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Instant Cameras Now: The Film-Cost Promise vs the Fun
Fujifilm's Instax Mini 12 reviewed against what a roll of film actually costs to run
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Anbernic RG35XX vs Miyoo Mini Plus: The £60 Handheld Fight
Anbernic built the RG35XX specifically to answer the handheld that started the craze
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The Best USB-C Multitool Cable for a Travel Kit
The keychain cable that claims to do everything is usually the one that does the least
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Desk Gadgets That Earn Their Space: From E-Ink Clocks to Macropads
The desk-accessory category is mostly clutter — a handful of pieces genuinely change how you work
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Portable Retro Emulation: The SD-Card and Firmware Reality
The handheld is the easy part — the card and the firmware are where these devices actually live or die
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Mini PCs as Everything: The £150 N100 Box, Honestly Assessed
Intel's cheapest current chip turned a whole category of tiny boxes into a genuine home-server option
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The Best Cheap Soldering Iron for Gadget Repair
The smart-tip revolution made a £99 iron better than a £300 station from a decade ago
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Boox E-Ink Tablet Teardown: What a £400 Slate Is Made Of
Inside the display stack, stylus sensor and battery layer that separate a premium Boox note-taking tablet from a budget e-reader
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E-Readers Beyond Kindle: Kobo, Boox and the Open Ones
Amazon's ecosystem lock-in versus the open formats, library integration and Android flexibility that Kobo and Boox actually deliver
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Analogue Pocket: Preservation Done Right, or Collector Bait?
Analogue's FPGA-based handheld promises hardware-accurate preservation for original cartridges. What that promise costs, and who it's actually for
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Miyoo Mini Plus: The £60 Emulator That Started a Craze
How a small vertical handheld with a punchy screen and mediocre firmware became the device the whole sub-£100 retro category measures itself against
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The Best Retro Handheld Under £100: Anbernic vs the Field
What the RG35XX, the Miyoo Mini Plus and the rest of the sub-£100 emulation handheld field actually get right, and where the corners get cut