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Cassette sales double in a year
8 Classic Operating Systems in your browser
'Pure Gold' AirPods Max ($108,000)
Stefan Sagmeister: shopping in boxes...
The Conqueror Virtual Challenges
I will never write about Brexit again...
Music streaming: money, money, money
The Healthcare Workers’ Foundation
Do smartphone applications and activity trackers increase physical activity in adults?
McGST Podcast Episode 40 (What is music? Part two. With Tom Munch)
McGST Podcast Episode 40 (What is music? Part two. With Tom Munch)
Musicians earn less than 1 cent per stream
Nine digital gifts on sale (no shipping required)
Fossil Hybrid Smartwatch HR Latitude
REVERSO TRIBUTE DUOFACE FAGLIANO
The fisherman who discovered the Loch Ness Monster
Vaccine Queue Calculator for the UK
iPhone 6s captures 2,000ft drop from a plane
What is your best photo of 2020?
McGST Podcast Episode 39 (Dressing up, cleaning up, getting fit and organising)
McGST Podcast Episode 39 (Dressing up, cleaning up, getting fit and organising)
Twelve South SurfacePad for iPhone (11 Pro) review
The Caviar Story: blasted from the moon to space to the iPhone
You were taken for fools and you took the rest of us with you
Wealthy MP urged to pay up for his family’s slave trade past
McGST Podcast Episode 38 (What is music to different people? With Tom Munch)
McGST Podcast Episode 38 (What is music to different people? With Tom Munch)
Why do I wake up at the same time every night?
What is your product of the year?
Unboxing the $122,000 Smartphone
Apple's Airpods Pro named Which? Product of the Year
Why You Should Buy An Apple Watch. (A Watch Snob's Perspective)
McGST Podcast Episode 37 (I bought a 2020 MacBook Air)
McGST Podcast Episode 37 (I bought a 2020 MacBook Air)
A Smartwatch App To Help Stop His Dad's Nightmares
McGST Podcast Episode 36 (Questions #4)
McGST Podcast Episode 36 (Questions #4)
McGST Podcast Episode 35 (chess, vaccines and Elliot)
McGST Podcast Episode 35 (chess, vaccines and Elliot)
Radioooo: a musical time machine
Pocket Casts Top 100 Podcasts of 2020
Eono by Amazon - Case for iPhone 11 Pro thoughts
elago AW6 AirPods Pro Case thoughts
Why Do We Listen to New Music?
The McGST 2020 Reader Survey Results
2 minutes with the M1 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro
Wristcam: a camera for your Apple Watch
The truth twisters cannot stop twisting
I Miss Making CD Mixtapes and Discovering Music
A vulnerable, lonely, elderly coronavirus patient
The case for issuing perpetual bonds has never been stronger
27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful
Somryst: losing sleep? You will now.
McGST Podcast Episode 34 (today is better than yesterday)
McGST Podcast Episode 34 (today is better than yesterday)
Why there has never been a female chess world champion
Don't hug, don't play board games, don't sleepover, Merry Christmas!
Remembering the Ditto and Mimeograph
Phone addiction not driven by notifications
Making daylight time permanent
Staff cried and expressed dismay with the publishing giant's decision to publish
Find every mask in this picture
Apple Watch Solo Loop Strap Review
Three households and a funeral
The future of Moore’s law seems uncertain
The Rolex Submariner (2020) vs the Bersigar BG-1651
Video games can improve mental health
Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan
McGST Podcast Episode 32 (Being 16)
McGST Podcast Episode 32 (Being 16)
Is Apple really a privacy-first company?
Better Designed Apple Accessories
McGST Podcast Episode 31 (Man flu and Women do)
McGST Podcast Episode 31 (Man flu and Women do)
Emulate GameCube and Wii games at full speed on iOS devices
Typographic artwork by Aaron Kuehn
Play chess against Beth Harmon
Da Vinci Eye: AR Art Projector
A device connected to my heart could save my life. It could also be hacked.
