This Month
- Gadgets With John Davidson
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This robot will do battle with your lawn, no matter the cost
Dreame’s Roboticmower A1 will bravely go where no one has gone before: into the snake-infested jungle that is our backyard.
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- Digital Life
How the Google TV Streamer changed my life (but not my channel)
Google’s new internet TV box can bring fresh technology to a stale old TV.
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- Life & Leisure
The Vitruvian Trainer+ is a lot like the Peloton – but for weights
You connect handles to ropes and pull on them, in a sort of human-versus-machine tug of war.
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- Opinion
- Digital Life
Why the Series 10 is now Apple’s best watch
The Watch Ultra 2 is still Apple’s most expensive watch, but the new Series 10 betters it in some (but not all) ways that matter.
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- Gadgets With John Davidson
- Life & Leisure
Ocean cruising too slow for you? Speed things up with this action cam
DJI’s Osmo Action 5 Pro has features that will turn even the most sedate sojourn into a white-knuckle adventure.
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September
- Gadgets With John Davidson
- Life & Leisure
Can a robot be too human? This one can
Ecovacs’ latest robovac cleans more like a human does than anything we’ve ever seen. But that’s not always a good thing.
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- Opinion
- Digital Life
Choosing an iPhone 16 is enough to keep you up at night
With the basic iPhone models gaining so much ground on Pro models, picking which one to buy isn’t as simple as it once was. What do you get for your extra money?
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This new $3499 notebook falls short of great expectations
Asus’ Zenbook S 16 Windows device promises a multi-day battery life, without having to move off Intel/AMD architecture. But does it deliver?
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- Opinion
- Digital Life
This new fitness watch is fine for the unfit
Google’s Pixel Watch 3 has plenty of new features for runners. But a battery that means you may as well stay lazy.
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- Life & Leisure
This cargo e-bike is pretty flawless, except for one piece of lunacy
You’d never know the Riese & Müller Multicharger Mixte is a tank of a bike, until you have to get it going uphill from a standing start.
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- Opinion
- Digital Life
Google or Samsung, which folding phone is best?
Google’s folding Pixel phone has finally come to Australia, so we’ve put it head to head with the incumbent.
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This coffee machine could become a cult classic
Breville has come up with an excellent espresso maker that just needs a tweak to allow user-generated brew profiles.
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August
- Gadgets With John Davidson
- Life & Leisure
How to hide your tech in plain sight
Like Samsung’s Frame TV, the Samsung Music Frame uses the power of invisibility to get spouses to finally agree on something for once in their lives.
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The Pixel 9 Pro features we won’t forget about
Smartphone makers, including Google, are throwing dozens of new artificial intelligence features at us right now. How many of them will stick?
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- Life & Leisure
A Father’s Day gift guide for the desperate
What dads want to do and what they have to do, are not always the same thing. But these gifts help bridge the gap.
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Hold off buying Samsung’s new folding phone for a few days
Just as Samsung irons out the last of the problems in its flagship Galaxy Z Fold6, Google looks set to announce an AI phone that just might be worth waiting for.
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- Opinion
- Digital Life
Apple Vision Pro means the future of work is upon us
The headset lets you do your work in virtual reality. It works surprisingly well, but ideally, you will have the neck strength of a rugby forward.
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Did Russia just sabotage our Samsung Watch Ultra?
A series of strange results while testing Samsung’s latest smartwatch may have a surprising explanation.
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- Opinion
- Digital Life
It’s the battery life, stupid: Why we love Lenovo’s new laptop
Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs are supposed to be all about the new AI features. But until Recall arrives, all we care about is their fabulous battery life.
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July
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- Life & Leisure
This foldable phone will make other people envy your selfies
Samsung’s Galaxy Flip6 won’t just take great self-portraits, it will help you get to Instagrammable locations, too.
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