Boeing 747-400 Headlight Lamp

The crafters at Boeing’s furniture division have started to repurpose headlamps from retired 747-400s as free-standing lamps and it’s awesome in all its aircraft-grade aluminium amazingness. The two halogen bulbs are sealed and there’s an adhesive window film to reduce brightness.

$7 500, boeingstore.com In a startling development, audio product company Boomcloud360 doesn’t want you to upgrade your audio output device, but rather enhance it. The Boomstick is essentially an amplifier that makes anything with a 3,5 mm audio connector sound better.

$100, boomcloud360.com You’d expect a smartphone wearing the Dewalt name to be rugged and come with a 5-inch touchscreen that plays nice with gloves. The range sensor and wireless charging are great touches though.

RTBA, dewaltphones.com

standard two-axis set-up, but the lens is still f1,8 bright. Alongside is an 8 MP unit with a 135-degree field of view. You access it within the same viewfinder and this gives the never-before-seen powers of negative zoom. It truly is amazing and because the edges of the frame warp to near fisheye levels you can be very creative with close-up shots.

While there are many clever touches on the G5, the package seems a bit rushed to market. You can tell by the way the removable chin doesn't line up with the rest of the device and the burr on the chamfered edge (the shiny chamfer is chipping off of the review device and showing the plastic antenna lines). The camera is also a bit slow to launch and LG threw the app draw baby out with the cluttered UI bathwater in the latest iteration of its Marshmallow flavour of Android skin.

There's a lot to love in the G5, but the review experience was peppered with infuriating discoveries where I wanted to slap LG with the hand of common sense. The company was expected to build on the strengths of the G4, it chose instead to try to learn three entirely new skills and didn't master any.