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INNOVATORSWith a little helpfrom our friends…Sometimes it’snice to get a freshviewpoint, so weasked our friendsat Dezeen and NMEto give us theirthoughts on ourInnovators. Keepan eye out for them. STUFF INNOVATORS 2014SUPERHEROES OF TECHThey range from VR revolutionaries to vinyl pioneers, and they’vegiven us everything from hoverbikes to robot servants. It’s time to meet the Stuff Innovators of 2014: our pick of the geniuses whoare going beyond ordinary geekdom to remake the modern world [ Illustrations Rich Kelly ] 55

INNOVATORS LIFE Here to help Jibo can’t pour you drinks but you can get it to remind you to buy more gin when you finish the bottle. Beady eyes Jibo also has two cameras, so make sure you cover your mouth if you’re plotting to shut it down, HAL-style. Creating helpful every desk, in every home?’” rather than having a tool that and sociable robots The robotic answer, says you use. Your smartphone is a Breazeal, is Jibo. camera – Jibo is a cameraman. CYNTHIA BREAZEAL MIT’S PERSONAL ROBOTS GROUP It’s not an individual device, it’s “Robots are so different to a family hub. It’s a new kind of “The day I started my doctorate the answer, she created a field all the slabs and boxes we use assistant. It doesn’t need to be at Massachusetts Institute called social robotics, and it’s today. They experience the able to pick things up, or walk of Technology,” Breazeal one she says will bring about world around us, and they up and down stairs – it’s a tells us, “was the same day the next big tech revolution. push all kinds of psychological humanised interface for all your NASA landed the Sojourner buttons in us. At MIT, we’ve other personal technologies. robot on Mars. I knew we were “Computers used to be found again and again that It’s logical – it’s what happens sending robots into oceans very expensive, and only a people are more successful beyond screens.” and volcanoes and space, but few specially trained people at achieving their goals when where were they in the human knew how to use them, until they’re using a robot rather It seems the internet agrees: environment?” In looking for someone asked: ‘What would than a screen.” at the time of printing, Jibo’s it mean to have one of these on Indiegogo campaign had met Jibo, she believes, “will its goal 20 times over. Look connect you and co-ordinate out for this little guy (and his you in your family life. It’s like inventor) in December 2015. having someone helping you,56

INNOVATORS Bringing a touch Making Protecting Banishing tweeting of sci-fi to your photographs cyclists on the fridges to smart come alive road after dark home obscurity daily routine REN NG EMILY BROOKE TONY FADELL CORTANA LYTRO ILLUM BLAZE LASERLIGHT NEST WINDOWS PHONE It’s one thing to build a new As role models go, Batman Fadell took one of the most Sometimes it feels like camera, but Ren and his isn’t a bad one. As far as we under-exploited domestic the world could do with team at Lytro are after a know, Emily Brooke of Blaze products – the thermostat a real-life version of Halo’s doesn’t dress up in a cape – and made it exciting (and Master Chief, but for now more ambitious prize: a new himself rich in the process). the closest we’re going to kind of photography. Since in the evenings and take He now promises to do theget is Cortana. Named after the early 19th century, every to the streets of London same with other household and voiced by John-117’s photograph has been a flat, to fight crime, but she has gadgets, leaving designers ever-present AI helper passive print. Lytro pictures mimicked the Dark Knight’s from the multi-million- are not meant to be printed bat signal for the Laserlight. kicking themselves forselling Xbox games, Cortana It looks pretty much like any not thinking of it first.is Windows Phone’s answer – they’re active digital other bike light – albeit one Entrepreneur Fadell madeto Siri or Google Now – with images that you can refocus encased in aluminium – his name at Apple, where hea little extra added on top. As or change the perspective but turn it on and it also was a key member of thewell as simple web searches projects a laser onto the team that developed the and most standard