Innehållsförteckning för Issue 204 från T3 Australia

APP-UCINO Controlling the Ember Cup is a breeze, thanks to its paired app. Dial in your chosen temperature, set presets for different coffee types and receive notifications when your brew is drinkable EMBER CUP Festival season is finally upon us. And when you’re trudging through mud and throwing shapes night and day, your morning mug of wake up juice is more important than ever. But the Australian winter being what it is, you can’t always guarantee your coffee is going to stay warm for long. Fortunately, Ember’s self-heating mugs can keep your brew boiling hot, no matter your cuppa of choice. The diminutive new Ember Cup is designed to keep your smaller beverages – such as a cappuccino, cortado, or flat white – at your preferred drinking temperature from 50°C…

THERABODY THERAGUN MINI The fourth-gen mini is the ultimate in portable muscle relief. This three speed robo-fist features 20lb of force and 150 minutes rechargable battery. Gauranteed to budge the most stubborn muscle aches and knots. $349, therabody.com THERABODY WAVE DUO Sometimes recovery requires a little more finnesse. Boasting five vibration settings and guided therapy sessions via a Bluetooth connected app, the Wave Duo will make short work of your neck, spine and back woes. Bliss! $169, therabody.com THE NORTH FACE VENTURE 2 Sick of all the rain on the East Coast a the moment? Us too. Wage war on Mother Nature with this fully wind an waterproof outer. Weighing only 330g and packing down into its pocket, there’s no good reason to be wet ever agian. There’re also more…

SPINNAKER, HASS X MCS LIMITED EDITION Launched in collaboration with the Marine Conservation Society, this limited edition piece is inspired by the natural palettes found in the ocean and is a proper sturdy, robust dive watch. $670, spinnaker-watches.com TAG HEUER, MONACO SPECIAL EDITION Taking inspiration from the ’70s and Monaco ‘Dark Lord’, this is crafted in grade 2 titanium and coated in DLC. The two-tone dial is completed with contrasting 18K rose-gold-plated indexes. $TBA, tagheuer.com RADO, CAPTAIN COOK CHRONOGRAPH The explorer’s favourite makes an exciting return as a chronograph. Inside is the new, thinner R801 automatic movement, with 59 hours of power reserve and a new Nivachron anti-magnetic hairspring. HAMILTON, KHAKI NAVY FROGMAN This is Hamilton’s most technically capable maritime-ready watch – engineered for accuracy, legibility and endurance. It’s the…

Guru has done some things, reader. Bad, contradictory things. For a start, he’s put in a pre-order for a basic-tier Steam Deck despite previously saying (and this is him paraphrasing his own words) it was a steaming incompatible hunk of Linux-based effluence. He now acknowledges that he was wrong. It does run Linux, which is usually a recipe for disaster, but trusted confidantes assure GaGu that the Proton compatibility layer is (and this isn’t paraphrasing) “really bloody good” and indeed “remarkably fast” when translating Windows games to its native language. Full review coming once GaGu’s Q3 preorder lands, unless Guru can pull some strings with the people at Valve that he hasn’t spoken to since he was an incredibly irritating teenage gaming journalist – it’s unlikely they’ll be friendly. Secondly,…

Gadget of the year NINTENDO SWITCH OLED The Switch was a marvel; the Switch OLED is entirely more marvellous. Nintendo’s revised model is an upgrade that acknowledges and embraces the fact that the does-it-all Switch has attracted the same kind of broad audience that flocked to the Wii – and this time, Nintendo has everyone’s back, hardcore or not. The OLED screen is a joy to behold, bigger and (naturally) brighter than before, and the battery is more than big enough to keep up with the increased demands of self-emissive pixels. The redesigned dock, now with an Ethernet port, gives serious gamers the chance to compete online at full speed; the much-improved kickstand makes casual out-and-about gaming a far less tenuous experience. There’s more storage, stronger speakers, and even secretly…

Call me biased but I think there’s a lot of tech out there worth celebrating. Sure, I believe collectable ape jpegs are the height of NFTedium, while social media could only be described as a ‘mixed bag’ if that bag was also filled with manure and on fire. But a lot of gadgets have improved life significantly, whether that’s transforming our working habits or minimising the amount of time I have to spend interacting with my loved ones. That’s why every year we hold the T3 Awards, to identify the absolute best and brightest tech you can buy. Now if you ask 10 tech journalists which the greatest gadget is, you’ll get 11 answers. Not to mention a lot of raised voices, several threatened strikes and zero work done. But…

