Table of contents for May 2023 in T3

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COLLECTION SHIRT If bright blooms are too much and monochrome is more your vibe, then this lino-cut-esque design has depth and interest without the colour overload. £25, marksandspencer.com WHITE FLORAL SHIRT Bright and breezy, this short-sleeve shirt is perfect for lazy weekends spent lounging. Pair with shorts on those warmer spring days when you can cast aside your coat. £14.99, tkmaxx.com PRINTED TRIMMED SHIRT Delicate floral designs adorn this 100% cotton shirt, while a contrasting back, neck and cuff adds a stylish edge as it pops against the mustard hue. £34, next.co.uk SHORT SLEEVE FLORAL PRINT SHIRT Embrace big blooms and a maximalist mind-set with this short-sleeve shirt which is 51% cotton and 49% viscose. Also available in blue and blue/white colourways. £30, next.co.uk SEA FLORAL SHIRT Beyond terra firma…

There have never been more reasons to stay closer to home this summer, when the UK’s cities will be firmly in the spotlight. Take Manchester, where you can now stroll above the city on the Castlefield Viaduct, a new elevated park inspired by New York’s High Line. We suggest basing yourself at Princess Street’s The Alan, a slick new boutique hotel that opened inside a Grade II-listed warehouse in 2022. Expect artfully exposed brick walls, unexpected pops of art deco-themed colour and a reception desk that transforms into a DJ’s mixing desk at night time. There are endless opportunities to fuel your explorations of Manchester. Several food halls have opened there in recent months; our favourites include Oxford Road’s Hello Oriental (the char siu is to die for) and Peter…

Thinking of heading down under? A number of new experiences are making those unavoidably long flight times worthwhile. In Alice Springs, Red Centre Adventures’ latest offering is helping cement the outback’s reputation as a mountain biking mecca by launching a heli-tour package. Sign up for this pedal-powered adrenaline fix and you’ll be dropped off at some of the more remote trails surrounding Alice Springs. Afterwards, head to Uluru to check out a new drone and laser-based light show, Wintjiri Wiru. This hi-tech extravaganza, which launches in May and will take place every night, uses drones to showcase Aboriginal storytelling techniques and to provide an insight into Mala people’s lives. Fancy getting off the beaten path? There are exciting new hotel openings in some of the world’s remote places. Explora’s El…

You can see tablets as falling between two stools – those stools being smartphones and laptops – and not really offering anything as good as either. Seen another way though, tablets take the strengths of both the other two form factors and offer something that’s perfectly balanced for getting stuff done on the go. Like smartphones, tablets are compact and very portable, with a wide selection of mobile apps that are high on usefulness and low on bloat. However, they have that extra screen space that edges them up towards tablet territory – and if you snap on a detachable keyboard, you’ve got something that’s almost as good as a laptop when it comes to typing for longer periods and switching between apps. Tablets, then, can help you with everything…

01 KITCHEN CRAFT MISTO There’s some debate online over whether additives in some shop-bought oil sprays can make fryers’ non-stick baskets sticky. Use your own sprayer instead: simply pour in the oil of your choice and you can easily coat your food before air frying it. 02 THERMAPEN ONE This is the money-no-object Rolls-Royce of thermometers option, but any instant read digital thermometer will help you ensure that meat is cooked through. It’s a great way to avoid undercooking or overcooking. £78, thermapen.co.uk 03 WAFE SILICONE AIR FRYER LINER Some foods, particularly fish, will stick to the basket of your air fryer. You can get round this by sticking a bit of parchment paper underneath, but a reusable silicone liner is a more elegant option. £12.99, amazon.co.uk…

URWERK UR-102 RELOADED The only thing T3 is more partial to than a minimal watch face is a blast from the horological past, which is why we love the Urwerk UR-102 Reloaded. Originally launched at Baselworld 1997, the UR-102 featured a smooth round body and an iconic handless design, displaying the time with a wandering hour unit that glided round a semi-circular track. Updated for the 21st century, the UR-102 Reloaded’s case has been scaled up to 41mm from 38mm, while its lugs are larger, taking their design cue from the Sputnik satellite. And it has a sleeker silhouette, thanks to its relocated crown, which blends into the case at 4 o’clock. Can’t decide whether the titanium or the black finish suits your style best? No problem. When you pick…