phone of while you’re viewing road five metres in front of iPod. He later founded Nest functions, Cortana can them. The engineering that your bike, forming a green Labs with the somewhat attach reminders to other bicycle shape instead of unlikely aim of doing foractions, so next time you go has gone into the Illum is Batman’s logo. As 79% of thermostats and smoketo phone your mum Cortana fiendishly complex – that collisions with cars occur detectors what the MP3will nudge you to politely ask large, versatile 30-250mm when a driver turns across player did for music. Nest’s about the cat. Over time f/2 lens contains thousands products are easy to use and she’ll learn more about of microlenses that capture an unseen cyclist, the remember your preferences, you, adding details to not just light, but which Laserlight increases their turning the heating down a ‘notebook’ full of your direction the light’s coming when you’re not at home vitals that she’ll use to from, allowing the processor visibility. The battery’s and learning how long it offer more targeted help. to build an image in a process smart too. It won’t turn on takes to reach your preferred With the Xbox One and temperature, so it can then Windows 8 (or 9) the called ‘computational unless it’s in the special turn it up again when you’re obvious next steps for photography’ (a phrase bracket, and when it’s on your way back, therebyCortana, expect to hear her that makes you 8% more nearly dead it’ll switch to saving money on fuel bills.voice a lot more in the future. of a geek just by saying it). a low-energy mode that Marcus Fairs, DEZEEN It’s early days for Lytro, but lasts four hours, so you’ll this could be the most never be stranded miles 57 important camera since from home without lights. the Box Brownie.

INNOVATORSLIFE CONT.Wristy businessThere are extrafaces for the 360on Google Play,including one thatlooks like 007’swatch in GoldenEye READ THE REVIEW P72 Reinventing the smartwatch JIM WICKS MOTOROLA On the, er, face of it, making a watch round doesn’t seem that revolutionary. But when Motorola unveiled its circular Moto 360 it was distinct in a world of square-faced smartwatches, all informed by the phones they were designed to work with, rather than the timekeepers they were replacing. But Moto’s first Android Wear device took the opposite approach. Lead designer Jim Wicks said: “Time has always been represented by a circle, from the sundial to the pocket watch, and 85% of watches sold in the world are round; we didn’t want to make consumers change for this tech.” The Moto 360 has proved that smartwatches can be beautiful, sharing equal amounts of DNA with high-end timepieces as well as the phone in your pocket. And it’s still only generation one… Teaching Solving the need Saving the world Making 3D printing the whole world for constant one solar panel affordable enough charging how to code at a time for the home HATEM ZEINE KATHRYN PARSONS COTA BY OSSIA AGAMEMNON OTERO STEVE SCHELL DECODED REPOWERING LONDON NEW MATTER In a few years’ time, If you want to be mega- your gadgets won’t need Aside from blowing ourselves In an attempt to rich these days there’s no to plug into the wall. They’ll up or being trampled on by actually make 3D printing point in trying to become get their energy like they get a planet-sized space puppy, mainstream, Steve Schell a rock star – you’re better their information – from the biggest threat to Earth is off learning how to code and a wireless router. In cafes climate change. Repowering and New Matter have writing something to sell London wants to get local created the Mod-T, to Facebook for US$400bn. and libraries and train Kathryn Parsons’ Decoded stations, Hatem Zeine’s communities using a US$280 Wi-Fi 3D printer. can help you with the first crafty Cota boxes will renewable energy sources The Wi-Fi’s there so you can feed power through the air so they can limit their impact access and operate it easily bit, running courses to to any gadget within range, on the environment. Either teach you all you need and your battery will never that or they want to develop from a browser or phone, to know in a single day. It’s run out. Well, until you go a new kind of solar-powered but the real strength is the too bad there’s no equivalent camping, but hotels are weapon to ward off that cost. At that price, it’s within course to deal with the intergalactic canine menace. reach of almost anyone who much nicer anyway. fancies messing about with second bit, really. One or the other. micro-manufacturing while they catch up on EastEnders.58