The nation faces an unprecedented crisis, and the president has left a void.
“Why is my mood all over the place at the moment?”
McGST Podcast Episode 30 (Merry Christmas?)
McGST Podcast Episode 30 (Merry Christmas?)
Apple benchmarks and commissions
Pre-symptomatic detection of COVID-19 from smartwatch data
A 2020 MacBook Air and a 2020 iPad Air may be all you need for the next 5 years
People just seem to love to hate
Three classic Psion games recreated for the iPhone
Big Sur problems, app problems, privacy problems, Apple problems...
Six brilliant books as the nights draw in
The LEGO Land Rover: better than any computer game
Overcoming obstacles and becoming a Spartan athlete
We’ll spend almost a decade on our phones
The German Government's latest Corona advert
Naval Watch Company's military-inspired timepieces
The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
The impossible return of AC/DC
Apple Watch Braided Silicone Solo Loop review (are official Apple Watch straps worth it?)
Music in your head and music for your eyes
There are weird sad big truths
McGST Podcast Episode 29 (Questions #3)
McGST Podcast Episode 29 (Questions #3)
Staff who work from home after pandemic 'should pay more tax'
Cars Make Your Life More Expensive
How Brands Drive Us From Clueless to Customer
McGST Episode 28 (The genius of Apple’s fitness solution)
McGST Episode 28 (The genius of Apple's fitness solution)
What happens when you stop exercising?
141 Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena
The first Aston Martin DB5 built in more than 55 years
McGST Podcast Episode 27 (Getting old…)
McGST Podcast Episode 27 (Getting old...)
The Ticwris Max 4G Smart Watch Phone
McGST Podcast Episode 26 (Kindle Oasis Thoughts)
McGST Podcast Episode 26 (Kindle Oasis Thoughts)
The Alfa Romeo B.A.T. Collection
A Shipwrecked Nazi Steamer, Still Filled With Cargo
Nintendo’s Ring Fit Adventure busted my shoulder (and some others as well)
What Time Is It on This Russian Clock?
A microscopic 3D-printed Star Trek Voyager that can move on its own
And he just carried on playing...
A microscopic 3D-printed Star Trek Voyager that can move on its own
And he just carried on playing...
Leading moral, rational people to odd moral conclusions
How quickly the AirPods became rediculous
McGST Podcast Episode 25 (Kirk Israel)
Raspberry Pi 400: the $70 desktop PC
McGST Podcast Episode 25 (Kirk Israel)
Inside one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores
A Moment in Time: Watchmaking at the Start of the 21st Century
McGST Podcast Episode 24 (Questions #2)
Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time
McGST Podcast Episode 24 (Questions #2)
The second 'too late' shambolic Boris lockdown
There is no reason to buy the iPhone 12 Pro
Bang & Olufsen’s Beogram 4000c Recreated Limited Edition
Seiko's Voice Digital Watch returns
McGST Podcast Episode 23 (buying stuff)
McGST Podcast Episode 23 (buying stuff)
Amazon should NOT be selling these!
Erroneous iOS 14 beta notifications
Post-Brexit UK will not be ‘centre of gravity’ for Biden
Pininfarina's 50-Year-Old Modulo Design
Here's How A Savvy Patient Fought Back
Second-Hand Can No Longer Be Ignored...
Free TomTom GO Navigation (UK) for 1 year
McGST Podcast Episode 22 (Survival mode, no possessions and Borat)
McGST Podcast Episode 22 (Survival mode, no possessions and Borat)
The Center of a Spicy Dunkin’ Donut
Oreo built a doomsday vault in Norway
The Island That Humans Can’t Conquer
Don’t doublewrist! You don’t need to.
McGST Podcast Episode 21 (Music) [Spotify only]
When was a word first used in print?
