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DECEMBER 2020 T3 45Work
Work smarter. Earn more. Buy more outstanding gadgets
WORK
3 SANDISK
EXTREME
PORTABLE SSD V2
Backups might be tedious,
but they’re also vital.
The newly-upgraded
Extreme SSD packs in
NVMe storage making it
somewhere in the region
of twice as fast as the
previous generation.
It’s also IP55 rated for
protection against the
elements, and everything
on board can be encrypted.
From £115,
westerndigital.com4 LARQ BOTTLE
Whether you’re at your
desk or out adventuring,
clean and regular
hydration is vital. The Larq
Bottle refreshes itself
every couple of hours
with a UV-C light built
into the lid, wiping out
biological contaminants
by destroying their DNA.
That’s cool – as is your
water inside its vacuum
seal. You’ll never have to
wash this out, and it looks
absolutely fantastic too.
From £95, livelarq.com5 LOGITECH
STREAMCAM
If you’d rather the video
portion of your Zoom
calls didn’t make it look
like you’re a ghost living
in a Vaseline factory, the
Streamcam is a sharp
and handsome webcam.
Add Logitech’s clever app
to the mix, and you can
tweak the colour to make
it seem like you’ve been
outside this month, or
apply a bunch of (unwise)
image effects.
£140, logitech.com2 LG GRAM
LG says 2020’s Gram is the
world’s lightest laptop, and
it weighs so little that it’s
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decent performance from
a 10th-gen Intel CPU, a
super-long battery life,
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a deliciously glossy display.
There’s a comfortably
large keyboard, too, so
you can work without
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From £1,065, lg.com1 RODE NT-USB
MINI
If you’re spending all day
talking with colleagues
on endless, tedious
conference calls, make
sure they get the full blast
of your dulcet tones with
Rode’s compact desktop
capsule. It’s super-simple,
easy to set up, and there’s
zero-latency headphone
monitoring so you
can keep tabs on your
own voice without any
annoying echo.
£100, rode.com
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