INNOVATORS Look around you Dyson’s 360 Eye travelled 1080km during testing on a rolling road – that’s a lot of crumbs Supporting student engineers SIR JAMES DYSON DYSON Most of the robots being developed aroundthe world are not the kind of robots you’d want to share a lounge with. They’re often a bit big,and some of them are a bit military. Thankfully,Britain’s most inventive billionaire is also a keen supporter of student and startup engineers, and he recently announced that Dyson is funding a new lab at Imperial College wherea more obliging species of robot will be created.Like Dyson’s new 360 Eye robo-vac, they’ll have sophisticated robo-vision that will allow them to accomplish tasks like doing the laundry or clearing the table without getting in your way.Of course, a future in which you’re waited upon by electric slaves won’t come without the occasional robot uprising, but as long as they’ve done their chores first, that’s fine. Creating the Invading your Printing Breaking chip to end house with your way crowdfunding sensor ninjas to prettiness all chips records DANIEL FRIEDMAN GRACE CHOI SIR HOSSEIN YASSAIE NINJA BLOCKS MINK MAKEUP PRINTER ERIC MIGICOVSKYIMAGINATION TECHNOLOGIES PEBBLE There are a number of Mink is a different, andYou might not have heard of companies vying to pack possibly more useful, In 2008, when the firstThe Hossmeister, as we like your home with sensors, kind of 3D printer: it prints 3G iPhone was a newborn, to call him, but this British but Ninja Blocks has the makeup. By giving you the Eric Migicovsky was already engineer has had a hand in nattiest gear so far: the freedom to print any colour designing the wearable. By most gadgets you’ve ever you find on the internet and chopping some bits out ofbought. If you’ve ever used a Ninjasphere. This cutting out the giant global a Nokia 3300 and solderingsmartphone, tablet, console, alien-looking swoop brands that make a fortune of tech is the brain for selling the same stuff in a them to an Arduino, he DAB or TV (you have), your smarthome, and slightly different tube, Mink created a low-power you’ve used Imagination’s can automate heating and could save you money and smartwatch that allowed lighting, save power, keep make your face look nice. him to receive messages chips. His latest trick is an eye on security and For non-makeup-wearers, and updates while cycling toCaskeid – wireless tech that even – thank you, sweet college. Four years later, his ninja-thing – tell you try the BurritoBot consumer version – the can create Sonos-style where your car keys are. (seriously, it does exist). Pebble – smashed every multiroom systems from Kickstarter record. devices made by different 59 manufacturers. Neat.

INNOVATORS Health and tasty Withings’ ActivitéDESIGN is proof that Putting the luxury into activity trackers life-tracking don’t have to FRÉDÉRIC LINTZ WITHINGS make you look like Many people consider their watch to be an item of you’re on parole jewellery rather than an extension of their phone. With its elegantly minimal analogue face, Activité isthe first truly beautiful smartwatch and proves that advanced tech and hand-tooled leather straps are not mutually exclusive. The product was designed by Frédéric Lintz of French designers Eliumstudiofor Withings, which makes a range of activity, sleepand health-monitoring products. Like other trackers, the watch measures steps, calories, distance and sleep patterns; but rather than the usual Star Trek aesthetic, the Swiss-made Activité features a classic stainless steel face with pared-down handsand hour markings. A second, smaller analogue dial discreetly displays progress towards your goal – pretty retro in comparison to gaudier animations. Marcus Fairs, DEZEEN Inventing Driving our road Inventing a new Creating a leaf that the modular networks into way to interact with could take us all smartphone the way to Mars the future technology