Halloween Decorations Of The Year 2020
McGST Podcast Episode 20 (Questions…)
McGST Podcast Episode 20 (Questions…)
Why do some find the economics/health trade-off so hard to get?
The Panerai Radiomir Venti PAM2020
Today's news as seen on iPads in 1995
What do you get if you cross Dvo?ák with The Wombles?
Confused by the iPhone 12... Pro... Mini...Max
The Q Timex HODINKEE Limited Edition (received)
The True Story of the Antifa Invasion of Forks
YouTube Music comes to the Apple Watch
Bill Bryson 'to retire from writing'
Spotify gives, Spotify takes away
McGST Podcast Episode 19 (Sami Mughal)
McGST Podcast Episode 19 (Sami Mughal)
The Q Timex HODINKEE Limited Edition
An app that listens to your car to spot faults
McGST Podcast Episode 18 (Covering the face, the wrist and the mind)
McGST Podcast Episode 18 (Covering the face, the wrist and the mind)
Galloping Ghost - The World's Largest Arcade
$21 million in highly unusual payments
Europe wants Joe Biden to win the US election
Automatically Change Your Apple Watch Face by Location or Time
Cassette sales rise to highest level since 2004
An iPhone User Takes the Surface Duo for a Spin
McGST Podcast Episode 17 (Trump)
McGST Podcast Episode 17 (Trump)
Six months' shielding 'enough to drive you insane'
The differences between the Apple Watch series 6 and the Fears Brunswick Salmon
We have an epic Trump bot network on our hands
Have that coffee after breakfast...
This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic
Apple Watch Momentum Is Building
McGST Podcast Episode 16 (Looking up, looking down and judging everyone and everything in between)
The Q Timex Reissue Digital LCA
McGST Podcast Episode 15 (Spatially sounded icons and widgets)
McGST Podcast Episode 15 (Spatially sounded icons and widgets)
Dreading a dark winter lockdown? Think like a Norwegian
Should We Separate the Art From the Artist?
A watch guy unboxes the Apple Watch
Man dies after eating bag of licorice every day for a few weeks
Why some birds are so smart—and maybe even self-aware
Apple really needs to allow this
Why you should get an autopsy if it’s the last thing you do
McGST Podcast Episode 14 (Dogs)
McGST Podcast Episode 14 (Dogs)
A 1930s Vintage Coupé as a Modern Concept Car
A Failure of Empathy Led to 200,000 Deaths
McGST Podcast Episode 13 (You must agree with my position!)
Old TV destroyed broadband for 18 months
McGST Podcast Episode 13 (You must agree with my position!)
You 'can' customise the iOS Home Screen
McGST Podcast Episode 12 (Apple, Apple, Apple)
An Apple Watch series 4 with SP02
McGST Podcast Episode 12 (Apple, Apple, Apple)
McGST Podcast Episode 11 (Covidiots)
Reminiscences on the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
McGST Podcast Episode 11 (Covidiots)
When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number
Comedy wildlife photography awards
The end of the Lightning connector?
Explaining the cost of US healthcare to British people
You have to look at this holistically...
McGST Podcast Episode 10 (what if covid-19 happened 50 years ago?)
McGST Podcast Episode 10 (what if covid-19 happened 50 years ago?)
My weird quest to find a lost game
When counterfeit Apple AirPods are real(ish)
McGST Podcast Episode 9 (kids)
He's singing to his wife through the window
McGST Podcast Episode 9 (kids)
Periwinkle, the Color of Poison, Modernism, and Dusk
Microsoft’s Awful 2010 Smartphone
Asthma and Covid-19: no increased risk?
(Pointless) England and Wales' contact-tracing app gets launch date
Microsoft Flight Simulator (FS2020) vs Real Life
The Skindiver WT and the Oris Roberto Clemente Limited Edition
Tommy used to work on the docks...
