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ALL THE BIGGEST STORIES FROM PLANET TECH 

MAKE IT 3D ON YOURSELF

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HYPERMEGATECH SUPER POCKET

The last of the famous interdenominational play toys

PHILIPS VOICETRACER RECORDER PEN

If you’ve ever wanted to live like James

STREAM

Use the Force… or, if you’re a bit tired, use the remote – whatever helps you flip through this month’s new-to-streaming telly highlights

HARMAN KARDON AURA STUDIO 4

UNDER THE DOME, 324 CRYSTALS ILLUMINATE TO MATCH

HONOR 90

These days you’ve got to go big to

ULTRAHUMAN RING AIR

If you like to sleep au naturel, even

DROP EVERYTHING & DOWNLOAD

Threads £free / Android, iOS

GAMES

FIRST PLAY JUSANT PC, PS5, XSX Climbing has

’DAI TRIPPER

Hyundai Ioniq 5 N

COWBOY CRUISER

There’s no point buying an e-bike to take

SHARP SUMOBOX

At nearly 292.6kg, Orora Satoshi holds the record

NEWS FEED

DENON’S NEW BUDS WILL LISTEN TO YOUR LUGS

THE GRAMMY WINNER AND TECH ENTREPRENEUR SHARES HIS VISION FOR THE FUTURE

will.i.am Right now is the defining

WIN A HUGE HOME TECH BUNDLE FROM MAJORITY!

Majority has come a long way since it

The Sony way is up

The Japanese giant has managed to raise the bar for noise-cancelling wireless earphones four times on the trot now. Can the WF-1000XM5s make it five?

3 OF THE BEST Running shoes

From maximum speed to cruising comfort, step up your galloping game with our tried-and-tested pick of the kicks

Blame it on the Q3

It’ll set you back more than a freshly adjusted monthly mortgage payment, but this Leica could be the ultimate compact camera

Mellow submarine

Focal’s first wireless over-ears with ANC are named after the ‘bathyscaphe’, an early submersible. Will they sink or swim?

A groovy grind of love

Avoid the hassle of a traditional coffee maker, and the wastefulness of a capsule-gobbler, with one of these bean-to-cup marvels. It won’t really save you enough for a deposit on a castle, but switching your morning slurp to a home brew will soon pay for itself. The only question is, which machine?

Queen titch

In a sea of samey smartphones, can Asus’s pint-sized Zenfone 10 be the one-handed wonder to rule the waves?

Strictly cam dancing

Do you want a 12MP video camera on top of your TV? No, us neither – but you might once you find out what this one does…

HOW TO DECIDE

1 Button up Many of the mice above

GOT MY MOJO (FOR) WORKING

As summer holidays fade into the rear-view mirror, treat yourself to much more than a new pencil case with our pick of the latest in productivity gear – whether you’re a roving coffee-shop worker, surfing between Teams calls at home in your pyjamas, or off to uni for the first time

STAR STUDENT

Pay attention at the back: these are excellent devices for education, whether you’re a fresh-faced first year or a slightly wrinklier returner

HEAD HONCHO

Being numero uno means you can order the best of everything and nobody’s allowed to moan… so here’s what’s hot for Business Class

HOME WORKER

If ‘the office’ is a desk next to the downstairs toilet these days, this kit should make your WFH experience feel a little less weird

ARTY TYPE

No time for the squares and their spreadsheets? Have a chin-stroke at our top buys for designers, vloggers and podcast pontificators…

TECH NOMAD

Introducing the gadgets and accessories you need to turn absolutely anywhere (well, within reason) into your very own tailored workplace

STARTER-UPPER

You’ve seen the future, and you’re making it: prepare and present the perfect pitch for your startup with some of this killer tech

JAUNT WORRY, BE APPY

If it’s been a bummer of a summer for you so far, don’t despair – plan and book a sneaky last-minute break with these deft downloads

After the Fold push

Can Google’s first foldable phone take the fight to Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold4 (and new Fold5)? Or does it collapse under its own weighty pricetag?

