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100 GREATEST GADGETS OF 2017




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                 FENDER
                 MUS T ANG GT

                 Guitar amp design
                 hasn’t really changed
                 since the ’60s – but it’s
                 what’s inside the big
                 black boxes of noise
                 that’s important.
                 Fender’s Mustang GT   PODSPEAKERS MINIPOD                 REMARK ABLE T ABLET
                 series comes with   BLUET OO TH MKII
                 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth,
                 so you can connect it                                     What do you doodle on if there’s no paper to hand?
                 to your phone via the   Can’t afford to kit your house out with a high-end   A ReMarkable Tablet, that’s what. It’s got a 10.3in
                 Fender Tone app and   amp and those stylish Bowers & Wilkins Nautilus   E ink display for easy reading and you can add a
                 edit effects, tinker with   speakers you’ve been drooling over? Podspeakers   Bluetooth stylus (the Marker, $79) to annotate,
                 presets and stream   emerged from a collaboration with B&W, hence the   scribble and sketch on the screen, with a tip that’s
                 tunes to play along to.   Nautilus-like form, but the MiniPod is a standalone   designed to feel like you’re writing on real paper.
                 from £250 /        powered speaker with Bluetooth.        from US$529 / remarkable.com
                 fender.com         €549 / podspeakers.com












                 PRO- JECT          TECHNICS           B&O                 L OGITECH          SAMSUNG
                 ESSENTIAL III      SC-C70             BEOSOUND            G903               CHG90
                 SGT PEPPER’S                          SHAPE               LIGHT SPEED
                 TURNTABLE                                                 WIRELESS
                                    If you haven’t already                 GAMING             As Roy Scheider
                                    sold all your CDs to   Frankly, we’re   MOUSE             famously said when
                 It was 50 years ago   make space for more   surprised it took                he first clapped
                 in May, that Sergeant   Ikea furniture, Technics’   so long. Almost 60       eyes on Samsung’s
                 Pepper taught the   new all-in-one has   years after Phil Spector   Like scurvy, AOL and   whopping 49in monitor:
                 band to play – and   a shiny disc spinner   pioneered his sonically   Jim Davidson, having   “You’re gonna need a
                 Pro-Ject has crafted   nestled in the top.   dense ‘wall of sound’   to charge your mouse   bigger desk.” With a
                 a couple of special   If that’s all a bit last   recording technique,   belongs in the past.   32:9 aspect ratio, the
                 decks to mark the   decade, it’s also got   Bang & Olufsen has   Fortunately, Logitech’s   CHG90 is like having
                 occasion. There’s a   AirPlay, Bluetooth and   made a line of tile-like   new gaming mice have   two regular widescreen
                 €1199 2Xperience SB   DLNA hiding behind the   speakers that you   Powerplay tech – a   monitors fused
                 that’s limited to 1000,   five-speaker setup,   can literally build a   wireless charging   together, making
                 but we prefer this   with a Scandi grille   wall out of. Let’s hope   system built into the   your gaming marathons
                 Essential III with its   covering the whole lot.   B&O’s never heard of   mouse mat, so your kit   and spreadsheet
                 iconic drum design.   Nice… or, as they say in   Napalm Death.  will stay juiced while   sessions that bit
                 €499 /             Sweden, trevlig.   from €4000 /        you juice n00bs all day.  more intense.
                 project-audio.com  £tba / technics.com  bang-olufsen.com  $150 / logitech.com  $1500 / samsung.com

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