Inhoudsopgave van December 2025 - T3

Brompton’s next-generation electric bike, the T Line (from £5,799, brompton.com), marks a bold leap forward for the British brand best known for redefining urban mobility. The new range brings advanced engineering to the classic fold that’s become an icon of city commuting. Driving the latest model is Brompton’s e-Motiq motor system, combining a 250W rear hub with a lightweight 345Wh battery. The setup delivers up to 90km of intelligent pedal assistance, learning your cadence and power needs to optimise performance on every commute. The system learns from your riding habits in the first 100km, adapting power delivery and responsiveness with every journey. Thanks to a titanium main frame and carbon components, the top-tier model weighs just 14.1kg with battery. “Every gram and every weld has been considered,” Brompton’s head of…

Sleeping under the stars sounds romantic until you have to deal with the weather. As much as we love camping, a campervan is far more appealing, not least for the solid roof above our heads. And haivng heating. The Marco Polo is based on the Mercedes Vito or V-Class van and has been made by Westfalia since the 1990s. Today, Westfalia is part of the Mercedes-Benz group, and the latest Marco Polo sits as a standard model option. The current 2025 model starts at £89,330 and is a no-holds-barred luxury camper that turns any campsite into an exclusive retreat. We took the latest model away for a weekend to see exactly how it holds up in the wild. Outside, the Marco Polo looks much like any other V-Class, only given…

OONI VOLT 2 Ooni’s upgraded Volt indoor pizza oven brings the ease and convenience of pizza making into your home. The Ooni Volt 2 is powered by electricity and uses an adaptive heating system to balance heat within the oven to make delicious 12-inch pizzas. £499, uk.ooni.com PHILIPS HUE BRIDGE PRO Philips Hue’s new Bridge Pro has a sleeker design and better support than its predecessor. It supports up to 150 smart lights and 50 accessories, and keeps your entire Hue ecosystem in one place, while making it even speedier. £79.99, philips-hue.com SWITCHBOT SMART VIDEO DOORBELL SwitchBot’s latest has 2K video resolution, colour night vision and AI-powered detection. Its best feature is an accompanying 4.3-inch indoor monitor, so you can still communicate with visitors without a phone. £159.99, uk.switch-bot.com…

GaGu has received many messages about iPhone 17 Pro Max discolouration issues. He hears that the aluminium bits of some of the premium phones have turned from lurid orange to something closer to rose gold, leaving the back of them looking like, to quote one reader, “a cobbled together jumble of parts”. Can Guru help? No! He is no alchemist. If whatever chemical reaction caused the problem has happened to you – and it’s probably something to do with UV, a punishment for those bougie enough to use a £1,200 phone without an opaque case and then leave it in the sun – that’s a question for Tim Cook. Apparently Guru is an influencer again, because the lovely people at DJI sent him the Mic 3 for a little GaGu…

If you’re looking for the very best tech available today, you’ve definitely come to the right place. Best of the Best is the most useful gadget buying guide you will ever encounter. To create it, we’ve extensively tested the best tech the world has to offer, to bring you rock-solid recommendations for your home life, daily commute and the tech you use all the time. In 42 different categories, we’ve chosen the top four products, so you can choose one that’s just the right mix of features and budget for what you need. These rankings come from real testing by our team of experts – they’re the products we’d choose for ourselves, and we can’t recommend any more highly than that. Look for the links above each category that take…

Omorpho’s new G-Vest Icon (from $299 (£227), omorpho.com) redefines weighted training with a streamlined, fully adjustable design that enables athletes to double the load in seconds, from 10lb to 20lb for men and 6lb to 12lb for women. With evenly distributed micro-weights, it boosts intensity without compromising movement or posture. The vest’s sculpted fit, breathable materials and sleek aesthetic make it as functional in the gym as it is stylish – a smart evolution of wearable resistance.…

ULTIMATE ROOF TENT James Baroud is one of the most premium names in roof tents but the Odyssey is the ultimate in comfort. This ABS hardshell tent comes in two sizes to sleep two people, plus one or two little ones. £3,300, jamesbaroud.com LIKE CAMPING ON THE MOON Exod tents look as though they’re designed for lunar adventures. The Air Station POD-01 is what it calls the ultimate adventure shelter and features an inflatable frame, making it lightweight and extremely sturdy. From £1,752, exod.store RETRO STREAMING Modern Airstreams are packed with tech. From the compact Basecamp to the generously sized Tourer, they now have LED lighting, USB charging and solar kits. We’re still waiting on 2022’s eStream concept to make its way to production; if it does, we’ll be on…

FORESTRIKE A super-snappy Switch and PC fighter with a unique gimmick: you can practice the puzzly fights before you commit to your moves. Incredibly satisfying when you get it right. TRAINWRECK If you’ve missed this Netflix series of documentaries of the absurd, go back: see the balloon boy, the antics of Mayor Rob Ford, and (best of all) the story of the so-called poop cruise. THE SMASHING MACHINE The Rock leaves the khaki shirt at home and chooses not to visit the jungle. He somehow pulls off some actual acting in this cracking biopic of MMA legend Mark Kerr. Watch it.…

