M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Bruce Hunt – The Backlands of New Zealand Artist and photographer, Bruce Hunt, has been exploring New Zealand’s unique landscapes for over 40 years, walking the ridgelines of… 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 Editor’s Letter – Nov/Dec 2021 When I get wheeled into sales meetings – kind of like an uncharismatic Denny Crane – I have a habit… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Subs Vs Dubs Lee Jung-jae, along with his co-star HoYeon Jung, have been launched to international stardom with the breakout hit Squid Game… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Your Summer 2022 Reading List This issue we review something new, something old and something you must do in 2022. Gone Tomorrow By Lee Child… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue These First Pictures of Space Were Taken From Captured German V-2s When we think of the first pictures of space, we generally think of the greatest hits like the Blue Marble,… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Elon Musk And The Fine Art of Robo Trolling While we’ve certainly checked off a lot of boxes on the ‘gadgets of the future’ list in the last few… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue John Wick’s Top Watch Pick Keanu Reeves has a reputation as an all round nice guy to uphold, and it has once again been bolstered… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Everything To Watch Before The End Of The Year Last Night In Soho – In Cinemas 11 Nov As a director, Edgar Wright is a certified genius. He’s never… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Guillaume Dehan, Founder & CEO of Supergenerous, Talks Success We catch up with Guillaume Dehan, Founder & CEO of Supergenerous, to talk about success, his morning routine and what… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Conquering The Planet By Foot And By Air Cutting Edges Jérémie Heitz set himself the challenge of skiing 15 of the steepest slopes in the world, paired with… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Joe Naufahu On The Training Ground For Life Joe Naufahu is not only one of our most accomplished actors whose career has include roles on Games Of Thrones,… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Our M2 Man Of The Year 2021 – Tim Brown Over the years, we have M2 Man Of The Year winners from a range of areas of excellence and impact… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Our Review of 2021: Just The Important Bits As we arrive at the end of the year, we can look back, dust off our hands and tell ourselves,… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue How To Lose A War: Boldly Have No Plan, Bravely Run Away I was just a kid when the Twin Towers fell. I was at a friend’s house and the family was… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue It’s A Small World: Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition Our world has become a small one, made of lightly jostling bubbles. Time moves quicker than usual, but in the… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Style News Tuned To Today Fluid volumes and streamlined shapes create a voluminous non formal look in Zegnas latest Summer 2022 collection. “My aim at… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue The Tesla Electric Motorcycle: Tron Meets Tesla Let’s imagine a future where structural integrity is no longer a consideration of industrial design. Let’s imagine a world where… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Best Things Ever Said “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates, founder and CEO Microsoft “So often people… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue All The Health News You Need For Ending The Year Age Is Just A Number SRW Laboratories, the company that brought us the Cellular System Range, a range of supplements… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Keeping the Momentum The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘change is only constant’. Living and working in… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Are You Living In Your Power? It seems we all self-sabotage, but how much it is impacting our success depends on the scale that each of… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Building Winners With Landmark Homes The Registered Master Builders House of the Year awards celebrate the very best in residential building across New Zealand. This… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Every Gadget You Need In 2021 We have a ridiculous amount of tech for you this issue, covering everything from stock trackers to earbuds. Rock Solid… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Two Games To Chill The Rest Of The Year With Time to sink 1000+ hours into a title with no regrets. Forza Horizon 5 5 November Horizon is the breath… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue A Real Human Baby: A Hands On Demo And Review I spend a lot of my time here at M2 reviewing things. It only seems right that I apply this… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Graeme Murray: The World Is A Studio Since first picking up a camera at 14, Rotorua local, Graeme Murray, has made a world renowned career out of… 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 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Go Commercial It’s the year to invest in commercial real estate and there are countless reasons why, writes Property Brokers