to the next level. It lets you seize control over multiple
“zones” in your home so you really do only use the heat you need. You
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so why would you have one temperature for all the rooms? Exactly.
Only sensing and multi-zoning really lets you take control.
Here’s how to make your home an evohome: first, get a heating
engineer to change your radiator valves to evohome ones. The system
immediately starts learning about the room it’s in – how temperatures
fluctuate, including detecting if a window’s been opened – and
adjusting how it controls the radiator it’s attached to accordingly.
It also gives you valuable feedback. For instance, if it transpires your
family doesn’t actually use the dining room during the early-morning
rush, preferring to scoff breakfast in the kitchen instead, why bother
heating it till the evening? Result: a smaller energy bill.
By learning how you use your gaff, evohome delivers exactly what
you want, heat-wise, when you want. Say you and your lady wife, or
man husband, plan to enjoy a Call of Duty marathon in the lounge upon
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wall-mounted or freestanding, or remotely via an app on your Android or
iOS device, or Pebble smartwatch. And while the installation should be
carried out by a trained heating engineer, unlike other “smart” systems
it doesn’t involve replumbing/wiring your whole house. Another smart
detail: evohome uses its own wireless network that’s great at reaching
dead spots and completely separate from your data network.
The bottom line, however, is this: your bills could become
significantly less terrifying. Homes with small, discrete rooms are
particularly suitable for evohome’s zoning system, but it gives The heart of the evohome: a touchscreen
cash-saving results whether you dwell in a pretty Victorian terrace, controller – you can use your phone, too –
a country cottage or a hi-tech loft apartment. and these sexy, sexy, smart radiator valves
Smart homes start with smart users. And when it comes to controlling
your energy bills, installing evohome is the smartest choice of all.
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PHO TO GR APHY BARRY MAK ARI O U

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Go large on your kitchen’s ‘small appliances’ with
pro-grade chef’s kit that’ll turn dab hands into Hestons
WO R DS DU NCAN B E L L

GR AEF M9
With a thickness range of fractionally over 0mm to a nice ’n’ chunky 20mm, the Graef M9 Master Self-Supporting
Smooth Blade Slicer (to give it its full title) is great for everything from Parma ham to cheese and even bread, if you
insist on total uniformity in your toast width. Your kitchen is now a deli counter, no white hat and apron necessary.
£330, johnlewis.com

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SOUS -V I DE SU PR E M E V P 1 1 2
Chamber vacuum sealers such as this are modern culinary miracles. While a standard sealer sucks air out of food
bags, meaning you can’t have liquid in them, this pulls it from the entire chamber around it, so pressure is the
same inside and out. As a result you can store and sous-vide liquid-rich, marinaded or “saucy” foods happily.
£650, sousvidesupreme.com

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KUVINGS B6000S
Cold-press, or “slow”, extraction is Top Cat if you want maximum nutrition and versatility from a juicer. This deals
mercilessly with anything from a whole apple to grasses, with strainers to mix a little pulp into your juice for a more
rustic texture or extract the lot for nut butters and sorbets. It won’t make wheatgrass taste nice, but then what will?
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SAGE BY HESTON BLUMENTH A L THE BOSS

Now this is a blender. With the power to pulp just about anything you care to put in it, the 2,200W “Boss” can reduce
food to particles 50 per cent smaller than traditional machines, for a smoother mouth feel and better taste. It’s
particularly strong with smoothies, giving the prefect texture without endless pulsing and muckin’ about.
£500, sageappliances.co.uk

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P O LY S C I E N C E A N T I - G R I D D L E
Just as a short-order chef’s griddle cooks very rapidly, so the Anti-Griddle cools at alarming speed. Its -30°C cold
plate flash-freezes creams, sauces, purées, yoghurt, fingers, etc, giving you cold creations with solid or semi-frozen
outsides and soft, creamy centres. Attractive it ain’t, but this extractor fan-like beast is a dessert game-changer.
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JUR A GIGA 5
After all that gastronomic experimentation, how’s about a latté? This bean-to-cup behemoth is almost two
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Whisper-quiet, it provides easy access to perfect crema and opulently frothed milk via its LCD screen.
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RATED THE LATEST TECH FROM THE T3 TEST LAB

MUST BUY

VERY GOOD

DECENT

BELOW AVERAGE

OH DEAR

The S
express
SAMSUNG’S GALAXY TAB S STEALS
A MARCH ON APPLE’S IMMINENT iPAD
UPGRADES, WITH A SENSOR-LADEN, {ALSO REVIEWED THIS MONTH}

SLICK-LOOKING TABLET OF PLENTY…

Student computing sorted p102
Travel cameras supertest p105
OnePlus One’s phone revolt p112
Android Wear special: Samsung
Gear Live vs LG G Watch p113

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With a fair few months still to go
before the latest iPad rebuff is
expected, the time is now for
Samsung’s Android tablets to
stamp their authority. Good
thing the new flagship Galaxy
Tab S does just that, then, by
adding a fingerprint sensor and
software extras that beat iOS 8
to the punch. But is it enough?
The Tab S design is certainly a step in the
right direction, slim and stylish, with the grey
plastic of old replaced with shiny metallic-style
edging and a perforated soft-touch back that
you will have decided you like or not if you’ve
held a Galaxy S5. It feels premium, even if
plastic still dominates rather than aluminium.
These are arguably the best-looking tablets
anyone’s made outside of Cupertino.
We say “these” as the Tab S is available in
two screen sizes, an iPad Mini-troubling 8.4
inches and an iPad Air-challenging 10.5 inches.
We’re delving into the bigger of the two, which
manages to be 1mm thinner and a smidgeon
lighter than the Air; well, plastic is lighter than
aluminium. But unlike the Sony Xperia Z2
Tablet, which is thinner and lighter again,
the Tab S doesn’t have a huge display bezel.
Speaking of that display, it’s just like the
Galaxy S5 but on a much larger scale, bright
and sharp. Its 2560x1600
resolution trumps Apple’s
Retina displays and the {SPECIFICATION}
Super AMOLED tech makes OS Android KitKat
SCREEN 10.5-inch,
it stunningly vivid and 2560x1600
colourful. It’s almost too PROCESSOR/RAM
dazzling at times, but at its 1.9GHz octacore/3GB
STORAGE 16GB or 32GB,
best, this is a screen that you plus microSD 1
can’t take your eyes off. REAR CAM 8-meg/1080p
There’s no shortage of FRONT CAM 2.1-meg/1080p
CONNECTIVITY Wi-Fi, LTE
power helping that pin-sharp 4G, 3G, Bluetooth 4.0, 3.5mm
screen run smoothly, either. BATTERY LIFE
You get a 1.9GHz octacore Up to 9 hours’ web browsing
processor matched with 3GB
of RAM that runs Android 4.4
without any stutter or slow
down and keeps everything
swift and responsive.
The camera suite is a
pretty standard affair, with
an eight-megapixel sensor
at the rear and a 2.1-meg
one up front, both shooting
in 1080p at up to 30fps. The
results are decent, but then
a tablet is hardly the ideal
device for taking photos,
Without the flashy addition HEIGHT 177mm
WIDTH 247mm
of 4K video offered by Sony’s DEPTH 6.6 mm
Xperia Z2 Tablet, it doesn’t WEIGHT 467g
deliver much wow factor,
although shots do shine on

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2 Framed entries, as the microSD card slot lets
{DETAILS}
1 chosen 16GB or 32GB in the handset. Invest in
SNAP HAPPY
Its size doesn’t make the
Tab S an ideal camera, but
the rear eight-megapixel
sensor does a decent job
2
COVER UP
No fancy magnets here,
with dedicated cases
sliding into secure, spring-
loaded holes on the rear
3
EXPAND!
MicroUSB memory up to
128GB means you’re not
stuck with the storage you
bought on day one
4 to use as Apple’s TouchID, with you having to
CHECK FOR PRINTS
Not as slick as TouchID
on the iPhone 5S, but the
fingerprint scanner is still
a useful way to unlock and
pay (for limited things)
3 shortcuts to contacts, email, the Web and
4 not pre-loaded, so only download what suits.
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that pixel-packed screen. You also have plenty
of space to store your snaps and You’ve Been
you add up to 128GB storage on top of your
a reasonably priced card and it will be a while
before most will fill that kind of space.
This being a Samsung device, there’s plenty
of intriguing/faddy innovations. Much like the
S5, the Tab S has had everything thrown at it.
The heart-rate monitor is missing, but we’d
argue that was a fairly sensible exclusion.
You do get the fingerprint sensor, though,
offering a simple way to unlock the screen
and authorise PayPal transactions, which
means you can buy apps from Google Play
and shop from a currently limited number of
online stores such as Achica and See Tickets.
It’s a neat trick and the partnership has the
potential to be really useful. Yet it’s not as easy
swipe your finger exactly down from the home
button rather than just resting your thumb in
place, and we found accuracy to be sporadic.
What other tricks has Samsung ported
over from the S5? Well, there’s the front-facing
camera that watches your eyes continuously
to tell if you’re reading the screen, turning itself
off if your interest wanes. An infra-red blaster
in the slate’s top edge also means you can
use it as a sophisticated, if over-engineered
TV controller; try losing this remote down the
back of the sofa. Elsewhere, the TouchWiz
menu swipes in from the side to offer quick
more, plus there’s the Flipboard personal
magazine home screen popularised on earlier
Galaxys (but still bettered by HTC’s Blinkfeed).
In fact, Android 4.4 already offers a raft of
features that will not hit Apple tablets till iOS 8
lands this autumn. Most obvious is SideSync
3.0, which lets you view your phone’s screen
on the tab, with texts and call functionality;
alas call forwarding only works if you have a
side-act S5 at present. You can also sync work
from your home desktop thanks to Remote
PC, which works a lot like we imagine Apple
Handoff will.
As with the S5, the Tab S also comes with a
care package of free software. Thankfully this
isn’t the bloatware we’ve criticised Samsung
for in the past, but genuinely desirable stuff,
such as a free three-month subscription
to Marvel Comics and a six-month trial for
music-streaming service Deezer. These can be
found in a widget called Galaxy Gifts alongside
a smattering of free games and apps, sat
next door to Samsung’s own-brand efforts
including a video editor, scrapbook and its
football app. Don’t fancy them? Well, they’re
Of course, the elephant in the room is that
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THE TAB S HAS A GALAXY OF TRICKS

1 2
PAPER GARDEN
This is Samsung’s answer
to Newsstand, a bespoke
digital magazine hub just
for Tab S owners to start
with, but eventually rolling
out to all Galaxy tabs. The
best news? You can already
get our best-selling, award-
winning T3: Digital Edition
there in its optimised glory.
SIDE SYNC
Want to check your phone,
but it’s upstairs charging?
This slick connected app
mirrors your handset’s
screen on your Tab S,
where you can even answer
calls or send texts. It’s a
smart idea, but it’s not yet
reliably smooth and can
often stutter to a stop.
3
KIDS’ MODE
Who can resist a crocodile
with a saw for a snout? Not
us. Yet the way the Tab S
can limit what your kids
see is what really appeals.
Showing up as its own app
on your Home screen, the
walled garden is simple to
set up, with customisation
to suit all draconian levels.

Gold metal edges add

extra shine to that
already bright display {RIVALS}
WHEN THREE TABLETS GO TO WAR
« Android still isn’t as advanced in the tablet
app department as Apple. Sure, it has the
overall numbers to boast, but Google Play
tablet fare is really hit and miss, having to
stretch to fit various screen sizes.
There’s no question about it, though: this is SAMSUNG SONY XPERIA APPLE
the best tablet Samsung has made yet and it’s GALAXY TAB S Z2 TABLET iPAD AIR
PRICE/URL FROM £499, FROM £375, FROM £399,

THE SLICKEST ANDROID

SAMSUNG.COM/UK SONY.CO.UK APPLE.COM/UK

DISPLAY The 10.5-inch Super AMOLED The 10.1-inch screen lacks The 9.7-inch Retina display
TABLET AROUND, WITH is astonishingly high-res and the punch and sharpness of
vivid at 288 pixels per inch Samsung’s and Apple’s,
has been out-specced now,
but is still mightily impressive.
EXTRAS YOU WON’T PROCESSOR A 1.9GHz octacore that’s A very fast spec of 2.3GHz Apple’s own-brand processor

YET FIND ON THE iPAD blazingly fast. This leaves

most other tabs in the dust.
yet doesn’t feel any quicker
than its main rivals.
may be dualcore but is much
faster than that suggests.
CAMERA Eight-megapixel sensor with Narrowly the most megapixels The Air’s five-megapixel
an LED flash. Nothing fancy, here at 8.1, but there’s no snapper is slightly behind the
arguably the most effective full-size Android
but it’s functional. flash. 4K video nice, though times. Okay results, though.
slate currently available. There are plenty of
SECURITY This is the first tablet with a No fancy entry methods here, Many expected the Air to
toys to play with, from the fingerprint sensor
fingerprint sensor. It doesn’t just a regular passcode to be include TouchID, but it left
to NFC inter-device connectivity, a swathe of always work, but it’s there. tapped in on screen. that first to the Tab S.
fresh software additions (see Killer Features,
DESIGN Slim, lighter and more stylish That wide bezel is an eyesore, Not the sveltest, but the best
right) and the slim, light styling is a big step on
than previous Galaxy Tabs. but it’s the slimmest tab here. looking with its all-metal case.
from the plastic monstrosities of the past.
APPS Apps tend to stretch to Nice icon layout here, but Every app perfectly optimised
The Tab S also packs in 4G and Wi-Fi as
multiple screen sizes rather the same dearth of properly for big screens and in plentiful
standard, making it a square £100 cheaper than being designed to fit. optimised tablet apps. supply. A killer blow.
than a similarly connected Air. That kind of
T3 VERDICT The best tablet Samsung has A solid Android device, Still narrowly clinging on to
saving should win it fans in the dead zone ever made, this one might that’s also waterproof. The victory, this is the tablet to
before the next iPad announcement, and even tempt some Apple fans. Tab S outclasses it, though. beat with top usability.
Android die-hards will declare it king, but we do RATING
find it still falls behind Apple in terms of ease
of use and apps. You makes your choices…
FROM £499, SAMSUNG.COM/UK, OUT NOW

LOVE Slick, stylish design. Stunningly bright screen.
Powerful performer. Plenty of innovatory gimmicks
HATE Main fingerprint-sensor gimmick needs work.
Build’s still plastic. Android tablets apps a bit patchy
T3 SAYS Samsung’s best tablet to date is slicker,
slimmer and sexier, but not quite an iPad beater
{THE FINAL WORD}
LIBBY PLUMMER, REVIEWS EDITOR
Samsung’s approach to tablets has been scattergun to date, reiterating at a
rate of knots, with roughly 8,000 screen sizes and a variety of cheap-looking
designs, sometimes with a stylus, sometimes not. The Tab S is different. It’s
the first true Samsung flagship slate, with a great screen and impressive skills.
Apple’s ecosystem may still win out but it’s a really big stride to the good.