McGST Podcast Episode 8 (Fat Shaming)
At 31, I have just weeks to live
McGST Podcast Episode 8 (Fat Shaming)
Upgrading the Captain America Shield
I'm not playing the silly Rolex game anymore
Chasing Storms and Lightning Strikes
Ikea catalogues from 1950 onwards
What Actually Makes Water Roll Off a Duck's Back?
The Privileged Have Entered Their Escape Pods
A Ural sidecar rigged up as a mobile cafe
The Tech My Dad Banned From Our House
MCGST Episode 7 (Apple, conspiracies, living at work)
MCGST Episode 7 (Apple, conspiracies, living at work)
When the fastest route is not the fastest route
Breitling's marketing bullshit
The Movement Against Psychiatry
Relative importance in 2020 so far
Seiko 3-in-1 Pocket Computer System
McGST Podcast Episode 6 (Apple's house of cards)
Microsoft Flight Simulator (as it was)
McGST Podcast Episode 6 (Apple’s house of cards)
The low and the high of the Apple Watch rumours
My Apple Watch is my secret weapon to surviving the pandemic
Herd Immunity For COVID-19 Is Still A Terrible Idea
McGST Podcast Episode 5 (is the Apple Watch the best watch in the world?)
McGST Podcast Episode 5 (is the Apple Watch the best watch in the world?)
A car-size asteroid flew within 1,830 miles of Earth over the weekend
McGST Podcast Episode 4 (nobody cares about my daughter)
McGST Podcast Episode 4 (nobody cares about my daughter)
An Apple bundle: not convinced
A cartoon from 1923 about the future
McGST Podcast Episode 3 (my son Tom)
McGST Podcast Episode 3 (my son Tom)
Want to know why wild conspiracism can be so irresistible? Ask a 14-year-old girl.
Google reintroduces Maps for Apple Watch
McGST Podcast Episode 2 (Tom Munch)
McGST Podcast Episode 2 (Tom Munch)
Toshiba shuts the lid on laptops after 35 years
How can a virus with 1% mortality shut down the United States?
This is probably the world's greatest photobomb
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
McGST Podcast Episode 1 (Masks)
McGST Podcast Episode 1 (Masks)
Your Wristwatch May Harbor A Flourishing Microbial Ecosystem
We are just a little bit broken
Wear OS won’t be able to play music...
One Million Cannibal Ants Trapped in Soviet Nuclear Bunker Have Escaped
Garmin paid a multi-million dollar ransom to criminals
The 1964 Olympics Certified a New Japan
Is the watch industry being gamed again? (Rolex Explorer 14270)
New ‘unpatchable’ exploit allegedly found on Apple’s Secure Enclave chip
Apple Watch Series 6: blood oxygen
Oh God, they want us all to die
Bakery manager sacked for accepting cash
The US shouldn't win everything easily
Monzo: 'significant doubt' on ability to continue operating
The Rolex Explorer Ref. 14270 (everything)
Someone knew how to wear a mask
The world is not all negative at the moment
I Miss My Sharp Personal Organizer
Tall people are more at risk of catching coronavirus
COVID-19 has now killed more Americans than...
Taxing online purchases is pointless
Why do so many people hide their real appearance?
Why do British people not like Donald Trump?
NRA Accidentally Forgets To Rise Up
TMBG Dial-A-Song since the 1980s
Dimpy Bhalotia’s iPhone photos
Could your Fitbit or Apple Watch detect early COVID-19 symptoms?
You are not being asked to drown a puppy!
The Long Road to The Porsche 911
The HODINKEE Eight-Day Travel Clock
Russia won the EU referendum for Boris, presumably...
A simple fix for always feeling tired
Anyone would be better than Trump. Almost anyone...
Ireland's contact-tracing app success
Value is everything and nothing
How can we possibly trust them?
Work is not just about ‘output’ but shared endeavour
Apple Watch 6 could detect panic attacks
Going back to the office for no good reason
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Lockets
The Zodiac Super Sea Wolf GMT Limited Edition
35 days at sea and still testing positive?
