T3 February 2022

COLOUR WHEEL This Tron-tastic flywheel lighting isn’t just for your Jeff Bridges role-play sessions: its 15 LEDs also communicate your stats, changing colour in line with your performance ECHELON EX-8S In a post-Peloton world, there’s a glut of smart exercise bikes that are innovative in terms of features and yet rather conservative in their styling. Fortunately, the limited edition EX-8s from Echelon blows that convention apart. Even ignoring the light-cycle-esque wheel lighting – more on that above – this is a slick-looking smart bike. It features a curved 24-inch HD touchscreen that can easily be flipped 180-degrees for off-equipment workouts, while its bullhorn handlebars and competition-style seat are ergonomically designed to recreate the feel of a road bike. Using the digital resistance controller you can easily toggle between 32 levels of magnetic resistance,…

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As we know from old Erwin Schrödinger’s much put-upon moggy, lock a cat in a box and it is simultaneously a superposition of three states: alive, dead and, as the late, great Terry Pratchett put it, ‘bloody furious’. During the uncertainty of current pandemic, every future event is locked in that same box. With a now presumably quite musky-smelling feline. Given I usually write these words a few weeks in advance, this makes for quite a difficult task. All I can say for sure is we had a fantastic new year with family and friends and tearfully sang ‘Auld Lang Syne’ under our breath to an empty room. The Consumer Electronics Show was a riotous in-person event in Vegas and a series of Zoom calls populated by dressing-gown wearing journos. Fortunately, the…

OPPO FIND N £TBC, oppo.com This is the device that will elevate Oppo through the smartphone ranks. The Find N is a true flagship, a phone that doesn’t only match the potential of its ultra-premium competitor but, for what we’d have to assume was a very large proportion of potential buyers, betters it. It’s a phone that changes what we know about foldables, and changes what we should expect in the future. Can you tell we’re rather excited about it? The fact is that this is a very clever handset indeed. Oppo has solved two of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold’s biggest problems through clever industrial design. One, the strangely elongated body of the Z Fold gets chopped down, making the closed Find N look more like a chubby candybar handset, and giving…

MID-FIT BLUE SUIT One of Britain’s favourite designers, Paul Smith, has always seamlessly blended classic with modern. Here this two-piece (chinos and blazer) mid-fit suit may be more relaxed and comfortable than a slim-fit but it still has plenty of swagger. £140 (chinos), £345 (blazer), paulsmith.com STRIPED COTTON SHIRT Team this dusty-rose striped cotton shirt, designed by actor John Boyega, with a dark blue suit for a dapper pairing or wear with more casual trousers to bring a sprinkle of smart workwear to a more laidback outfit. £24.99, hm.com JASON FULL-GRAIN LEATHER CHELSEA BOOTS A wardrobe staple that can be adapted to many looks, the Chelsea boot still looks pucker paired with suit trousers. George Cleverley’s ‘Jason’ boots are made from full-grain leather with elasticated side panels and pull tabs. £595, mrporter.com HOUNDSTOOTH BLAZER Japanese designer Issey Miyake has taken…

TIMEX, GIORGIO GALLI S1 38 AUTOMATIC Just as refined and undeniably elegant as the rest of the collection and now housed within a 38mm case, this watch is a tribute to the history of Timex as well as a look ahead to the chapters yet to be written. £425, timex.co.uk HAMILTON, PSR MTX Limited to 1,999 pieces in honour of the The Matrix’s premiere date, the sleek, all-black timepiece celebrates the return of the franchise with green LCD numerals and special packaging. £900, hamiltonwatch.com BREITLING, ENDURANCE PRO WOS SPECIAL EDITION Breitling’s Endurance Pro is the ultimate athleisure watch. The exclusive model stands ready for action with a dark green dial and matching rubber strap, and is limited to just 650 pieces. £2,550, breitling.com RESSENCE, TYPE 1 DX2 Limited to 25 pieces, the Type 1 Slim DX2 draws inspiration from Arabic…