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the great british
tech list
The Gadget Magazine August 2014 / £4.50
the ive update
iOS 8 P R I N T E D I N T HE U K
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Health, Home & the future of Apple
60 ways the uk isi ichanging the worldi from aston to zopai
The drone makers
The intergalactic architect
The Twitter phenomenon
The App Store millionaire The audio icon
The special-effects Oscar winners the f1 champ
LEWIS HAMILTON
“my steering wheel’s like a space shuttle launchpad”
e3 upgrade
t h e w o r l d b ui l d e r s
ROCKSTAR GAMES “we’re far more ambitious than film can be”
Gaming laptops and headsets
it’s play time
Contents
August 2014 / Issue 231
On the cover Most wanted: Apple iOS 8
15
Sir Jony Ive’s latest iPhone and iPad overhaul focuses on health and the home to make your device more connected than ever
The Brit Tech List
50
Forget Silicon Valley, we’re turning the spotlight on London’s Silicon Roundabout and the sixty tech innovations and innovators making Britain great, from Lewis Hamilton’s F1 glory to Rockstar Games
How technology saved cycling
70
Put the performanceenhancing drugs down and check out the bike technology that’s making pro riders faster and fitter than ever
It’s play time!
110
It’s time to raise your game, with next-gen headsets and laptops built to destroy all opposition
Festival survival
77, 86
Gearing up for a music weekender? Get the style tech and gadget aids to help make it mighty
Celebrate Tech Britannia in style with Ted Baker Rockall headphones (pictured) to Paul Smith+ Anglepoise lamps, from p50
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Contents August 2014 / Issue 231
Editor’s letter
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Opinion
Tech for women? Try a little empathy
Insight by Lady Geek’s Belinda Parmar
Radar
America’s 4K revolution is go
Most Wanted: iOS 8 and more
15
Highlights from Apple’s big developer jamboree. Home and health are key… 18
The sportscar that runs purely on chip fat, but doesn’t compromise on speed Concept: Boeing CST-100
Review: Samsung Galaxy Camera 2
49
The original web-connected camera gets a traditional look, but remains cutting-edge
24
The birth of five-star space tourism
Introducing the triple threat: a laptop, tablet and desktop all rolled into one
Features
Review: Lenco L-175
The Great British tech list
50
T3 reveals the sixty most swinging gadgets, apps and innovators putting Britain firmly on the tech map, from Aston Martin to Zopa How tech saved cycling
70
Join T3 on a whistle-stop visit to Britain’s up-and-coming technology hotspots
Drug scandals may have damaged the Tour’s reputation, but the latest technology is now improving times and cleaning up its image
Spend: B&O BeoVision Avant
Brighten up for summer
News: Tech tour of the UK
26
28
The 4K telly that swivels at your command Spend: BKON Craft Brewer
29
Make the world’s most pricey cup of tea Icon: Dieter Rams
77
The sun is out and it’s time to inject some colour into your travel tech. Just pick a hue… Shutdown
138
30
Ten British tech problems by @soverybritish
32
Tech life
The godfather of tech minimalism Stuff
Impulse purchases for you to peruse The Buzz
34
Incoming
Gadget of the month
36
Clear your diary, there’s much to be done
How to
Upgrade
The Essential: Lumiére
41
Obsession: festival season
Games
Tech Dad
42
Group test: next-gen headsets
86 87
110
A-grade audio and in-game chatter for consoles, PCs and smartphones Supertest: gaming laptops
113
Take your gaming prowess on the prowl, with these portable PCs that contain more than their fair share of graphical oomph Showdown: Roku vs Chromecast
120
They’re both affordable ways to smarten up your TV, but which streaming stick is best?
