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Pain, Pummelled Away
Therabody is back to what it knows best: massage guns. The new Theragun Relief ($199, therabody.com) offers an affordable option for fitness enthusiasts seeking percussive massage therapy. Despite its lower cost, it maintains Theragun’s reputation fo
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Top 10
From $999, apple.com/au Apple’s business model works. It may sound basic, but it’s all about choice: you could get the lowest-tier model, but there’s always something loitering around for a small amount more cash that’ll be appreciably better; if you
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Gadget Guru
A Guru supposes there are two possible answers to this question. The first is that AM (or Medium Wave, if you’re old school) stations are not what they once were: transmitters now operate on lower power, many have been shut down altogether, and basic
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Ideal Drones For Every Task
With its high-resolution 4K 1/1.3-inch camera and supreme 3-axis image-stabilising gimbal, the eminently portable Mini 4 Pro is the world’s most accomplished sub-250g drone for both cinematography and photography. It features all-round obstacle avoid
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Best Heart Rate Monitors
The Garmin HRM-Pro Plus features a tool-free battery cover, offering the same sensor, design and functions as the HRM-Pro. It’s ideal for watch users seeking advanced running metrics and multi-device connectivity. $159, garmin.com Hammerhead’s Heart
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Editor’s Letter
Welcome to what we reckon is just about the most exciting issue of Australian T3 this year. Well, they’re all exciting, but this one is extra special because... awards! The T3 Awards 2024 showcase the very best of tech, home and active products in th
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OnePlus Pad Go
OnePlus isn’t a brand to do things by halves. Quite the opposite: it’s a brand that prefers to do things by multiples. That’s why, having already released the OnePlus Pad last year, there’s now this, the stripped-back OnePlus Pad Go – aiming its sigh
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Eco-friendly Travel Gadgets
Skullcandy’s newest earbuds are made with 65% recycled plastics and have super-fast charging times - a ten-minute charge will give you two hours of playtime. $39.99, skullcandy.com.au Victorinox is a seriously sustainable brand and its latest offerin
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iPad Pro 13-inch M4
To call the iPad Pro a tablet seems reductive. It’s like calling the Star Wars films a space drama – it’s true but it’s so much more. This latest model continues to push the boundaries of what any tablet – let alone an iPad – can do. It introduces a
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Now Playing
Cody Fry writes songs that feel like they’d fit in the Eurovision Song Contest, on orchestral records, and in the mouths of fine crooners. He’s a talented chap - and this record is lovely. Vice’s documentary series about the seediest side of pro wres
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Huawei Watch Fit 3
Huawei has a bunch of exciting wearables, but one of the most intriguing models we’ve come across is the new Watch Fit 3. It’s a fitness tracker that’s been promoted to a smartwatch, is larger than it used to be... and looks eerily similar to the sec
T3 Australia2 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
That’s The Way The Cookies Will Crumble
Google is putting the brakes on third-party cookies in Chrome, the world’s most popular web browser, starting next year. As you’re probably aware, these data files, placed on our browsers by websites other than the one we’re visiting, track our inter
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Beneath The Surface
While we’re all for seeing as much of the world during our lifetimes as possible, a growing number of travellers are realising that it’s more about quality, not quantity. Have you really ‘done’ Japan if you spent just a couple of nights in Tokyo, for
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T3 Australia
Future Publishing Australia, PO Box Q1179, Queen Victoria Building, NSW 1230 Email: [email protected] Web: www.t3.com/au | www.techradar.com Corporate Web: www.futureplc.com Editorial Editor: Ben Mansill [email protected] Group Art
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Beats Solo 4
We’re glad Beats is back. After years of silence, the Solo 4 is yet another exciting release from the brand. Costing nearly half as much as the Studio Pro and featuring a similar design (albeit more compact), the Solo 4 has broad appeal and is a ton
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Tested
In T3, we feature only the finest gadgets out there, and we believe that you – our loyal reader – deserve only the best tech in your life. We don’t want you to waste time, and money, on inferior products, and that’s exactly why our Tested section exi
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Divine VINYL SETUPS
Sony’s proven to be a quality brand within the world of record players and the PS-LX310BT only proves that further. Sporting a simple yet sleek black design and user-friendly setup, it’s ideal for anyone looking to get into the vinyl game but who doe
T3 Australia4 min read
Audio Pro C20
Even the most venerable and/or self-consciously ‘audiophile’ brands are ‘Putting it all into one speaker’ these days - at a price, of course. With the C20, however, Swedish entry-level hero Audio Pro wants to add more than a dash of performance to al
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Dell XPS 14
Remember the tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears? ‘Too cold’, ‘too hot’, and ‘just right’ in the middle? That’s what the new Dell XPS 14 aims for, landing between the ultra-svelte and portable XPS 13 and the powerful but heavy XPS 16. It’s a compe
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Gadget Guru’s Magic Box
Guru’s latest best friend in the whole world is the lovely person from Onyx (or is it Boox?) that sent him the Onyx Boox Palma (around $499) to test. To summarise, it is an e-reader in the form factor of a phone – or, as it turns out, it might be a p
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Samsung S95D
Samsung’s previous QD-OLED model, the S95C increased the brightness, expanded the colours, improved the high dynamic range (HDR) tone mapping and added a better screen filter. The new S95D, however, takes all these existing strengths, but promises to
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Awards 2024
It’s not often that a design team is able to run through the entire list of product bugbears and cross each of them out, but Bose’s cabal of level 20 device wizards has done it. The QuietComfort Ultra Headphones succeed in every department, raising t
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Don’t Freeze Your Bits Off
With simple, sleek looks, TNF’s Summit Series Casaval ($500, above left) is everything you need in a mid-layer jacket while doing all your favourite cold climate things. The layered stretch-synthetic Ventrix insulation breathes with you to help regul
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Showstopper
With the weather remaining stubbornly unseasonable depending on which way the capricious climate is leaning, it’s not always that easy to know whether you should dress for warm or cool weather. Fortunately, Sony’s Reon Pocket 5 means you’re no longer
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Kef Lsx II Lt
Ever since the 2016 launch of its LS50 Wireless stereo speaker system, KEF has been knocking it out of the park. And now there’s this, the LSX II LT. It’s a pared-back, more affordable variation on the LSX theme. But has the company managed to move d
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Solar Express
Electric cars still need to get their power from somewhere. That’s the argument often thrown at EV’s environmentally friendly credentials. But when that source is from renewable solar power, there’s not much doubters can say. I was invited by Skoda t
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Samsung HW-Q600C
Soundbars like the Samsung HW-Q600C, which uses physical speaker drivers to create sonic ‘height’ rather than sound processing algorithms, should be high on the list when choosing a spatial audio system. But does the HW-Q600C have what it takes to de
T3 Australia4 min read
Gadget Guru
A Guru’s oldest and most Canadian enemy, Linus off of YouTube behemoth Linus Tech Tips, would have you believe it is his ratcheting LTT Screwdriver, with the bits hidden in a fancy pop-out compartment in the handle. Through gritted teeth GaGu will ad
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The Future Of Mobile Tech
The first major smartwatch launch of the year is from OnePlus, a follow-up to the original OnePlus Watch we saw in 2021. The OnePlus Watch 2 brings with it an impressive 100-hour maximum battery life, as well as a faster processor than the original,
T3 Australia6 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
Trailblazing AI Tech
While sci-fi books and movies have been exploring the idea of artificial intelligence for many decades, in the last year AI has been thrust front and centre into the tech that we make use of every day. We’re now in a brave new world of AI, and there’
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