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The class
of 2014
HARD WORKING SETUPS FOR
EVERY SORT OF STUDENT, FROM
ALL-IN-ONE DESKTOP SWOTS TO
TABLET-LOVING TEACHER’S PETS

WHETHER THE STUDENT YOU’RE SHOPPING

for is mature or otherwise, a new school and
uni year is fast approaching and it’s no longer
enough to invest in new pens and a notebook;
education has gone digital. Whether you want
a powerful desktop that will make light work
of homework, or a satchel-ready laptop or
tablet, we have assembled the best in every
class in front of the T3 examination board.

01 THE POPULAR KID

APPLE iMAC 21.5-INCH 2014

£899, APPLE.COM

Apple’s iMacs reinvented to Microsoft Office – with

the desktop, with a sleek
and iconic design, but
until now their price tags
have been outside the
realms of most grant
cheques. Thankfully the
latest incarnation comes
in at just under £900.
For that price you get
a brilliantly bright screen,
ideal for art and design
students, as well as
Apple’s iWork suite – the
Cupertino firm’s answer
it all running on a 1.4GHz
dualcore i5 processor,
Intel HD 5000 graphics
and 8GB RAM, as well as
a 500GB hard drive. With
Thunderbolt, AC Wi-Fi
and four USB ports, it’s
well connected and
powerful enough to get
some serious work done.
T3 SAYS Good-looking;
not afraid of hard work

02 THE “INDIVIDUAL”

LENOVO YOGA PRO 2

£1,000, LENOVO.COM

Another hybrid, but this and great visuals for

one does tricks. Instead
of requiring add-ons, the
Yoga bends and twists
to convert between
laptop, chunky tablet and
propped-up screen for
videos – it recognises
what pose it’s in and
offers appropriate apps.
The 13.1-inch
touchscreen is quad HD,
which translates as a
resolution of 3200x1800
and delivers defined text
movies. You also get
a 1.6GHz Core i5
processor, full-fat
Windows 8.1 and a
512GB solid state drive.
It’s a strong spec and the
orange hue helps it stand
out from the crowd, but
at this price you could
get a laptop and tablet.
T3 SAYS Versatile but
pricey portable option

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TOSHIBA CHROMEBOOK CB30-102

£230, TOSHIBA.CO.UK

Google’s Chromebooks and its bargain price tag

aren’t known for their
power, and this latest
one is no different, with
a 1.4GHZ Intel Celeron
processor, 2GB memory
and just 16GB of built-in
storage. However, this
makes it more suited to
essay writing and web
research than gaming or
other time-wasting antics.
This sleek number is
Toshiba’s first stab at a
Chrome-running laptop
buys you a 13.3-inch,
1366x768 screen and a
comfortable keyboard.
No hybrid smarts or
touchscreen frivolities
here, but if you’re looking
for a studious laptop at
an affordable price, this
is an able performer with
a nine-hour battery life.
T3 SAYS Bottom of the
class on spec, but cheap

04 THE SCHOOL JOCK

SONY XPERIA Z2 TABLET

£399, SONY.CO.UK

Are you a student of the only software installed is

tablet generation? This is
a practical choice for class
and field trips, being
both slim and able to
survive being submerged
for up to half an hour.
Use it with wet hands
and it won’t complain.
Just because it’s
tough, though, doesn’t
mean it’s dumb. There’s
a 10.1-inch 1900x1200
display and 2.3GHz
quadcore processor. The
Android KitKat, but you
can pick up the Office
Mobile app for free and
connect via Bluetooth
to a keyboard for when
touchscreen typing
becomes tiresome. Not
the most academic of
devices, but solid enough
for school and playtime.
T3 SAYS The rugged,
satchel-ready tablet

05 THE CLASS SWOT

DELL VENUE 11 PRO

£328, DELL.CO.UK

Dell’s Windows 8 hybrid HDMI and Ethernet

is hefty and chunky due
to its laptop parts, but
it’s also ridiculously
versatile. Use it in tablet
mode and you’ve got
a great notepad-cum-
sketchbook; add the
keyboard (from £83) and
it turns into a laptop for
bashing out essays on
the go; pop it into its
dedicated dock (£115)
and it’s a full-blown
desktop, complete with
ports. The cost adds up,
yes, but it’s still three
devices rolled into one.
With a 2.4GHz
quadcore processor,
full-HD 10.8-inch screen,
a 64GB solid state drive
and full-fat Windows 8.1,
it is an affordable option
for uni-goers.
T3 SAYS Cheap and
excels in every class

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WINNER OneDrive storage for four years (normal cost £60 per year).
STUDENT PRICE £60, OFFICE.MICROSOFT.COM
Adobe Creative Cloud
Photoshop and Lightroom for just £8.78 a month, or get
the full Adobe suite and nab a £30 saving per month.
STUDENT PRICE FROM £8.78 PER MONTH, ADOBE.COM/UK
Amazon Student
Score a free six-month trial of Prime, including Instant
Video, then have it half price for the rest of your studies.
But will you fit much studying in between box-set binges?
£39 PER YEAR, AMAZON.CO.UK

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Tourist
hot shots
THESE PREMIUM COMPACTS AND
INTERCHANGEABLE-LENS SMART
CAMERAS ARE FULL OF FEATURES
AND READY FOR YOUR NEXT TRIP

Holiday snaps are a competitive

sport in the Instagram age,
with candid, off-the-cuff shots
stealing the social light, and
“Likes”, from traditionally staged
pro pics. For these you need a
camera that’s small enough to
ILLUSTRATION LUKE O’NEILL

whip out in a flash, but with skills

that outstrip your smartphone.
All of the cameras on test here, from fixed
lens point-and-shoots to compact system
cams, are a halfway house between the phone
in your pocket and the DSLR you’ve probably
left in the hotel room. With added GPS for
location tagging and Wi-Fi for getting pics online
quick, they’re the ideal travel companions. «

{CONTENDERS}
Alight here for CANON SONY SAMSUNG
NIKON
OLYMPUS
the sightseeing POWERSHOT
SX700 HS
CYBER-SHOT
DSC-HX60V
NX MINI
COOLPIX
S9700
STYLUS SH-1
tour… £270 £319
£275
£250
£350

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CANON POWERSHOT SX700 HS
£270, CANON.CO.UK

2
{SPECIFICATION }
SENSOR 16.1-meg CMOS
SCREEN 3-inch
LENS 25-750mm
ZOOM 30x optical
ISO RANGE 100-3200
VIDEO 1080p at 60fps
STILLS JPEG only
CONNECTIVITY Wi-Fi, NFC
BATTERY Up to 360 shots

{DIMENSIONS} Hassle-free and reliable, it’s
an all-inclusive holiday option
When on your travels, do you prefer your most
complex decision to be what factor sun cream
to slather on? You’ll be wanting a camera that
makes the shooting decisions for you, then.
The SX700 HS does just that, with its image-
stabilised 30x optical zoom lens producing
HEIGHT 66mm
DEPTH 35mm shots that are consistently crisp and clear
WIDTH 113mm thanks to its small-ish sensor not being unduly
WEIGHT 269g burdened with megapixels (it sticks to 16).
Colours may not be as rich as those
{DETAILS} delivered by the likes of Sony (see right), but
with a wider-than-average focal range – 25mm
1 equivalent in 35mm terms – it’s ideal for both
BUILD
With a metallic body it’s panoramic landscapes and picking out detail
built to last, but a handgrip from far away. It’s responsive, too, travelling
would be a useful addition from its widest to closest zoom settings in two
for stabilising shots
to three seconds, with minimal mech buzz.
2 The f/3.2 maximum lens aperture doesn’t
CONTROLS
offer quite the brightness of other cams on test
Bigger than average, the
buttons and dials are and will struggle in low light, but there’s a pop-
exceedingly easy to up flash sunk into the slimline body. If you’re
manipulate and master staying in the sunshine, your stills and full-HD
3 videos are sure to look good displayed on the
LENS three-inch, 922k-dot LCD screen.
A 30x optical zoom with Want to get your snaps online straight away?
a broad 25-750mm
equivalent focal range is There’s built-in Wi-Fi connectivity, although
the do-it-all option without a touchscreen the act of getting them
online isn’t quite as simple as {ACCESSORISE}
uploading images from your Velbon UT-63D
smartphone’s camera. travel tripod
What’s lacking here is For when auto stabilisation
won’t do, this three-legged
a well-rounded handgrip, support will hold you
meaning that we found steady. It extends from
ourselves wanting to steady ankle height to tripod
standard in a jiffy and folds
the Canon with both hands down to fit into a carry-on.
when shooting, especially £199, VELBON.CO.UK
towards maximum telephoto
settings. Make sure you have
a firm hold and the full extent
of the zoom can be deployed
for both video and stills,
with its stereo mic recording
realistic background noise.
An extensive range of digital
effects is also available to
mask any shortcomings in
photographical prowess.
A simple cam, then, with the potential to do
more as your skills improve. It never reaches
DSLR-like levels, but it’s a point ’n’ shoot plus.
LOVE Sizeable optical zoom. Compact and
lightweight. Easy to master in a hurry
HATE Small sensor. No touchscreen control
T3 SAYS Uncomplicated holiday sidekick
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SONY CYBER-SHOT DSC-HX60V

£319, SONY.CO.UK

2
{SPECIFICATION }
SENSOR 20.4-meg CMOS
SCREEN 3-inch
LENS 24-720mm
ZOOM 30x optical
ISO RANGE 80-12,800
VIDEO 1080p at 24fps
STILLS JPEG only
CONNECTIVITY Wi-Fi, NFC
BATTERY Up to 380 shots

{DIMENSIONS} City breakers’ pal offers manual
options and ease of use
This travel compact is very similar in many
ways to the Canon Powershot opposite:
30x optical zoom, a 921K-dot, three-inch
screen and Full-HD video capture, albeit at
a slightly reduced 24 frames per second.
It’s the sensor that sets this camera apart,
HEIGHT 63mm
DEPTH 38mm
though, a quality, Sony-made Exmor R CMOS
WIDTH 108mm number with 20.4 megapixels. It delivers
WEIGHT 272g sharply detailed and colour-rich results even
at maximum telephoto settings, with plenty of
{DETAILS} contrast that requires no additional tweaking.
Further enticements come in the form of a
1 Bionz X processor, as utilised by the more pro
BUILD
Solid chassis with a better models in Sony’s range, including the A7. The
grip than the Canon, yet maximum lens aperture is a so-so f/3.5, which
still very comfortably is underqualified compared with the f/1.4 or
pocket-sized
f/1.8 of some other premium compacts. Yet
2 with an extended reach of 24-720mm in 25mm
CONTROLS
terms, it still puts in a good performance
Two dials, governing
exposure and shooting despite the slight fish-eye effect when
modes, provide the feel shooting in portrait at maximum wide angle.
of a more manual cam Photo enthusiasts seeking a snapshot
3
for which there is limited degree of hands-
LENS on control will delight in the HX60V’s two
Sony’s premium G lens rangefinder-like top plate dials: one for the
gives superior results and
there’s a 30x zoom to usual mix of auto and manual shooting modes,
further your sights including the self-adjusting Superior Auto and
Panoramic options. For those {ACCESSORISE}
wishing to get more involved, Foldio Pop-up
there’s also the option to Studio
tweak the exposure between Magnetised envelope that
folds apart to create a
+/- 2EV. As with the Canon, ten-inch tabletop studio,
you also get a pop-up flash complete with white walls
hidden neatly in the top plate, and LED lighting. Ideal for
eBaying those unwanted
plus the extra usefulness of souvenir purchases.
a vacant hotshoe to add a $49, PHOTOJOJO.COM
viewfinder or boom mic.
The options are plentiful.
As with its rivals, the
full reach of the 30x zoom
lens can be used when
shooting video, too. Add in
stereo sound, a rapid frame
rate, smooth automatic
focus adjustment, built-in
geotagging via GPS and
connectivity via Wi-Fi, or to your phone and
tablet via NFC, and you have a very capable
compact. However, it is one, unlike others on
test, that never attempts DSLR-like detail.
LOVE Extensive zoom options. Richly detailed
images. Rock solid but still pocket-sized build
HATE Limited aperture
T3 SAYS Clear, detailed pictures from a small
but perfectly formed compact cam
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£275, SAMSUNG.COM/UK

