STACK #184 Feb 2020

LIFE TECH FEATURE

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Check out what's all shiny and new on the shelves of JB Hi-Fi this month. It's a veritable treasure chest of tech goodness. Words Bec Summer

Tile Tile’s range of Bluetooth trackers is the panacea the absent minded have been searching for. The new range includes the Tile Sticker, a small ultra-adhesive tracker that can be affixed to everything from keys to laptops; the credit card-sized Tile Slim, designed to slip into a wallet; and the Tile Mate, a larger tracker perfect for bags. Install the app and lose away; a remotely triggered siren will narrow your search. And if you lose your phone? Simple: press the Tile twice and your phone will ring.

Suunto 7 This sports/smart watch hybrid comes in five different colours to cater for all fashion tastes and utilises the Wear OS operating system so users have Google Play, Google

Assistant and Google Maps at their fingertips; it works well with an iPhone, too. The Suunto 7 caters for over 70 different sports and features GPS, heart rate, and motion tracking.

Withings HR Steel A classy hybrid smartwatch that looks good in the gym and the boardroom. Support comes from the Health Mate app and the Steel HR has a tracker for your heart rate, steps, calorie counting and sleep tracking, operated through one button. A single battery charge can last up to 25 days. It also includes accurate GPS tracking and will display all of your smart notifications.

ROG Phone II Looking for unprecedented quality in mobile gaming? You’ve found it.

Sporting a huge 6.9” AMOLED screen with 120HZ refresh, a whopping 512GB of memory and a top notch battery with a two-day life cycle, the phone has L and R AirTrigger controls, two USB-C ports and if you want to connect your favourite gaming headset, a 3.5mm jack. Check it out in-store.

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