T3 December 2016

OAKLEY RADAR PACE Meet your new coach, the Oakley Radar Pace. Yep, not a person with an over-sized moustache and a stopwatch, but a pair of badass-looking sunglasses. But these aren’t ordinary sunnies, the Radar Pace are smart shades rocking voice control, fitness sensors and a virtual trainer. A collaboration between Oakley, Intel and design specialist Luxottica, the glasses offer real-time, voice-activated coaching during workouts. Integrated motion, humidity and proximity sensors are used to track movement, and you can pair the glasses with external devices to monitor metrics such as heart rate. The Radar Pace will adjust your training zones as you improve and automatically make up for missed workouts, helping you stay on track and hit your fitness goals. During a run you can ask, “OK Radar, how’s my pace?” and…

Rob Carney EDITOR Rob’s smart home has really come together this month, with Amazon Echo taking centre stage. He doesn’t need to move from his sofa to turn all of his lights on and change his heating. Nick Odantzis DEPUTY EDITOR Back from his adventures in South America, Nick has being showing us all of his GoPro footage (trust us, all of it!). He’s also had to give back his beloved Golf GTE to Volkswagen (sob). Claire Davies ASSISTANT EDITOR Our very own Santa has been compiling the best Christmas gift guide known to man for as long as she can remember now. Check it out starting on p59 and get your credit card ready… Luke O’Neill ART EDITOR Luke’s love of Christmas is only second to Ebenezer Scrooge, but we plied him with eggnog and got him through this issue…

3 FOR £6! Amazing subs offer on p92 The reality will probably be a nice pair of socks and some underpants, but we can all dream, can’t we! So that’s why we’ve put together what I reckon is the dream Christmas gift guide – you’ll find ideas for dad, mum, partner, the kids and of course, yourself (who would begrudge you buying a cool bit of tech as a present to yourself?). Check it out on p59 and you never know, Santa might just have read it as well… What’s more, we’ve put together a monstrous, massive, majestic tech competition. You can win over £11,000 of top tech. Turn to p90 to enter (and if you win, I’ll deliver the prizes personally. That’s a promise). Elsewhere, we’ve launched a brand new section called T3…

From £1,499, store.apple.com Laptops? Haven’t they been replaced by tablets yet? Nope! In fact, we think 2016 has seen more interesting developments in traditional PCs than in tablet computing. There’s more space for innovation in the larger body, and both the new MacBook Pro and Surface Book are examples of this. What’s so special about this new MacBook Pro, then? What isn’t special about it? The new MacBook Pro matches the Surface Book for power, yet it’s somehow smaller than the MacBook Air. It features a larger trackpad which is better than the Surface Book’s. There are four USB-C ports… oh, and a Touch Bar replaces the function keys. But I’ll miss the function of keys! No you won’t – no one uses them any more, silly. The Touch Bar is an OLED multi-touch display that…

From £1,599, microsoftstore.com Another laptop? I can’t deal with the excitement here! Like buses, you wait for an exciting laptop all year, then two come along at once. The updated Surface Book is hotly anticipated, especially after winning a prestigious T3 Awardearlier in 2016. Does it have a Touch Bar? Nope, the Surface Book is innovative in a different way – it’s a hybrid. The entire 13.5-inch display is touch sensitive, and the keyboard can be removed for a full tablet experience. What’s the point of that? It’s more adaptable than a traditional laptop – business during the day, party (gaming, movie-watching) at night. It’s the mullet of computers, if you will. It equals the MacBook Pro in terms of power and has a (claimed) longer battery life. You can also doodle on the 13.5-inch display…

£165, misfit.com Hmm. A new Misfit, eh? Indeed. The company behind the Misfit Ray, Shine, Flash and other popular fitness trackers has unveiled its first smartwatch, the Misfit Phase. It’s handsome, with its classic timepiece looks, and has all the smarts you need to stay connected. Oh yeah? Tell me about the smarts. We’re not saying the Misfit Phase is here to push the boundaries of smartwatch technology, but if you’re shopping for a smartwatch that trades heavily on its looks whilst still keeping you up to date with notifications, all while tracking your sleep and daily activity 24/7, the Phase will see you right. What else can it do? Activate your phone, control your smart lighting or indeed any connected home device and play/pause music on your Bluetooth player – pop the watch into Smart…