{SPECIFICATION }
2
SENSOR 20.5-meg CMOS
SCREEN 3-inch
LENS 24-73mm (compatible
with all NX-M lenses)
ZOOM N/A
ISO RANGE 100-25,600
VIDEO 1080p at 30fps
STILLS
JPEG, Raw, JPEG+Raw
CONNECTIVITY Wi-Fi, NFC
BATTERY Up to 650 shots

{DIMENSIONS} Swappable lenses in a perfect are provided in lieu of any {ACCESSORISE}

day tripper-sized snapper actual handgrip and you get Ansmann
the somewhat faddy addition Powerline 8
Nobody enjoys feeling
This pastel-coloured cam is the only one on of a flip-up touchscreen powerless miles from
test with swappable lenses, which gives it built for better framing your home. This handy charge
a degree of expandability and adaptability selfies. The “wink shot” deck can refuel a camera
battery eight times
competitors here cannot match. Lacking an option means you don’t even over and boost your
APS-C chip, it may be a bit of a weed when put have to press the shutter smartphone or tablet
HEIGHT 62mm head-tohead with more challenging compact- button, just flirt outrageously via USB to boot.
£45, ANSMANN.DE
DEPTH 22mm system rivals, but its weeny dimensions – at with the NX Mini and it fires
WIDTH 110mm
WEIGHT 196g just 196g it’s the lightest interchangeable lens automatically. For sharing
cam ever – make it a great holiday option. said selfies you have the
In present company, the 20.5-megapixel option of NFC or built-in Wi-Fi
resolution and bigger one-inch CMOS sensor that’s easy to navigate via
{DETAILS}
provide crisper than average results, which that touchscreen.
1 you can choose to capture in high-quality, This is neither Samsung’s
BUILD
The slender build means uncompressed Raw format as well as Jpegs. flashiest, nor best,
no hand-grip, but the fitted The super-fast autofocus is also a bonus, compact system camera.
leather pouches can give speeding up shooting times, while a battery life But for those wanting a
you better purchase
of approximately 650 shots from a full charge comfortable middle ground between pricey
2 is also fantastic for a camera this small. interchangeable-lens cams and more
CONTROLS It’s affordable, too – get it bundled with the affordable fixed-lens compacts, it offers a
Buttons are minimal
yet, with mode buttons fixed focal length 9mm (wide angle 24mm lot of very versatile bang for your buck.
and cross keys on the equivalent) f/3.5 pancake lens and it even
backplate, functional comes in cheaper than some of the compacts
LOVE Point-and-shoot size but with the added
3
on test. You will need more than those few bonus of interchangeable lenses
LENS saved pounds to invest in a separate zoom HATE Bundled with a fixed lens. CMOS not APS-C
A fixed 9mm pancake lens lens, though: a 20-50mm standard NX zoom T3 SAYS Affordable and compact, with plenty
comes bundled with the of potential – and NX-mount lenses to fulfill it
NX Mini to maintain the lens will set you back just shy of £200.
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NIKON COOLPIX S9700

£250, NIKON.CO.UK

{SPECIFICATION }
2
SENSOR 16-meg CMOS
SCREEN 3-inch OLED
LENS 25-750mm
ZOOM 30x optical
ISO RANGE 125-6400
VIDEO 1080p at 30fps
STILLS JPEG
CONNECTIVITY Wi-Fi, GPS
BATTERY Up to 300 shots

{DIMENSIONS} A sightseeing expert with a slightly betraying the wallet- {ACCESSORISE}

big zoom lens at a low price friendly price tag. Lexar
There’s more here to Professional
We’re firmly back in the fixed-lens compact get to grips with than on media cards
cam camp here, with Nikon’s 16-megapixel the average point-and- The Nikon comes with
20GB of cloud storage, but
1/2.3-inch CMOS sensor and 25-750mm lens shoot, though, with a full if you’re recording hi-res
matching up well alongside the other travellers complement of program, holiday vids you might
on test. What sets this apart from the rest of shutter priority, aperture need one of these SDXC
cards with a 600x write
HEIGHT 63mm the tourist crowd? The standard-issue 30x priority and manual speed and 256GB space.
DEPTH 34mm optical zoom, which can be extended to a 60x shooting modes, matching $630, LEXAR.COM
WIDTH 109mm
WEIGHT 232g reach using the Dynamic Fine Zoom function. or bettering the others for
It still shoots at maximum resolution, but you’ll creative options, including
have to hold incredibly still to avoid blur – we high-contrast monochrome
{DETAILS} suggest attaching a tripod if you want to pick for budding Anton Corbjins.
1 out details like animals or landmarks from afar. As we find Nikon images to
BUILD Maximum lens aperture is again a so-so be a tad unsaturated as a
The usual mix of plastic
and metal is functional if f/3.7 but, as you’re probably beginning to rule, the inclusion of the Vivid
not stylish. We approve of realise by now, that’s standard for compact mode also proves a bonus.
the matt finish, though shooters that tend to concentrate more With GPS that plots pics
2
on lens reach than brightness. Nikon also on an integrated map and Wi-Fi connectivity,
CONTROLS limits the top light sensitivity setting here to this Nikon manages to stand out in a
The backplate buttons ISO6,400, another common compact camera test full of exceedingly competent performers
are tiny, but essential for
navigating the manual shortcoming, but it’s far from ideal if you’re by zooming that extra mile.
modes as there’s no planning to shoot out of the sun.
touchscreen Photos and 1080p videos are composed
LOVE Big lens on a compact body. OLED screen.
3
with the aid of the rear display. It’s not a Cheapest big-zoom option on test
LENS touchscreen, but it is OLED, giving you an HATE No grip. Small buttons tough to control
Plenty of flexibility here in almost life-like window to compose your T3 SAYS The compact camera that delivers
terms of framing a shot a big zoom at an affordable price
thanks to a focal range the shots through. On-screen menus are easy
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OLYMPUS STYLUS SH-1
£350, OLYMPUS.CO.UK

TEST
{SPECIFICATION } WINNER
2
SENSOR 16-meg CMOS
SCREEN 3-inch
LENS 25-600mm
ZOOM 24x optical
ISO RANGE 125-6400
VIDEO 1080p at 60fps
STILLS JPEG
CONNECTIVITY Wi-Fi
BATTERY Up to 380 shots

{DIMENSIONS} More Monaco than Majorca, this
is the stylish traveller’s choice
The retro, 60s-inspired look of the Olympus
Pen and OM-D cameras now extends to its
cheaper travel zooms. The SH-1’s leather-effect
frontage and classic black and silver attire
recall the old Olympus Trip, once endorsed by
HEIGHT 63mm David Bailey. In fact, this snapper has a very
DEPTH 42mm similar ethos to the Trip: quality results from
WIDTH 109mm
WEIGHT 271g
an easy to use, mass-market device. It handles
just like more expensive Olympus cams, too,
you just can’t change the lens.
{DETAILS} The sensor is a run-of-the-mill 16-megapixel,
back-illuminated 1/2.3-inch CMOS, but that’s
matched to a broader than average focal range,
1
BUILD
starting out at 25mm courtesy of 24x optical
Less solidly built than the zoom with a maximum f/3 lens aperture (one
Sony HX60V, but this wins of the brighter lenses on test). You also get a
hands-down for style
powerful TruePic VII processor handling the
2 grunt work and an autofocus response that can
CONTROLS only be described as lightning swift.
A chunky shutter button
and mode dial, or input The zoom is perhaps a little modest
via the touchscreen compared to the 30x reach of some rivals, but
the Olympus fields the advantage of five-axis
3 LOVE Well-crafted design. Handles like pricier Olympus
LENS
image stabilisation – tech that’s been passed
The 24x optical zoom, in down from the top-of-the-range OM-D, no
film-cam terms, translates less – allowing you to shoot wobble-free
to a focal range between
an ultra wide-angle 25mm 1080p video at up to a whopping 60 frames
and 600mm per second for suitably cinematic results.
Despite its elegant look, {ACCESSORISE}
this camera is no throwback, Cordito
including Wi-Fi for getting Hand-crafted in Los
Angeles, this roll-up leather
online and a three-inch pouch organises all your
touchscreen that makes camera and other tech
uploading pics directly to cables. More suave than
stuffing them down the
social networks or switching side of your suitcase with
between the many manual your socks and pants.
$40, PHOTOJOJO.COM
options and filters a breeze.
Art Filter, in particular, is great
for adding extra pep to shots.
The buttons and dials are
perfectly functional and easy
to operate, too, but you also
get the option of firing off the
camera shutter by tapping
that nice, bright screen.
The Olympus SH-1 is the
priciest camera on test – a
test that includes one compact system camera
– but it’s a premium compact that offers
enough style, and just enough substance, to
make it a five-star choice for your holiday.
Pen interchangeable lens cams. Features aplenty
HATE Shorter zoom than test rivals. Pricier than most
T3 SAYS Classic looks and modern features,
it’s the most premium of premium compacts

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SPEC
SHOT

CANON POWERSHOT SONY CYBER-SHOT SAMSUNG NIKON OLYMPUS

SX700 HS DSC-HX60V NX MINI COOLPIX S9700 STYLUS SH-1
PRICE, URL £270, CANON.CO.UK £319, SONY.CO.UK £275, SAMSUNG.COM/UK £250, NIKON.CO.UK £350, OLYMPUS.CO.UK

SENSOR 16.1-meg CMOS 20.4-meg CMOS 20.5-meg CMOS 16-meg CMOS 16-meg CMOS
SCREEN 3-inch 3-inch 3-inch 3-inch OLED 3-inch
LENS 25-750mm 24-720mm 24-73mm (compatible 25-750mm 25-600mm
with all NX-M lenses)
ZOOM 30x optical 30x optical N/A 30x optical 24x optical
ISO RANGE 100-3200 80-12,800 100-25,600 125-6400 125-6400
VIDEO 1080p at 60fps 1080p at 24fps 1080p at 30fps 1080p at 30fps 1080p at 60fps
STILLS JPEG only JPEG only JPEG, Raw, JPEG+Raw JPEG JPEG
CONNECTIVITY Wi-Fi, NFC Wi-Fi, NFC Wi-Fi, NFC Wi-Fi, GPS Wi-Fi
BATTERY LIFE Up to 360 shots Up to 380 shots Up to 650 shots Up to 300 shots Up to 380 shots
DIMENSIONS 66x35x113mm/269g 63x38x108mm/272g 62x22x110mm/196g 63x34x109mm/232g 63x42x109mm/271g
LOVE Sizeable optical zoom. Extensive zoom. Richly Point-and-shoot size, but Big lens on a compact body. Well-crafted design, handles
Compact and lightweight. detailed images. Rock solid with the added bonus of OLED screen. Cheapest like a pricier Olympus Pen
Easy to master in a hurry but still pocket-sized build interchangeable lenses big-zoom option on test interchangeable lens cam
HATE Small sensor. No Limited aperture Bundled with a fixed lens. No grip. Small buttons Shorter zoom than test
touchscreen control CMOS not APS-C tough to control rivals. Pricier than most
T3 SAYS Uncomplicated travel Richly detailed pictures Affordable and compact, The compact cam that Classic looks and modern
companion with from a small but perfectly with plenty of potential – delivers a big zoom at an features. The most premium
an impressive zoom reach formed compact cam and NX-mount lenses affordable price of premium compacts
RATING

{REASONS} {THE FINAL WORD}

1 the screen? You can, 6
Why the Lens – You can’t change but there’s traditional Filters – Gone on holiday YOUR PRE-FLIGHT CAM CHECK
Olympus SH-1 it, but with a focal range buttons and dials, too. in the rain by mistake? While the smartphone selfie might be good
snaps up our stretching from 25mm Liven up grey skies with enough for documenting the day-to-day, if
top spot to super-telephoto 4 one of seven Art Filters. you’re going somewhere exciting on your
600mm, why would you? TruePic VII processor – travels, whether Bora Bora or Bognor, you’ll
This latest-gen engine 7 want to have more control over your snaps.
2 delivers incredibly fast Video – Full-HD filming, For that you’ll need a dedicated camera that’s
Image stabilisation – focusing with almost no with the option to shoot easy to use and built to fit in a carry-on.
Corrects wobble on five lag between shutter at cinematic 60fps with The Stylus SH-1 is our current travel rep
axis, meaning that even press and picture. proper stereo sound. of choice, thanks to its first-class design –
shaky-handed folk can flash it at the check-in desk to raise your
take blur-free shots. 5 8 chances of an upgrade – and packed feature
Live Guide – Shows what Wi-Fi – It may have retro list. Alternatively, if you just want to relax
3 effect your tweaks will looks, but with images on holiday and even operating the manual
Controls – Want to fire have on a shot before transferring wirelessly, settings on a camera seems too much like
the shutter by tapping you actually take it. it’s bang up to date. hard work, the Canon SX700 is a great
point-and-shoot that keeps things simple.
Similarly easy to operate, but offering a
little more in the way of creative control via
{FOCUS} its manual exposure dial, is the Sony HS60V.
Want even more control than that? The only
Budget holidays: great snaps for slightly less dosh compact system camera on test, Samsung’s
CANON IXUS 135 SONY DSC-W830 NIKON COOLPIX S6800 OLYMPUS SH-60 NX Mini, might be for you then. It’s not the
A modest 8x zoom married Ups the resolution with a Compact, with a 12x optical A massive 24x optical strongest CSC in town, but it’s a great
to a 16-meg sensor. It may 20.1-megapixel CCD sensor zoom, Wi-Fi, 16 megapixels zoom on a budget, plus compromise for those that want swappable
not offer the shooting and 8x optical zoom and a slightly narcissistic multi-axis image lenses for a slither of the cost.
options of the cams on supplied by Zeiss, with Glamour Re-touch mode stabilisation and plenty of But if you’re after zoom, zoom, nothing
test, but does add Wi-Fi. wide-angle coverage. for topping up that tan. creative shooting options. but the zoom, the Nikon gives you top-notch
£90, CANON.CO.UK £109, SONY.CO.UK £159, NIKON.CO.UK £205, OLYMPUS.CO.UK eyesight and money left over for cocktails.

