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  • 20 great storytelling podcasts

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    If ever there was a time to immerse yourself in a different world, a commute on a dark grey winter’s morning is it. Storytelling podcasts can take you straight into fantasy, can grip you, make you laugh, help you relax… Read More ›

  • The Secret Shoe

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    We’ve teamed up with luxury launches site VeryFirstTo to create ‘The Secret Shoe’ a luxurious derby that conceals a multitude of gadgets that are only known by the wearer. It’s a shoe designed for extraordinary missions and everyday emergencies from… Read More ›

  • vívofit® 4

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    Features always-on customizable color display and 1+ year battery life¹; no charging necessary Tracks steps, distance and calories burned, monitors sleep and provides a personalized daily step goal² Safe for swimming and showering³ Periodically syncs to Garmin Connect™, where you… Read More ›

  • Wearable sales still slow

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    “Consumers have yet to find a reason to justify the cost of a smartwatch, which can sometimes cost as much as a smartphone,” said eMarketer forecasting analyst Cindy Liu. “Instead, for this holiday season, we expect smart speakers to be… Read More ›

  • The iPhone X

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    With the iPhone X, Apple is attempting something I believe to be unprecedented — a complete ground-up rethinking of a fabulously popular and successful platform, without a disruptive, painful transition. There are several parallels between the original 2007 iPhone and… Read More ›

  • The Nixie Brick

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    Even if you get your hands on one of those prized vintage Nixie clocks from the 1950s, its vintage appeal might not suit your modern style. A better option might be the Nixie Brick. It’s a retro-modern clock giving us… Read More ›

  • Longines HydroConquest (L3.742.4.96.6) review

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    Full specifications. Price £840.00 My watch got too big for me. My beloved Oris Aquis Date which ticked all of the boxes for me suddenly felt ridiculous on my wrist and I knew I needed to change it. I have… Read More ›

  • Why no watches?

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    Watches just ain’t my thing, but I appreciate the interest in kind of a metaway (similarly I don’t indulge very often but find 420 jokes great and songs in praise of weed kind of great.) So why not watches (for… Read More ›

  • Why watches?

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    I am often asked why I have such a fascination with mechanical watches and it is a difficult question to answer. It’s not like I am adversed to modern technology, as you well know, but there is something about a… Read More ›

  • Apple slowing down older iPhones is actually a good thing

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    I find the whole Apple deliberately slowing down your iPhone over time to be basically a scam. They knew when they designed the phone that the CPU+battery specs wouldn’t work over time, so they basically did what VW did with… Read More ›