The Lenovo Legion Go and All The Gadgets You Need In Your Home In 2025
The Lenovo Legion Go
If you had told me that this XGIMI MOGO 4 Series was a bluetooth speaker or perhaps an omni-mic I would have believed you, shrugged, and moved on. You, like me, may be surprised however to find out that this is in fact a mini projector. It pushes 550 lumens, with a 1920×1080 screen resolution and 110% BT.2020 color gamut, all major steps up from its predecessor the MOGO3. It’s also dead set on being an ambient part of your hosting experience, just swivel it face down and slot it back into it’s base to activate an ambient light mode on it’s body that pulses with your music pumping out of the dual 6W Harman Kardon speakers. Its tripod stand is also one long battery, which adds an extra 2.5 hours of battery life to its existing 2.5 hours of wireless battery life. Just enough to get through one extended cut of Lord of the Rings. If you’re just entertaining with music then it’ll last 6 hours without the base. Finally if you aren’t planning on using the USB, Type C, or HDMI, then it’s natively running Google TV so you can quickly connect to Netflix and Youtube.
Get Judged By Your Toilet
Smart devices, Smart devices everywhere, even on your toilet. Kohler Health is here to tell you all about yourself via your fecal matter. It tracks everything from gut health, hydration levels, and even tells you if you dropped a load of blood into the toilet. It’s a wellness wearable for people who don’t want to wear wellness wearables, and are also too colourblind to know they’re bleeding. Set-up involves clicking this little guy to the rim of the bowl with the camera facing down into the splash zone. A separate device you can install somewhere else has a fingerprint scanner that you use prior to doing the business. This ensures that your high scores are properly associated with the right person before you lighten the load. Unfortunately on top of the startup cost you’ll also be shelling out for a monthly membership to your own toilet, with families of five looking at a $12.99 monthly price tag.
On one hand I don’t want anything to do with this device, on the other hand… I still don’t but what is the price you’ll put on an early warning device for colon cancer?
Smokai wood smoker
Words by Tim Warren
I’ve had my eye on this New Zealand designed smoker for some time now, so I jumped at the opportunity to test it. I’m an ‘advanced amateur barbecue master’, but I’ve never mastered the art of smoking. This product promised epic smokiness so I was down to try.
Smokai is a stainless steel tube for wood chips, a powered air intake and a smoke outlet. Years of design has gone into getting this just right, and that was obvious when I first used it and got a stunning result. A great benefit of the Smokai is that it is a cold smoker, you can smoke without using heat. That might sound counterintuitive, but when you separate the smoke from the heat and treat them as separate processes, you can get each one done perfectly. You can, of course, smoke while you grill, so it’s very flexible.
You can use anything as a smoker box. I used my Weber barbecue with the little attachment bracket provided by Smokai. It’s dead easy to set up. You can buy it with a mains or battery rechargeable blower, connect the little hose to the smoker device and light the wood chips through the two holes. Simple! I used the Smokai branded wood chips, but you don’t just have to stick to their products. You can use all kinds of things. A quick Google search gave me all kinds of ways to try smoking. One easy lighting, and immediately, the smoker burst to life, producing prodigious amounts of smoke.
First up was beef brisket, which I gave a thorough work over. Results were nothing short of spectacular. Then I tried chicken thighs, ribs, scotch fillet; everything worked brilliantly. I stepped up my game a little bit. I smoked vegetables, cheese, and some almonds. Wow, just wow. While it was easy to smoke and cook on the same day, I found it was really convenient to smoke beef on one day and then cook it the next day low and slow. Within a few sessions I’d already proved myself a smoke master. This is the bomb. I can’t recommend it highly enough!
Watercooling On The Go
Redmagic was the first to have fan-cooling on their gaming phone the Redmagic 3 back in 2019. Now in 2025 with the Redmagic 11 Pro they want to be the first to have liquid watercooling cranking on the caseback while you play Fortnite or COD: Mobile on the go. It’s chipset is a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and REDMAGIC gaming chip and it’s juiced up by a 7,500mAh battery with fast 120W wired, wireless, and reverse charging. The display churns at 144Hz and has the all important haptic shoulder buttons that any pro mobile gamer requires.
The Honor Robot Phone
I don’t think anyone’s come up with a truly original phone concept in a long long time, this is the first time I’m seeing a new gimmick with some actual utility. Meet the Honor Robot Phone, a smartphone with it’s very own fold-out gimball camera. It looks a little bulky on the back, but it’s utility more than makes up for it’s bulk. Powered by AI the gimbal is intelligent to track people or objects, and can event emote at you with shakes and nods of it’s little camera head. The fact that the gimbal can move independently of your phone means you could take a panorama without moving your actual phone at all, or cooking streamers could put the phone face down know they’re still getting accurately streamed by their phone as it tracks them. Details of what this phone is actually capable of is still thin on the ground, but we look forward to finding out more about it at the upcoming MWC 2026 in Barcelona. There’s an AI concept video but since it’s all generated content we’ll just have to wait and see how viable the tech is next year.
Back to the Future Where You Still Need Calculator Watches
When I was a kid I had a friend who had a Casio calculator watch. He was proud of it, but I was afraid of what it would do to his already non-existent street cred and girl luring abilities (also non-existent). Now we’re both older and wiser (possibly non-existent) I can look at the brand new limited-edition CA-500WEBF celebrating Back to the Future’s 40th anniversary with an air of nostalgia and appreciation for its retro cool aesthetic. Am I a johnny-come-lately poser, a fair-weather friend of the humble calculator watch? Absolutely.
Based on the original CA-53 worn by Marty McFly and my friend the new limited-edition CA-500WEBF draws new influence from the famous DeLorean’s tail-lights, and proudly displays the car’s numberplate “OUTATIME” above the face. The back of the case includes an engraving of the flux capacitor and the Back to the Future logo on the buckle. It’s packaging emulates a VHS tape, to complete the 80s retro look.
The pricing is very reasonable going for around NZ$250.
Give your Baby an Aston Martin
Did you have a baby just so you could deprive them of the best this world had to offer? No I didn’t think so. Your baby deserves the best. Your baby deserves an Aston Martin stroller with all the high performance suspension and sophisticated styling required to get them track-side. Made by egg®, the Official Stroller Partner of Aston Martin The iconic quilting echoes the interior of the DBX707 while the Honeycomb-detailed wheels are inspired by the iconic Valour and Victor. Graphic elements on the central hub take cues from the textured rotary controls found in Aston Martin interiors, adding a refined, technical layer of detail.
The genuine leather used throughout is sourced from Aston Martin’s own interiors, if it’s good enough for their supercars then it’s good enough for their strollers.
It comes in three colourways, two grey variations as well as the iconic green edition that Aston Martin is known for. Lime-edged silicone accents on the green edition, deliver a refined nod to Aston Martin’s motorsport heritage.