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Smart Home
£110 / go.stuff.tv/Echo Having morphed from a cylinder to a sphere, the latest Echo is an excellent newsreader, weather forecaster, personal assistant and intercom straight out of the box; but it’s now also a capable speaker and a very accessible sma
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Top Ten Games To Prepare For The End Of The World
Whether it’s fighting a robotic uprising, scrounging for supplies while evading zombie hordes, or simply trying to survive the classic nuclear annihilation scenario, there’s something oddly compelling about life after the apocalypse. All that chaos d
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Affordable In-ears
These aren’t just the first Melomanias to get active noise-cancellation; Cambridge has also given the M100s Bluetooth LE, aptX Lossless, LC3 and Auracast connectivity. Class A/B amplification powers the custom drivers… and good luck finding another p
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Nine Of The Times
from £4499 / sony.co.uk Sony is bucking TV trends with its latest Bravia, but could it be onto a winner? QLED is normally the runt of the TV tech litter, living its life in the shadow of the contrast king OLED and so-bright-you-need-shades QD-OLED. B
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News Feed
With 3.5mm ports now pretty much consigned to the smartphone history books, SoundMagic has launched a pair of in-ears with a USB-C connector at the other end of the cable. Costing just £40, the E11D buds include a remote, a microphone, and a built-in
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Consoles
from £480 / go.stuff.tv/PS5 The PS5 is not a modest upgrade. Its hulking design will make a bad first impression on some (although the slimmed-down version is less intimidating), but spend time playing it and it’ll soon win you over. This is essentia
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Beach Buddies
Glad tidings for those who want to document their splashy exploits: you now have an abundance of waterproof cameras to pick from. Heck, there’s a good chance you can even use your phone for a bit of wet work – which is why the Insta360 X4 has to be m
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DROP EVERYTHING & DOWNLOAD
Proper emulators have been a long time coming to Apple’s App Store, but Delta has finally made playing retro console games on your iPhone a reality – and best of all, it’s completely free. While Android owners have spent years stuffing their phones w
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Speakers
£449 / go.stuff.tv/Move2 The ‘2’ means our favourite speaker is now even better. Sonos has upgraded the Move in the areas that matter most – sound quality and battery life, the latter of which has more than doubled. Our only criticisms are about the
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TVs
£3399 / go.stuff.tv/S95D The S95D raises the bar of what’s achievable with an OLED television, delivering brightness and saturation beyond what was previously possible, while the glare-free screen is a revelation. Add the elegant design, immersive so
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Smartwatches
from £209 / go.stuff.tv/WatchSE The SE is easily the best-value Apple Watch. It tracks sleep and all the exercise you need, supports Apple Pay, works great with your iPhone and… what more do most people require? The user experience is broadly identic
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Star Benz Electric
You don’t get many electric car chargers in the middle of the desert – but considering most people who drive off-roaders live within half a mile of a Pret a Manger, that’s unlikely to be an issue for anyone who buys one of Mercedes’ new G-Wagens. Tha
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The Entertainers
There’s never been a better time to be a music-loving noise-hater. The number of headphones now offering active noise-cancellation means you don’t have to look far for an effective escape from the hubbub of public transport, co-working spaces or airp
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Stop Making Tense
A city-building game without the busywork, Townscaper dumps you in an endless expanse of water and has you tap the screen to plonk down little islands. Depending on where blocks are positioned, oddball structures and features automatically appear, su
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VR Headsets
£200 / go.stuff.tv/Quest2 The original Quest felt almost too good to be true. Its successor lacks the same wow factor, but you can’t argue with a better display and processor – not to mention a lighter, more comfy build – and the fantastic Beat Saber
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People get Zeddy
£2149 (body only) / go.stuff.tv/Zf The photography world has been hot for retro-styled snappers for a while, but Nikon has only really dabbled… until now. The Zf takes design inspiration from the firm’s ’80s-era FM2 film camera, but borrows its image
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Tech Titans Atari
The Fairchild Channel F holds the ‘first cartridge console’ crown, but Atari took the idea and ran with it… fast. Like the Channel F, the 2600 (launched as the Atari VCS) saw carts as an answer to the poor clones of the Pong machine that were floodin
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Stream
Whovians rejoice, everyone else have a shrug: Ncuti Gatwa’s stint as TV’s most enduring Time Lord begins here. The Sex Education star is the 15th actor to portray The Doctor, and in his first series he’ll pilot the Tardis from prehistoric times to th
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Bulgari Octo Finissimo Ultra Cosc
That’s a lot of money for not a lot of watch. You can say that again – turn it sideways and it disappears. While phone companies have largely recovered from their obsession with thinness, there’s something of an arms race going on between high-end wa
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Chromeward Bound
£399 / go.stuff.tv/Plus515 Chromebooks are some of the best budget laptops around, but they can also be a little lacking on the hardware front. That’s not the case under Google’s new Chromebook Plus initiative, which mandates minimum specs including
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Win An Outwell Tent Worth Over £2k From Outdoor World Direct!
With the sun finally shining (some days), it’s time to make the most of it with camping trips galore. If that thought brings back damp and mildewy memories, you need to up your game – and, thanks to this month’s competition with Outdoor World Direct,
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Specs On Fire
Oakley has been selling sleek sporty sunglasses since 1984, and its distinct wraparound look is retained in the Sphaera, the brand’s latest foray into eyewear for the active. With a flexible, featherlight frame constructed of Oakley’s patented O Matt
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E-bikes
£1699 / go.stuff.tv/Uni4 This urban e-bike is designed to be as maintenance-free as possible, with no gears, integrated lights, and a hub that swaps the oily chain for a nice clean belt. The non-removable battery might make it a poor choice for flat-
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Games
PC The title might suggest a link to some dodgy website, but Ascendant (if we can just drop the ‘.com’) is actually a new squad-based first-person shooter. Yes, there are plenty of those these days so it’s tricky to stand out. But developer PlayFusio
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TopSpin 2K25
Even TopSpin pros can expect to be soundly thrashed on their 2K25 court debut. No matter how long you spend designing your custom character – from their playing style and celebration to the diaphragm grunt they emit when hitting the ball – either Nao
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Stack To The Future
There’s only so big you can make the screen on something that has to slide into a backpack, so Asus has decided to double up instead. When closed, the Zenbook Duo OLED (2024) looks like any other premium laptop, and when you open it up you might not
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