Project near
SAMSUNG THE PREMIERE
While Sony’s colossally expensive projector needs a fair amount of
distance from the screen to operate, Samsung’s latest is a short-throw
model (expected to cost around £3000) that can plaster a 130in picture
from a few centimetres away. It’s claiming a world first too: a projector
with HDR10+ that adds additional metadata to every scene to improve
the picture. Using triple-laser tech and built-in speakers designed to
replicate the performance of Samsung’s soundbars, this rival to LG,
BenQ and others reaches 2800 lumens of brightness, is portable
enough to move from room to room, and comes with the tried and
tested Tizen smart TV platform, so streaming should be a cinch.
£tbc / samung.com
Lofty aspirations
SONY VPL-GTZ380
Sony reckons there’s been an upturn in peeps turning garages and loft
spaces into home cinemas. We’ve no evidence to prove this, but as a
hook for lauding its latest native 4K projectors it’ll do fine – including this
one, priced at an astronomical £80,000. Unless you’re turning the
basement into an underground Odeon and charging for tickets there’s
no way to justify the cost, but that won’t stop us salivating over the
world’s most advanced compact laser projector, which can display
a 4096x2160 image with a 100% DCI-P3 colour gamut and
10,000-lumen max brightness to deal with daylight... so actually,
you could just plonk it in the garden and not bother converting the loft.
£79,999 / sony.co.ukBane’s had an upgrade since The Dark
Knight Rises...
Ahead of his time in a way, wasn’t he?
While the funny voice might not have
caught on, we’re all now wearing masks
every time we want to pop out for a pint
of milk. Sure, you could pick up a box of
cheap disposable ones online or make
one out of an old pair of pants (washed),
but you’re a Stuff reader – wouldn’t you
rather have something that ticks a few
tech boxes?It’s not going to turn me into a
supervillain, is it?
Only if there’s one already inside you
waiting to come out. The PuriCare Wearable
Air Purifier (£tba, lg.com) does exactly
what its name suggests. Not only are there
two H13 HEPA filters inside, but it also has
a pair of three-speed fans and a respiratory
sensor that automatically adjusts them
depending on how hard you’re breathing.Oh good, something else to forget
to charge...
Yep, although the 820mAh battery inside
will last for up to eight hours in low-power
mode, or a couple of hours on high. Surely
even the latter should be enough for your
weekly big shop? Like your true wireless
earphones, the mask comes with a case
that takes care of charging it, and, like LG’s
Tone Free buds, the case also uses built-in
UV-LED lights to zap away germs. Plus it’ll
ping the ThinQ app when it’s time to replace
the filters.I’ll be invincible!
Calm down, Captain Scarlet. Masks are
there to protect other people from your
nasty germs, so you’ll still need to stick to
the rules. It’s also important to point out
that the PuriCare isn’t currently certified
to offer any more protection than a cheapo
disposable mask – but if it means you can
pretend to be a spaceman floating down
the toilet paper aisle, will you really care?WTF
IS LG’S
PURICARE
FACE MASK?