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The year ‘2020’ has a super cool sci-fi ring to it, and after reflecting on all the incredible tech that’s come our way – it certainly feels like we’re living in some kind of fantastic future. Let’s pause for a moment and remember that Blade Runner w

$TBA, motorola.com The Motorola Razr is a cutting-edge, foldable phone that’s also a throwback to one of the most iconic handset designs of all time: the original Razr V3 that launched in 2004… it’s the future wrapped in the past. We got a chance t

If you’re looking for advice on how to get and stay fit: on your bike! No, we’re not being rude – cycling is one of the most effective forms of exercise you can do, offering a workout for the legs, lungs and heart. And indoor cycling is even better,

Carl is looking for a mobile worker setup centred around a powerful but lightweight laptop, complemented by everything he needs to work wherever he is. Writer Alex never stops working. With a family under his feet, he often needs to escape to the loc

Travel journalist Tamara Hinson takes a walk on the wild side to round up the top safari camps to adventure at in 2020 Today’s safari camps are hi-tech yet sustainable retreats packed with innovations that make it easier than ever to admire the worl

Q How can I look better on webcam? A Tough one, this, as Guru’s cosmetic surgery licence has (quite rightly) been suspended, so he can’t exactly whip out a scalpel or a syringe full of questionably-sourced Botox to help you out. But he can, at least

I love cooking, not least because at the end of it, there is some yummy food for me to eat. Or at any rate, there’s some food. Then I shovel it into my gob, so I can later be told by my Japanese scales that I am ‘secretly obese’. I think they struggl

Brushing your teeth in 10 seconds may sound like a terrible idea, but the Y-Brush can reach all three visible faces of all 32 of your teeth at once. Coat it with toothpaste, activate its sonic vibrations, and you’re fresh in a flash. $85, y-brush.co

Ikea’s long-awaited smart blinds are easy to fit and easy to automate, since they work with the company’s Trådfri home automation system as well as the included remote – and they’re a darn sight cheaper than their competitors. $TBC, ikea.com  Wire

Low price doesn’t mean low end; Panasonic’s cheapest OLED pulls down the HCX Pro processor from higher models which means it does some fantastic things. These include Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos and HDR10+ – and the picture is just amazing. From $3,09

As adept at entertaining as it is at accompanying you through the work day, the Envy is a light, powerful and tightly designed laptop that impresses on every front. It’s secure, too: there’s a webcam kill-switch and a built-in fingerprint reader. $1

A wonderfully challenging build, with almost 4,800 pieces to work through, an incredible amount of detail, and even a scale model of the Tantive IV starship to show just how gigantic it is, this is the ultimate Lego display piece. $1,100, lego.com

With a massive 15-inch touchscreen, the option of all-wheel drive that reacts to the road, up to 348 miles on a single charge and enough room for five adults and a whole stack of cargo, Tesla’s most practical EV ever is truly built for the driver. F

Get deep into those muscle tissues with an impact massager that really pulls its weight. The Liv is intense – if you actively press it into your flesh you’re liable to injure yourself – and perfect for pre- and post-workout stimulation. $375, therag

Wireless speakers are now a massive part of the music world. For a long time, the most successful have been in the $100-$1,000 bracket, but there’s a growing range of high-end wireless, multi-room speakers appearing. They come from both established h

Linn is by no means a newcomer to digital audio or streaming, but the Series 3 does represent a new approach from this prestigious UK brand, because it can be bought online and set up by an unqualified person: you or us, for instance. Its sawn-off te

Despite looking almost traditional in the company of its rivals here, this is still a striking bit of design. The huge and tactile volume dial, the heat-sink fins on the back and the sheer girth of the thing make it instantly iconic. Naim has honed e

If the Linn looks like an exotic air purifier and the Mu-so a soundbar on steroids, this wireless speaker is almost impossible to describe without reference to sci-fi movies. It’s reminiscent of something from David Lynch’s Dune, or the drones in the

$2,499, naimaudio.com WE’RE IMPRESSED Great sound from a wide variety of sources, with an excellent performance across compressed, lossless and hi-res audio files. Support for Chromecast, Spotify Connect and AirPlay 2 as well as Naim’s own app mea

