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#100 REFLECT
Hold the Reflect orb in your hands and it reads your vital biological signs, reflecting them back to you as you try to relax and keeping a log of them in its app. Its makers call this a ‘wellness experience’: it’s weird, sure, but if you’re on a personal journey and just can’t get meditation right it might be perfect. Or it might stress you out even more?
$199 (around ₹14,500), meetreflect.com
#99 KARA PURE Under the hood the Kara
Pure isn’t an entirely new device – it’s a condenser dehumidifier, which explains its magical ability to pull 10L filtered alkaline water out of the air every day. That makes it great for filling a refreshing glass in places where the water supply might be routinely contaminated – and it’ll leave the air in your home crisp, too.
$3,499 (around ₹2,57,000), karawater.com
#98 MACKIE M • MCASTER LIVE
Mackie hasn’t just chopped down its old hardware to make this portable mixer, it’s designed it from the ground up to be the best way to tweak your audio on the move. It can be battery powered, which is handy, and includes a handle. If you’re a novice, there are also one-knob solutions for both audio sweetening and voice changing.
₹2,15,000, mackie.com
#97 FIBBR QUANTUM
HDMI cables are bulky and, in the cosmic scheme of things, incredibly slow. Fibbr’s Quantum fixes things, switching out that copper-and-electricity mix for a speedy optical signal. It’s fully compatible with HDMI 2.1, ready for 8K at 60Hz, safely contained within a super-thin cable and cheap enough that switching out your current cables is a no-brainer.
From $17 (around ₹1,250), fibbrtech.com
#96 SCUF INSTINCT PRO
Game control is a serious business, and if you want what some would consider an unfair advantage, Scuf’s fully customisable controllers offer just that. Get yourself some longer thumbsticks for precise control, map the rear paddles to whatever function you like, take advantage of pro-level trigger buttons – and switch out the faceplate for a sneaky psychological boost.
From ₹20,000, scufgaming.com
#95 LAB-GROWN CHEESE
Vegan cheese has, thus far, generally landed somewhere on the spectrum between gross and inedible – but science is working hard on changing that. Not just for those on a vegan diet, either: if we all switched to a palatable non-dairy cheese made from artificial fungus-derived milk proteins, we could vastly reduce the methane impact of dairy cows on this planet of ours.
#94 ZUVI HALO
Forgive the slight scepticism, but we feel Zuvi’s claims about the Halo’s hair-drying properties are maybe, perhaps, the tiniest bit dubious? It’s supposed to dry your hair not with coil-cooked heat but with wide-spectrum light, which is apparently less damaging to the hair and kinder to dyes. If it works, expect others to follow – if it doesn’t, well, at least they gave it a go.
₹TBA, zuvi.us
#93 OCADO SMART PLATFORM
Buy your shopping from Ocado and it will have seen at least one robot, from the robotic picking arms pulling items from crates, to the floor-roving 600 Series bots delivering everything for packing. Ocado reckons its Smart Platform will cut labour costs by 40% – the move to next-gen fulfilment seems like the wave of the future. Although maybe not for the job market.
#92 ENDGAME GEAR XM1 RGB
Endgame Gear is a sneaky little company, hanging out on the gaming periphery producing some of the best mice in the world. The XM1 doesn’t only impress with its pinpoint accuracy and delightful lightness, it dials up the RGB to levels rarely seen on a mouse mat. Look, particularly, at the frosty transparent Dark Reflex version, which really lets those lights shine through.
₹6,000, endgamegear-shop.co.uk
#91 WEMO DOORBELL
Belkin is back in the smart home game,
