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For 11 months of the year, the Stuff team wouldn’t

OUR MONTH

VR pigs and poker chips, real egg and frozen chips

19 PAGES OF THE BIGGEST STORIES FROM PLANET TECH

A super-powerful video camera in your pocket?! You’ve

ARLO! IS ITME YOU’RE LOOKING FOR?

Arlo’s latest Wi-Fi security camera keeps an Ultra

ARC VECTOR

Actually no, but we’re pretty sure the billionaire

STREAM

These men have some questions to ask you. Like, “Which new films and TV series are you going to be streaming in the new year?”

APPS

This month’s mobile must-downloads

FIRST LOOK FAR CRY: NEW DAWN

Far Cry 5 concluded with a literal bang, as the cult-controlled

FIGHTING TORQUE

Woah, has Jeep been feeding its cars performance-enhancing

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The latest startups, crowdfunded projects and plain crazy ideas

YOUR MONTH JAN

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STUFF AWARDS 2018

Call us traditional, but we thought we’d wait until the end of the year to pick our favourite gadgets of 2018. It’s this sort of sensible, pragmatic thinking that helped us agree on the cream of the tech crop from the past 12 months with only one group counselling session…

SHARPER SHOOTERS & SHARERS

Broadcast yourself into social media stardom with this selection of speedy video apps – they’ll make you look like a proper director with minimal effort

UPVOTED GLOVES

Is the cold weather getting to you? Don’t worry, it’ll soon be much worse – but Heather Wald has got you covered with the perfect fts for your mitts…

SNAPSEED

Google’s photo editor for Android and iOS is free. It’s also brilliant, and if you’re not already using it you should be. To convince you, Craig Grannell explores its best bits…

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FIT AND YOU ’ LL KNOW IT

RUNNING, SWIMMING, CYCLING, ROWING, CHEESEROLLING… NO MATTER HOW YOU GET YOUR FITNESS KICKS, WE’VE PICKED THE BEST KIT, APPS AND EXPERT ADVICE TO HELP YOU GO THE EXTRA MILE

INSTANT UPGRADES GOOGLE HOME MAX

Google’s Home Max smart speaker might be all about

Pro evolution docker

Apple’s torn up the iPad design template for its new Pro flagship, complete with faster chip and magnetic Pencil dock. Enough to make it the GOAT?

The alternatives: 3 more high-end tablets

Apples are not the only fruit… here are the other great weighty slates, rated

Alexa’s bold as love

Legendary guitar amp maker Marshall has mixed iconic style with modern gubbins to create a rocking wireless speaker, complete with badly behaved Alexa

Sharpened stick

Amazon’s compact new dongle offers 4K HDR streaming, an Alexa-powered remote, and zippier performance than ever before

Recorder solo

It might look like a sawn-off Christmas pudding, but the Izotope Spire claims to be a pro-quality recording studio in a box

Tekken us right back

Climb aboard Sony’s time machine and let it pull you into an alternative version of 1995, where everything’s smaller and CDs never existed

DJ jazzy KEF

Behind the bold colours, these wireless desktop speakers promise high-end hi-fi sound at a non-ridiculous price

Hot hatchling

VW’s Polo is trying to wrest the ‘ultimate GTI’ tag from its bigger brother… but is this little nipper feisty enough to be a Golf-clubber?

Airy monster

Apple has revamped its entry-level MacBook with a Retina display, a new keyboard and a choice of three classy colours… Natalya Paul enjoys a fortnight of fresh Air

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Good news if you’re up for a rumble: Smash makes a triumphant comeback on the Switch, and every character’s invited in the biggest roster of fighters you’ve ever seen

Fallout 76

Bethesda’s prequel pitches you into a post-apocalyptic West Virginia… but is it a little too post-apocalyptic for its own good?

Just Cause 4

Flying people, lightning storms and many, many explosions: Just Cause is back. But is the latest in the OTT action-adventure series just winging it?

TOP TENS SMARTPHONES

The phone itself doubles as a wireless charger, so

TOP TENS IN-EARS ON-EARS

A strong argument for the idea that you don’t really

LAPTOPS

While the Touch Bar versions of the MacBook Pro have

HI-FI

If you want to pretend your favourite band is playing

TVs

As 4K TV prices start to tumble, there’s been a mad

SOUNDBARS

Sonos’s home cinema gear has always been a little expensive

HOME CINEMA

Sky Q works flawlessly and could change the way you

CONSOLES

As a gaming platform, PlayStation 4 is the best around

GAMES

Believable characters, a world to lose yourself in

TECH TOYS

Building Lego models is already ridiculously good fun

ELECTRIC CARS

Not content with simply making an electric vehicle

VR HEADSETS

The Oculus Rift has been playing catch-up for a while;

VR GAMES

Superhot has found its home in VR – just watch those

SMART HOME

It might not be as pretty as the Nest 3.0, but Tado

DRONES

The Mavic 2 Pro keeps all the good bits of the old

COMPACT CAMERAS

We wouldn’t recommend buying this camera if you already

SYSTEM CAMERAS

It’s really hard to find anything bad to say about

BUDGET BUYS

Why bother splashing out over £200 on a games console

HOW TO BUY CASH-SAVING HOME KIT

Joining the smart home revolution isn’t just about lazy shortcuts: some of these gadgets can actually help you save energy and money

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