Hummingbird Electric bike review: The world’s lightest foldable electric bike is a beautiful piece of engineering September 25, 2018 It’s only a slight exaggeration to say that the very first electric bikes were as big as houses, cost hundreds of thousands of pounds and needed to be recharged every 300ft. But since their advent, the underlying technology has been continually refined and improved. Electric bikes have become smaller and lighter. Batteries have become more [...]
Trimley Lodge review: Spend a long weekend at this beautifully restored farmhouse on the Suffolk coast September 24, 2018 Unless you’re a particular fan of maritime trade logistics, the town of Felixstowe is unlikely to be high up on your list of places to visit before you die. It is, to the unending pride of locals, the UK’s largest shipping container port, and boasts waters deep enough to accommodate the latest generation of [...]
DJI Mavic Pro review: This £1,000 high-flyer is the best consumer-grade drone you can buy September 21, 2018 Speaking as a real grown up with a workplace pension and several direct debits, who goes on holidays and comes back home and says things like “Ooh it’s nice to be back in your own bed again isn’t it?”, I very rarely get genuinely, childishly giddy about a new toy. But the DJI Mavic [...]
DJI Mavic Pro review: This £1,000 high-flyer is the best consumer-grade drone you can buy September 21, 2018 Speaking as a real grown up with a workplace pension and several direct debits, who goes on holidays and comes back home and says things like “Ooh it’s nice to be back in your own bed again isn’t it?”, I very rarely get genuinely, childishly giddy about a new toy. But the DJI Mavic [...]
Volt Pulse ebike review: The battery-assisted hybrid city bike you’ve been waiting for September 21, 2018 In the space of a year I’ve gone from a sweaty pedalling idiot to the City’s driest and foremost ebike expert. You can spot me gliding around Bank each morning, the picture of respectability and class, fresh as a bee and happily dinging my bell at morning commuters, who smile and greet me like an [...]
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 review: Bigger, better, longer lasting. This is the most sophisticated Android phone ever made September 14, 2018 The latest phone in Samsung’s Note series is all about marginal gains. The screen has grown from 6.3 inches to 6.4 inches, the battery has been boosted to 4,000mAh, and the storage options to one whole terabyte, a record-breaking memory capacity that, for phones, was pure hyperbole only a few years ago. Like saying you [...]
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 review: Bigger, better, longer lasting. This is the most sophisticated Android phone ever made September 14, 2018 The latest phone in Samsung’s Note series is all about marginal gains. The screen has grown from 6.3 inches to 6.4 inches, the battery has been boosted to 4,000mAh, and the storage options to one whole terabyte, a record-breaking memory capacity that, for phones, was pure hyperbole only a few years ago. Like saying you [...]
START Art Fair at the Saatchi Gallery is a weekend exhibition highlighting emerging artists from around the globe September 14, 2018 Launched in 2014 to highlight and promote emerging contemporary artists from around the globe, START Art Fair celebrates its fifth edition at the Saatchi Gallery this weekend. More than 50 artists from over 20 countries – including performance artists, painters and photographers – are exhibiting their work across the gallery’s three floors, giving art collectors [...]
START Art Fair at the Saatchi Gallery is a weekend exhibition highlighting emerging artists from around the globe September 14, 2018 Launched in 2014 to highlight and promote emerging contemporary artists from around the globe, START Art Fair celebrates its fifth edition at the Saatchi Gallery this weekend. More than 50 artists from over 20 countries – including performance artists, painters and photographers – are exhibiting their work across the gallery’s three floors, giving art collectors [...]
Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt at the V&A review: A fascinating deep dive into videogame design and culture September 7, 2018 Exhibitions about videogames frequently land wide of the mark. Either they’re bogged down in dusty arcade nostalgia – that decades old aesthetic of Pac-Man pixel art and bleepy chiptunes that just won’t go away – or they have the desperate air of a culturally sidelined medium crying out to be taken seriously by art critics. [...]