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spec list blower for half the
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squared the maths, but OnePlus
One definitely equals a bargain.
But just how powerful can a smartphone
really be for 230 notes? Well, you get the
exact same processor found in the Samsung
Galaxy S5, as well as 3GB of RAM that will
run any app without a graphical glitch. The
One’s CyanogenMod software, a customisable
version of the Android OS – more on that in
Focus, below left – runs like a dream, too.
On the rear there’s a 13-meg camera with
{DETAILS} a dual-LED flash to brighten night shots and
1 2 3 flatter skin tone, plus a five-megapixel one up
BUILD REAR CAMERA SCREEN front. Results aren’t quite as impressive as
The textured rear feels A 13-megapixel number The big 5.5-inch screen has the Galaxy S5’s but they’re not far off. Video
like soft sandpaper. Sound with a dual-LED flash, this a sharp 1080p resolution,
weird? It is, but we actually packs loads of detail into ideal for your modded capture goes all the way up to 4K, too; you
like it, as it adds grip stills and 4K video version of Android won’t see the benefit of that on the 5.5-inch
1920x1080 screen, but photos still shine.
Sound like too much of a good thing? Well,
the One’s 4G is made for the US, so will not
work with all UK networks – O2 and Vodafone
are no-gos to start with. You will also have
{ONEPLUS ONE} {FOCUS}
to show some initiative to get hold of one as
POINTS OF INTEREST Right, so what the hell they won’t be on shelves in the UK and are,
{SPECIFICATIONS} {SIZE/WEIGHT} is CyanogenMod, then? unsurprisingly at that price, pretty damn rare.
OS CyanogenMod 11S Almost impossible to pronounce, but actually The OnePlus One is undoubtedly a bargain
PROCESSOR surprisingly easy to use, the open-source hunter’s dream, though: quirky, hard to track
2.5GHz quadcore/3GB CyanogenMod operating system is a neatly down, but well worth all the extra effort.
SCREEN 5.5-inch, customisable version of Google’s Android
£229, ONEPLUS.NET
1920x1080, 441ppi software that lets you tweak settings and
STORAGE 16GB, 32GB, 64GB add features not in the official firmware,
REAR CAM 13-meg/4K from audio codecs to open VPN clients. Yes,
FRONT CAM 5-meg/1080p that’s right, it’s aimed at those who really LOVE Fantastic price. Big, sharp screen. Fast
CONNECTIVITY N Wi-Fi, know the difference between Android 4.0 and processor. Customisable operating system
4G, Bluetooth 4.0, USB 2.0 4.1. Just want a phone that works without HATE Patchy 4G. Rare as hen’s teeth
BATTERY LIFE Not quoted hassle? Don’t panic, it’s all optional and T3 SAYS A swish smartphone with most top-line
DIMENSIONS CyanogenMod can work just like vanilla features at a fraction of the cost (if you can find it)
153x76x8.9mm/162g Android, too. You also still get all those Google 
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THEY’RE THE FIRST SMARTWATCHES TO PACK GOOGLE’S WEARABLE OS, BUT WHICH IS STRAP HAPPY?
{SPECIFICATION }
OS Android Wear
SCREEN 1.63-inch, 320x320
PROCESSOR/RAM
1.2GHz/512MB
STORAGE 4GB
CONNECTIVITY Bluetooth
4.0, USB (pogo pin)
DIMENSIONS
38x56x8.9mm/59g
interface looks great on this screen
LOVE Sleek design.
Handy home button.
Added HR monitor
HATE Comparitively
poor battery life.
Clasp hard to fasten
T3 SAYS
Still far from the
finished article and
for early adopters
only, but Samsung’s
growing smartwatch
experience gives
it a slight edge
WORDS MATT SWIDER AND GUY COCKER
Showdown R A T
SAMSUNG GEAR LIVE
£169, SAMSUNG.COM/UK
Design and screen
Slightly lighter than the LG, the
styling is uninspiring despite the
vibrant 1.63-inch super AMOLED
screen. The home button sits
flush on the right-hand side and
helps with navigation. There’s a
heart-rate monitor, on the back,
too, like the Gear Fit, although
readings were a tad inconsistent.
WIN
Interface
Android Wear’s card-based
and the Google Now PA learns
your routines and offers help, with
notifications sitting underneath
the time. Fling them to the right,
Tinder-style, to dismiss them
or say “Okay Google” to get the
watch’s attention. The added
home button also means you have
a choice other than voice controls.
WIN
Battery life
Lasts for a maximum of a day
and uses a proprietary Pogo
charger rather than microUSB.
LOSE
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£159, LG.COM/UK
Like the Gear Live, the looks fail to
really excite. There’s added bulk {SPECIFICATION }
OS Android Wear
and the 1.65-inch screen has a SCREEN 1.65-inch, 280x280
lower 280x280 resolution, too. PROCESSOR/RAM
There are no buttons, either, so 1.2GHz/512MB
STORAGE 4GB
everything is done via that mini CONNECTIVITY
touchscreen. It’s responsive, Bluetooth 4.0, microUSB
though, sometimes too much so: DIMENSIONS
38x46x9.9mm/64g
it’s easy to switch it on in error.
LOSE
With no physical buttons the
emphasis here is very much
on voice and gesture control.
“Okay, Google” commands can be
temperamental but work most of
the time. The built-in gyroscope LOVE Simple to set up.
Decent battery life.
and accelerometer sense when Gesture control a
you’re raising the watch to look nice idea, in theory
at it and switch the face on; a nice HATE Lower-res screen.
Bit bulky. No button
idea in theory, but in practice a makes navigation harder
button would be far less buggy. T3 SAYS Android Wear
LOSE is a good idea but
needs more finessing,
with LG’s first effort
Keeps ticking for a day and a half, falling behind its rival
but ditch the always-on screen when it comes
to features
mode and you can double that.
WIN
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Smartphones p116
Cameras p117
Tablets p119
Laptops p120
Gaming p121
Home audio p122
Home entertainment p123
Headphones p124
Televisions p126
Accessories p128

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Scores The products featured in The Guide
are reassessed regularly against what’s new,
hip and happening. As a result, we will re-rate
older products to reflect the current market.
Prices We scour the web for the best prices
we can find at trusted retailers. Even so, check
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Smartphones Phablets that punch their weight

1 3
SAMSUNG GALAXY LG G FLEX
NOTE 3 A slightly curved variant
An array of clever, stylus- on the phablet theme, with
focused extras give this six inches of screen girth.
5.7-incher the edge. £325, LG.COM/UK
£430, SAMSUNG.COM/UK
4
2 NOKIA 1520
SONY XPERIA Z ULTRA Hulking yet sexy slab
A stellar 6.4-inch screen, carries the Windows Phone
a mighty fine camera and flag in its enlarged fist. Fast,
impressive slimness. apart from the camera.
£310, SONYMOBILE.COM £340, NOKIA.CO.UK

01 SAMSUNG GALAXY S5
£464, SAMSUNG.COM/UK, TESTED JULY 2014
06 SONY XPERIA Z2
£483, SONYMOBILE.COM, TESTED JULY 2014

LOVE Updated interface. Incredibly bright screen. Plethora of
innovative features and excellent battery-saving mode
HATE Sensors are great, but the accuracy isn’t there yet
T3 SAYS The S5 throws everything at its bid for Android
supremacy and it just about pays off
SPECIFICATIONS
PROCESSOR 2.5GHz quadcore SCREEN 5.1-inch, 1920x1080
CAMERA 16-megapixel/4K STORAGE 16GB or 32GB
LOVE Big display with brilliant image quality. Powerful
processor. Excellent camera. Waterproof
HATE Too little built-in storage. Sony’s interface needs work
T3 SAYS A full-featured and rugged Android smartphone.
Not quite as slick as some of its rivals, though
SPECIFICATIONS
PROCESSOR 2.3GHz quadcore SCREEN 5.2-inch, 1920x1080
CAMERA 20-meg/4K STORAGE 16GB

02 HTC ONE M8£507, HTC.COM/UK, TESTED JUNE 2014

07 LG G3 £479, LG.COM, TESTED SUMMER 2014

LOVE Stunning metallic build. Great camera upgrades.
Quadcore processor runs like a dream. Inspired Dot Matrix case
HATE Fewer flashy headline features
T3 SAYS The most stylish Android. Lacks headline
features of others, but what’s there works and looks top
SPECIFICATIONS
PROCESSOR 2.3GHz quadcore SCREEN 5-inch, 1920x1080
CAMERA 4-ultrapixel/1080p STORAGE 16GB
LOVE Remarkable hi-res display. Laser-focused camera.
Slick new re-skinning of Android KitKat
HATE Very big. Plasticky cover. Rear controls still a divider
T3 SAYS The G3 is bigger, with added lasers and an
imcredibly sharp screen, but it’s no Android champ
SPECIFICATIONS
PROCESSOR 2.46GHz quadcore SCREEN 5.5-inch, 1440x2560
CAMERA 13-meg/4K STORAGE 16GB

03 APPLE iPHONE 5S
FROM £549, APPLE.COM/UK, TESTED DECEMBER 2013
08 HUAWEI ASCEND P7
£330, HUAWEIDEVICE.CO.UK, TESTED AUGUST 2014

LOVE Powerful processor. Slick iOS 7. Looks premium (even in
gold). Fingerprint security. One of the best phone cams around
HATE Pricing on higher-storage models is crazy
T3 SAYS The innovations here really wow, but it can’t
hold back an attack from its newest Android rival
SPECIFICATIONS
PROCESSOR A7 SCREEN 4-inch, 1136x640
CAMERA 8-meg/1080p STORAGE 16GB, 32GB or 64GB
LOVE Quadcore processor, great five-inch screen and
knockout selfie camera, all at a great price
HATE Not the best re-skinning of Android. Average battery life
T3 SAYS Top-flight smartphone specs for less dosh.
Needs finessing, but still a bargain
SPECIFICATIONS
PROCESSOR 1.8GHz quadcore SCREEN 5-inch, 1920x1080
CAMERA 13-meg/1080p STORAGE 16GB, microSD

04 GOOGLE NEXUS 5
FROM £299, GOOGLE.CO.UK, TESTED JANUARY 2014
09
LOVE Incredible 1080p display. Android KitKat operating
system. Staggeringly affordable price tag
HATE Average camera. No 64GB option
T3 SAYS The best ever Nexus phone is a top Android
blower, offering a heck of a lot for not much dosh
SPECIFICATIONS
PROCESSOR 2.3GHz quadcore SCREEN 4.95-inch, 1920x1080
CAMERA 8-meg/1080p STORAGE 16GB or 32GB
APPLE iPHONE 5C
FROM £469, APPLE.COM/UK, TESTED DECEMBER 2013
LOVE Improved camera and 4G capability. iOS 7 looks good,
works well and continues to improve. Cute colours
HATE Not “cheap”, as anticipated
T3 SAYS It’s the iPhone 5 with a coloured back, at a very
slightly lower price – and there’s not a lot wrong with that
SPECIFICATIONS
PROCESSOR A6 SCREEN 4-inch, 1136x640
CAMERA 8-meg/1080p STORAGE 16GB or 32GB

