GADGET GURU’S MAGIC BOX

The junior members of Guru’s turbulent family are growing up, and his son – a compulsive tinkerer and the inevitable heir to the Gadget Guru throne – has been gifted his first proper phone. Guru is made of meat, bones and electricity rather than money, so he selected the Redmi Note 10S (£225, but snagged in a sale for £160) as the perfect starter handset. Is the youngster happy with it? Alas no, because he wanted an iPhone, but if he insists on spending all of his own money on sweets and small plastic doodads there’s not really much that can be done.

GaGu’s desk is where he spends most of his days (chilling out, maxing, relaxing etc) and so it is of utmost importance that it is perfectly appointed around the clutter and betwixt the litter. Given that his previous pair of no-brand monitors literally needed clamping to function (see Guru 328) he has tossed them in the direction of the youth contingent and finally bitten the taxdeductable bullet on a delicious superultrawide monitor to replace them. And yes, devoted followers of Guru will probably already have guessed that it was the Samsung Odyssey G9 (bought for £999) that landed on his desk. It’s spectacular, with 240Hz response time, a huge resolution that matches the two monitors it replaced, Freesync, GSync, the lot – and when monitors get this wide, the curved screen makes sense. Note that this and nausea-inducing theme park simulator rides are the only situations in which GaGu will allow curved screens, which have otherwise proven themselves to be dumb perspectivewarping gimmicks.