Innholdsfortegnelse for July 2022 i T3

EMBER CUP Festival season is finally upon us. And when you’re trudging through mud and throwing shapes night and day, your morning mug of wake up juice is more important than ever. But the British summer being what it is, you can’t always guarantee your coffee is going to stay warm all that long. Fortunately, Ember’s self-heating mugs can keep your brew boiling hot, no matter your cuppa of choice. The diminutive new Ember Cup is designed to keep your smaller beverages – such as a cappuccino, cortado, or flat white – at your preferred drinking temperature from 50°C to 62.5°C. Its built-in battery will last for 1.5 hours, or indefinitely when using the included charging coaster, and it comes in stylish matte black or copper finishes. And at £50…

CEP THE RUN COMPRESSION MID CUT SOCKS These wrinkle-free trail socks provide some compression from the ankle down to keep blisters at bay. Plus, the padded zones in the foot provide reliable cushioning, keeping your feet cool and comfortably dry. £17.95, cepsports.co.uk ON RUNNING MID CUT SOCKS On is the running brand you want to keep an eye on, not least because its products combine performance and style almost seamlessly. These mid socks feature technical mesh sections that provide ventilation and also a flat toe seam for added comfort. £18, on-running.com BALEGA ENDURO QUARTER REFLECTIVE RUNNING SOCKS Balega’s quarter socks feature extra deep heel pockets with added stitches to provide better fit. And refractive beads knitted into the rib top give high visibility reflection. £14, balega.co.uk…

The arrival of the warmer weather provides a great opportunity to get fit without paying exorbitant gym fees – something many might be thankful for right now, given all the hardship being faced as a result of the cost of living crisis. Those looking to monitor their workouts will be pleased to hear that there are many affordable wearables available that don’t break the bank: fitness trackers. The smaller, cheaper and simplified fitness tracker represents excellent value for money, making it more appealing to people on a budget than a fully fledged smartwatch that – in some instances – can cost five times as much. You can, for example, buy three Fitbit Charge 5 trackers for almost the same price as the cheapest iteration of the Apple Watch 7 smartwatch.…

Amazon Prime Day is the retail giant’s annual sales event, during which it cuts the prices of thousands of products. The name is a little bit misleading because in much the same way that Black Friday now happens over more than one day, so does Prime Day: it’s now a two-day event. This year, it’s actually scheduled for Tuesday 12 and Wednesday 13 July. Prime Day was created in 2015 because Black Friday was becoming increasingly crowded: with what seems like every retailer on the planet trying to tempt you to spend money on their deals, it’s increasingly hard for individual retailers to stand out. So while Amazon is still a very enthusiastic participant in Black Friday, it decided to create its own deals day. Inevitably rival retailers have piled…

After being cooped up indoors for the past what-feels-like-forever, this year’s holiday season feels sweeter than ever before. As such, you’ll want to capture all of those freedom memories in the best way possible. Sure, your phone can do an okay job – but if you want to really capture some snaps that will make all your pals still stuck at home jealous, picking up a dedicated camera is just the ticket. There’s an incredible array of choice out there at the moment, with extraordinarily high-quality cameras being smaller and more affordable than they might have been in years gone by. You also no longer need to be a bona fide expert to get the best from these devices. In short, you no longer have to face such a compromise…

If you want one of the best cheap phones but you also don’t want to miss out on fast charging, decent performance and a good camera, then the OnePlus Nord 2T will absolutely be worth considering. Gone are the days of making huge sacrifices because of a tight budget. You can’t deny that OnePlus makes some good looking handsets. Gorilla Glass 5 covers the front and back of the OnePlus Nord 2T so it feels durable, although it does pick up light fingerprint marks here and there. The metallised plastic side rails are a great way to save on cost without affecting the look of the phone. Unfortunately, there’s no official IP rating here so it can’t claim to be waterproof or dustproof. Sporting a 6.43-inch FHD AMOLED display with…

They say good things come in small packages… well, they may have a point when it comes to the Garmin Forerunner 255S. It’s a milestone for people with smaller wrists and the new features have made it more than a mere running watch. The 255S is smaller than the Forerunner 245 used to be and the standard 255, while still possessing the normal five-button layout. Sadly, no versions of the Garmin Forerunner 255 come with an AMOLED display, nor do they have the solar-harvesting Power Glass included – a shame, really, especially considering that other new Garmin watches feature at least one of these. It does come with all the smart, health and fitness features under the sun, however. These include 24/7 heart rate tracking, sleep tracking, stress tracking, VO2…

