The 5 Pieces Of Tech You Need Right Now

Suspended Style

While a heater can be great to warm up a small room, a beautiful fireplace in the living room not only adds warmth, but also creates a cosy atmosphere for those nights when the temperature really drops. If you’re looking for something with a more modern touch, Naked Flames’ Curve 90 suspended fireplace will make a stylish addition to your living area, while keeping the room toasty. You also have the option to have a more eco-friendly and energy efficient burn, with a Bio Ethanol insert, you don’t have to go to the hassle to have a chimney installed or worry about resource consent. With a 360 degree rotation and a customisable flue for different lengths and ceiling slopes, the Curve 90 is an ideal way to add warmth to your house that serves as both function and flair.
Visit the Naked Flame store at 18 Barrys Point Road, Takapuna, Auckland.

Xperience This Phone

Japanese tech juggernaut, Sony, has recently released its Xperia 1 and it’s certainly made the shock waves it deserves. I am not the sort of man who benefits from a big phone sticking out of my back pocket, but I can definitely make an exception with this. The first thing I’m going to mention is its 6.5” 4K OLED 21:9 display, so it looks as though you are looking into glass rather than a screen. Workers from CineAlta got on board with the screen, so as to make it capable of playing crystal-clear movies on it. We can thank the Master Monitors for that. Professional-grade 10-bit colour rendering.

Being 167mm in length, the face is bulky, but sleek, with a width of 8.2mm. Working on an Android 9 system and Qualcomm processor, the phone has more power in it than you can imagine. The phone has 6GB of memory, and a very smooth sensory activation and a Snapdragon 855 chipset. Sony utilises on the fast-charge – the 3,000mAh battery can hold 18W of power. This phone has been released in the UK, and soon will be over in the US and other countries, like Australia and New Zealand mid-June. Details on pricing are a bit foggy, but if my calculations are correct, it’ll cost roughly NZD$1,800 based on its retail price in the UK

The Ultimate 4K Home Theatre Experience

Epson has been the world’s number one projector manufacturer since 2001. Recently they’ve launched their new 4K PRO-UHD projector technology, which is more than just a resolution specification, 4K PRO-UHD uses proprietary dedicated processors to deliver all the necessary elements for the ultimate 4K big-screen experience – brilliant brightness, crisp colour and dramatic detail. Epson 4K PRO-UHD achieves brilliant brightness thanks to HDR10 (High Dynamic Range 10) and 100% balanced colour brightness. The range was specifically designed so that movies can be shown the way they were meant to be seen — on the big screen, with no rainbow effect creating an exceptionally immersive viewing experience. An even brighter, higher quality, HDR experience also allows the projectors to be used outside of a dedicated home theatre room.
See the range and learn more at www.epson.co.nz/4KPROUHD

Crystal Clear

Released last month, South Korean-based conglomerate, Samsung, have brought out their biggest and best TV to the market. Imagine returning home from a busy day at work and delving into classic television. Imagine if that aforementioned set is bigger than most of the other things you possess. Named the 98” QLED 8K Smart TV, it provides a depth in its picture that is unprecedented to any other models on the market. The first thing to note is its size. It’s massive. It comes with Ultra Bright III technology to shield the picture from reflections and 8K artificial intelligence upscaling and requires little additions to make it minimalist and clean. A cool little addition to this TV is that it can also sit as a display. Such a stunning TV to drift into. The price of this new screen may want you to drift away as well. According to online sources, this 8K TV is set to hit the market at up to NZD$80,000! Yikes!

Fitness with a Suunto to EARL

Think mini and you’ve got yourself the new Suunto watch. The Finnish watch group have previously released their 3 and 9 models, which have all been tech-fueled multi-ranged sports watches. You can run, hike, swim and even track your sleep with them and this is no exception. It has the capacity of the Suunto 9, but it’s more compact and is smaller in size with a stylish stainless steel bezel. An increased battery life from its predecessors – 10 hours to 20. Its features…adaptive training mode, added VO2Max fitness levels, GPS options, intelligent battery modes, and so many more added bonuses. It has a 24 hour HR tracking, and can be synced to Bluetooth Smart. It’ll be launched soon.