05 SONY XPERIA Z1 COMPACT

FROM £345, SONYMOBILE.COM, TESTED APRIL 2014
10
LOVE Premium waterproof design, just like its big brother.
Brilliant 4.3-inch display. Powerful processor
HATE Lack of Android 4.4. Sony’s own interface feels dated
T3 SAYS The scaled-down version of the Xperia Z1
loses very little of the original’s appeal
SPECIFICATIONS
PROCESSOR 2.2GHz quadcore SCREEN 4.3-inch, 1280x720
CAMERA 20.7-meg/1080p STORAGE 16GB, microSD
NOKIA LUMIA 925
£257, NOKIA.COM, TESTED SEPTEMBER 2013
LOVE A pared down, cool, stylish phone with a pared down,
cool, stylish OS. Excellent camera
HATE WP8 still lacks apps. Battery could be better
T3 SAYS Nokia’s best Windows Phone to date. A few
more apps and this would be a real contender
SPECIFICATIONS
PROCESSOR 1.5GHz dualcore SCREEN 4.5-inch, 1280x720
CAMERA 8.7-meg/1080p STORAGE 16GB

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Cameras Budget compact cameras

1 3
CANON IXUS 140 SONY CYBER-SHOT
Credit card-sized snapper DSC-WX60
with a 16-meg sensor, 8x 16.2-meg CMOS, 8x zoom
zoom and Wi-Fi. Video is and easy 1080p shooting.
720p rather than full-HD. Small, but well-formed.
£94, CANON.CO.UK £93, SONY.CO.UK

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SAMSUNG WB250F NIKON COOLPIX S02
Heftier than the Canon, but No fripperies, but does the
with 1080p video and an basics well, with a 13.2-meg
18x zoom, we see why. CMOS and 1080p video.
£110, SAMSUNG.COM/UK £90, NIKON.CO.UK

01 CANON EOS 700D

£579, CANON.CO.UK, TESTED OCTOBER 2013
06 SONY CYBER-SHOT DSC-HX60V
£319, SONY.CO.UK, TESTED SEPTEMBER 2014

LOVE APS-C CMOS sensor delivers cracking images.
Jack-of-all-trades zoom kit lens. Touchscreen LCD
HATE Relatively bulky and pricey
T3 SAYS An excellent beginner’s DSLR that takes
semi-pro shots with reliable quality
SPECIFICATIONS
LOVE Extensive zoom. Richly detailed images.
Rock-solid but still pocket-sized build
HATE Slightly limited aperture
T3 SAYS Richly detailed pictures from a small
but perfectly formed compact camera
SPECIFICATIONS

RY
SENSOR 18.5-megapixel/1080p KIT LENS 18-55mm SENSOR 20.4-megapixel/1080p KIT LENS 24-720mm

NT
E
SCREEN 3-inch touchscreen WEIGHT 580g NEW SCREEN 3-inch WEIGHT 272g

02 SONY SLT-A58
£339, SONY.CO.UK, TESTED OCTOBER 2013
07 SONY A5000£349, SONY.CO.UK, TESTED JUNE 2014

LOVE Great value for money. Translucent mirror
allows you to film video in a flash. Decent lens choice
HATE Smaller LCD screen, but a fairly bulky look
T3 SAYS Sony’s not-a-DSLR is feature-packed
with great performance and a low price
SPECIFICATIONS
SENSOR 20.1-megapixel/1080p KIT LENS 18-55mm
SCREEN 2.7-inch WEIGHT 492g
LOVE Compact size. Tilting screen. High-resolution APS-C
sensor. Wi-Fi connectivity and selfie-ready tilting screen
HATE No hotshoe. No touchscreen
T3 SAYS A great upgrade if you crave better shots than
your smartphone or compact can handle
SPECIFICATIONS
SENSOR 20.1-megapixel/1080p KIT LENS 16-50mm
SCREEN 3-inch WEIGHT 269g

03 OLYMPUS STYLUS SH-1

£350, OLYMPUS.CO.UK, TESTED SEPTEMBER 2014
08 NIKON COOLPIX S9700
£250, NIKON.CO.UK, TESTED SEPTEMBER 2014

LOVE Well-crafted design. Handles like a much pricier
Olympus Pen interchangeable lens cam
HATE Zoom range could be better
T3 SAYS Classic looks and modern features.
The most premium of premium compacts
SPECIFICATIONS
RY
LOVE Big lens on a compact body. OLED screen at the rear.
Reasonably priced for a big zooming compact
HATE No grip. Small buttons are tough to control
T3 SAYS The compact camera that delivers
a big zoom at an affordable price
SPECIFICATIONS

RY

SENSOR 16-megapixel/1080p LENS 25-600mm SENSOR 16-megapixel/1080p KIT LENS 25-750mm

NT

NT

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NEW SCREEN 3-inch touchscreen WEIGHT 271g NEW SCREEN 3-inch WEIGHT 232g

04 SAMSUNG NX300
£380, SAMSUNG.COM/UK, TESTED JUNE 2013
09 SONY RX100 II
£465, SONY.CO.UK, TESTED MARCH 2014

LOVE DSLR-quality photos. Tiltable AMOLED
touchscreen. Manual controls aplenty. Built-in Wi-Fi
HATE No viewfinder or built-in flash
T3 SAYS Cutting-edge camera features in an
attractive, compact package; a winner
SPECIFICATIONS
SENSOR 21.6-megapixel/1080p KIT LENS 18-55mm
SCREEN 3.31-inch touchscreen WEIGHT 284g
LOVE Rock solid construction. Tilting LCD and hotshoe
(a rarity on a compact). Carl Zeiss lens
HATE Tiny buttons. No handgrip. Expensive for a compact
T3 SAYS An A-grade combination of optics and features
crammed cleverly into a pocket snapper
SPECIFICATIONS
SENSOR 20.2-megapixel/1080p LENS 28-200mm in
35mm terms SCREEN 3-inch WEIGHT 281g

05 SAMSUNG NX MINI
£275, SAMSUNG.COM/UK, TESTED SEPTEMBER 2014
10 PANASONIC LUMIX DMC-GX7
£675, PANASONIC.CO.UK, TESTED DECEMBER 2013

LOVE Point-and-shoot size, but with the added bonus LOVE Great, hi-res viewfinder and tiltable screen. Takes
of interchangeable lenses excellent photos and HD video. Reliable Wi-Fi for instant sharing
HATE Bundled with a fixed zoom lens. CMOS not APS-C HATE On the premium end of “mid-priced”
T3 SAYS Affordable and compact, with plenty of T3 SAYS Panasonic’s best CSC yet performs to a very
potential for lens upgrades high level, then ticks connectivity boxes just to show off
SPECIFICATIONS SPECIFICATIONS
RY

SENSOR 20.5-megapixel/1080p KIT LENS 24-73mm SENSOR 16-megapixel/1080p KIT LENS 14-42mm
NT

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NEW SCREEN 3-inch WEIGHT 196g SCREEN 3-inch WEIGHT 490g

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Tablets E-readers deserving attention

1 3
AMAZON KINDLE AMAZON KINDLE
PAPERWHITE The cheaper, lighter Kindle
The best e-reader screen with an improved screen
around, now backlit for is a nailed-on bargain.
late-night edification. £59, AMAZON.CO.UK
FROM £109, AMAZON.CO.UK
4
2 KOBO AURA
BARNES AND NOBLE A top-quality e-ink screen
NOOK GLOWLIGHT with added touch control
Great, backlit screen. and backlighting. Easy
Book store rivals Amazon’s. Facebook/Twitter sharing.
£47, BARNESANDNOBLE.COM £110, WHSMITH.CO.UK

01 APPLE IPAD MINI WITH RETINA

FROM £319, APPLE.COM/UK, TESTED JANUARY 2014
06 SONY XPERIA Z2 TABLET
FROM £399, SONYMOBILE.COM, TESTED JULY 2014

LOVE Retina screen. Speedy and sleek. More LTE bands and
128GB option. Best app store going. Perfect size for everyday use
HATE Touch ID would have been nice, but not essential
T3 SAYS Apple’s smallest iPad is still its best, for us,
now with specs that match the larger iPad Air
SPECIFICATIONS
OS iOS 7 PROCESSOR A7 SCREEN 7.9-inch, 2048x1536
STORAGE 16GB/32GB/64GB/128GB
LOVE Slim, waterproof build with newly-rounded edges.
Fantastic screen. Great battery life, extended by Stamina Mode
HATE Lots of bloatware. Sizeable bezel around screen
T3 SAYS In the category of best ten-inch Android slate,
Sony’s Xperia Z2 Tablet is king
SPECIFICATIONS
OS Android 4.4 PROCESSOR 2.3GHz quadcore
SCREEN 10.1-inch, 1920x1200 STORAGE 16GB/32GB

02 APPLE IPAD AIR

FROM £399, APPLE.COM/UK, TESTED JANUARY 2014
07 NOKIA LUMIA 2520
£300, NOKIA.CO.UK, TESTED JANUARY 2014

LOVE Stunning design. Blazing performance from the new
A7 processor. Incredibly thin and lightweight
HATE No fingerprint sensor. Camera remains unchanged
T3 SAYS That big Retina screen. Those sleek, slimline
looks. This is Apple’s best full-sized iPad yet
SPECIFICATIONS
OS iOS7 PROCESSOR A7 SCREEN 9.7-inch, 2048x1536
STORAGE 16GB/32GB/64GB/128GB
LOVE Tactile, attractive design. Speedy performance.
Nokia’s own-brand apps add to Windows 8.1
HATE Runs watered-down version of Windows 8.1
T3 SAYS This is not the most powerful Windows
tablet on the market, but it is the nicest to use
SPECIFICATIONS
OS Windows 8.1 PROCESSOR 2.2GHz quadcore
SCREEN 10.1-inch, 1920x1080 STORAGE 32GB

03 GOOGLE NEXUS 7
FROM £199, GOOGLE.CO.UK, TESTED NOVEMBER 2013
08 AMAZON KINDLE FIRE HDX
FROM £199, AMAZON.CO.UK, TESTED JANUARY 2014

LOVE Beautiful, high-res screen. Processing power boosted
to 1.5GHz. Lightweight, compact build. Very affordable
HATE Lack of tablet-optimised apps
T3 SAYS The hardware is excellent, but there are too
few tablet-specific Android apps to topple Apple yet
SPECIFICATIONS
OS Android 4.3 PROCESSOR 1.5GHz quadcore
SCREEN 7.2-inch, 1920x1200 STORAGE 16GB/32GB
LOVE Simple operating system. Seven-inch display has very
high pixel density for crisp images. Mayday is on hand to help
HATE Only approved apps (not many). No rear camera
T3 SAYS Amazon’s closed-system tablet is smarter than
ever, but still incredibly simple. A good family all-rounder
SPECIFICATIONS
OS Android 4.0, by Amazon PROCESSOR 2.2GHz quadcore
SCREEN 7-inch, 1920x1200 STORAGE 16GB/32GB/64GB

04 APPLE IPAD MINI

FROM £249, APPLE.COM/UK, TESTED JANUARY 2013
09 APPLE IPAD 2
FROM £329, APPLE.COM/UK, TESTED CHRISTMAS 2011

LOVE The pocket-friendly, 7.9-inch screen with ultra-slim bezel
looks fantastic and works great. 4G LTE. Very good value now
HATE No Retina Display. Now only in 16GB version
T3 SAYS Apple’s first miniature tablet can still turn
heads, but it’s been beaten on specs of late
SPECIFICATIONS
OS iOS 7 PROCESSOR 1GHz dualcore
SCREEN 7.9-inch, 1024x768 STORAGE 16GB
LOVE Decent battery, power and graphical oomph for its
slightly reduced price, with apps galore available. Thin, too
HATE Rear camera is poor. Surpassed by powerful alternatives
T3 SAYS Still hanging in there and still appealing,
this is now the cheapest way to get a full-sized iPad
SPECIFICATIONS
OS iOS 7 PROCESSOR 1GHz dualcore
SCREEN 9.7-inch, 1024x768 STORAGE 16GB/32GB/64GB

05 SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB S 10 AMAZON KINDLE HDX 8.9

10.3-INCH
FROM £329, AMAZON.CO.UK, TESTED APRIL 2014

LOVE Larger, but still incredibly sharp screen. Quadcore

FROM £499, SAMSUNG.COM/UK, TESTED SEPTEMBER 2014
LOVE Ace screen. Octocore power. First tab fingerprint sensor
HATE That fingerprint sensor doesn’t actually work that well
T3 SAYS Samsung’s best tablet: slimmer, slicker, sexier
SPECIFICATIONS
RY
processor and Amazon’s skinned Android fly. 4G option
HATE Limited app selection as ever
T3 SAYS It’s big, nippy and incredibly simple to use,
although not quite as portable as its smaller sibling
SPECIFICATIONS

OS Android 4.4 PROCESSOR 1.9GHz octacore SCREEN OS Android 4.0, customised by Amazon PROCESSOR 2.2GHz
NT

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Laptops Desktop PCs of plenty