DAVE HAKKENS JULIAN MELCHIORRI PHONEBLOKS DAAN ROOSEGAARDE HIROSHI ISHII THE SILK LEAF SMART HIGHWAY TRANSFORM Dave Hakkens has shown Now we’re not saying how a good idea combined While Marty McFly’s future Massachusetts Institute astronauts will ride the with strong networking skills didn’t require roads, ours of Technology professor Silk Leaf into outer space, can make big waves without Hiroshi Ishii is responsible for but it could hold the key to any investment. He created will – but they won’t look like Transform – a 21st-century long-distance space travel. his concept for a modular the potholed spine-rattlers version of one of those Melchiorri has managed to mobile phone in 2013. Before you’re used to driving down. suspend chloroplasts (the he’d even graduated, it had Pin Art toys you saw bits of a leaf that turn the 16 million views on YouTube Daan Roosegaarde has in The Gadget Shop in the sun’s energy into oxygen) designed a new road ’90s. The difference is this in hardy synthetic foliage and led to collaboration network with glowing one can render the physical that could survive space with Motorola’s Project Ara, markings, lanes designated form of something digital, and theoretically provide which aims to develop an for electric cars, and paint or recreate the shape of breathable air above the that responds to the range of standard storage open-source hardware weather conditions to warn an item scanned with a platform for smartphones. drivers if it’s likely to be icy. Kinect sensor, so you can tanks. To infinity… With roads like that, Marty effectively send physical Marcus Fairs, DEZEEN might just change his mind. objects over the internet.60



INNOVATORS On me ’ead Alongside the WATCH, LISTEN, PLAY headset, the DK2 comes with a A fresh perspective separate camera The DK2 offers for positional 960x1080 pixels head tracking. per eye with reduced latency to prevent VR sickness Ready, aim, fire! EVE: Valkyrie allows you to use Oculus Rift to aim your weapons, just like an Apache gunship Leading the and a whole raft of start-ups, general sale. It’ll also be smaller VR revolution but Luckey welcomes the and lighter than the DK2, with competition: “It lets people a wider field of view, higher PALMER LUCKEY OCULUS experimenting with Tesla coils know that VR isn’t just this frame rate and more pixels and lasers in his spare time. thing that one crazy company crammed into the display. When most teenagers lock Now 22, he’s founder of Oculus believes in,” he told Stuff at themselves away in their and inventor of the Rift, making this year’s E3 gaming show. This is only the beginning. parents’ garage, they’re him almost single-handedly “It’s something that a lot of Luckey sees a future beyond normally guzzling illicit booze responsible for the resurgence companies, even really big gaming for virtual reality: and fags, not working on the of virtual reality. ones, believe in.” “I think that VR has the prototype of a device that’ll capability to replace almost eventually convince Mark Since the Rift was unveiled That includes Facebook, all the screens we use on a Zuckerberg to part with in 2012 we’ve seen headsets Oculus’ new owner. And while daily basis. Let’s go way into US$2 billion. But Palmer Luckey from PlayStation, Samsung, LG some of the company’s early the future and imagine it’s built wasn’t like most teenagers, backers felt betrayed by this into something that just looks ‘selling out’ it’s only thanks like a normal pair of glasses. to the deal that Oculus will be Why would you have a phone able to sell the Rift at cost price instead of that?” Why indeed, when it eventually goes on Mr Luckey.62

