M2 May/Jun 2022 Issue Three South Auckland Beaches That Are Still Great In Winter Who doesn’t love a good mission out of town to the beach? One of the great perks of living in… Read More Read More
M2 May/Jun 2022 Issue The Best Spots To Stroll In South Auckland If there’s one thing we’re spoiled for choice for in Aotearoa, it’s spots to stretch the legs and get outside… Read More Read More
M2 May/Jun 2022 Issue Dive Into The Man and The Myth With This Tony Hawk Documentary There might not be a celebrity in the entire world with a more unanimous approval rating than the great Tony… Read More Read More
M2 May/Jun 2022 Issue Solar Gets Super-Sized With The ‘Solar Express’ When it comes to superyachts, concept designs are often so ridiculously grandiose that it takes something genuinely unique to grab… Read More Read More
M2 May/Jun 2022 Issue The Lift3 F Electric Surfboard Is Your Next Expensive Obsession Ever watched those awesome surfers ripping up the waves at Piha and Muriwai with envy and wish you had the… Read More Read More
Investment Experts Relive The Chaos With HBO’s GameStop Documentary “Remember when we you couldn’t stop hearing about GameStop?” Few stories in recent memory shook the world of trading like… Read More Read More
M2 May/Jun 2022 Issue The World’s First ‘Hyper-Jet’ Is Coming When we think about luxury road vehicles, for most people, the first thing that comes to mind is these slick,… Read More Read More
Uncategorized Adidas And Gucci Collide With ‘Exquisite’ Results If you were trying to make a sports/high fashion collaboration from any two brands in the world, could you get… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue How Sports Cards Became An Investment Sensation In amongst all of the hype and craziness surrounding crypto, NFT’s and all the other red-hot investment trends that have… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue Four Skills In Hot Demand On The NZ Job Market We live in a pretty amazing world, where no two humans are the same and we all have a unique… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue Dr. Martens Reimagines The 1460 With A New York Street Legend Who doesn’t love it when an established brand branches out and does something a bit more daring? It’s always fascinating… Read More Read More
Best Kept Secrets Find Luxury Amongst Nature At Treetops Estate Rotorua is a fantastic experience regardless of where you are choosing to rest your head at night, but everyone knows… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue Three Of Our Favourite Electric Motorbikes On The Market Right Now EV’s. Safe to say they’re pretty hot right now. Despite some of the initial hesitancy from the general populace, it… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue Virgil Abloh’s Nike x Louis Vuitton AF1 Collab Is Finally Here Take a look at any new collection from the top fashion houses nowadays and one thing becomes evident; the boundaries… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue See The Electric Speedboat Hitting Our Shores in 2022 It’s no secret that we here in New Zealand, a collective folk living on a trio of islands surrounded by… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue Vivid Sydney Is Set To Light Up The Harbour City Few places in the world look as beautiful when lit up as the seaside city of Sydney. So beautiful, in… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue Solitaire Lodge Is The Ultimate Central Escape I’m not sure there’s a single person in my life that isn’t in desperate need of a luxury holiday after… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue A Beginners Guide To The Home Bar Does anything create the illusion of ‘at-home’ luxury quite like the home bar? Sure, maybe we can’t afford the big… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue Explore Rotorua With These Four Walks While Rotorua is chalked full of awesome activities for those looking to fill in time, sometimes, the best way to… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue See OBJ’s Six-Figure Super Bowl Cleats If there’s one thing we know about the Super Bowl (and honestly, just America in general), it’s that you can… Read More Read More
Seeking The Exceptional Spotlighting Four Of The Finest Restaurants In The Otago Region When it comes to the culinary arts, Otago is most synonymous with its vast collection of vineyards, which produce some… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue A Quick Guide To Valentine’s Day In Rotorua Yes, fellas, it’s that time again. It’s very nearly Valentine’s Day and with Valentine’s Day comes the immense pressure of… Read More Read More
Crafted Project Meteor Sacrifices Size, But Not Style Or Substance When we think of expensive designer yachts nowadays, often we operate under the assumption that bigger probably equals better. After… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue The Urwerk Aggregat Odyssey Is Watchmaking At Its Weirdest You would’ve thought that with all of the incredible watchmakers out there pumping out new designs seemingly every five minutes,… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue See Stallone’s $86M ‘Discount’ Mansion Unlike most of the grizzled, raw-to-the-knuckle action heroes that he has become renowned for playing for the better part half… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue Tanqueray Sevilla Orange Wins Product of the Year ‘Best Spirit’ Look, we all know taste is subjective, but at the end of the day, there’s