HOW WE TEST 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 exists. In here you’ll find only the latest and hottest tech. Each product has been handpicked and tested by T3’s experts. We only choose people with specialist knowledge for each test, so you know you’re going to get an outcome based on many years of experience in their respective field. As well as our traditional five-star rating system (right), we also give out awards to particularly exceptional gadgets, using the line-up below - so when you spot one of these,…

Xbox’s big device-agnostic “This is an Xbox” push means that it’s trying to break down perceptual barriers about where you can play Xbox games. Enter the ROG Xbox Ally, on review here, and its more powerful brother, the Xbox Ally X, collaborations with Asus and building on the existing ROG Ally and ROG Ally X, but adding some upgrades and a redesign to look and feel more like Xbox devices. Some bits of the ROG Xbox Ally look extremely familiar if you’ve handled the older ROG Ally before, but others are very obviously different. The biggest change is the addition of large protruding grips lifted from the design of Xbox’s latest generation of controllers. Most PC handhelds have grips that are more integrated into the body of the device, making…

December isn’t exactly the best time to buy anything that isn’t a lavish gift for a loved one, let alone an otherworldly-expensive TV set, or a complete surround system with a speaker to cram into every corner of your lounge, but there’s method to the madness of upgrading your sound and vision setup now (p29). During the festive season you’re likely to be leashed to your home for a good portion of time while Jack Frost is nipping at your toes, and your natural inclination will be to retire to the sofa after a hard day’s overindulgence to watch re-runs of Christmas classics such as Home Alone, or listen to All I Want for Christmas is You for the 500,000 time. Whatever your seasonal entertainment needs, you’re going to want…

Have we reached peak touchscreen? Is the future going to see a revival of knobs and switches, or indeed another sort of interface altogether? Touchscreens are everywhere. And they have lots of advantages. It’s far quicker to tap to focus where you want on your camera’s touchscreen than to steer your way around using a joystick or D-pad. They give you many more options than physical controls. Hold that ‘e’ on your touchscreen keyboard and you get nine different diacritics to choose from. The iPhone, now of course nearly 20 years old, proved you could turn a pocket-sized touchscreen into a virtually infinite variety of interfaces to control and create whatever you want. Touchscreens also seem to have taken over new cars altogether, allowing minimalist design to dominate our driving…

Amazon’s Fall Event took place at the end of September, and announced many products within the Echo, Fire, Ring and Blink line-up and here are the new devices that are actually worth knowing about. Starting with Echo, Amazon hasn’t launched a new Show display in a couple of years, but it’s now updated its Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 11 with new glass-to-glass screens. It also reinvented its Echo Studio – it’s 40% smaller than the original, while still keeping its powerful audio and bass. But the real star of the show is its newest smart speaker, the Echo Dot Max (pricing TBC). Running on Amazon’s AZ3 chip, the Echo Dot Max is a serious advancement on the Dot (5th Gen) in terms of audio and design. The Max…

JAMES, VIA EMAIL Q How do I cope in loud environments? A A few options here, so let’s go down the sliding scale depending on just how loud and environmental we’re talking. The ultimate in ear bafflement is probably the professional safety ear muffs from Decibel Defence (£50), which claims they chop out 37dB of pressure. That seems high – most over-ear protection tops out at closer to 30dB – but Guru isn’t about to risk another visit from the council by testing them. If you’re looking for in-ears, Mrs Guru recommends the SnoreCalm Plus Foam Ear Plugs (£5 for seven pairs), which also carry a noise reduction rating of 37dB and mean she only has to sleep two rooms away from GaGu rather than four. The obvious next step is…

Time for a very prosaic thought experiment: roll the clock back a decade for something on Google. Anything, really, but for the sake of argument, let’s say you’re looking up your favourite sports team. Chances are that whether you’re on mobile or desktop, back in 2015, you’re within a very short distance of the site or information you wanted almost the instant you hit the search button. Now do it in 2025, and tell me the results are better. I just looked up Liverpool FC while writing this piece, and got a collage of supposedly viral news stories, an expandable snippet of the league table, a huge summary of the club’s most recent game and even a chunky box linking me to a totally random person posting about the club…

Every year when it comes to testing the best TVs, you can be sure that there’ll be a new 8K-resolution set from Samsung – the one and only brand pushing the Ultra-Ultra-HD dream – and, sure enough, in 2025 it’s the QN990F on review here. This is Samsung’s no-holds-barred take on TVs: positioned above the also-8K QN900F, it features a Wireless One Connect Box design, so you can mount the ultra-slender panel on to a wall and, aside from power, have zero cables trailing behind it. Unlike the Samsung S95F – which is the best OLED TV of this year (and 4K, as that technology doesn’t venture to higher resolutions for TV products) – the QN990F features a super-bright Mini-LED panel that’s, frankly, eye-searing in its delivery. Samsung calls the…