INNOVATORS Creating a Bringing Taking virtual Breathing [ 20th Century Fox-Chernin Entertainment 2014 ] game the size technology to reality to the humanity of the universe live performance into CGI multiplex SEAN MURRAY IMOGEN HEAP ANDY SERKIS HELLO GAMES THE GLOVES TOM ANNAU THE IMAGINARIUM JAUNT One minute Sean Murray’s London’s Imogen Heap For a man who’s had lead Hello Games was the tiny rose to prominence If you think virtual reality roles in films as big asstudio that created cartoon in 2005 as the sort of is just about gaming, stick stuntman Joe Danger; the your head inside an Oculus The Lord Of The Rings, King next it was showing off popstress you’d hear as the Rift and let Jaunt show you Kong and the recent Planet a space exploration game credits rolled on a TV teen otherwise. Tom Annau is just Of The Apes reboot, the realwith an infinitely expanding one of three founders of the Andy Serkis spends very collection of procedurally drama, later scoring an cinematic VR company but it generated planets (with international smash with was his trip to Zion National little time on screen. dinosaurs). That means croony torch song What Park in Utah that inspired Whenever he appears every planet you land on You Say. Another Dido, the in No Man’s Sky is unique, music press chimed at once, the idea of headset it’s as a computer- experiencing its own Big dismissively. Not so, thanks escapism. Filmed with generated primate or Bang that dictates what to Heap’s cutting-edge special camera arrays that jewellery-obsessed goblin development of music ware. provide a dome of footage with a combover. Serkis is everything from the In 2011, she debuted a pair of around your head, Jaunt’s an actor who doesn’t just weather to the wildlife will gloves that use in-built MIDI more-than-360º movies inhabit other characters but be like for people who land controllers remotely linked aren’t just for virtual tourism: becomes entirely different there. Whatever you do on up to keyboards and synths movie directors are already species, and, thanks to his that planet will affect the investigating ways to use world-leading motion experience of it for other to allow her to create VR to put you right inside capture studio The soundscapes dictated by their story. Allowing the Imaginarium, he’s pushing it players, although the viewer to look around inside to places cinema has never universe is so massive her hand gestures. It’s a scene means fundamental been before. With each you’re unlikely to ever the sort of thing seen in changes to the way films are performance, Serkis adds encounter another human experimental electronica made, and with people from another level of something explorer. Instead No Man’s communities – Bristol sound Dolby, Sky, IMAX and 20th that’s been missing from artist Shitmat was known Century Fox on the board at CGI-heavy films for so long: Sky is about being a for taping Nintendo Wii Jaunt it won’t be long before humanity. It’s got to the bona-fide adventurer and controllers to his hands for you’re picking up a VR point that he’s being tipped discovering worlds never a similar use before retiring in headset at the pictures for an Oscar for his portrayal seen before. With game 2012 – but Heap is dragging to go with your popcorn, of chief ape Caesar. He’ll alsodevelopment, Sean Murray’s this technology thrillingly pick ’n’ mix and large Coke. have a not-yet-named role in doing exactly the same. JJ Abrams’ Star Wars movie. into the mainstream. Al Horner, NME 63

INNOVATORSWATCH, LISTEN, PLAY CONT.White noise Making vinyl essential forWho says only CDs music lovers (again)can have secrettracks? JW’s Ultra JACK WHITE LAZARETTO ULTRA LPLP is stuffed withthings to discover There are probably tribesmen in the Amazon more au fait with modern tech than Jack White, who swears by analogue recording techniques, has performed to a backdrop of ’50s tellies and once decried anything with a computer chip in it to be a “destroyer of emotion and truth”. Presumably he goes on tour in a horse-drawn cart. Anyways, all this is not to say the former White Stripe isn’t still breaking new ground. This year’s Lazaretto became the biggest-selling vinyl in 20 years thanks to wax savants who turned the ‘Ultra’ version of the record into a sort of grouchy blues Rubik’s Cube of discovery. Play the record at different RPMs and you’ll unearth hidden songs. Strip back the LP’s centre labels and you’ll find further surprises too. Al Horner, NME Leading Teaching tech Adding Transforming the the Netflix to go along to imagination to first-person gaming revolution mobile games a new tune experience KEVIN SPACEY SIMON FLESSER & MAGNUS HOUSE OF CARDS ROLAND LAMB ‘GORDON’ GARDEBÄCK ALISTAIR HOPE ROLI SIMOGO THE CREATIVE ASSEMBLY Kevin Spacey’s political drama isn’t just approved The musical keyboard hasn’t Mobile games don’t