Recently travel has been less of a mixed bag and more a suitcase that’s been ransacked by security. Returning from holiday last year, my plane was delayed for six hours overnight before finally being cancelled after being sat on the tarmac for a further two. I subsequently spent the final 24 hours of my holiday stewing in a petri dish of Covid and virulent outrage on the airport floor. There’s one thing this experience taught me. Okay, two things: budget airlines suck. But, more importantly, tech can make even the worst travel experience infinitely more bearable. Were it not for my Steam Deck crammed full of board game adaptations and my noise-cancelling headphones, I may have spontaneously combust from sheer aggravation. However, with my gadget survival kit, the experience was…

It’s a myth that you have to head halfway across the world to find the best beaches. Take Corfu, where its most spectacular stretches of coastline have a backdrop of stunning rock formations and forested clifftops. Love effortless beach access? Consider the five-star Kerkyra Blue Hotel & Spa, which emerges from a £5m makeover this May. It’s a great option for couples and families who want the best of both worlds – guests get direct beach access, but the property is also just a short walk from Corfu town. Over in the Caribbean, St Lucia’s Windjammer Landing Villa Beach Resort has had a similarly spectacular makeover. Check into this spruced-up sanctuary and you’ll find stunning new villas, revamped culinary offerings and a beautiful new lobby. The property is nestled in…

FOCAL BATHYS Want to take your ANC listening to the next level? There’s no company we’d trust more than incroyablement magnifique French audio specialist Focal, and the Bathys cans are a complete treat. Intricate, spacious and nimble audio, super-comfortable ear cups, decent noise cancelling, and a battery that’ll carry you through the longest-haul flights and beyond. £699, focal.com OSTRICHPILLOW GO Other neck pillows are quite happy to irritate your neck or allow your head to flop around as you snooze. Not so with the Go. Ostrichpillow has designed it with a full wrap-around sausage of top-end memory foam, a washable, breathable and extra-soft sleeve, and a contoured shape that should support your skull whichever direction it decides to loll. £55, ostrichpillow.com APPLE iPAD PRO 12.9 INCH Shoddy back-of-the-headrest screens that…

Take a laptop with you as part of your on-the-go productivity suite of tools, and you can do just about anything you want away from your desk: writing, emailing, photo and video editing, coding, spreadsheet work and much more besides. Whether you pick Windows, macOS or ChromeOS as your operating system of choice, you’ll have a wealth of programs to pick from. You should also have access to your complete library of documents and other files, either through local storage or connected cloud services. Sure, you can type out reports on your phone, just about – and maybe even put together a simple spreadsheet on a tablet. But to well and truly get work done on the go you want to have a laptop with you, and the ones we’ve…

Sure, phones and laptops and tablets are all well and good when it comes to maintaining your levels of productivity on the go – but can’t they also be a bit too much, at times? Forever ringing and buzzing with notifications, offering access to countless apps and web pages, there’s a case to be made that they can just as easily distract you from the job at hand as help you with it. Not so with these writing devices, digital gadgets with a more analogue feel. These particular pieces of hardware are focused on helping you to get words and pictures down in a straightforward way, whether you’re wanting to sketch out ideas for a product launch or pull together ten thousand words for an employee handbook. In our frenetic…

With pricing that sits close to its Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra competition, the Xiaomi 13 Pro quickly qualifies its position with a stunning Leica-supported triple camera and much faster charging technology. But can it convince would-be customers to steer away from Samsung? Outside of China, there’s just the one finish of the Xiaomi 13 Pro available: ‘Ceramic Black’, which is certainly a sensible description because: 1) the back is finished in ceramic and 2) it’s sort-of black. It also bloomin’ loves fingerprints, which is a downer quite frankly. Set within this ceramic rear is a square camera module, which is much deeper black finish, adorned with a Leica logo and it looks really smart. We far prefer this look compared to the earlier Xiaomi 12 Pro’s far more visible camera…

1 NOTHING EAR (2) • £TBC, nothing.tech Nothing’s style-first launch trajectory has, thus far, seen it safely land more often than not. The Phone (1) is a decent if not super-powerful mid-ranger, featuring some innovative but questionably useful new features and a look all its own. The initial Ear (1) buds were contenders, at least, again heavy on the style and making a good swipe at the ANC big boys. The Ear (stick) buds threw a big rock at Apple’s standard AirPods, which glanced hard enough to chip a little off. Nothing has now passed its launch window, and the Ear (2) buds – its first second-gen product – are a chance for it to show what it has learned. It seems like the no-longer-upstart company has been something of…

