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100 GREATEST GADGETS OF 2017

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network via long-range comfort of home – with concept makes it to default game pad is white, black or grey. Luckily,
radio so you can text a live video of the tiny production before that Microsoft’s put you in charge of the colour scheme
freely from the middle swimmers in action. filling falls out again. for your next custom-designed Xbox One pad.
of nowhere. Or Truro. $50 / £tba / from £70 / xboxdesignlab.xbox.com
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Switching to a As fans of both Lego One day we’ll all be
sustainable energy and the idea that our ripping apart our
provider is one of the kids will pay for our modular phones on
best and easiest ways lavish retirement, a whim to add a custom
you can combat climate we wholeheartedly Tic Tac dispenser or
change – and it can endorse the new Boost stun gun. For now, the
HT C WIRELESS VIVE even save you money Creative Kit. As if those best Motorola’s Moto
in the process. To go robots didn’t look Mods have to offer is
one better than signing adorable enough, a JBL SoundBoost 2
As much as we love the HTC Vive, delicately traipsing up with the likes of Bulb they can also be speaker, Incipio Offgrid
over its connecting cables does somewhat take the or Ecotricity, Tesla’s programmed by the Power battery pack
edge off those expeditions to the galaxy’s far-flung solar roof tiles allow Boost companion app, or GamePad controller.
corners. Thankfully, the wireless model that was you to harvest the which is designed to Actually, those all
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