need to The thing about first-person by Barack Obama; it’s been changed for centuries, even be mindless money-makers shooters is you normally instrumental in changing the though the tech has evolved with a lifespan shorter than way we watch TV. The first spectacularly since the time a suicidal mayfly. Simogo’s spend all your time shooting A-lister to throw his weight CV includes Year Walk and stuff. But Alien Isolation isn’t behind internet-only TV, of felt-covered hammers Device 6 – two games that Spacey proved with his hitting strings. Then Roland like most first-person House Of Cards remake that are about as far removed shooters. The game’s the most exciting new shows Lamb created a spongy, from Flappy Bird as you get creative lead Alistair Hope, pressure-sensitive keyboard – with the latter in particular er, hopes to breathe new weren’t necessarily on using the movement of your life into the largely stale primetime TV. With Netflix that responds to gestures, iThing to tell the story. Expect genre by shifting the focus also showcasing 4K, it looks letting you alter pitch and to xenomorph-fuelled as if Frank’s success was timbre with your fingers. It’s similarly smart narrative tension, rather than carefree at the front of a movement tricks from the team’s next fragging. The alien’s clever, just the beginning. turning once-dumb boxes game, The Sailor’s Dream. too. It adapts its strategies into extensions of the body. after each encounter…64 Marcus Fairs, DEZEEN

Telling a compelling INNOVATORS story within a game Gunishment NEIL DRUCKMANN NAUGHTY DOG Joel and Ellie’s story was about If anyone tells you games can’t tell proper way more than just stories, sit them down in front of a PS4 and fire how many infected up The Last Of Us Remastered. Naughty Dog’s they could kill Neil Druckmann wrote it, and in a world wherethe zombie apocalypse has become something of a cliché, his story of two survivors – one ofwhom may hold the key to a cure – is as fresh as a new bite wound. It’s more 28 Days Later than Resident Evil: Extinction, with the relationship between Joel and Ellie just as important as thebody count, plus there are secondary narratives hidden throughout if you take the time to look for them and piece the bits together. With Druckmann now turning his pen to next-gen debut Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (due 2015), Naughty Dog’s future – and that of gaming in general – looks anything but apocalyptic. Building a Creating the Giving us VR Making human-sized YouTube of everywhere blockbusters new music and anywhere great again joystick ALEX LJUNG & ED MASON GARETH EDWARDS JAMES ILIFF ERIC WAHLFORSS GAMEFACE LABS GODZILLA SURVIOS SOUNDCLOUD What people often forget With Michael Bay doing What does the joystick of about virtual reality is that his best to lobotomise the the future look like? Well, a It’s obvious when you think blockbuster once and for all,bit like you. As a graduate of about it, but only Alex Ljung you need to tether your Gareth Edwards has shownthe same school as Palmer chosen headset to a fairly that action movies don’t Luckey, Survios founder and Eric Wahlforss did rip-snorting PC. Ed Mason’s James Iliff has created an anything about it: a website, GameFace crams everything need to be idiotic. Afteras-yet-unfinished wearable app and social network for into one face-mounted unit, making Monsters on acontroller that allows you to including a 2.5K display, shoestring, his Godzillanavigate a VR game simply musicians to upload their Android OS and Tegra K1 reboot was a superbly by walking around within tunes to without a shady graphics processor that pitched rescue mission record label exec in sight. you wouldn’t even find in the of the legendary beast’s the system’s magnetic Nowadays it’s used by the latest phones. The dream of reputation, earning him field, with specific actions whole industry to give sneak playing VR Bus Driver on the the opportunity to make such as gun-toting and previews, by young hopefuls top deck of the 155 takes a sequel. Perhaps the newzombie-hacking dealt with to showcase what they can another step towards reality. Star Wars won’t be so bad. by Wii-style controllers. do, and by the rest of us to 65 listen to music for free.

