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  • RHA’s TrueConnect earbuds. Better than AirPods?

    Design is not the only thing that the RHA TrueConnect have in common with its AirPods. RHA ships TrueConnect earbuds in a case for convenient carrying and 25-hour battery life. A number that manages to beat AirPods by about an… Read More ›

  • App Scams

    Last summer Apple deleted an app scamming $80,000/month from iOS users. At the time, Apple promised to pay closer attention to subscription apps to prevent similar schemes in the future. Clearly, however, some are still slipping through… More at Forbes…. Read More ›

  • A moment of sanity

    I spent some time yesterday looking at the Oris Carl Brashear limited edition and just for a moment thought that the asking price of £3,600 was reasonable. It was one of those moments when reason had left the building, when… Read More ›

  • The Humble Cappuccino

    Firstly, it isn’t about the caffeine. This is simply my favourite drink to greet the day, of which I’ll consume one each weekday morning and the occasional cappuccino riot on a weekend may be a few more than that, because…… Read More ›

  • 70 years of the Citroen 2CV

    70 years is quite an achievement for a car that has divided opinion since the start. Most of us love the design and the notion of driving something so simplistic while at the same time being scared witless at being… Read More ›

  • 14 days…

    According to Wisebuy, the Watch GT was developed under the codename Fortuna, and features a circular 1.4-inch AMOLED screen with 454 by 454 resolution, plus a 420mAh battery. A marketing document leaked to Slashleaks claims that the watch will offer… Read More ›

  • FORMEX ESSENCE AUTOMATIC CHRONOMETER

    The blue dial is reminiscent of some of Omega’s Aqua Terra models, with deeply machined horizontal stripes countered with vertical brushing. As the light changes angle, this dial turns from light blue with dark markers to a dark blue with… Read More ›

  • George Daniels Millennium Sells for £200,000

    This afternoon at Sotheby’s London, an exceptional George Daniels Millennium wristwatch sold for £200,000 ($262,680), thereby matching the previous record set a year ago for another rare example of this 20th-century horological* and confirming the dramatic rise in value achieved by… Read More ›

  • The Spring Bar

    If you feel like ordering at least a hundred, Otto Frei will sell them to you (at the time of this writing) for the low, low price of exactly 94 cents a pop (“assembled by hand in a small village… Read More ›

  • Grit – Resistance Training Shoes

    With a 3D printed sole that has my heart, the Grit offers resistance training by mimicking the feeling of standing/running on sand. The soles come with an interwoven pattern that collapses gently under pressure, just like how your foot sinks… Read More ›