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Sony WH-1000XM5: The gold standard for headphones

INNOVATIONS PREPARE YOURSELF FOR TOMORROW Sony WH-1000XM5: The gold standard for headphones Some of the best headphones around, says Alex Hughes, but they don’t come cheap Let’s get this bit out of the way, Sony’s new flagship headphones, the WH-1000XM5, cost £379. By any measure that is expensive, even when compared to the likes of […]

First drive: Toyota BZ4X

INNOVATIONS PREPARE YOURSELF FOR TOMORROW First drive: Toyota BZ4X Has Toyota’s first fully electric car been worth the wait, asks Daniel Bennett Toyota isn’t afraid to try new things. It made hybrid cars popular with the Prius, it sold the first commercial hydrogen car with the Mirai, and it’s now working with the Japanese space […]

Ideas we like…

Our pick of the month’s smartest tech …running sunglasses get a major upgrade “The mindset of a god. The image of a warrior” – that is the cringe-inducing, hyperbolic introduction Oakley chose to go with for the Xeus_AG glasses. Sadly, they don’t offer omnipotence or barbarian abs, they’re just a pair of glasses for runners. […]

Meet the animal architects

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Naps: A user ’s guide

NAPS: A USER’S GUIDE YOU SNOOZE, YOU WIN. RESEARCH SHOWS THAT NAPPING CAN HAVE A POWERFUL EFFECT ON HEALTH AND COGNITION. THIS IS THE ART OF A SCIENTIFIC SIESTA… by IAN TAYLOR Keep this to yourself but I am, quite literally, sleeping on the job. I’m sitting on my desk chair and should be writing […]

It’s time to rethink our relationship with fat

IT’S TIME TO RETHINK OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH We’ve all moaned about a bit of podge on our thighs or tummies, but that fat is not an inert lump of lard – it has an important job to do. And now, scientists are starting to find out even more about its hidden powers by TOM IRELAND […]