INNOVATORS Talk of the town The Valour builds itsHEALTH own social network Creating the cleverest with other bikes to bicycle ever share real-time info ALI ZAHID VANHAWKS on road conditions The humble push bike hasn’t changed that much in the past 150 years. Sure, the materials used tomake them have evolved and the gearing and brakes are more advanced, but the basic shape has barelychanged since the Boneshaker of 1869 – Vanhawks’ Valour even uses the same template. Beneath the surface, however, it’s a completely different beast. Powered by your smartphone (and your feet), Vanhawks has given the Valour turn-by-turn navigation (indicated by lights on the handlebars),sensors that detect stuff in your blind spot (and alertyou using vibrations) and an accompanying app that collects Strava-style data on your ride. If it gets nicked it’ll even tell other Valours nearby so its owner can find out its whereabouts (at US$1250, it’s eminently nickable). Not bad for 150 years of progress. Can you make one that hovers next? Designing the Making earphones Coming up with Improving products everyone that listen to apps that trick you mental health you too with a game else copies into exercise NIKOLAJ HVIID NICK STANHOPE JONY IVE THE DASH ADRIAN HON WE ARE WHAT WE DO APPLE SIX TO START Most earphones only require While We Are What We Do The most influential product you to do the listening, not It starts as just a game. like to be seen as a collective, designer on the planet got the other way around. But You’re out walking with the man at the helm is Nick more influential still when he Bragi’s The Dash in-ears your headphones in and an Stanhope. He heads a team took over Apple’s software are also able to listen to audiobook called The Walk that’s developing an Android division. iOS 7 finally brought on, or you’re jogging to one Apple’s software into line your heart while you listen to called Zombies, Run! You game that works in with its clinically elegant tunes from their built-in 4GB can’t continue listening to conjunction with wearable hardware; iOS 8 pushes the memory or streamed over the story unless you make health-monitoring tech. design envelope even further a certain number of steps The idea is that it teaches and integrates Healthbook. Bluetooth, with an app to and the next thing you know teenagers to control their With the industrial designer collect the info for analysis. you’re accidentally getting breathing and heart-rate by fit just to find out what rewarding them for staying Marc Newson joining his It’s a smart combo of happens next. Sneaky, calm. Beats stealing cars design team, we can only wearable tech that none Six To Start, very sneaky. guess what Ive will do next. of the big boys thought and killing pedestrians of and another victory for We like your style. (in GTA V), right? Marcus Fairs, DEZEEN the Kickstarter revolution.66

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INNOVATORS TRAVEL Fully charged In 2009 a Roadster travelled 311 miles on a single charge, setting a new world record Satellite town So far the Dragon has only carried cargo into space, but SpaceX reckons it’ll soon be taking humans Final frontier This is Falcon 9, the first private spacecraft to visit the International Space Station Plotting to colonise milk floats and the G-Wiz know, just in case we the red planet courtesy of Tesla’s Roadster accidentally destroy Earth. and seven-seater Model S, In short, he’s a man with ELON MUSK PAYPAL/TESLA/SPACE X and set up SpaceX – a private ambitions to match the size space exploration company of his fortune. Elon Musk is about as close sending stuff into space. Musk that aims to one day colonise to a real-life Tony Stark as sold his first product at 12 years Mars. “I see us going to Mars If he sounds like the twin we have. He’s a Willy Wonka old – he got US$500 for a in about 10-11 years,” he told brother of a Bond villain, that’s of tech, concocting plans videogame he’d written called Stuff earlier this year, “and not a million miles from the (probably from a volcano lair Blastar after teaching himself in a really big spaceship, not truth. Musk recently spent in the Pacific) before unleashing to code – but it was the sale of a little thing.” some of his immense wealth them on the public. PayPal in 2002 that put him on on the actual submarine Stuff’s map. Since then he’s Musk compares that Lotus Esprit used in The But rather than sending reinvented the electric car, proposed first trip to the red Spy Who Loved Me and overweight German children banishing associations with planet to the English colonising is building his own: “We’ve up industrial pipes he’s mainly America and envisions setting even joked about having up a city home to millions of a submarine-plane-car.” people, with homes, jobs and That’s a joke we can’t wait (probably) pet Martians. You to see the punchline for.68