Table tennis, ping pong or whiffwhaff: however, you refer to it, it is one of the few sports that stretches from the highly skilled dexterity and super-fast combat of Olympians to a casual game of hilarity that’s available to anyone within an arm’s reach of a community ping pong table. Although in recent years the game has been dominated by the excellence of the Chinese professional players with their blink-and-you-miss-it moves, ping pong was, in fact, invented by an Englishman named David Foster who filed a patent in 1890. Originally called whiff-whaff due to the sound of the ball whizzing from player to player, it is now loved worldwide, and across the globe we are seeing a flurry of community tables popping up so that everyone can enjoy ping pong…

VAMPIRE SURVIVORS This is the best $5 investment you can make on an unfinished PC game. It’s packed with upgrades, crazy weapons, senseless monster violence, and it’s on GamePass, too. OBI-WAN KENOBI Guru is no Starwarsm’n, but he suspects you space nerds will be well up for a bit of McGregor and Christensen having a 20-years-later jaunt in the spacey world of long, long ago. HOW TO LET GO Norway’s greatest export since (checks list) fish, Sigrid’s new LP cements her as not only a full-blown pop star but one not afraid to put nice crunchy bits underneath her vocals. Ace.…

Tested Sitting more towards the pricier end of the best noise-cancelling headphones, the Technics EAH-A800 won’t be for everyone. But if you’re willing to splash the cash then they are a fantastic choice: a combination of jaw-dropping battery life and excellent sound makes them stand out in a very busy crowd. Simple in design, the Technics EAH-A800 look smart and you can buy them in one of two elegant colourways: black or white. The headphones have a matte plastic build with a brushed metal panel on the outside of the earcups, which surround your ear with soft cushions. A Technics logo is imprinted on each side, and the padded leather headband is easily adjusted on both ends to find the right fit for your head. To carry them with you,…

ULYSSE NARDIN FREAK S Luxury watches are often much of a muchness but the limited edition Freak S from Ulysse Nardin is truly out of this world. Not only is the heart of its movement shaped like a spaceship soaring through a starry sky but it has some truly stellar engineering going on beneath the surface. Its double silicium oscillators are tilted at 20 degrees, adding a gorgeous sense of depth and movement to its face, and are coated with artificial diamond to make them tougher and maximise their performance. Meanwhile, its Grinder automatic winding system is twice as efficient as standard systems, meaning it only requires tiny wrist movements to keep it wound. Finally, its titanium gold and ceramic case and sapphire glass mean it both looks stunning and…

1 MACBOOK AIR M2 From $1,899, apple.com/au How many times can Apple change the game? Before M1 has even had time to bed in, just as the ridiculous two-chips-in-one M1 Ultra starts rolling out, the company has bumped itself up a generation with the M2. Not only that but it has given the MacBook Air a radical redesign that seems to place it firmly at the top of Apple’s laptop stack – even higher, perhaps, than the M2 version of the MacBook Pro. This isn’t a ‘new guts, same case’ type design. Apple shows its continuing commitment to the idea of the notch by cutting a chunk out of the 13.6-inch (2560x1664) liquid retina display to house its much-improved 1080p FaceTime camera; to make up for the slightly reduced screen…

Tiny though it might be, the Garmin Forerunner 255s (from $699, garmin.com) is an amazing little running watch. It’s compact yet packs a punch when it comes to training features. It has many of the functions of the also newly announced Forerunner 955, including the Morning Report, multi-band GPS, HRV Status and more. It also has triathlon and multisport activity profiles – during races and brick workouts, you can easily toggle between sports with a single button press.…

People often ask me what the best thing about this job is, and the answer is: “All the free stuff.” Obviously. But the worst thing about the job is that said stuff has to go back at some point. Ironically, the second worst thing is that some of the stuff doesn’t go back. It accumulates, until one day you realise you can’t get into your spare room, and that you now have 200 pairs of headphones and a vacuum cleaner for every room of the house. During lockdown, my home was like Del Boy’s flat in Only Fools and Horses. Anyway, back to the ‘sending the stuff back’ element of this job. I have come to realise over time that the people who make the packaging for tech products are…

HOW WE TEST 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 exists. In here you’ll find only the latest and hottest tech. Each product has been handpicked and tested by T3’s experts. We only choose people with specialist knowledge for each test, so you know you’re going to get an outcome based on many years of experience in their respective field. As well as our traditional five-star rating system (right), we also give out awards to particularly exceptional gadgets, using the line-up below - so when you spot one of these,…

Tested The LG C2 is a mouthwatering update to one of last year’s biggest TV hits, the LG C1. This new version ushers in a new era for the C-series OLED TVs, boosting the brightness with new panel technology and adding the first 42-inch version to the line-up. Here, we dive into exactly what you can expect from the improved OLED panel with its Brightness Booster technology and LG’s most powerful processor yet. All that shiny new tech has seen a sobering increase in the price tag, and the 42-inch and 48-inch versions don’t come with the brightness improvements. It’s only the 55-inch and up models – we tested the 65-inch set – that get the full effect of its image quality improvements. In total there are six C2 OLED…