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SPINNAKER, HASS X MCS LIMITED EDITION Launched in collaboration with the Marine Conservation Society, this limited edition piece is inspired by the natural palettes found in the ocean and is a proper sturdy, robust dive watch. £375, spinnaker-watches.co.uk RADO, CAPTAIN COOK CHRONOGRAPH The explorer’s favourite makes an exciting return as a chronograph. Inside is the new, thinner R801 automatic movement, with 59 hours of power reserve and a new Nivachron anti-magnetic hairspring. £3,440, rado.com TAG HEUER, MONACO SPECIAL EDITION Taking inspiration from the ’70s and Monaco ‘Dark Lord’, this is crafted in grade 2 titanium and coated in DLC. The two-tone dial is completed with contrasting 18K rose-gold-plated indexes. £6,800, tagheuer.com HAMILTON, KHAKI NAVY FROGMAN This is Hamilton’s most technically capable maritime-ready watch – engineered for accuracy, legibility and endurance.…

BABYZEN YOYO2 The YOYO2 stroller folds and unfolds in an instant and can be worn over the shoulder. It’s the ideal travel stroller and tucks in anywhere. Best of all, it’s sturdy enough to withstand the rigours of world travel. £429.95, babyzen.com SILVERCROSS JET 3 This cabin-approved stroller makes journeys with baby easy. Once folded, Jet freestands on two wheels with a stylish protective cover and pulls along suitcase-style for easy transportation. £345, silvercrossbaby.com CYBEX LIBELLE One of the smallest travel strollers around and weighing in at only 5.9 kg, this is perfect if you prefer travelling light. It folds and unfolds in seconds and can even fit in overhead compartments for a smoother journey. £259.95, cybex-online.com…

People often ask me what the best thing about this job is, and the answer is: “All the free stuff.” Obviously. But the worst thing about the job is that said stuff has to go back at some point. Ironically, the second worst thing is that some of the stuff doesn’t go back. It accumulates, until one day you realise you can’t get into your spare room, and that you now have 200 pairs of headphones and a vacuum cleaner for every room of the house. During lockdown, my home was like Del Boy’s flat in Only Fools and Horses. Anyway, back to the ‘sending the stuff back’ element of this job. I have come to realise over time that the people who make the packaging for tech products are…

Do you want an exceptional 8K TV that takes full advantage of its mindboggling resolution and AI-enhanced image processing to produce pictures of incredible detail and precision? Of course you do and that’s exactly what you get with the Samsung QN900B. As beautiful as it is you will need to dig deep into your pockets to get your hands on it. Available in 65-inch, 75-inch and 85-inch screen sizes, each size costs a pretty penny. You can invest in the 65-inch version at £5,799 or you can splash more cash to get the 75-inch version at a cost of £7,799. If you are feeling flush you can go all out and get the 85-inch version for an eye-watering £10,999. So what do you get for this substantial investment? Well, what…

Samsung always finds an extra sound channel or two to distinguish its new soundbars from their predecessors. However, that pattern has been broken for the HW-Q990B. While its channel count might have got stuck, though, the quality Samsung gets from those channels has not. The felt covers Samsung has placed over most of the drivers on its soundbars for the past couple of years have reverted back to the metallic, grille finish used before the felt came into fashion. This attracts much less dust and makes the speakers feel strangely more ‘techy’. Which is just fine by us. The Q990B’s main soundbar also wins hearts and minds by moving its little LED window from the top edge (where it’s been for the past couple of years) back to the front,…

SONY NW-WM1ZM2 Listening to cruddy, compressed streams is terribly 2010s. We’ve all woken up to the power of hi-res audio on the go, with CDquality streaming increasingly becoming the norm. But what if you don’t want to settle for pedestrian 16-bit, 44KHz music? What if you absolutely must have the wider soundstage and improved responsiveness of a high-end hi-fi? Then Sony’s latest Walkman has your back. The NW-WM1ZM2 is a ludicrously hi-res, portable music player: load it with FLACs or a similar lossless format and it can play gorgeous audio at 24 bit and up to 384kHz. It also supports hi-fidelity streaming formats like MQA and can upscale CD-quality audio to 32 bit and 192KHz to emphasise dynamics and give high frequencies more headroom. And if stereo audio is altogether…