'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born
How dare you risk the lives of others so cavalierly
LEGO Nintendo Entertainment System
Restoring The Tudor That Took A Bullet In Vietnam
What happens if we continue to work from home?
Lower cognitive ability linked to non-compliance with social distancing guidelines
I turned it all off, it made no difference
The distorted experience of time through the COVID-19 pandemic
Innovation: spitting out water
I am so glad I didn't buy a Speedmaster
I've never seen such beautiful 3D maps
A potential fitness solution for watch owners?
Double-signed watches / CEH and the Beta 21
A lighter lockdown feels like delaying the inevitable
A lighter lockdown feels like delaying the inevitable
The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy
The Complete Guide to Patek Philippe Vintage Chronographs
When design is a matter of life or death
Luxury brands aren’t giving up on smartwatches
Luxury brands aren’t giving up on smartwatches
IWC's Da Vinci through the Europa Star Archive
Colorised footage from 1929 of construction workers
Louis Vuitton casts doubt over $16bn Tiffany takeover
Marchi Mobile INNOTRUCK BY LUIGI COLANI
Atget’s Paris, 100 Years Later
Inside Twitter’s Decision to Fact-Check Trump’s Tweets
Spiderman-inspired wearable sanitiser
Ressence & Sotheby's Design Competition's Winning Watch
The Tutima M2 Coastline Chronograph
Trying to buy a Nintendo Switch
30 mm Chronometer by Erich Lexer
People Who Wear Watches Really Are Superior Humans
One week with the Oris Divers 65
Apple whistleblower goes public
Watches in 2030 and stepping stones
What Happened When I Switched From Macs to Windows
Oris Divers Sixty Five 733 7720 4054MB review (part three)
Oris Divers Sixty Five 733 7720 4054MB (part two: justification (again))
Watchmakers on the concept of time
Oris Divers Sixty Five 733 7720 4054MB (part 1: justification)
When I imagine the call, it comes on a landline...
The World's smallest liquid "clock"
Where is watch design heading?
The Booming Covid-19 Vintage Watch Market
Why did the government ignore Apple and Google?
HybridDrive: too good to be true?
The $2000 smartphone isn't sustainable
The new Quai des Bergues “Sursum Corda”
The GA-2100-1AER is (was?) back in stock
Is the Huami Amazfit X Curved Smartwatch the future?
Apple Watch saved my life (x5)
The Tudor Black Bay 58. Perfect?
NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan
Are the problems in the watch industry by design?
The Baume & Mercier Clifton Moon-Phase Date
Getting through lockdown with a 2006 iPod Nano
25 Movies and the Magazine Stories That Inspired Them
Drink bleach, contact trace cancer and start smoking...
A Spiraling Museum for Audemars Piguet
Printing iPhone Photos Really Big
The Oris x Momotaro Divers Sixty-Five Special Edition
Walter Mitt Royal Marine Diver (BL-BR) review
Kirby: Art and Style Collection
We Have the Power to Destroy Ourselves
Educational Documentaries | Netflix
Northwest Africa 5000 Lunar Meteorite Slice
The Bulova A-15 Pilot Watch (a good Bulova)
Apple support isn't what it used to be
The 1954 Dodge Firearrow II concept car
The Nadir of Jaeger-LeCoultre and the Reverso
The early days of home computing
A Rare Prototype of the First Apple Watch
Obama in 2014 / Trump is a dick / Sport is still on
Magazine publishers fear a drop
Rolex, Tudor, And Patek Philippe Will Postpone 2020
Nikon School Online goes free throughout April
A potential alternative to Zoom
How Musicians Are Bringing Joy During the Pandemic
The Untold Story of the N95 Mask
Monitor your collection for (almost) free
How to buy a computer (in 1983)
The Charge 4 is already outdated
An Interview With Jupp Philipp
Astrophysicist gets magnets stuck up nose while inventing coronavirus device
The Seiko SARB035 does not disappoint
Tech where you don't expect it
Tech where you don't expect it
The Rotary Heritage Titanium Automatic GS05249/04
I try not to think about it, but…
Six free months of Apple News+ (on EE)
Comfort films to watch while self-isolating
The comprehensive guide to the coronavirus
The Jaquet Droz Loving Butterfly Automaton
Why have one Daniels when you can have two?
