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100 GREATEST GADGETS OF 2017





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                                                                                               MONUMENT
                 SA GE SMAR T                                            SAMSUNG               VALLEY 2
                 SCOOP                                                   FAMILY HUB
                 ICE CREAM                                               RF56K9540SR
                 MAKER                                                                         If ‘lunch break’ for you
                                                                                               means hiding away in
                                                                         Stick a whiteboard on   a corner and furiously
                 Sure, you could chase                                   your fridge and it’ll be   tapping your iPhone’s
                 the ice cream man,                                      covered with doodles   screen in frustration,
                 shove £2 in his hand                                    in a jiffy. Plaster a 21.5in   perhaps it might
                 and gobble down a                                       screen across the front   be time for a change.
                 chocolate flake – but   MILL O                          of a camera-equipped   Ditch Clash Royale and
                 that takes the strife                                   smart freezer that    dive into the exquisite
                 and palaver out of                                      monitors the food     Monument Valley 2.
                 earning your dairy   Smoothie drinkers will be familiar with the less than   inside to reduce   Its dreamy, impossible
                 hit. This home creamer   fruity sound of motorised blades obliterating your   wastage, as well   worlds contain a
                 necessitates splitting,   kiwis. While a healthy dose of the mushy stuff is   as syncing everyone’s   moving, mind-bending
                 heating and stirring.   no bad thing, must it necessitate sticking carrots in   calendars via Family   journey that’ll keep you
                 And the reward: it   your ears? Not any more: Millo ditches the decibels   Hub 2.0 software, and   chilled but hooked.
                 tastes amazing.    in favour of a hushed, magnet-driven mechanism   you’ll have a better   £4.99 / monument
                 £350 /             that’s four times quieter than your standard blitzer.  life. Maybe.  valleygame.com
                 sageappliances.co.uk   US$299 / getmillo.com            £3837 / samsung.com




         SMOKE
        YOUR OWN
         KIPPERS




                 CHAR -BROIL        TEF ORIA          SMAR TER           PICOBREW              GOOGLE
                 DIGIT AL           LEAF              FRIDGECAM          PICO C                QUICK, DRAW!
                 ELECTRIC
                 SMOKER
                                    A counter-top brewer   Can’t afford a whole   Want beer? Make   Teaching machines to
                                    with a brain – feed the   smart fridge? Make do   beer. Or rather, scan   recognise shapes is a
                 Finely smoked food is a   Leaf tea packages and   with a courgette cam.   an RFID-equipped   pretty laborious task…
                 hard art to master. Oh,   it’ll automatically know   This isn’t an in-fridge   PicoPak, adjust the   unless it involves
                 sure, you can cremate   the best method by   security camera   strength to taste   repeatedly doodling
                 the toast, but for   which to brew them. By   for catching midnight   and – two hours   pictures to order, while
                 subtler flavouring   considering the leaves   milk-pilferers in the act:   later – you’ll have   Google tries to guess
                 you need some serious   inside, this tea-spurting   the FridgeCam can help   your own brew. OK,   what your squiggles
                 tools. Standing just shy   machine can bring out   you track expiry dates,   so it needs fermenting   represent. Quick, Draw!
                 of 83cm tall, this Char-  subtleties of flavour   suggest recipes based   for a week, but five   has you do exactly
                 Broil number takes up   that will have the   on what you’ve got   litres of fine ale should   that – giving you
                 to four trays of grub,   snobbiest connoisseurs   in stock, and warn   be worth the wait.   some lunchtime fun,
                 while a single filling of   cooing. Which beats   you (via an app) if   If Nespresso did   and Google’s AI more
                 wood chippings should   dunking the bag,   the door’s not shut   alcohol, this would   material for its eventual
                 serve up smoke to last   biting the biscuit   properly. It looks, quite   be it – and there’s   world takeover.
                 up to six hours.   and counting to three.   literally, pretty cool.  even a gin version.  £free / quickdraw.
                  £350 / charbroil.com   $399 / teforia.com    £100 / smarter.am   $399 / picobrew.com    withgoogle.com

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