VR’s prop hunt is superb but virtual yard work isn’t for me – my favorite Meta Quest 3 games and apps for May 2024

VR’s prop hunt is superb but virtual yard work isn’t for me – my favorite Meta Quest 3 games and apps for May 2024

Howdy folks, I’m back to run you through some of the best Meta Quest 3 games and apps I’ve been playing over the past month so you know which ones you might want to pick up and try in May. Since my last roundup, I’ve completed a month-long VR fitness experiment – where I worked … Read more

Alienware Pro Wireless gaming mouse review: a right-handed pro gamer’s dream

Alienware Pro Wireless gaming mouse review: a right-handed pro gamer’s dream

Alienware Pro Wireless gaming mouse: Two-minute review Along with the gaming keyboard comes the Alienware Pro Wireless gaming mouse, which has been specially developed and tested with professional gamers in mind to make it one of the best gaming mice available – and possibly one of the best mice in general. It’s a massive upgrade … Read more

Google Maps is getting two helpful new features in its latest update

Google Maps is getting two helpful new features in its latest update

Google doesn’t tend to slack off for long when it comes to Google Maps updates, and users are spotting two new tweaks that have been quietly introduced in the Android app – covering electric vehicle navigation and identifying particular roads. First up is the EV charging, as spotted by SmartDroid (via 9to5Google): in the Android … Read more

Gazelle Eclipse Review: A Luxury Dutch Electric Bike

Gazelle Eclipse Review: A Luxury Dutch Electric Bike

If you’re looking at bikes online—or anything, really, whether it’s headphones or monitors—you have to consider price versus payoff. Gazelle has billed its newest ebike, the Eclipse, as a long-range comfort cruiser. It is basically the expensive Dutch version of the direct-to-consumer (DTC) Rad Power Bikes’ Radster Road (8/10, WIRED Recommends). I brooded over that … Read more

Majority MP3 Player review: one of the best cheap music players to consider

Majority MP3 Player review: one of the best cheap music players to consider

Majority MP3 Player: Two-minute review The Majority MP3 Player shines for its simplicity in a world where MP3 players are trying hard to be your replacement smartphone, radio and Kindle all wrapped into one.  The Majority MP3 Player is not trying to be the best MP3 player ever invented; it’s trying to be a simple … Read more

I tried 5 exercises from Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool trainer to build Marvel-worthy arms—here’s how I got on

I tried 5 exercises from Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool trainer to build Marvel-worthy arms—here’s how I got on

As Marvel tradition dictates, Ryan Reynolds hit the gym hard for Deadpool & Wolverine—he needs to fill out his famous red body stocking, after all. With the film landing in cinemas this summer, his trainer has shared five exercises to make your own t-shirt sleeves feel that little bit tighter.  If that’s your goal, slip … Read more

Rise of the microcar – why compact EVs are finally having their day and the ones to watch

Rise of the microcar – why compact EVs are finally having their day and the ones to watch

Many cities around the world are facing a congestion crisis – and where governments and local authorities have seen fit to curb emissions from CO2-belching tailpipes, the humble automobile is slowly being phased out of many urban areas. Although the microcar is nothing new (the petrol-powered Peel P50 was launched in the early 1960s), it … Read more

Titan OS is a new smart TV platform that’s interesting because it’s basic – it’s faster and simpler than others, and drops all the needless extra features

Titan OS is a new smart TV platform that’s interesting because it’s basic – it’s faster and simpler than others, and drops all the needless extra features

The world of smart TV software options on the best TVs is only getting more complicated over time. Some TV makers use their own software and keep it strictly on their own TVs, but you’ve also got the likes of LG webOS, Roku TV, Google TV, and Amazon Fire TV all competing to be on … Read more