Temperatures are rising. In every sense. After a spring roughly the length of a Game of Thrones winter – and only marginally warmer – the UK has finally started to enjoy some hot weather. Displaying the nation’s love of linguistic irony, British airports and airlines have responded by going into absolute meltdown. And passengers have been left understandably angry after the scattergun flight cancellations that have resulted. But while EasyJet may not be living up to its moniker right now, there are still so many great ways to get out there and enjoy your summer. Throw a buzzing garden party, kick back on a sun-drenched beach, book a stay at a cosy country cottage or get every kind of funky at a festival. No matter what you’re planning, we have…

Table tennis, ping pong or whiff-whaff: however, you refer to it, it is one of the few sports that stretches from the highly skilled dexterity and super-fast combat of Olympians to a casual game of hilarity that’s available to anyone within an arm’s reach of a community ping pong table. Although in recent years the game has been dominated by the excellence of the Chinese professional players with their blink-and-you-miss-it moves, ping pong was, in fact, invented by an Englishman named David Foster who filed a patent in 1890. Originally called whiff-whaff due to the sound of the ball whizzing from player to player, it is now loved worldwide, and in 2010 the UK saw a flurry of community tables popping up so that everyone can enjoy ping pong as…

KITCHENAID ICE CREAM MAKER ATTACHMENT …Or why not stick to good old-fashioned ice cream? Prefreeze this and you can make any flavour you like, with an attachment that scrapes the mixer bowl down as it works. £129, kitchenaid.co.uk NERF SUPER SOAKER FREEZEFIRE 2.0 When truly hot weather strikes, hit back hard with this futuristic water pistol. As the name suggests, this Super Soaker can be loaded with ice cubes as well as water. The result is a frigid blast that will make you an ice-cold killer. £24, nerf.hasbro.com LANDMANN FRYTON The two hottest ways to cook food this summer are 1) a BBQ and 2) an air fryer. So how about a device that combines both? The Fryton is a four-burner gas grill with an air fryer built in. So,…

Guru has done some things, reader. Bad, contradictory things. For a start, he’s put in a pre-order for a basic-tier Steam Deck (£350) despite previously saying (and this is him paraphrasing his own words) it was a steaming incompatible hunk of Linux-based effluence. He now acknowledges that he was wrong. It does run Linux, which is usually a recipe for disaster, but trusted confidantes assure GaGu that the Proton compatibility layer is (and this isn’t paraphrasing) “really bloody good” and indeed “remarkably fast” when translating Windows games to its native language. Full review coming once GaGu’s Q3 preorder lands, unless Guru can pull some strings with the people at Valve that he hasn’t spoken to since he was an incredibly irritating teenage gaming journalist – it’s unlikely they’ll be friendly.…

START SMALL While it can be tempting to set yourself a million goals when taking the wrapper off your new fitness tracker, try to spend the first week simply monitoring your regular activities and get a feel for the feedback you’re given and how the connected app works. Once you’ve got an overview of your fitness levels, you can set some more easily achievable goals based on your starting point. For example, don’t set your step count goal at 10,000 if you’re only used to doing 2,000 per day. Instead, aim for 500 or so more each day and build it up over time. This will make smashing your goals more achievable. AVOID TAKING IT OFF Try to leave your fitness tracker on, only taking it off to charge, otherwise…

Not all cameras are created equal, and there’s lots to think about when choosing the best one for you. Here are some essential specifications to consider when heading out to do your shopping. BIGGER IS USUALLY BETTER A full-frame sensor is many times larger than a smartphone’s. It’s therefore better at capturing light and detail and for creating certain ‘looks’ such as a shallow depth of field. Other sizes, such as Four Thirds and APS-C, generally allow for a smaller camera body but with a reduction in image quality. HOW MANY PIXELS? A huge pixel count isn’t necessarily a good thing. Super-high-resolution cameras mean huge file sizes, and can also be detrimental to things like low-light shooting or fast burst speeds. Look for around 24 megapixels for a reasonable compromise.…

Sitting more towards the pricier end of the best noise-cancelling headphones, the Technics EAH-A800 won’t be for everyone. But if you’re willing to splash the cash then they are a fantastic choice: a combination of jaw-dropping battery life and excellent sound makes them stand out in a very busy crowd. Simple in design, the Technics EAH-A800 look smart and you can buy them in one of two elegant colourways: black or white. The headphones have a matte plastic build with a brushed metal panel on the outside of the earcups, which surround your ear with soft cushions. A Technics logo is imprinted on each side, and the padded leather headband is easily adjusted on both ends to find the right fit for your head. To carry them with you, the…