REUSABLE COFFEE CUPS
CHOICE
Eco-friendly vessels for a taste of righteousness. Shall we try them all?
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1 KeepCup Brew Reusable Glass Cup 12oz (Cork Edition) First cup of the day, and this splashproof glass number has a tidy cork band. I’m wide awake. £21 / amazon.co.uk
2 Big Bamboo Eco Thermos 450ml Email checked… I should probably neck another, larger coffee immediately. This mug keeps drinks hotter or colder for longer. £14 / amazon.co.uk
3 Frank Green Stainless Steel SmartCup 10oz Time to switch brews. Frank Green’s new stainless steel cups have removable tea strainers. £25 / frankgreen.com
4 Stojo 12oz Collapsible Coffee Cup Its collapsible design means Stojo’s silicone cup can be crushed down to a puck no larger than an Echo Dot. I’ll make this one a latte. £10 / bearandbear.com
5 Joco 8oz Glass Coffee Cup Lime On to coffee number five. This cup is so diddy! Tailor-made for a mid-afternoon espresso. Hmm… anyone want to go kayaking? £19 / bearandbear.com
6 Ecoffee Look Into My Eyes 12oz Oh my. Probably shouldn’t have waited until coffee No6 to try out the trippy cup. This experiment has taken a turn. Help. £9 / ecoffeecup.eco
Hush hour
SONY WH-1000XM3
Sony’s new WH-1000XM3 cans, which come in black or silver, have had their hubbub-hushing tech upgraded and now have better signal-processing performance. Adaptive Sound Control automatically adjusts the noise-cancelling depending on your surroundings, so you won’t miss out on announcements when travelling by train – plus they’re now slimmer and lighter, with a 30-hour battery life. If, for some reason, you do want to let the bleating of colleagues in for a few seconds, you simply tap the right cup – and with the eager-to-please Google Assistant due to arrive soon, we’re struggling to see why you’d ever need to take them off.
£330 / sony.co.uk
Flittiness tracker
FUJIFILM X-T3
Smartphone cameras are so damned good nowadays that you’d need a pretty good reason to lug a DSLR around. Well, the Fujifilm X-T3 has many such reasons. Its back-illuminated APS-C sensor has more than four times the number of phase-detection pixels of its predecessors, bringing a greater ability to track fast-moving subjects as they careen across the screen. Autofocus works in the lowest of low light, so no one in the pub is safe from your snapping, and it’s more accurate and faster than ever. The X-T3 also happens to be the world’s first camera to output footage at 4K/60p 10-bit, which is professional videographer standard. That’s made you put your phone down, hasn’t it?
£1349 (body only) / fujifilm.eu
DROP EVERYTHING & DOWNLOAD
Google Art Selfie
£free / Android, iOS
We’ve all been there. Sitting on the sofa on a Sunday, perusing the pages of the arts section when the big question hits like a daub of acrylic: “Which historic portrait do I most resemble?”
Well, ponder no longer, because everyone’s favourite search giant has delivered a solution to this creative conundrum – and it’s a doozy.
Simply download the Arts and Culture app, scroll down to the ‘Art Selfie’ section and tap on ‘Get started’. Once you’ve snapped a shot of your beaming mug (or gurning, if you like), Google will fire your face through its database of thousands of portraits from galleries and museums all around the world.
In a jiffy, it’ll offer up the best matches, all rated against your face – so you’ll finally know whether you’re 46% Thomas Jefferson or 60% Frida Kahlo.