Issue 209

T3 Australia

The gadget and technology magazine

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Showstopper
Remote meetings have become part of our working lives. But huddling around a laptop webcam for a Zoom call hardly feels like the most realistic substitute for face-to-face communication. Fortunately, Framery’s latest soundproof pod uses cutting-edge
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Editor’s Letter
With the pandemic firmly in the rear-view mirror, all kinds of events are making a comeback, including the biggest event of the tech calendar. That’s right: the T3 Awards are back! So join us as we celebrate the most groundbreaking gadgets and trends
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Horizon
From $11,999, apple.com/au If you feel like 2023’s Mac Pro looks familiar, you’d be right: it does. Apple has revived the ‘cheese grater’ case from the 2019 model (thankfully leaving 2013’s cylindrical ‘trash can’ design where it belongs) but that’s
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Home Comforts
The new outdoor security camera from Eufy, the S220 SoloCam is packed full of smart and energy-saving features. With a built-in solar panel, infrared LEDs and AI human detection, it takes minutes to set up and needs three hours of sunlight a day to p
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Smeg Delivers A Caffeine Kick
Who doesn’t love a hot cup of coffee in the morning? Well, millions of us do, with the UK drinking approximately 98 million cups of coffee a day. But, despite our love for coffee, how much are you willing to spend to fuel your caffeine addiction? If
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Essential Travel Accessories
Full disclosure, this might not be the cheapest luggage range, but we’re loving this new collaboration between TUMI and carmaker McLaren, launched to mark McLaren’s sixtieth anniversary. $1,780, tumi.com Finally, a luggage tracker designed with Andro
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Going Green
We’re not for one second suggesting that cranking up the sustainability stakes of your next holiday will offset any air travel. That said, in an era of abundant greenwashing, a growing number of hotels, bars and destinations are going above and beyon
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Gadget Guru
A Reader, many have, and not only with modern iPhones. 2014’s Uneasy Lies the Mind dragged a 90-minute feature out of a crusty iPhone 5, for instance. But that film’s secret wasn’t the sensor it was using, although the shallow depth of field certainl
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Gadget Guru’s Magic Box
You will have read of GaGu’s musical exploits already, unless your eyes turn first, as they probably should, to his Magic Box. But the Launchpad MK3 is not GaGu’s only new toy in that vein. He has also purchased a new microphone to record his (or hop
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Now Playing
The latest full album from French Canadian bombshell chanteuse La Zarra (who warbled atop a plinth for France in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest) is a smokey cracker. Guru missed out on Chowdhry in Taskmaster series 3 – but the man’s interview po
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The 3 Must-have Vision Pro Features That TVs Lack
Whether you’re an Apple fan or not, the Cupertino company’s major WWDC 2023 showcase revealed a whole new product category in the form of its Vision Pro AR headset – and I think it’s got some TV-beating features that make it really compelling as a ci
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Foldable Future
Google has now officially entered the foldables market with the Pixel Fold – and the aesthetics of this device don’t stray too far from previous Pixel devices, apart from the folding screen part. There’s the distinctive raised bar around the rear cam
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Apple Vision Pro
Let’s talk about specs, shall we? The most important stat for any eyeworn headset is its resolution, and the Vision Pro is no different. Although we’ve never seen numbers quite like these before. Apple’s headset delivers more than 23 million pixels a
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Awards 2023
So, Sonos took its time. It hadn’t released anything new, updates excluded, since 2017. But what a release the Era 300 is. Yes, it’s unusually shaped, pinched and rounded and steadfastly horizontal, almost teasing you with its non-verticality. Yes, h
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Cameras For Every Skill Level
Here we have a dedicated vlogging camera that is beloved by content creators for a range of enticing reasons. The 24.2 megapixel APS-C sensor will elevate your videos way beyond your smartphone’s capability, with the screen being able to face forward
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DJI Mavic 3 Pro
Thanks to its three-camera setup, the DJI Mavic 3 Pro is probably one of the most exciting drones we’ve come across in recent years – and we’ve tested a lot of them. Without a shadow of a doubt, it’s the finest camera-equipped prosumer drone we’ve ev
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Tested
In T3, we feature only the finest gadgets out there, and we believe that you – our loyal reader – deserve only the best tech in your life. We don’t want you to waste time, and money, on inferior products, and that’s exactly why our Tested section exi
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Samsung S95C
Samsung’s Quantum Dot (QD) OLED technology, has always promised brighter images and purer colours than traditional OLED. But this is the next level, producing a 40% increase in peak brightness. Wowzers. Its second-generation Quantum Dot OLED (QD OLED
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Samsung HW-Q990C
If you’re looking for a soundbar with impressive build quality, immersive capabilities, extensive features and a genuinely immersive 11.1.4-channel soundstage experience, you’ve come to the right place. Kicking off with the aesthetics the HW-Q990C lo
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Google Pixel Watch
Google’s new wearable is already the second most sought-after smartwatch, but it’s not quite as polished as Apple’s market-leading Watch Series (yet). But the Pixel Watch is still an excellent Apple Watch alternative for Android – especially Pixel sm
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MacBook Air 15-inch
The name MacBook Air 15-inch sounds like a contradiction, right? Apple’s ‘Air’ line should be floaty-light and surely that’s not going to be achievable in a larger form factor? Wrong! The MacBook Air is the thinnest, lightest 15-inch laptop on the ma
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OnePlus Pad
The OnePlus Pad is the phone-maker’s first foray into tablets, balancing OnePlus’s trademark value-for-money appeal with loads of power and a few other flourishes. So can it step into the mid-range Android space and win? There are some aspects of the
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Panasonic Lumix S5 II
New camera releases are rarely welcomed with such wild enthusiasm as the announcement of the Panasonic Lumix S5 II. That’s because it finally saw the brand introduce a camera with competitive autofocus (AF) capabilities, in the form of a newly develo
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Asus ROG Ally
If you love gaming, you’ll likely already have a gaming setup. But what happens when you’re away from your setup and fancy a game? Enter the Asus ROG Ally. This is – in essence – a handheld Windows PC, running a full version of Windows 11, allowing y
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Apple Studio Display
Since the 27-inch Thunderbolt display was discontinued in 2016, your options for pairing your MacBook or Mac mini with a screen has been limited to third-party displays. Fortunately, the Apple Studio Display answered that call by providing a relative
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Samsung QN90C
The step-down model of the top-tier QN95C, the Samsung QN90C is, in anyone else’s language, a mini-LED TV – meaning miniature LEDs illuminate the panel – but in Samsung-land it’s called a Neo QLED. But naming convention aside: is the Samsung QN90C an
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Luxuries
Part of Bang & Olufsen’s Recreated Classics Program, the Beosystem 72-23 Nordic Dawn Limited Edition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Beogram 4000 by updating it for the 2020s. Inspired by the beauty of a Scandinavian sunrise, the Beosystem 72-
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B&O Beosound A5
Anyone even passingly familiar with Bang & Olufsen will make an assumption or two about any new product the company launches. Hands up, though, if you had guessed the latest Bang & Olufsen battery-powered wireless speaker would arrive disguised as a

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