1 3
APPLE iMAC 21.5-INCH
Optimum combo of style
and spec. A 1.4GHz i5 and
500GB for under a grand.
FROM £899, APPLE.COM/UK
2
SONY VAIO TAP 20
A touchscreen Windows 8
all-in-one whose screen
detaches to become a
hulking, 20-inch tablet.
£1,000, SONY.CO.UK
DELL XPS ONE 27
Windows 8 looks great on
the 27-inch touchscreen,
with an Apple-rivalling spec
and Blu-ray drive thrown in.
FROM £1,479, DELL.CO.UK
4
TOSHIBA LX830-11D
Solid all-in-one that
moonlights as a Freeview
recorder and DVD player.
£759, TOSHIBA.CO.UK

01 APPLE MACBOOK AIR

FROM £749, APPLE.COM/UK, TESTED SEPTEMBER 2013
06
LOVE Slimline looks, great battery life, cheaper than last year’s
model, comes in 11- and 13-inch sizes. Now with Mavericks OS
HATE No Retina Display
T3 SAYS The world’s best, ultra-portable laptop
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 11.6-inch, 1366x768/13.3-inch, 1440x900
PROCESSOR/RAM Core i5 1.3GHz/4GB STORAGE 128GB
or 256GB SSD QUOTED BATTERY 9hrs
ACER C7 CHROMEBOOK
£217, ACER.CO.UK, TESTED MARCH 2013
LOVE Incredible price tag. Decent screen and acceptable
processor. 100GB of cloud storage
HATE Chrome OS lacks support. Requires web connection
T3 SAYS The sheer cheapness makes this a very good
second machine, or one for undemanding users
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 11.6-inch, 1366x768 PROCESSOR/RAM 1.1GHz Intel
dualcore/2GB STORAGE 320GB HDD QUOTED BATTERY 3hrs

02 DELL XPS 15£1,249, DELL.CO.UK, TESTED OCTOBER 2012

07
LOVE Amazing screen. Excellent build quality. Top performer
thanks to powerful processor and graphics card. Good VFM
HATE Weighty. No solid state drive
T3 SAYS An incredibly powerful laptop for the price
and still gives most MacBooks a run for their money
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 15.3-inch, 1920x1080 PROCESSOR/RAM Core i7
2.1GHz/8GB STORAGE 1TB HDD QUOTED BATTERY 8hrs
SONY VAIO DUO 13
£915, SONY.CO.UK, TESTED DECEMBER 2013
LOVE Slimline Windows 8 laptop/tablet hybrid. Stylishly
designed. Fantastic touchscreen. Battery lasts all day
HATE Lack of storage for that crazy price tag
T3 SAYS Got money to burn on an overpriced Windows 8
hybrid? You could do a lot worse than this
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 13.3-inch, 1920x1080 PROCESSOR/RAM 1.6GHz
i5/4GB STORAGE 128GB SSD QUOTED BATTERY 10hrs

03 DELL VENUE 11 PRO

£328, DELL.CO.UK, TESTED SEPTEMBER
08 LENOVO YOGA PRO 2
£1,000, LENOVO.CO.UK, TESTED SEPTEMBER 2014

LOVE Capable and powerful when used as a tablet, LOVE Incredibly sharp quad-HD screen.
laptop or makeshift desktop PC. Very smart functionality Bends and twists to become a tablet or laptop
HATE Keyboard and desktop dock cost extra HATE For this price you could get a tablet and a laptop
T3 SAYS Surprisingly powerful and much more than just T3 SAYS An incredibly versatile, but also
a Windows 8 tablet if you stump up for all the add-ons exceedingly pricey, portable computing option
SPECIFICATIONS SPECIFICATIONS
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SCREEN 10.8-inch, 1920x1080 PROCESSOR/RAM 2.4GHz SCREEN 13.1-inch, 3200x1800 PROCESSOR/RAM 1.6GHz
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04 APPLE MACBOOK PRO 13-INCH

£1,249, APPLE.COM/UK, TESTED JANUARY 2014
09 TOSHIBA CHROMEBOOK CB30-102
£230, TOSHIBA.CO.UK, TESTED SEPTEMBER 2014

LOVE New Retina Display is stunning. Thinner and lighter. LOVE Bargain price tag (although pricier than the HP, below),
More storage space packed inside, too slimline looks and a surprisingly decent battery life
HATE Can get hot. Battery life’s not brilliant. No physical drives HATE Limited power and storage. Reliance on web
T3 SAYS If you’re after power, Apple’s new Pro laptop T3 SAYS Can’t compete on specs with most laptops,
is lighter, better and cheaper than ever but is very portable and pretty affordable
SPECIFICATIONS SPECIFICATIONS
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SCREEN 13-inch, 2560x1600 PROCESSOR/RAM Core i5 SCREEN 13.3-inch, 1366x768 PROCESSOR/RAM 1.4GHz
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2.4GHz/8GB STORAGE 256GB SSD QUOTED BATTERY 9hrs NEW dualcore/2GB STORAGE 16GB SSD QUOTED BATTERY 9hrs

05 HP SPECTRE XT
£850, HP.COM/UK, TESTED MARCH 2013
10 HP CHROMEBOOK 11
£199, GOOGLE.CO.UK, TESTED APRIL 2014

LOVE Attractive and sturdy all-metal design. Seriously thin
and portable. Great battery life. Beats Audio. Reasonably priced
HATE Tricky touchpad. Screen could be better
T3 SAYS The smartest ultrabook – what it lacks in power
it makes up for in style and portability
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 13.3-inch, 1366x768 PROCESSOR/RAM Core i5
1.7GHz/4GB STORAGE 128GB SSD QUOTED BATTERY 7.5hrs
LOVE Elegant styling. Very light, yet sturdy.
Reduced spec is still up to most day-to-day tasks
HATE Reliance on a web connection
T3 SAYS It’s no power player, but this budget,
web-dependent laptop is a steal for the spec
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 11.6-inch, 1366x768 PROCESSOR/RAM 1.7GHz
dualcore/2GB STORAGE 16GB SSD QUOTED BATTERY 6hrs

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01 MICROSOFT XBOX 360 250GB
£189, XBOX.CO.UK, TESTED NOVEMBER 2011
06
LOVE Affordable but powerful games machine. Feast of big series
like Gears of War and indie gems. Sky support. Ace online service
HATE No Blu-ray. About 97 in gadget years. Ad-laden interface
T3 SAYS A slick and powerful games and media machine.
Outgunned but hanging on with a quality back catalogue
SPECIFICATIONS
STORAGE 4GB BLU-RAY/DVD No/Yes
CONNECTIVITY HDMI, 5x USB, ethernet, N Wi-Fi, AV out
02 SONY PS3 SUPER SLIM
£145, UK.PLAYSTATION.COM, TESTED JANUARY 2013
07
LOVE A Blu-ray player and media server that’s 3D-ready and
supports the Move controller (£24). Oh, and you can play games
on it, too, with some very good exclusives like Last of Us
HATE Horrid plasticky quality to latest model
T3 SAYS A top gaming option if you can bear the new build
SPECIFICATIONS
STORAGE 12GB BLU-RAY/DVD Yes/Yes
CONNECTIVITY HDMI, 2x USB, ethernet, G Wi-Fi, AV out
03 NINTENDO 3DS XL
£150, NINTENDO.CO.UK, TESTED OCTOBER 2012
08
LOVE Bigger screens look great. Ergonomic curved design.
Boosted battery life. Increasingly impressive game selection
HATE Looks a bit cheap. No AC adaptor. 3D is a gimmick
T3 SAYS Look past the kiddie graphics and you’ll find an
ace handheld with arguably the best game line-up of 2013
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 4.88-inch 800x240 3D/4.18-inch 320x240 touch
CONNECTIVITY G Wi-Fi, 3.5mm audio BATTERY 4 hours
04 SONY PLAYSTATION 4
£350, UK.PLAYSTATION.COM, TESTED JANUARY 2014
09
LOVE Most powerful next-gen console. Ergonomic new controller.
Stylish design. Remote Play with PS Vita is ace. Decent price
HATE Light on games and media. Interface basic. Camera extra
T3 SAYS Very powerful and stylishly built. The PS4’s
potential is there, even if it’s light on must-buy games
SPECIFICATIONS
STORAGE 500GB BLU-RAY/DVD Yes/Yes CONNECTIVITY
2x USB 3.0, N Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, HDMI, optical audio, ethernet
05 MICROSOFT XBOX ONE
£349, XBOX.COM, TESTED JANUARY 2014
10
LOVE Powerful spec. Vastly improved functionality. Gameplay
sharing easy. Now available without Kinect
HATE Brutish design. Lack of games. Fiddly interface
T3 SAYS Completely outguns the Xbox 360 in power and
the potential is there, but lagging behind the PS4 still
SPECIFICATIONS
STORAGE 500GB BLU-RAY/DVD Yes/Yes CONNECTIVITY
3x USB 3.0, N Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, HDMI, ethernet, optical
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Gaming laptops with skills
1 3
ALIENWARE 18 MSI GS60 2PC GHOST
Heavy and built to win, Slimmest, lightest gaming
this is a powerhouse. Non- laptop on the market
gamers need not apply. punches above its weight.
£1,999, ALIENWARE.CO.UK £1,199, MSI.COM
2 4
CHILLBLAST TOSHIBA SATELLITE
DEFIANT 15-INCH P50T-B-10K
No looker, but with the A gaming laptop that
ability to outpace pricier doesn’t look out of place in
laptops this is a contender. the office. Lacks oomph.
£980, CHILLBLAST.CO.UK £1,200, TOSHIBA.CO.UK
SONY PLAYSTATION VITA
£146, UK.PLAYSTATION.COM, TESTED APRIL 2014
LOVE New model is lighter and thinner with more storage.
Improved battery. Growing game library. Remote Play with PS4
HATE OLED screen replaced by LCD. Less premium build
T3 SAYS Great portable game console is made slightly
more enticing. Coupled with PS+ service, it’s a real player
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 5-inch, 960x544 LCD touchscreen CONNECTIVITY
N Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, USB, SD, NFC BATTERY 4-6 hours
APPLE IPOD TOUCH
FROM £199, APPLE.COM/UK, TESTED CHRISTMAS 2012
LOVE Beautifully designed and now packing iOS 7. Bigger,
bolder Retina Display. A5 processor. Tonnes of cheap games
HATE Pricey. Lacks physical controls. Closed system
T3 SAYS A modern portable that’s spawned a new gen
of gamers who don’t consider themselves gamers
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 4-inch, 1136x640 touchscreen CONNECTIVITY
N Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 BATTERY 8hrs (video), 40 hrs (audio)
NINTENDO WII U
£220, NINTENDO.CO.UK, TESTED CHRISTMAS 2012
LOVE Genuinely innovative platform. Full-HD graphics at last
for Mario and co. Some very good, unique games from Nintendo
HATE Pricey. Touch screen an afterthought. Game options slim
T3 SAYS Nintendo again reinvented the way we play, yet
unfortunately few developers fancy joining in the fun
SPECIFICATIONS
STORAGE 32GB CONNECTIVITY N Wi-Fi, 4x USB, HDMI, NFC
GAMEPAD Touchcreen 6.2-inch, 854x480 BATTERY 3-5 hours
NINTENDO 2DS
£85, NINTENDO.CO.UK, TESTED DECEMBER 2013
LOVE Nintendo’s vast catalogue of AAA-quality games, now
available for you at special price
HATE Possibly the ugliest gaming gadget ever
T3 SAYS If you’re a gamer or parent who doesn’t
own a DS platform, this is a very smart purchase
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 4-inch, 1136x640 touchscreen CONNECTIVITY
N Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 BATTERY 8hrs (video), 40 hrs (audio)
NVIDIA SHIELD
£257, NVIDIA.COM, TESTED NOVEMBER 2013
LOVE Excellent screen and Tegra 4-powered graphics.
Streams high-end PC games to a portable device
HATE Bulky design. Technical restrictions. Kerr-azy UK pricing
T3 SAYS Real graphical punch, even if bulk, price tag
and a lack of game support dampen spirits somewhat
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 5-inch 1280x720 CONNECTIVITY N Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
3.0, GPS, HDMI, USB 2.0, MicroSD, 3.5mm BATTERY 5 hours
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Portable speakers with punch
1 3
JAWBONE JAMBOX
AND JAMBOX MINI
Small, brightly hued, great
audio, easy Bluetooth
pairing. Winners, both.
£90, £102, JAWBONE.COM
JABRA SOLEMATE
Trainer-like design won’t
suit all tastes but this sure
is a loud, brash, room-filling
speaker-cum-shoe.
£73, JABRA.COM

2 4
LOEWE SPEAKER 2GO DAMSON OYSTER
Incredible sound quality A 3D speaker that pushes
with size-defying bass and the bass to the fore. Ideal
top clarity. Pricey, though. for rave dads on the Costa.
£269, LOEWE.TV/UK £60, DAMSONAUDIO.COM