Commercial Sales… 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 The Best Christmas Gifts Are Right Under Your Nose If you’re worried about getting presents in from overseas to people in time for Christmas, you have good cause. Those… 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 Give The Gift Of Personal Identity Al Pacino, Nicolas Cage, George Michael, Flock of Seagulls, Axl Rose, Elvis the King. Say the names; know the hair… 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 A $25 NZ Bottle of Syrah Ranked One of the Best in the World, Sells Out Overseas I’m fiercely patriotic about the things we make here in New Zealand. The few things we make here are almost… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Electric Vehicle Growth Is Exploding In New Zealand, Can Our Grid Handle It? These are still very much early days in the life of electric vehicles, but around the country we’re seeing charging… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Groom To Improve Like it or not, first impressions count. So, if you’ve been booked in for a session to eyeball the bank… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Make it Through Lockdown With This Wine Selection Now I’m not saying you should stay at home and drink alone, Jacinda is. Or maybe she’s telling us to… 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 Here Are the Electric BMW’s Coming To New Zealand At the end of the Year BMW has a raft of new vehicles making their way to New Zealand at the moment, with wheels hitting the… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Apple Just Announced a Polishing Cloth with Backwards Compatibility, And It Sold Out Apple just had it’s latest press conference announcing all its new big offerings. But all of the new Macbooks or… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue This Wine Collection Has Something for Literally Everyone If you’re wanting to experience the best of Yalumba, which itself is the very best of Australian wine makers, then… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Oticon: Try Listening To Your Brain For A Change ‘What? Sorry, what did you say again?’ How many times have you said that lately? Come on, you can fess… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Four Watches You Need On Your Wrist in 2022 If asked whether watches would receive a surge of interest during Covid, I’m not sure I would have been able… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Montblanc Black Out Just in case you haven’t heard already, Fashionistas – Black is the new Black. That’s right, we’ve gone a full… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue These Headphones Will Give You The Best Uninterrupted Sleep The Bose Sleepbuds 2 are one of the more fascinating pieces of tech I’ve had the opportunity of trying out… 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 Pandora Papers Excludes Five Eyes Members From Smear Campaign The Pandora papers have been hailed as the largest leak of offshore data in the world, with over 2.94 terabytes… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue HORS-SÉRIE 1971: A Special Duet Worth Waiting 50 Years For If you had the chance to meet someone from fifty years ago; who would you pick? Hunter S. Thompson? John… 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 Get In A Taste Of Summer With Te Mata Estate Summer, the time to stop all the hurrying about and at last unwind. It’s also (hopefully) a chance to relax… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Five Pivotal Moments That Helped Build An Eight Figure Business I started Pure SEO in October 2009 with a couple of hundred dollars, a big dose of positivity, and a… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Four Must-Do Cycle Trails In Central Otago It probably doesn’t get mentioned enough as one of the country’s great adventure areas, but if you love riding on… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Chinese Drone Businesses Are Sabotaging Each Other At Live Events, Causing Panic Business can be a cutthroat endeavour, especially if you happen to be in the drone business. Over the weekend, a… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Changing The World Without A Map Kernel is an Auckland-based index-funds management company that is revolutionising consumer access to the index funds market and also the… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue How To Turn Challenges Into The Best Opportunities Over the 100 year history of BMW, many hurdles along the way have turned into business defining opportunities. From the… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Turning Lockdown Into A Platform For 5,000 NZ Businesses Founder and Managing Director of Chooice NZ, Sarah Colcord, turned the first 2020 lockdown into an opportunity to help herself… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue The Danger Of The Comfort Zone Former Air New Zealand CLO, Dr. Sydney Savion was named Chief Learning Officer of the Year in 2020 for her… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Amazon Is Making A Robot To Tote Your Beer Around And Spy On You Among Amazon’s latest announcements was one particularly fun piece of tech, a robot trike that toddles around behind you ready… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Here’s How Much It’ll Cost You To Visit Branson’s New Private Island Retreats The least appealing part of Richard Branson’s new luxury retreat is it’s ominous name, Moskito Island, which is the