If you’re going to kit up with a great wireless system, a great wireless turntable is a natural expansion. It can be connected over Bluetooth aptX HD, which is made for hi-res, full-quality audio. The Linn Series 3 supports aptX HD, while the Mu-So s

Here we are. After seven years and countless iterative consoles, it’s finally time for a new PlayStation and Xbox to take their rightful places under your television for a new generation. What better way to start a new decade than with a fresh set of

Sony really isn’t one for code names. Sure, it held out for a while, somehow resolutely staying mute on the name of its new console, but now we know that the follow up to the PS4 is, of course, the PlayStation 5. And whether you’ve had a PlayStation

While we’d probably all like to think ourselves above terms like ‘console wars’, the game industry is looking ahead to next year’s holiday season with interested, if not quite bloodthirsty, eyes. After a generation at least initially dominated by PS4

It’s been a long time since visuals in games were the very first things we noticed. Every console generation has come with its own jump in quality, but in the years since PS4 and Xbox One were first released, we’ve become accustomed to a certain grap

Let’s face it, 8K gaming in 2020 seems hopeful. While both Series X and PS5 claim to have maximum resolution outputs of 8K - yes, that’s 7680x4320 - there are a few technical reasons why we probably won’t be playing launch games with more pixels than

Bringing smart design and huge sound, these fit right into the busiest room $525, sonos.com It might feel most at home under your TV, with its highly tuned and individually amplified five-speaker array blasting through movie soundtracks, but don’t

As striking as it is simple, the Picto watch tells the time by rotating both its face and a single hand. A white dot on the face indicates the hour, while the hand sweeps around once an hour, thus indicating minutes. Such a face might take some getti

$585, sonos.com Most portable water-resistant, rugged wireless speakers are lightweight, cost less than $250 and are designed for party super-fun time. The Sonos Move is $585, weighs a hefty three kilos, and is as happy playing classical or prog as

From $928 microsoft.com Microsoft has come out hitting hard with the new Surface range, releasing the Surface Pro 7, the Surface Pro X and the Surface Laptop 3. Two Pro tablets? That’s a bold move. Granted, they serve different markets; the Pro X i

From $199 store.google.com The likes of Eero, TP-Link and more are now offering mesh networking kits, so you’ve got more choice than ever when it comes to picking a system to cover your home in fast, reliable Wi-Fi – and now Google has released the

$329 amazon.com.au Echo Studio fills a long-time gap in the Echo range. It’s the Echo that sounds good, here to replace, or at least take on, ‘proper’ speakers. To that end it’s got oodles of bass, support for HD and UHD (CD quality and hi-res, res

From $4,399 apple.com/au This is kind of a banner occasion. There hasn’t been a new size of Apple pro laptop since 2009 – before the iPad even existed. And with 17-inch screens now more the preserve of unwieldy gaming devices than sleek pro machines

$279 jabra.com.au For those willing to look beyond AirPods (or AirPods Pro) there are rich true wireless pickings to be had right now. From Powerbeats Pro to Cambridge Audio’s Melomania 1, there are loads of very good options. They’re broadly simila

$1,099 garmin.com Anyone who wants a truly high-end running watch – which is also a golf watch, a gym watch, a ski watch and a hiking watch, among others – should give this Garmin consideration. The Garmin Fenix 6 Pro’s closest predecessor is the Ga

From $1,049, store.google.com It’s always exciting to see what Google does with its flagship phones. From the days of the groundbreaking Nexus line to the power of recent Pixel models, there’s always something new, something exciting, and something

$289, nintendo.com.au The Switch Lite is an assured new step on the dedicated portable console path that Nintendo has dominated for decades. But it’s emphatically not a successor to the original Nintendo Switch. The Switch Lite is smaller (91.1x208x

From $529 apple.com/au The most important thing about Apple’s new cheap iPad is that it doesn’t feel cheap in any way. Not only is it nearly physically identical to the more expensive iPad Air, it’s also an extremely slick and fast tablet. For a lot

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The convenience of true wireless earbuds has made them the most popular type of headphones on sale right now – the majority of headphones sold this Christmas will be totally wire-free. The range of options is much bigger than anyone expected, so we’

Gearbox Records, a London label that originally made a name for itself as a purveyor of archival jazz, is what you might call a music connoisseur. So it should come as no surprise that its turntable is a bit special. Inspired by Dieter Rams’ iconic 1