01 DENON COCOON STREAM

£249, DENON.CO.UK, TESTED MARCH 2014
06 BOWERS & WILKINS A5
£399, BOWERS-WILKINS.CO.UK, TESTED FEBRUARY 2013

LOVE AirPlay-enabled streaming speaker that also plays nicely
with NAS storage and DLNA for Android devices via smart app
HATE Jelly bean-style design not to all tastes
T3 SAYS A crowd-pleasing streaming speaker that,
sonically speaking, punches well above its price point
SPECIFICATIONS
POWER 4x 25W CONNECTIVITY Wi-Fi, USB, AirPlay, DLNA,
3.5mm out SIZE 451x236x170mm
LOVE Unfussy design and highly impressive sound.
New app makes iTunes syncing easy
HATE Bass wobbles at higher volumes
T3 SAYS Elegant audio executed excellently, the
A5 is the little black dress of speakers
SPECIFICATIONS
POWER 4x 20W CONNECTIVITY Wi-Fi, auxiliary analogue,
ethernet, AirPlay, 3.5mm out SIZE 300x180x120mm

02 CAMBRIDGE AUDIO MINX AIR 100

£250, CAMBRIDGEAUDIO.COM, TESTED MAY 2013
07 PHILIPS AW9000
£368, PHILIPS.CO.UK, TESTED FEBRUARY 2013

LOVE Powerful, detailed sound quality. AirPlay and Bluetooth
connectivity. Rugged, sleek design. Handy web radio buttons
HATE Multi-room is less straightforward than on Sonos
T3 SAYS Sounds great and packs more features than
any other wireless speaker systems on the market
SPECIFICATIONS
POWER 100W CONNECTIVITY Wi-Fi, AirPlay, Bluetooth,
RCA, 3.5mm SIZE 354x182x118mm
LOVE Six high-class drivers deliver outstanding sound quality,
while the wood veneer speakers look classy
HATE DLNA set-up needs to be made simpler
T3 SAYS Buxom chunks of wireless sonic bliss. A fine
alternative to the one-box streaming norm
SPECIFICATIONS
POWER 100W CONNECTIVITY N Wi-Fi, analogue, digital
coaxial, digital optical, 3.5mm in SIZE 300x210x350mm

03 DENON CEOL PICCOLO

£178 WITHOUT SPEAKERS, £313 WITH, DENON.CO.UK,
08
TESTED FEBRUARY 2013
LOVE The original all-in-one Ceol has ditched the CD player
but kept AirPlay, an iPod dock, 24-bit support and web radio
HATE Slightly dull looks
T3 SAYS Multi-format mini marvel at a decent price
SPECIFICATIONS
POWER 2x 65W CONNECTIVITY Wi-Fi, USB, optical in, audio
in, AirPlay, 3.5mm out SIZE 180x90x234mm
SONOS PLAY:1
£169, SONOS.COM, TESTED CHRISTMAS 2013
LOVE Great design and decent sound. A very affordable way
to begin your fledgling Sonos multi-room setup
HATE It’s mono. Adding more “zones” is inevitable (and pricey)
T3 SAYS The cheapest way to get Sonos sounds good, but
you will want more than one for better-than-good audio
SPECIFICATIONS
POWER Not quoted CONNECTIVITY Ethernet, SonosNet 2.0
wireless, power SIZE 120x120x161mm

04 PHILIPS FIDELIO SOUNDSPHERE

£466, PHILIPS.CO.UK, TESTED JANUARY 2012
09 PURE JONGO T4
£130, PURE.COM, TESTED MARCH 2014

LOVE Powerful and articulate 100W sound, a classy design
and a strong wireless connection for AirPlay streaming.
Add the free Fidelio app and you get internet radio, too
HATE No LCD display means awkward setup. Not cheap
T3 SAYS Quality speakers with added AirPlay? Love ’em
SPECIFICATIONS
POWER 2x 50W CONNECTIVITY Line in, AirPlay
SIZE 265x410mm
LOVE Multi-room wireless streaming on a relative budget.
Link two and you can achieve proper stereo sound, too
HATE Connectivity can be glitchy
T3 SAYS The slightly more affordable way to play digital
DJ for the whole house, with good results
SPECIFICATIONS
POWER 50W CONNECTIVITY Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ethernet,
3.5mm in SIZE 305x146x165mm

05 SONOS PLAY:5
£349 EACH, SONOS.COM, TESTED MARCH 2010
10 LIBRATONE LOOP
£399, LIBRATONE.COM, TESTED MARCH 2014

LOVE Superb, multi-room sound. Spotify and Last.FM
support. Control it all using the recently upgraded app
HATE Go properly multi-room and the costs pile up
T3 SAYS A simple, effective but pricey way to pump
well-rounded audio into every room
SPECIFICATIONS
POWER N/A CONNECTIVITY Wireless, ethernet (Sonos
proprietary streaming), line in SIZE 217x365x123mm
LOVE Fuzzy, circular design appeal. The choice of an iDock and
AirPlay connectivity, plus PlayDirect and DLNA for Android
HATE Pricey for what it is. Bass sounds stodgy at high volumes
T3 SAYS A design classic-cum-quirk of a dock, but the
sound quality doesn’t totally justify that price tag
SPECIFICATIONS
POWER 120W CONNECTIVITY Wi-Fi, AirPlay, USB, DLNA,
PlayDirect, 3.5mm in SIZE 333mm circumference

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Home entertainment {CONTENT}

Scorching new shows to series link
1 the college-based comedy
DOCTOR WHO (SERIES 8) alive didn’t attract Netflix’s
Newly regenerated and attention. Luckily,
hopefully swearier than on-demand upstart Yahoo
ever, this is Peter Capaldi’s Screen saves the day.
FROM AUTUMN ON YAHOO SCREEN
first outing. With the first
two eps directed by the T3
Brit List’s Ben Wheatley, 3
RIPPER STREET (SERIES 3)
we have high hopes.
FROM AUGUST 23 ON BBC ONE Dropped by the Beeb, the
Victorian detectives are
2 back thanks to a very
COMMUNITY (SEASON 6) modern backer: Amazon.
An online campaign to keep FROM AUTUMN ON AMAZON PRIME

01 SKY+ HD 2TB WI-FI

PRICE VARIES, SKY.COM, TESTED CHRISTMAS 2013
06 PANASONIC DMP-BDT330
£145, PANASONIC.CO.UK, TESTED MAY 2014

LOVE Seamless Wi-Fi integration. Rapidly expanding
on-demand content. Excellent all-round performance
HATE ONLY Still only two tuners to Virgin Media’s three
T3 SAYS Our Entertainment Gadget of the Year is also
the best PVR set-top choice, now with added Wi-Fi
SPECIFICATIONS
TYPE Satellite HD CHANNELS 67 TUNERS 2
STORAGE 2TB/350hrs HD recording
LOVE Vibrant colours and striking detail. 4K upscaling
on hand for proper encouragement to buy a 4K telly, too
HATE Rather convoluted interface
T3 SAYS Future-proof Blu-ray player with cracking image
quality, 4K upscaling and decent smart TV trimmings
SPECIFICATIONS
CONNECTIONS Wi-Fi, ethernet, 2x HDMI, optical digital out,
2x USB, SD card, ethernet SIZE 430x183x41mm

02 VIRGIN MEDIA TIVO

PRICE VARIES, VIRGINMEDIA.COM, TESTED JUNE 2014
07
LOVE Triple tuner recording. Excellent image quality. Extensive
on-demand content that’s easy to search. Built-in Netflix
HATE The user interface is long overdue a revamp
T3 SAYS Now with a massive selection of catch-up
and on-demand services, TiVo’s upped its game
SPECIFICATIONS
TYPE Cable HD CHANNELS 56 TUNERS 3
STORAGE 1TB/100hrs HD recording
ONKYO TX-NR515
£300, UK.ONKYO.COM, TESTED APRIL 2013
LOVE Bombastic, 130W-per-channel oomph. Slick interface.
Eight HDMI inputs. Can upscale images to 4K resolution
HATE No AirPlay, unlike some rival receivers
T3 SAYS A polished multichannel AV receiver with
all the modern trimmings, at an affordable price
SPECIFICATIONS
POWER 130W per channel CONNECTIONS 8x HDMI, 2x USB,
5x composite, 4x digital audio, 5x analogue audio. Wi-Fi via dongle

03 SONY BDV-N590
£273, SONY.CO.UK, TESTED DECEMBER 2012
08
LOVE Five satellite speakers, a sub and net-connected,
3D Blu-ray player with great performance, at a groovy price
HATE Satellites are a touch on the small side
T3 SAYS A full 5.1 cinema system and Blu-ray deck
for £400? That’s a bargain in anyone’s book
SPECIFICATIONS
POWER 1,000W CHANNELS 5.1 CONNECTIONS 2x HDMI,
Wi-Fi, 2x USB, optical, audio, composite, ethernet
YOUVIEW HUMAX DTR-T1000
£240, YOUVIEW.COM, TESTED NOVEMBER 2012
LOVE Retrospective EPG mixes catch-up and live telly. Excellent
image quality and ease of use. All the big UK channels on board
HATE No integrated Wi-Fi. Noisy running. Pricey
T3 SAYS Making this much content available without
a subscription is a winner, though lack of Wi-Fi frustrates
SPECIFICATIONS
TYPE Freeview HD HD CHANNELS 5 TUNERS 2
STORAGE 500GB/125hrs HD recording

04 HUMAX HB-1000S FREESAT HD

£130, HUMAXDIGITAL.CO.UK, TESTED APRIL 2014
09
LOVE Easy-to-use Freetime platform, blends catch-up and
live TV. Integrated on-demand services. Cheap and sub-free
HATE No built-in storage. Only a single tuner
T3 SAYS Inexpensive and slick way to get your
satellite telly fix without a subscription
SPECIFICATIONS
TYPE Satellite HD CHANNELS 11 TUNERS 1
STORAGE None, compatible with USB drives
SONY BDP-S5100
£133, SONY.CO.UK, TESTED MAY 2014
LOVE Appealing and compact design. Vivid Blu-ray images and
smooth upscaling from DVD. Useful apps and features
HATE Just one HDMI. Iffy 2D-to-3D conversion
T3 SAYS “Distinctive” design houses high-class Blu-ray-
ness. Striking 3D visuals and cinematic sound guaranteed
SPECIFICATIONS
CONNECTIONS Wi-Fi, ethernet, HDMI, 2x USB, coaxial digital
audio out SIZE 360x199x43mm

05 MAXELL MXSP-SB3000
£159, UK.MAXELL.EU, TESTED JANUARY 2014
10 SAMSUNG BD-F7500
£149, SAMSUNG.COM/UK, TESTED MAY 2014
LOVE Robust and well-balanced sound from a good-looking LOVE Set-top packed with apps providing catch-up TV services.
soundbar and meaty 100W wireless sub Comprehensive connectivity. Speedy menus. 4K upscaling
HATE No Dolby Digital decoder HATE Occasional video noise and judder
T3 SAYS Maxell’s first soundbar is a corker, delivering T3 SAYS The actual Blu-ray playback is good rather than
on performance and value for money great, but the apps and additional features rock
SPECIFICATIONS SPECIFICATIONS
POWER 2x 30W + 100W sub CHANNELS 2.1 CONNECTIONS CONNECTIONS Wi-Fi, ethernet, 2x HDMI, USB, optical digital
3x HDMI, Bluetooth, Optical, Coaxial, RCA, 3.5mm audio out, analogue audio out SIZE 430x201x46mm

