Stuff - UK (2020-02)

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Keys leaving home

NUTYPE F1

Not keen on your MacBook’s

keyboard, but even less keen

to splash out two grand on the

shiny new 16in model? Then

whack a NuType over your

existing keys. It clamps on

via magnets, leaves your

trackpad accessible and

delights eyes and fingers

with custom RGB backlighting

and mechanical switches.

£85 / nuphy.com

Lens go crazy

SHIFTCAM

The iPhone 11 Pro has three

cameras. ShiftCam reckons

that’s at least two too few,

and so offers you a case

with a sliding section whose

embedded lenses add 4x

telephoto, 10x and 20x macros,

fisheye and a glare-killing

polariser. More into selfies? Use

the lens adapter to attach one

of ShiftCam’s ProLens series.

from £53 / shiftcam.com

Now cat’s what I call music

TIGER&ROSE

Sick of minimalist me-too

earbud design? Presumably

Tiger&Rose’s creators were

too. These buds give you all

the usual tech – Bluetooth 5,

IPX5, touch controls – but

they also look like carved

panthers trying to escape

from your lugholes. We’ve

no idea how they sound, but...

well, they’re not boring.

£61 / tigersniffsrose.com

Born flippy

SHARPIN

Virtual pinball tables can cost

thousands; mechanical ones

are even pricier. The Sharpin

plugs the gap by miniaturising

ball-spanging to tidy bartop

form, but retains tactile

buttons for smacking your

balls about. The Base kit

demands a phone, but go

Ultra and you get a built-in

computing unit.

from €149 / digital-pinball.com

Do the hand jive

ORBA

Proper instruments are hard work

when you’ve a banger in your head

that just has to come out – so the

tiny Orba is a good bet for instant

gratification of the musical kind.

Looking like half a grapefruit

spliced with a drum machine from

the future, it allows you to prod,

stroke, shake and spin it to smash

out beats, lay down head-nodding

basslines and silky chords, and

then craft riffs that will stick in

your head for months. Its strange

but deeply portable form works

wonders when you want to take

your next step to superstardom

too: the Orba can connect to

music apps via Bluetooth or USB,

and has a 3.5mm output as well

as an onboard speaker.

$89 / artiphon.com

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