Upgrade Your Toys

These feature-packed, high-spec gadgets will optimise your workspace and level up your play

01 The Mood Maker

Light and sound can boost your mood and focus, as well as enhance your sleep. With its transparent dome inspired by a Jony Ive design for Apple, this Bluetooth speaker combines all of these benefits in a single package. It delivers room-filling, 360° sound via two 15-watt tweeters and a 100-watt subwoofer, while mood-amplifying ambient light dances to your chosen soundtrack, helping you tune in, zone out or doze off.

HARMAN/KARDON AURA STUDIO 3 £279 HARMANKARDON.CO.UK

02 The Sharp Shooter

A cut above your regular smartphone gimbal, the Movi has a dual-motor stabiliser to help you shoot Hollywood-style hero shots of even your bumpiest, most extreme active endeavours. You can place it anywhere without a tripod, and one charge lets you capture eight hours of next-level footage, with features including an automatic pan and a moving time-lapse that speeds up the world as you run, ride or SUP.

FREEFLY MOVI CINEMA ROBOT £230 GOMOVI.COM

03 The Apple Juicer

The Apple Watch may be an exceptional health and fitness tool but, until battery technology takes a quantum leap, charging it daily will be a necessary evil. This wireless energy dock is a slick antidote to ugly plastic accessories. It’s crafted from solid-turned raw brass or aluminium and the finest walnut or solid cherry timber, with a precision-cut slot for your existing charger so you can rejuice in style.

ANDEN VALET APPLE WATCH DOCK £149 MADEBYANDEN.CO.UK

04 The Brain Hacker

Pop these cans on for 20 minutes before your workout and the grey nodules use transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) – tiny electrical signals – to put your brain into a state of “hyper-learning”, increasing its ability to adapt. Use it to accelerate gains in strength, explosiveness, endurance and muscle memory. Or use it to learn to play the piano.

HALO SPORT 2 £310 HALONEURO.COM

05 The Happy Snapper

The Pixel 4a packs the best of Google’s smartphones into one box of tricks. The 12.2megapixel rear camera takes top-notch HDR+ photos and videos, with free unlimited storage on Google Photos. Its battery learns which apps you use the most, reducing the power used by the others.

GOOGLE PIXEL 4A £349 STORE.GOOGLE.COM

06 The Movie Maker

Weighing less than 250g, this is the lightest drone in the sky and the ultimate toy for capturing epic cinematic shots of outdoor adventures and workouts. It’s portable enough to squeeze into the smallest pack, and you don’t need a licence to fly it in the UK. It features a 2.7K camera for 4K HD video.

DJI MAVIC MINI £369 DJI.COM

07 The Fine Tunes

Scientists believe that the shape of your ears is as unique as your fingerprints, and the way they process sound is personal, too. NuraLoop’s gym-friendly, sweat-resistant in-ear buds address this by fine-tuning their output to provide a truly personalised sound. They also offer 16 hours of battery life and highly effective noise cancellation.

NURALOOP £200 NURAPHONE.COM

08 The Masterpiece

Unless you’ve made a king’s ransom unicorning a tech start-up, owning fine art will be beyond your reach. So try Meural’s digital frame: it streams a library of 30,000 works of iconic or emerging art on to your walls via a hyper-real display packing 16.7 million colours. Perfect for your home-office set-up.

MEURAL CANVAS II FROM £599 PLUS SUBSCRIPTION NETGEAR.CO.UK

09 The Mic Drop

Planning to launch a fitness podcast or YouTube channel in 2021? Or just eager to come across louder and clearer when you’re kicking arse in CoD or Fifa? This four-in-one streaming mic offers a choice of recording modes – cardioid, bi-directional, stereo and omni-directional – for capturing rich, clear sound whether you’re recording monologues, interviews or group chats, or shouting a hearty, “Eat that, mutha…”

TRUST GXT 258 FRYU USB 4-IN-1 MIC £117 TRUST.COM