AW13 GADGET MAN

5th December 2013

You don’t have to be a tech Geek to appreciate a good gadget. Here are our top picks of what the gadget world has to offer, from goggles to tourbillons. It’s a #manthing

Imagine if you could do things on your computer just like you do them in real life. If natural movements replaced all those clicks and taps and drags and drops. Imagine if technology finally figured out people, instead of the other way around. That’s the future. The Leap Motion Controller senses your hands and fingers and follows their every move. It lets them move in all that wide-open space between you and your computer. So you can do almost anything without touching anything. It’s the tiny device that just might change the way you use technology. Touch, poke, drop, drag, click or scroll like never before.

Pro Quality gear at a fraction of the price, this DLSR camera is the new breed of super tech packed into a lightweight shell. It’s dust-proof, water-resistant, freeze-proof and built from magnesium alloy meaning it can take a fair amount of abuse. Add in a massive 16-megapixel live MOS sensor, image stabilisation, auto focus and Wi-Fi and you have a serious bit of kit in your hands and you won’t need to be a scientist to make it work.

The Masterpiece MP-05 La Ferrari is based on the far-out silhouette of Ferrari’s new hypercar ‘LaFerrari’. This ‘engine block for the wrist’ boasts a 637-part, laterally positioned movement incorporating 11 spring barrels that enable the watch to run for 50 days (days!) without being re-wound – record setting. Fifty examples were made, making it almost ten times rarer than the car itself. A steal at £250,000.

The wonderfully over-engineered Bremont World Timer, ALT1-WT features a very complex, highly finished dial and a Roto-Click bezel. This enables the user to work out the global time zones using the International landing location in all 24 time zones. The watch itself can show UTC or ‘Zulu‘ time through its adjustable 24-hour hand. It’s safe to say, The Bremont World Timer is one of the more intricate and complicated military watches ever produced.

Quite simply the most beautiful in ear headphones on the market, and the most sonically perfect. This is the entire concert hall in your head, orchestra included. Sennheiser’s years of technological advancement in the field of audio engineering brought to bear in one beautifully crafted package. Harmonic distortion levels are so low as to be (apparently) non-existent. Ceramic housings and dampened two-chamber absorbers also let you know that these small, unassuming-looking ear-buds mean business. Yours for £600.

We all know that Breguet is one of the most reputable and innovative watch manufacturers in the world and they certainly don’t disappoint with the Classique Grande Complication 3357BR. Honouring the noble and technically challenging repeater mechanism, the generations of Breguet watchmakers have driven their art to new heights with its design. Complete with tourbillion, Hand-wound movement and engraved by hand… if it’s good enough for royalty..

The LG Curved ‘OLED’ TV is a champion with nothing else in its class. This is an I-Max in your living room. A TV with built in 3D & Smart TV tech, a 55inch curved screen that’s only 4.3mm thick and with more colours than the rainbow. The boffins say that they do this by passing electrical current through a biological substance and make it glow without a backlight. Now that’s progress.

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