H OTS T U F F

The Amazfit T-Rex has got bite. In fact
it’s so nails it’s bagged MIL-STD-810G
military-grade protection, hence the
double-hard name. This rugged wearable
for adventurers and gnarly types has got
a bit of Casio G-Shock styling about it, and
has been designed to function in extreme
heat, extreme cold and extreme wet, plus
cope with exposure to salt and abrasive
substances – all the elements required to
survive a year in Swindon.
And despite it’s dinosaur moniker, survive
it will with a battery lasting 20 days on a
single charge. Switch to basic mode and
it’ll see you through 66 days, although
continuous GPS takes that figure down
to just 20 hours. It has a 1.3in AMOLED
display covered in Gorilla Glass 3 and an
anti-fingerprint coating.
You also get waterproofing to depths of 50
metres, 14 sports modes including skiing,
Bluetooth 5.0, a heart-rate sensor, plus
support for Android or iOS devices. Instead
of Google’s Wear OS, this 47mm wearable
uses its own software, but at this price it
still feels like a bargain.
As hot as... a dinosaur-dynasty-ending
asteroid shower
$140 / en.amazfit.com

JURASSIC LARK

Amazfit T-Rex

HOT

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Shoot from

the moon

It’s not all about the lenses:

Insta360 has also announced

an Aerial Edition, which

includes a mounting system

for clipping it to a drone and

shooting 360 video

from the skies.

Pretty fly for

a night sky

Insta360 has created

various nifty modes to make

shooting particular scenes

easier, including one for

night-sky timelapses and

one for stop-motion

animations.