GADGET GURU’S MAGIC BOX

Guru loves a sugar-free energy drink, to the point that his recycling men must think he has some kind of extreme sports sponsorship (or, some kind of addiction). Enough. Not enough of energy drinks, you understand, because these three pages would just read ‘This issue Gadget Guru could not be bothered’ in 300-point text were GaGu not precisely 32% caffeine. But enough of cans and fizz and all that. Guru, being a wellknown influencer with impeccable status and precisely zero Twitch subscribers, asked the nice people at Sneak Energy for some samples of their powdered energy wares and they somehow agreed to it.

The idea, basically, is that you lob a scoop of dust into a shaker with some water, jiggle it adequately, and you’ve got yourself an energy drink. Sneak has a bunch of fruity, sweet and pleasant flavours and one £35 tub is enough to mix up 40 drinks – making this fundamentally cheaper than spending on cans.

Overall this did the trick for GaGu – knowing that all but 10g of the contents of the shaker is tap water is quite reassuring; Sneak’s claims of crashless energy seem straight up, and whether it’s a psychological boost or a physiological one Guru feels like he has gotten the Monster off his back.

In other news GaGu has his eye on e-ink again, having begun forcibly reciting Terry Pratchett to his younglings and realised his Nook Simple Touch is – ulp – a decade old, and smothered on the back with that gross coating that goes sticky over time. The reMarkable 2 (£399) is fantastic for notes but it just isn’t a good e-reader; can he swingle a Kindle (£80 without ads, because a £10 saving isn’t enough for the ickiness) from the family purse?

Time will tell.