something to be said for… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue Ride The Roads And The Waves With The Awesome ‘Biski’ What are the coolest modes of transportation in the world (and no one say the Millenium Falcon, I’m talking about… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue Lunar New Year: What To See In Auckland And Wellington Lunar New Year is a funny old thing. Most of us recognise the name (which you might know as Chinese… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue Reevaluating Masks In The Wake Of Omicron So, it appears the Omicron variant has finally arrived on our shores and that means one thing; it’s time to… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue The Squid Game Phenomenon Is Just Getting Started 2021 was a year of many viral sensations which had us all talking, but when it came to streaming, there… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue Iconic Ali Robe Set To Sell For $500,000 Few recent historical figures name carries more weight in the modern day than Muhammad Ali. The late great boxer and… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue Waititi And Darby Take On Pirates In ‘Our Flag Means Death’ Say what you want about Taika Waititi; the man doesn’t like to sit on his laurels. Fresh off another fine… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue A Homemade Cocktail At The Touch Of A Button Cocktails are great. Paying $20 at a bar for a cocktail is not. Spending $60 buying a bunch of juices … Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue The Walkie-Talkie Is Back, But Not How We Remember Them Everyone of a certain age remembers their first walkie-talkie set. For me, it was a big clunky set of blue… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue Wordle And Three Other Mobile Games That Took The World By Storm Why is it that over and over, the entire world seems to become obsessed with one game at the exact… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue Panasonic And Bolt Make The Switch, Reignite ‘Four-Day’ Work Week Debate While still far from a mainstream concept, the subject of the ‘four-day week work’ has become one of the more… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue Grid Studio Wants To Turn Our Old Devices Into Fine Art While our personal tech gadgets are designed sleeker and aesthetically pleasing with each new model, everyone knows it’s the bits… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2022 Issue ‘Ghost Flights’: What Are They And Why Are Hundreds In The Air Right Now? It’s no secret that one of the industries most impacted by the events of the last two years has been… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue M2 Best Of 2021: Inventions Part One We’re almost at the end of this often weird, occasionally wonderful year which means it’s time to put on the… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue M2 Best Of 2021: Inventions Part Two Last week, we gave you part one of our “best inventions for 2021”, which highlighted some of our favourite innovative… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue Fashion Metaverse Company ZEPETO Notches $1 Billion Valuation Maybe it’s just because we’ve finally gotten tired of talking about all of the ills we’re dealing with in the… Read More Read More
Seeking The Exceptional Here’s Everything To Do To Make The Most Of Your Next Queenstown Visit Queenstown remains one of the country’s most beloved domestic holiday spots and is great to visit any time of year.… Read More Read More
M2 Dec/Jan 2021 Issue Celebrating The Beauty Of Winter With The Grand Seiko SBGY008 Many lament the annual adjustment that we are asked to make when the climate commits to its seasonal change. As… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue Stargazing in Queenstown While many outsiders might not be aware, few areas in Aotearoa are as rich in stargazing opportunities as Queenstown. Queenstown… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue Three Key Lessons To Take Away From a Year In Lockdown Running a business is no picnic and as we’ve learnt in the past two years, the world can throw some… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue Someone Really Spent $650,000 On An NFT Superyacht If you’re a regular follower of M2, you’ll know that we love a good superyacht. The sheer scale of design… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue Sylvester Stallone’s Latest Project… An Art Exhibition? Regardless of what you think of legendary Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone, everyone knows that the man is at the very… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue The Kingsman Is Another Madcap Mess And We Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way Has any film series in the last decade been more overlooked than the Kingsman series? It feels a little odd… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue A Rookie’s Guide To The Summer Wedding Fit Summer’s here and with life steadily returning to normal with the loosening of gathering restrictions for the moment, there’s scarcely… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue Valentino Release Recycled Redesign Of Two Iconic Shoes If anything has been proven in the last few years, it’s that we’ve put to bed the tired adage that… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue The Best On-Screen Looks Of 2021 2021 was a big year back at the movies, with a boatload of delayed releases finally hitting our screens. As… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue Five Of The World’s Greatest Road Trips That You Need To Add To Your Bucket List While we are lucky to live in a nation that has some fantastic road tripping routes within our borders, the… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue The Unorthodox Artistry of Cai Guo-Qiang Now, we often hear the phrase ‘art is subjective’. And it’s true, what is pure genius to one person might… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue Is Space Junk The World’s Next Bubbling Crisis? Headlines surrounding the space industry in last few years have indicated a resoundingly positive outlook for the future of the… Read More Read More