retreats… 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 The Taste Of Victory We’ve Waited 80 Years For Eighty years ago there really was only one gig in town, certainly in Europe anyway – as World War Two… 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 Ears on Review With the Logitech G435 This lockdown I’ve had the opportunity to wear a pair of over-ear Logitech G435 headphones. I was promised it’d be… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Why Have One Fine Wine When You Can Have A Portfolio Of Them? Lockdown – it gets such a bad rap, but being grounded at home has upsides aplenty. Really, it does! I… 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 How To Host Like A King Now that we’re starting to relax restrictions, it’s time to catch up with old friends over a bite to eat… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue How To Convincingly Be A Wine Connoisseur Ever wanted to feel like something other than a fraud when a sommelier shows you a bottle or gives you… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue The World’s Largest Cruise Ship Just Got Finished And It’s Ready To Tour The World Just in time for the end of the cruise industry, the largest cruise ship in the world has begun to… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue How to Own a Stake In New Zealand’s Most Exclusive Suburb There is some very consistent and sage advice about when investing in property to focus on where you are investing.… 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 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Your New Bucket List: The 10 Best Beers In The World The World Beer Awards 2021 have just concluded and the winners have been found. One beer from each category now… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue This Electric Motorcycle’s Pricetag Makes It the Perfect Entry Level Commuter Option Remember commuting? Remember offices? Well one day we’ll be going back to them, Jacinda willing. And when we do, we’ll… 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 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Branson Owns the Best Hotel In the World, Check it Out Just because nobody is going anywhere doesn’t mean we can’t dream a little. The best hotels in the world have… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Take A Look At Jay-Z and Beyonce’s $400m Charter Super Yacht Got a spare $4 million floating around? If so then you can live the same life as Jay-Z and Beyonce… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue First Electric Pickups Just Drove off the Conveyer & They Aren’t Tesla or GM When it comes to EV, Tesla sucks all the oxygen out of the room. But quietly EV startup Rivian has… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue The Best Way To Handle Turning 40 Turning 40 is a momentous time in our lives. For many men, this is the time when they get a… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Jared Isaacman Just Did What Bezos & Richard Branson Couldn’t SpaceX just made history by making the first full civilian space flight. Prior to this, a professional astronaut has accompanied… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Putin Vs Biden Vs Ardern, Who Has The Better Private Jet Ok gentlemen, let’s get this Cold War started again with a little bit of friendly comparisons. Which world leader lives… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Micheline Just Reinvented the Wheel, And It Doesn’t Go Flat Flat tyres have been a fact of life for so long I don’t think any of us really expected that… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Doubling Down on Property Investment The rise of the dual key unit investment. The playing field has shifted under the feet of a lot of… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Locking In Capital Gains Now Recent news headlines showing that the average New Zealand house price has reached the $1 million mark really does highlight… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue James Bond: No Time To Die is Getting Its Own Pair of Sneakers I think if James Bond was at not so many black tie events chatting up bad guys and getting into… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Fast Forward With The BMW 2 Series Gran Coupé On the face of it, the BMW 2 Series Gran Coupé might be another cool compact sporty offering from the… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Home Workstation Layouts To Inspire Your Creativity & Make You Productive The spaces we inhabit directly influence our mood and creativity. Being in a dingy environment will bring you down eventually,… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue This Spirits Company Uses Hemp To Distil Its Gin & Vodka Two things are so hot right now – and if you’re not talking Doja Cat and Regé-Jean Page then surely… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue This Luxury Motorhome Is Also Perfect For Toting Around Your Supercar Ever wanted to go for a tour of the country but don’t want to leave behind the essentials like your… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Monetise Your Backyard For Airbnb With These Portable Homes Whether you’re looking for a way to escape your bubble buddies for a night or are trying out new options… Read More Read More
M2 Nov/Dec 2021 Issue Safari Group: Investing In A Future Backed By History Rising inflation and low interest rates have meant that property investment is a safe place to put money and a… Read More Read More