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01 LG 47LB730V£799, LG.CO.UK, TESTED SUMMER 2014
06
LOVE WebOS interface delivers on-demand and catch-up
how we want it. Colour-rich images. Price is very right
HATE Lack of true blacks. Not 4K. You’ll need a soundbar
T3 SAYS This is how you make a web TV. LG’s
WebOS promises to reinvent how you watch
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 47-inch, 1920x1080 CONNECTIONS Wi-Fi,
Ethernet, 3x HDMI, 3x USB, Scart, component, CI Slot
02 SONY KD-65X9005B
£3,349, SONY.CO.UK, TESTED SUMMER 2014
07
LOVE Ultra-HD screen and excellent upscaling. Compatible
with Netflix 4K streaming. Striking wedge design
HATE Missing some basic catch-up services. Very expensive
T3 SAYS The ultimate TV upgrade for 2014, but
one for early adopters with deep pockets only
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 65-inch, 3840x2160 CONNECTIONS Wi-Fi, Ethernet,
4x HDMI, 3x USB, Scart, component, CI Slot, NFC
03 SAMSUNG UE55HU8500
£2,465, SAMSUNG.COM/UK, TESTED JUNE 2014
08
LOVE Slightly curved screen for a more absorbing
picture. Excellent 4K image quality. Ready for 4K Netflix
HATE Curved footprint won’t suit every space
T3 SAYS Futuristic looking and future-proof,
this is the curvy 4K TV that can
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 55-inch, 3840x2160 CONNECTIONS 4x HDMI,
Wi-Fi, 3x USB, 2x composite, component, Ethernet
04 SONY KDL-50W829
£779, SONY.CO.UK, TESTED MAY 2014
09
LOVE Superb HD image quality. Fabulous motion
handling. Top discovery engine for online content
HATE Limited catch-up – no ITV Player or 40D
T3 SAYS Polished 1080p pictures and smarter
features, all for a very reasonable price
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 50-inch, 1920x1080 CONNECTIONS 4x HDMI,
Wi-Fi, Scart, 2x USB, digital optical, digital audio, Ethernet
05 LG 55LA740 £1,199, LG.COM, TESTED FEBRUARY 2014
10
LOVE Strong on-demand and catch-up offering.
Strong high-def performance. Top value for money
HATE Slightly muted blacks. Only one tuner
T3 SAYS A brilliant balance between killer tech,
abundant content and affordability
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 55-inch, 1920x1080 CONNECTIONS 3x HDMI,
Wi-Fi, Scart, 3x USB, digital optical, digital audio, Ethernet
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OPTOMA HD30 BENQ W1300
Breathtaking 1080p Dynamic images and 2,200
with nuanced blacks and Lumens brightness make
impressive 3D playback. this a punchy choice for
Very good value for money. big-screen sports fans.
£1,299, OPTOMA.CO.UK £824, BENQ.CO.UK
2 4
SONY VPL-HW55ES VIVITEK H1185HD
Awesome full-HD projector A single-chip DLP projector
for screen sizes up to 300 that’s sharp and vibrant for
inches. Pricey, but worth it. business and pleasure.
£2,699, SONY.CO.UK £949, VIVITEK.EU
SONY KDL-55W905A
£1,100, SONY.CO.UK, TESTED FEBRUARY 2014
LOVE Excellent picture performance. Distinctive design.
Well connected. Top file support
HATE Limited catch-up TV. Single tuner
T3 SAYS A great-looking screen with outstanding
image quality and few flashy extras
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 55-inch, 1920x1080 CONNECTIONS 4x HDMI,
Wi-Fi, 3x USB, Ethernet, NFC, Scart, component
SAMSUNG UE48H6400
£599, SAMSUNG.COM/UK, TESTED SUMMER 2014
LOVE Crisp, vibrant HD image quality. Fine motion
handling. Good web TV selection on hand. Affordable
HATE Limited black levels. 3D suffers from crosstalk
T3 SAYS The definition of a solid mid-range telly:
does everything very well, but never wows
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 48-inch, 1920x1080 CONNECTIONS Wi-Fi, 4x HDMI,
Ethernet, 3x USB, Scart, component, CI Slot, Bluetooth remote
PHILIPS 55PFS6609
£1,000, PHILIPS.CO.UK, TESTED SUMMER 2014
LOVE Ambilight mood lighting. Solid HD image clarity.
Decent selection of catch-up and on-demand services
HATE Charmless Smart TV portal. Active 3D has issues
T3 SAYS An attractive and solid performer, but you
can get a slightly better telly for less dosh
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 55-inch, 1920x1080 CONNECTIONS Wi-Fi, Ethernet,
4x HDMI, 2xUSB, Scart, component, CI Slot
TOSHIBA 47L7453
£800, TOSHIBA.CO.UK, TESTED SUMMER 2014
LOVE Dramatic, contrast-heavy image. Polished Cloud TV
portal. Powerful audio performance. Almost budget price
HATE Passive 3D and motion handling have faults
T3 SAYS The cheapest telly on test packs picture
quality, but fails at the finer details
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 47-inch, 1920x1080 CONNECTIONS Wi-Fi, Ethernet,
4x HDMI, 2x USB, Scart, component, CI Slot, PC
PANASONIC VIERA TX-55DT65
£1,299, PANASONIC.CO.UK, TESTED FEBRUARY 2014
LOVE Customisable smart TV interface. Twin tuners for
viewing and use as a PVR. Looks highly stylish
HATE Lacklustre blacks. Limited catch-up TV selection
T3 SAYS On-demand TV organised the way you
want it. Now we just need more content…
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 55-inch, 1920x1080 CONNECTIONS 3x HDMI, Wi-Fi,
3x USB, digital optical/audio, Ethernet, component via adaptor
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Accessories Smartwatches worth a shufty

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SAMSUNG GEAR LIVE PEBBLE STEEL
A colourful super-AMOLED Same e-ink screen,
screen, built-in heart-rate with a new metal design
monitor and Android Wear and a massive selection
running the whole show. of open-source apps.
£168, SAMSUNG.COM/UK $249 (£150), GETPEBBLE.COM

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LG G WATCH SAMSUNG GEAR 2
Another superior Android The most feature-packed
Wear watch, but one that’s smartwatch you can buy,
bulkier and less bright. but not quite the best.
£159, LG.COM/UK £299, SAMSUNG.COM/UK

01 TOMTOM GO 6000£238, TOMTOM.COM/UK, TESTED MAY 2014

06
LOVE Clean, quick interface. HD traffic info, with no additional
charges for service or data connectivity throughout Europe
HATE Speed cam tips-offs cost £20 per year. Pricey
T3 SAYS Slightly better than the Garmin satnav, for our
money. Breathes new life into bespoke mapping tech
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 6 inches CONNECTIVITY Bluetooth
SIZE 169x105x20mm
GOOGLE CHROMECAST
£30, GOOGLE.COM/CHROMECAST, TESTED JUNE 2014
LOVE Easy to get smart video on TV. Supported services
play in HD. Accesses not-so-supported sites, too
HATE Limited official app selection at present
T3 SAYS This dongle instantly makes almost any
TV web-enabled and costs just thirty quid
SPECIFICATIONS
CONNECTIVITY N Wi-Fi, HDMI, USB SUPPORTS BBC iPlayer,
Netflix, YouTube, Vevo, Rdio SIZES 72x35x12mm/34g

02 TOMTOM MULTI-SPORT CARDIO

£280, TOMTOM.COM, TESTED JULY 2014
07 NIKE FUELBAND SE
£129, NIKE.COM, TESTED JUNE 2014

LOVE Built-in heart monitor with trustworthy results.
Simple interface. Accurate data for most sporting disciplines
HATE Can’t track pulse in the pool. No Android app
T3 SAYS One for serious sporty types, this offers
the most comprehensive fitness data around
SPECIFICATIONS
SYNCING Bluetooth and ANT+ WATER RESISTANCE 50m
BATTERY 8 hours SIZE 22x25x13.8mm/63g
LOVE The best-looking band around. Strong motivational
pairing of Win the Hour and the in-app social competitiveness
HATE Not for swimming. Not for Android
T3 SAYS The most social band on test, the Fuelband SE is
a great motivational tool, if not the most accurate tracker
SPECIFICATIONS
SYNCING Bluetooth/USB WATER RESISTANCE Shower only
BATTERY 3 days SIZES 147mm (small) to 197mm (extra-large)

03 GARMIN VIVOFIT
£100, GARMIN.COM, TESTED JUNE 2014
08
LOVE Simple, sporty design. Will survive the swimming pool
and pairs with heart-rate monitor. One-year battery life
HATE No automatic syncing. Garmin Connect app’s not the best
T3 SAYS Sporty and practical, with a marathon battery.
Not the best-looking, but it’s still our top pick
SPECIFICATIONS
SYNCING Bluetooth and ANT+ WATER RESISTANCE 50m
BATTERY 1 year SIZES 120-175 mm (small), 152-210 mm (large)
ASTRO A50 WIRELESS SYSTEM
£250, ASTROGAMING.CO.UK, TESTED AUGUST 2014
LOVE Dolby 7.1 sound with almost no interference. Compatible
with all PCs and consoles (Xbox One requires adapter)
HATE No detachable microphone. A little heavy
T3 SAYS A solid gaming headset for any breed of
gamer looking to free themselves of wires
SPECIFICATIONS
FREQUENCY RESPONSE 20Hz - 20,000 KHz
CONNECTIVITY 5.8GHz Wi-Fi, USB, optical cable

04 SAMSUNG GEAR FIT

£180, SAMSUNG.COM/UK, TESTED JULY 2014
09 GARMIN NÜVI 3598 LMT-D
£280, GARMIN.COM/UK, TESTED OCTOBER 2013

LOVE Smartwatch and fitness tracking features combined.
That curved AMOLED screen. Heart-rate tracking
HATE Limited compatibility and accuracy
T3 SAYS Great-looking smartwatch with built-in
fitness features. A thoroughly modern timepiece
SPECIFICATIONS
SYNCING Bluetooth 4.0 WATER RESISTANCE Up to 1m
BATTERY 5 days SIZE 23x57x12mm
LOVE Real-time traffic updates without a data connection
(uses your car’s DAB radio). Free map updates for life
HATE It’s accurate, but also a tad costly
T3 SAYS Expensive, but reliable, attractive and smart.
Have you reached your satnav destination of choice?
SPECIFICATIONS
SCREEN 5 inches CONNECTIVITY Bluetooth
SIZE 138x77x13mm

05 ROKU STREAMING STICK

£50, ROKU.COM, TESTED AUGUST 2014
10 POLAR LOOP£79.50, POLAR.COM, TESTED JUNE 2014

LOVE Simple setup. Great app selection, including some
games. Reliable HD streaming
HATE No viewing unofficial weblinks. No Amazon Prime Instant
T3 SAYS A huge selection of apps and a proper remote
give Roku the slight edge in the streaming game
SPECIFICATIONS
CONNECTIVITY N Wi-Fi dual-band CONTENT iPlayer, NowTV,
YouTube, Spotify and more DIMENSIONS 11x27x79mm/18g
LOVE Pairs with heart-rate chest strap for accurate data. Can
be worn for swimming. Impressive battery life, rapid charging
HATE Cheap feeling design
T3 SAYS Comprehensive fitness tracker for under £100.
If you can compromise on build, it’s a bit of a bargain
SPECIFICATIONS
SYNCING Bluetooth/USB WATER RESISTANCE 20m
BATTERY 6 days SIZE Custom fit from 145-240mm

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Wearables we’d actually wear
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Facial mood
lighter
“Say goodbye to date-
ruining dark circles and
presentation-crushing
blemishes forever. With
the Pallor2Glamour 5000
Personal Facade System,
you need never look
like a washed-out wreck
again. It even makes
stubble and beards look
completely grey hair-
and patch-free! For just
$129.99, you can always
appear like you’re sat in a
candle-lit, underground
1920s speakeasy, or
your money back! No
installation necessary.”
2/
Vacuum shoes
Time to wrestle the
polishing power back
from robo maids before
the autobot uprising, and
we reckon a wearable
Dysons will do the trick.
Pace around your house
like a caged lion or slide
around pretending you’re
Messi, sucking up all the
dirt and grime as you
go. When you’re done,
pop your clogs into the
wall-mounted footwells
to both charge them and
blast the accumulated
dust cloud into your
neighbour’s garden.
3/
Cold and flu
monitor
Who wouldn’t don
a Nike FuelBand-like
ergonomic head strap if
it would light up to alert
colleagues to the fact
that you have, indeed,
got a raging cold and
should therefore be sent
home immediately?
What’s that, it didn’t
light up? Well, they’ll
now know your forehead
is a Niagara Falls of sweat
due to a weekend on the
sherry, and will instead
leave you to sleep it off
on that stack of papers
you’ve formed into a
rudimentary bed under
your desk. Probably.
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your own tea bags and
the office is your oyster,
able to make a cuppa
at a moment’s notice.
You’ll also have a handy
weapon with which to
fend off muggers, should
they try to steal the rest
of your wearable tech.
8/
Emoji helmet
Tired of wasting valuable
energy flexing your facial
muscles? Us too, so we’ve
come up with a solution:
a hat that looks a bit like
a fencing mask when off,
but will display whatever
emoji best corresponds
to your mood when
active. Set it to Lie Mode
if you don’t want to lose
friends/get fired.
9/
Corkscrew
There are many ways to
remove a cork without a
bottle opener, nearly all
of which greatly raise the
risk of either a smashed
Chardonnay or a slashed
artery. Yes, you could
carry a cumbersome
old corkscrew, but with
a surgically installed,
electric earpiece of
unbottling all you’d have
to do is raise your vino to
your lug and whir the
cork out automatically.
Wish tofend off other
guests and keep all the
wine to yourself, you
lush? Have the human
Swiss Army knife
attachment installed in
the other ear. Job done.
10/
4/ teeth. Don’t fall back to and you’re ready to roll. be invaluable in clubs Electrical
Toothbrush
sleep, though, unless you You’d never have parking and portable toilets at socket
want a smile as bright as worries again and would festivals. Fashioned by “Never experience those
Even with app-connected burning magnesium. look a bit like a very basic top designers, they’d painful ‘low battery’
electric toothbrushes, Transformer. Side effects: also feature advanced phone panics ever again.
scrubbing your pegs is you’ll put on weight and activity tracking tech to
still the most boring two 5/ With the PowerBelly 2.0
it will take you about half measure… well, all sorts. you simply plug straight
minutes of any grooming Bicycle an hour of swearing and into your stomach,
routine. With a wearable Keen to be the ultimate
toothbrush, however, all commuter? It’s time to
wrestling to fold yourself 7/ charging to full juice in a
trice!” Yes, it requires a
into a sitting position.
you’d need to do is pop in become part man, part Kettle belly-button operation,
a gumshield-type device Brompton. With wheels, You are now a little carries an overheating
when you wake up and breaks and gears all 6/ teapot, short and stout, risk and may cause death,
by the time you’ve made attached to your limbs, Toilet seat the possessor of boiling but let us repeat: You
it to the bathroom, hey all you’d have to do is Stylish and hygienic, the water, quite literally, at will never be without
presto: perfectly clean get into racing position wearable loo seat would your fingertips. Carry your smartphone again…
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