M2 Top 10 Twitter Enters A New Era As CEO Dorsey Steps Aside The app that, arguably above all others, has transformed the way we consume and interact with the news is falling… Read More Read More
M2 Top 10 Will Omicron Spoil Marvel’s Big Finish? After what has been a colossally complicated 18 months for the film industry, one entity has proven above all others … Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue History Made As Airbus A340 Slides Onto Antarctica While the aerospace industry has ticked off first after first after first in the last few years, commercial air travel… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue What To Do In Queenstown If You’re Not Seeking Thrills To the majority of outsiders, the beautiful southern city of Queenstown is synonymous with thrilling, blood-pumping adventure filled activities. From… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue Meta Wants You To ‘Feel’ It’s Metaverse With These Haptic VR Gloves As the much discussed Facebook-to-Meta transition rolls on, kernels of information continue to be revealed giving us a clearer picture… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue The Home Cable Cars Saving Wellingtonians From Their Hellish Hills Look, even if you’ve never been to Wellington in your entire life, at the very least you’ll likely associate the… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue The Great Secondhand Finds Of All Time When you wander into an ‘op shop’ or stroll through a flea market while out on a Sunday walk, chances… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue Elon Musk, the U.N. And The 6 Billion Dollar Twitter Negotiation Over World Hunger When it comes to riling up people on the internet nowadays, Elon Musk clearly reigns supreme as the world’s most … Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue Catch Up With Your Dog On Your Lunch Break With The Bizarre But Fascinating DogPhone One of the trickiest areas for parents nowadays is deciding when it’s the right time to put one of those… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue Let’s Break Down How A Bat Somehow Won NZ’s Most Contentious Bird Contest The last few years, both at home and abroad, have been rife with democratic controversies that have had the world… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue A Hat-Trick For SpaceX & NASA As Endurance Touches Down At ISS 2021 has been a complicated year for a lot of sectors, but one industry that has undeniably seen massive progress… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue The Era Of Weird Brand Crossovers Continues With The ‘Xbox By Gucci’ As you’ve probably noticed if you’re a regular follower, here at M2 we simply can’t resist a random brand crossover,… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue An Electric Flying Car Grand Prix Is On The Way In 2022 Motor-racing is a fascinating industry, as it is not only a ground for incredible feat of sporting achievements, but a… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue This Ford F-100 Eluminator Concept Brings The Style Of The 70’s To The Electric Age For as long as we have been conscious of the effects of petrol emissions have on our environment, gas guzzling … Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue Netflix Makes Its Next Big Play With ‘Netflix Games’ If there’s one thing we’ve learned about modern tech companies in the last few years, it’s that they aren’t satisfied … Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue What To Look For In Our M2 Nov/Dec ‘Man Of The Year’ Issue Congratulations, you’ve made it to November! While we’ll admit it’s been a pretty tough road to get here and the… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Who Will Be M2 Man of the Year 2021? We’re almost ready to put another year in the books which means it’s time for our favourite recurring M2 tradition;… Read More Read More
M2 Jan/Feb 2022 Issue Could Foldable Smartphones Be The Industry’s Next Big Trend? Keeping up with phone trends can at times feel like an impossible task. Few industries move on faster than the… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Tropicana Have Finally Solved The ‘Orange Juice After Toothpaste’ Conundrum This century has thus far been an incredible time for innovation and has produced some of the most groundbreaking solutions… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue The XTurismo Limited Edition Could Be The Hoverbike That Finally ‘Takes Off’ While it isn’t from lack of trying, the long anticipated ‘hoverbike’ has yet to find a mainstream foothold in our… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Upgrade Your Backyard Gatherings This Summer With The Kodak Inflatable Screen Summer is fast approaching and with it (hopefully) the loosening of restrictions