Gadget Guru’s magic box

There’s nothing that Guru likes more than strapping kit to his phone, marching down the street like a tit and pretending to blast people – which is why multiplayer laser-tag game father.io (and its associated Interceptor phone module) has proven so enticing. Taking the best elements of Google’s crushingly dull Ingress, and adding in copious AR elements and a cool infrared shootybox for real-world battling, father.io seems like a great idea, which may be why its Indiegogo campaign performed so well. Expect carnage on the streets come its August release.

Also benefiting from Guru’s special crowdfunding wallet is the OLO smartphone 3D printer, which uses the light from your phone to cure special resins and build (small) tangible objects. At £70, it’s cheap enough that you can buy a spare phone to stick inside, so that yours isn’t put out of action while it spends three hours making a dinky statuette of RoboCop or, y’know, other less important things. While the amazing drill-wound Hublot MP-07, revealed at the Baselworld watch and jewellery show, is a little out of Guru’s price bracket at £195,000 (or £650,000 with diamonds), the Sharkbanz Seafoam ($65/£46) is the new essential wristwear. GaGu has been wearing this “proven shark deterrent” – which uses magnetic fields and a lurid turquoise colour scheme to confuse the toothy waterbeasts – for a week, and he’s not been attacked by a shark once. The technology works! Finally, Guru is coveting the brand-new DJI Phantom 4 drone (pictured, £1,299), but hasn’t yet had the confidence to buy it. Although, perhaps that’s just uncharacteristic wimpiness: with automatic obstacle-avoidance, it’s perfect for the clumsythumbed pilot, and that’s only the tip of the veritable iceberg of features it packs in. Add in a TapFly return-home(which lets function;you, yes, get airborne with a single tap); ActiveTrack, which uses the 4K camera on board to follow around a target of your choice; and a 5km range, and the Phantom 4 is perfect for filming and unnerving distant subjects, which is quickly becoming GaGu’s favourite hobby.