BETA YOURSELF ANIMATION

You’re not going to become the next Disney overnight… but as Craig Grannell explains, with the right apps and approach you can add movement to just about anything

INSTANT UPGRADES APPLE WATCH ULTRA

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Glyph this ain’t love

Nothing’s distinctive light-up phone gets a 2023 update with better internals and battery life – but will it win over Tom Morgan-Freelander with a two-week trial?

Exoprimal

Capcom knows a thing or two about action games, and has been on a roll in its 40th anniversary year. Does this team-based dino shooter deliver – or is it extinct on arrival?

Oxenfree II: Lost Signals

Nothing to do with divesting yourself of unwanted cattle, this is a spooky 2.5D graphic adventure sequel that proves it’s good to talk

Amnesia: The Bunker

This dark and desperate wartime tale is terrifying in all the right ways, and a return to form for Frictional’s seminal horror series

CHROMECAST

What is this? A chunky thumb drive? Are

TOP TEN OF EVERYTHING

SMARTPHONES

● Prices quoted are for handset only unless

IN-EARS

HOT BUY UPDATE 1 Sony WF-1000XM4 £199 /

OVER-EARS

HOT BUY 1 Sony WH-1000XM5 £326 / go.stuff.tv/WHXM5

SMARTWATCHES

HOT BUY BARGAIN BUY 1 Apple Watch SE

FITNESS TECH

HOT BUY 1 Garmin Edge 1040 Solar £580

LAPTOPS

HOT BUY TIPS & TRICKS If you can

TVs

TIPS & TRICKS Google Assistant wakes with a

SOUNDBARS

HOT BUY 1 Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar Max £1799

STREAMERS

HOT BUY 1 Sky Stream from £26/m +

TABLETS

HOT BUY 1 Apple iPad Air from £669

CONSOLES

HOTBUY 1 Sony PlayStation 5 £480 / go.stuff.tv/PS5

GAMES

HOTBUY TIPS & TRICKS Level up your

SPEAKERS

TIPS & TRICKS You can control your Move

E-BIKES

HOT BUY 1 Honbike Uni4 £1799 / go.stuff.tv/Uni4

ELECTRIC CARS

HOTBUY 1 Kia EV6 from £45,245 / go.stuff.tv/EV6

SMART HOME

TIPS & TRICKS The Echo’s built-in Zigbee hub

VR HEADSETS

HOT BUY 1 Meta Quest 2 £300 /

DRONES & ACTION CAMS

HOT BUY 1 GoPro Hero11 Black £400 /

CAMERAS

TIPS & TRICKS It’s easy to set up

BUDGET BUYS

TIPS & TRICKS Fed up of yelling? Alexa’s

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Welcome to this extra section of Stuff, bringing

THE PODC ASTER

Sound like a pro – heck, one day people even might start listening

THE PHOTOGRAPHER

Because pointing your phone at some geese in the park just won’t cut it

THE VIDEO EDITOR

Turn your raw footage into something strangely non-embarrassing

THE MUSICIAN

For some, an acoustic guitar and a campfire will do. For the rest of us…

THE STREAMER

Wait… you’re so good at gaming that other people want to watch!?

THE DESIGNER

All the gear you need for creating pro-quality skeletons in hotrods

LAPTOP TRUMPS

Laptops get a bad rap. They’re not sexy like phones, they’re mostly seen as work machines and, the biggest insult of all, some people think they’re all basically the same. Well, we’re here to prove those people wrong by weighing up six of the best premium machines – each one, in its own way, an ideal tool for creativity everywhere from the train to the coffee shop…

Dell XPS 13 9315

What’s the story? The XPS 13 has long

HP Spectre x360 14 (i7)

What’s the story? If you’re up for a

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11

What’s the story? The ThinkPad X1 Carbon is

Samsung Galaxy Book3 Ultra

What’s the story? ‘Ultra’ is a bold name

THE SCRIBBLER

For precision drawing, note-taking and more, there can be only one…