The Prompt. aka the anti-watch
The Bulova Chronograph A 'Surfboard'
Scientists were close to a coronavirus vaccine years ago... and then money
Apple warns coronavirus has caused shortages
Man throws £10,000 Rolex onto Subway roof...
How does Coronavirus compare to Ebola, SARS, etc?
How Apollo 13's near disastrous mission is relevant today
Watch brands could learn from Apple
Bear Grylls Survival MASTER Series - 3749 ($890!)
The mystery of the “Oyster® Albino”
$400 Mac Pro wheels that don't lock
Gary’s Lands End to John O’Groats Walk
Citizen And Bulova Announce Withdrawal From Baselworld 2020
Jean-Claude Biver: A Retrospective. Share, Respect, Forgive
How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter
Britons increasingly shun relatives and neighbours in favour of smartphones
Bulova's new automatic WW2-issue Hack Watch
inner-me vs inner-child vs inner-dog
Structural and functional correlates of smartphone addiction
Why Amazon knows so much about you
"Remember anxiety is created by you..."
The Swatch Tokyo 2020 Olympic watch collection
Bernie Sanders v Donald Trump?
The Longines HydroConquest Ceramic
People Born Blind Are Mysteriously Protected From Schizophrenia
Swiss Watchmakings Biggest Rivals
This is a story about a chart...
Do we get the flippers we deserve?
Jaybird Vista initial thoughts- they kill the AirPods Pro!
It Only Took Apple 5 Years to Dominate this 265-Year-Old Industry
The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign
Omega Geneve calibre 1012 (1974) review
Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones
The Timex M79 Automatic (Batman)
App subscriptions- we have no clue!
Apple now sells more watches than the entire Swiss watch industry
Apple now sells more watches than the entire Swiss watch industry
The Speedmaster Racing Co?Axial Chronograph 40 mm
Create your own Google Maps traffic jam
The incredible time-bending power of your brain
When the 'house' comes tumbling down...
Twitter gave a state university access to a student's parody account
The Speedmaster Skywalker X-33
The Engineer Hydrocarbon AeroGMT II USA Edition
At what point does a fake become real enough?
Where does the Apple Watch end?
iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max concepts (going round in circles)
Rolex Oyster Cosmograph & Documentation, ca. 1971
Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers
The ugliest colour in the world
The A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1
Google’s Wear OS smartwatch at its best
How Much Exercise Do You Really Need To Do?
Rolex to close flagship store in Geneva
Apple Dropped Plan for Encrypting iCloud Backups?
The golden age of personal digital assistants
The Red Special now inspires a new Seiko 5 Sports watch
It went to the moon, James Bond wore it. Who cares?
Not all women want women’s watches
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It
Watch Shopping With Kevin O'Leary
Selling Hedonism in Postwar America
The (Unofficial) Apple Archive
The Citizen 62-6198 Challenge Diver
Omega cal. 1012 (1974)- can't take it off
Three half marathon Apple Watch Series 5 battery tests
The Timex x Todd Snyder Blackjack is currently under $100
The High Street is killing itself
The Nissan NISMO x G-Shock G-STEEL 2019
Love the Apple Watch, sold the Apple Watch, stopped all tracking
Love the Apple Watch, sold the Apple Watch, stopped all tracking
The Streamliner Flyback Chronograph Automatic
Apple wins, and wins, and wins...
The Zenith A384 Revival Lupin The Third Edition