Smartphones Tablets Cameras Televisions Home entertainment Laptops Gaming Home audio Headphones Accessories
124 125 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134
Weekender survival tech and tickets 88
The baby monitor on your smartphone
Hitman Go, Borderlands 2, steampunk murders, cycling greats and octopi
Pulse
89
43
Bluetooth tennis racquet that’ll turn you into an ace, plus top Tour-ready cycling kit
43
Home
Jack White gives vinyl a modern twist Under The Skin, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Her and Liam Neeson on a plane
Audiophile-grade furniture and bathroom tech that’s both wet and wild
Apps, websites and ebooks
Drive
Pixel Press Floors gives good game
85
Lightweight waterproofs for summer showers
Musical innovator Robert Henke brings his live laser show to London’s Barbican
Films
84
The best at-home bean blitzers
Play
Music
83
Play PC games on the TV; control dreams Test: coffee grinders
109
Turntable that drags your vinyl collection into this century, converting to MP3
The guide
BleepBleeps, the tools for connected parents
The stats, tech stories and your mails
108
Review: Asus Transformer Book Trio 109
20
22
103
49
Finally… by Tom Tamblyn
Wearables have been to school to get a medical degree. Book an appointment now Innovation: Trident Iceni
Xbox One ditches Kinect; gains enemy
360 review: Huawei Ascend P7
48
Truth by Duncan Bell
This month’s most scorching-hot tech
Rated
The plucky contender leading a new charge of affordable but spec-stuffed Android smartphones, fresh out of China
Stateside by Chris Smith How NOT to use social networks
Need list Trend: GP on your wrist
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44
93
96
Maserati Quattroporte Diesel and Lexus NX
On the cover
Nevena @ Select dress by richard nicoll phone case by proporta Photographed by Richard grassie styling by Dean Hau Make-up, hair and nails by Fiona Moore using Aveda and Rococo Nail Apparel retouching by simon windsor
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Editor’s letter August 2014 / Issue 231
From Sir Jony Ive’s iOS 8 beta recalibrating Apple’s connected future to Chris Froome pushing cycling’s high-tech gear to its limits and bagging another Tour de France title (think positive thoughts), this summer is the season of the Brit. To celebrate, we’ve stocked up on raincoats and drizzle oil and worked well over the 40-hour working week to create a second annual Best of British issue, where we switch our gadget gaze momentarily away from the wider world and on to our increasingly innovative isles. Okay, that’s not strictly true. It wouldn’t be T3 if we didn’t bring you the finest international fare, too. So we’re still getting excited at China’s smartphone revolution on p103 and, of course, we were in San Francisco at Apple’s WWDC, rubbing shoulders with Cupertino’s new coding rock stars, for the iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite reveal (p15). But our focus is unashamedly on the UK’s fine form. At the centre of it all is our Great British Tech List, a celebratory rundown of the 60 inventive and exciting people, places and A-grade products not just floating our boat right now, but pushing the UK’s digital ideas to international recognition and importance (p50). In turn,
we talk to F1’s reigning champ Lewis Hamilton, and Dan Houser of Grand Theft Auto creator Rockstar Games, while Belinda Parmar, CEO of the growing Lady Geek empire, takes on the tech world’s unempathetic empires on p47. Our east-London cover shoot may have, ironically, been interrupted for rain more than Wimbledon week, but where better to capture the startup scent than Silicon Roundabout, with its paint-daubed alleys and utilitarian, heavy showers-shielding car parks? Although, it’s worth pointing out that while the capital’s Tech City steals a lot of media attention – and Government money, of course – innovative tech is booming far and wide in the UK. We highlight what parts of the country you should be watching for new ideas, inventions and events on p26. The Tour de France kicks off in Yorkshire in July, for a start, so we peek at how tech has revived cycling’s reputation from drug-damaged dropout to sport of the future (p70). Elsewhere, we get you geared up for festivals (p87), ensure you’re suitably cultured at the Barbican (p41), help make the best cup of tea you’ll ever taste (p28), then get @soverybritish’s Rob Temple to serve up some Very British tech problems to finish on p138. In fact, Rob is a fine example of Britain’s digital uprising, deciding after years of covering hot tech happenings for T3 to become one himself. Within mere minutes of launching his Twitter feed, he’d racked up 791k followers, nabbed a book deal and had Jennifer Saunders say lovely things about him. It’s the fastest tech fairy tale I’ve ever witnessed and a story that is, like so many burgeoning narratives in Britain right now, as creatively inspiring as it is entertaining. So, what’s your big idea? Matt Hill, Editor Twitter: @gethill / Email: matt.hill@futurenet.com
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Who better to call upon for T3’s Brit Tech List issue than the author of the @soverybritish Twitter feed? The ex-T3 alumnus and expert on the British psyche investigates the UK’s tech scene, from p50.
Super stylist Emma sets the interior trends as shopping editor of Elle Decoration. We let her loose on the year’s best travel tech, creating an explosion of colour that’s far from gunmetal grey, from p77.
With the Tour de France ready to roll on our shores from July 5, we asked the deputy editor of Procycling to look at the cutting-edge bike tech that’s set to break more records than the drugs cheats. p70.
rob temple
emma kay
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