NUKI SMART LOCK 3.0 Always losing your keys? You won’t ever have to use them again with the Nuki Smart Lock 3.0. Easy to fit to any door in your house, this new smart lock from Nuki makes locking and unlocking your doors much easier… and it won’t break the bank, either. £149, nuki.io SODASTREAM E-TERRA A new addition to the SodaStream family, the E-TERRA features a unique electric interface for an automated experience that quickly and easily carbonates your water. It’s available in black or white, excitingly. £144.99, sodastream.co.uk OONI VOLT 12 Ooni has introduced the Ooni Volt 12 to its bestselling range of pizza ovens and, this time, it’s electric. The brand’s first electrically powered indoor/outdoor pizza oven reaches 450°C, has easy-to-use timer and temperature controls, and cooks…

City breaks should stimulate the senses and offer a break from the norm, and nowhere does that better than Tokyo, a timely destination for 2023. In February Cirque du Soleil unveiled a new show, Alegría, in Tokyo. It will run until late June, and from July you’ll be able to catch it in the city of Osaka. Love a bit of anime? Make a beeline for Tokyo’s Ikebukuro neighbourhood – in March 2023 the world’s largest anime store, Animate, will open here. For some sporting action, consider a visit to the Tokyo Dome City, which will emerge from a major facelift in March. The baseball stadium’s amenities will include a new food hall, shops and a spa, although our favourite feature will always be Thunder Dolphin, which you’ll find next…

SONOS ROAM Let us be honest about this: if you’re on a crowded beach and decide to start blaring out tunes through the Sonos Roam, we won’t be held responsible for the consequences. In a quiet cove, though, there’s nothing better; this is loud, clear, incredibly compact, and an IP67 rating means it should be resistant to both water and sand. £179, sonos.com SHOKZ OPENSWIM There’s no Bluetooth on the OpenSwim headphones, but that’s perfectly okay: Bluetooth signals don’t travel well through water and, ideally, your phone will be safely stashed up on the beach. Load them up with tunes, stick them on your head, and they’ll conduct that music right into your bones as you brave the waves. Great for a little nautical motivation. £170, shokz.com POWERVISION POWEREGG X…

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Just about all of us have smartphones with us just about all of the time now, but some are better at getting stuff done than others. While a phone can never be a full laptop replacement, you can certainly power through tasks on these devices while you’re on the move – think taking memos, scanning documents, and making calls just for a start. Communication and collaboration is a big consideration here: Apps such as Gmail, Slack, Teams, Outlook and plenty more besides mean that you can always be in touch with clients, customers, colleagues, or whoever you need to speak to around the world. All your chats get synced with your software back at home or the office too. You’re going to want a screen that’s as big as possible,…

With the cost of living hitting everybody’s pay packets and our energy bills still sitting at record highs, it’s hardly surprising that air fryers have become the must-have kitchen tech of 2023. With the promise of faster, healthier and, most importantly of all, cheaper cooking they’ve become so popular that there’s a whole genre of news stories about ‘outraged’ would-be air fryer buyers seeing supermarket stock go straight to eBay. In the US, MSNBC reports that 60% of households have an air fryer – but here in the UK the figure is 30%, so there’s plenty of homes with an air fryer-shaped space in their kitchen. If yours is one of them, there’s never been a better time to join the air fryer frenzy – and if you choose wisely,…

The benefits of air fryers are often overhyped by people trying to sell you stuff and their downsides exaggerated by websites chasing clicks. There are positives and negatives but the reality is a little less dramatic than what you might have been told. IT’LL SAVE YOU SOME CASH It’s absolutely true that even the most powerful air fryers use less energy than traditional ovens. However, once a traditional oven reaches the desired temperature it only needs to maintain it. Air fryers have to heat constantly, and of course you have to pay for your new fryer too while you’ve probably already got an oven. Few if any air fryer vs oven comparisons take that into account. The best research we’ve seen is from the consumer group Which?, whose report found…

It’s astonishing so many of us still use keys to open doors. Simple pieces of steel that manually turn a lock mechanism – it’s archaic. Luckily, Ultion’s Nuki smart lock can make updating a breeze: it fits on almost any door, installs in minutes and, thanks to its modular design, is very affordable. There’s an installation checker on the Ultion website to ensure that the Nuki will work on your lock, but in most cases, the answer is yes. For the actual installation process, you can opt for the hands of one of its installation partners but on most doors, you should be able to easily install it yourself. You simply replace the back of the lock with Nuki holder and screw it in. The Nuki device then just clips…

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