and the return of backyard hangouts with friends,… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue The Most Expensive Sneakers Ever Sold At Auction… For Now Sneakers can be an expensive obsession. Every true sneakerhead knows that you’ve got to fork out some serious cash to… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Is This The Comeback Star Of The 2020’s? If there’s one thing we, the public, fall for over and over again, it’s a good celebrity comeback. For whatever… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue An Online Casino Wants To Pay You $10,000 To Rewatch The Simpsons If you’re even remotely active online, you’ve no doubt at some point come across the “Simpsons Prediction” theory. Seemingly time… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue At 90-Years-Old, Shatner Finally Reaches The Final Frontier Aboard Blue Origin For years, we watched him boldly go where no man had gone before and scour the galaxy in search of… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Tesla Looks To Put ‘Self-Driving’ Into Action, But Not How We Might’ve Once Imagined At one point, self-driving cars seemed destined to become the future of driving. After all, it feels like an obvious … Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Netflix Pulls The Curtain Back, Reveals Their Most Watched Originals Despite the perception being that they have an absolute strangehold on the world of entertainment right now, streaming giant Netflix… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue In The Headlines Once Again, Salt Bae Is The Viral Star We Just Can’t Shake The lifecycle of the viral star is an often confusing phenomenon. The incredibly vast reach of social media has created… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue A Less Than Ordinary Blue September, But The Fight Against Prostate Cancer Rolls On It’s somehow already September, which means that Prostate Cancer Awareness month is once again upon us; the campaign which reminds… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Lani Fogelberg: Expert Advice With An Outside Perspective Everyone likes to think that, when it comes to their business, they know best. However, there are endless example to… Read More Read More
M2 Summit Dr. Harold Hillman: Helping Kiwi Businesses Navigate Change Running a business is no picnic and riding the ups and downs can be a tumultuous experience for those in… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Orbis Flying Eye: It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s A… Hospital? While our health system in New Zealand is far from perfect, it’s easy for many of us to take for… Read More Read More
M2 Summit Matt Leibowitz: Empowering Kiwi & Aussie Traders To Get In The Big Game While the stock game was once a place only for rich, powerful Wall Street types in expensive suits to flex … Read More Read More
M2 Summit Ezra Hirawani: Helping Kiwi’s Keep The Lights On While everyone has there own set of day-to-day worries and anxieties in their lives, there might be few more scary… Read More Read More
M2 Summit Lisa Booth: On The Front Lines Of The Fight Against Hunger While it might not be one of the first topics that pops up in a discussion of Aotearoa’s most urgent… Read More Read More
M2 Summit Paul Burns: Helping Boys Find Their Big Buddy While there are undoubtedly a myriad of factors that are at play when a young man takes the ‘wrong path’,… Read More Read More
M2 Summit Jason Gunn: From Star of the Screen, To Helping Others Tell Their Story Few figures have spent as much time on New Zealand airwaves than Jason Gunn. The Cantabrian entertainer has been staple … Read More Read More
M2 Sep/Oct 2021 Issue All The Best Features From Our M2 Sept/Oct Issue The return of Level 4 lockdown hasn’t been a welcome one for just about anyone. However, our job is to… Read More Read More
M2 Sep/Oct 2021 Issue The World Bids Farewell To The Rolling Stones Drummer, Charlie Watts It seems like every week, we are confronted with the sad reality that our once seemingly unstoppable heroes in sports… Read More Read More
M2 Sep/Oct 2021 Issue Frank Ocean Enters The World Of Jewellery With The Homer Collection While music fans have been clamouring for an elusive third album from iconic singer-rapper Frank Ocean, the 33-year-old has been… Read More Read More
M2 Sep/Oct 2021 Issue A Boost of Youth Not to generalise here, but as blokes, we tend to sometimes take pride in a sort of ‘lackadaisical’ approach to… Read More Read More
M2 Sep/Oct 2021 Issue Watch This Boston Dynamics Robot Parkour Like A Pro Anyone who’s watched the Terminator series feels a little shudder go through them every time they see a robotics company… Read More Read More
M2 Sep/Oct 2021 Issue NASA’s Perseverance Hits a Rocky Patch With all that’s been going on here down on Earth in the past few weeks, you’d be forgiven for forgetting… Read More Read More
M2 Sep/Oct 2021 Issue Air NZ and Airbus Team Up To Hit Net-Zero As the months and years continue to tick over and the endless list of bleak headlines regarding the climate crisis… Read More Read More
M2 Sep/Oct 2021 Issue Four Activities To Satisfy Your Inner Thrill Seeker With the travel bubble now put on ice for the foreseeable future, it’s time again to find adventure here at… Read More Read More
M2 Sep/Oct 2021 Issue Beck Rings The Bell As Rocket Lab Finally Debuts On Nasdaq It’s been a long journey for Peter Beck and Rocket Lab, one that we at M2 have followed for many… Read More Read More