INNOVATORS App-ing to Making our Hailing a cab The future make getting sci-fi dreams towards the of streamlined lost get lost hybrid car design come true future AZMAT YUSUF PETER WOUDA CITYMAPPER MARK DEROCHE TRAVIS KALANICK VOLKSWAGEN XL1 AEROFEX UBERIt’s almost impossible to get If you want to makelost these days. You’ve got Now we have plug sockets Before he became public something streamlined one man to thank for that: with USB ports in them, enemy number one among and aerodynamic, the modelAzmat Yusuf. He’s the man there are only really two London’s black-cab drivers, to copy isn’t a Formula 1 car behind Citymapper – the main sci-fi dreams that or fighter jet – it’s a penguin. app that gets you around remain: flying cars and Travis Kalanick launched Not when it’s in uprightLondon, New York, Paris and hoverboards. Aerofex’s Uber in San Francisco waddling mode, but whenother less fashionable cities Aero-X fulfils both, with in 2010. It’s an app that arrowing its way through across the world. It makes the added bonus of being the ocean. That’s whatthe most of open, real-time allows you to book a cab exterior design manager data to show you various a little like Luke Skywalker’s and watch it arrive on Peter Wouda would’ve been routes to your destination, Landspeeder. On terra a map. In four years it’s aiming for when he craftedhow long each one will take, the VW XL1 – the mosthow much they’ll cost and if firma it’s a four-wheeled, taken over the world, like efficient production car inthere are any problems that two-person buggy-type a convenient four-wheeled the world. Everything aboutcould cause delays. Creator vehicle, but in flight it uses it is designed to cut through downward-facing fans to virus that runs at very the air like a hot axe through Yusuf and his team are levitate up to 10 feet off the affordable rates. adding cities all the time – ground at up to 45mph. ice cream, from theyou can vote for which one Designed by aerospace And it’s not just for taxis extremely low ride heightthey should do next on the engineer Mark DeRoche, now either. There’s Uber and lack of wing mirrors (itCitymapper website – and it uses a clever steering Ice Cream, which allows has cameras instead) to the he’s already got one eye system that removes the way it tapers towards a flat need for complex controls you to summon a 99 rear end. Combined with its on Rio in time for the just like a cab, plus Uber hybrid of diesel and electric Olympics in 2016. Yusuf like those found in Chopper: an on-demand power, VW has managed to told Stuff that he wanted helicopters, making it similar chauffeur-flown helicopter eke out over 300 miles to “to build something that service from New York City the gallon, and with its techpeople would use regularly”. to riding a motorbike. And to the Hamptons at the far already filtering through to Considering we can barely while it’s not ready to ride end of Long Island. Uber now the VW GTE, it could turn get to the end of the road away from a showroom just operates in over 200 cities out to be one of the mostwithout using his app, looks yet, it’s not pure fantasy around the world, and significant cars ever made. like mission accomplished. either. Aerofex has tested while not everyone is the Aero-X and hopes to happy to see them (those 69 have them on sale by 2017. aforementioned cabbies Yours for just US$85,000. for one), it’s a company dragging an age-old industry into the future.

INNOVATORSMONEYTurning homes into hotels JOE GEBBIA, BRIAN CHESKY & NATHAN BLECHARCZYK AIRBNB For a long time, the idea of letting a stranger in to stay at your house would conjure thoughts of asofa-surfing hippy, leaving hair in the plughole, lice inthe furniture and a dead badger in your bed. Airbnbhas changed all that. Founded as Airbed & Breakfastin 2008 by roommates Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky (Nathan Blecharczyk joined shortly afterwards), it now lets you rent or let an individual bed, wholeroom or entire property, often for far less than evena budget hotel. Including the Lenny Henry-approved ones. These days it also offers quirkier dorms, including caravans, treehouses, windmills and even shipping containers (don’t worry, you’ll wake up where you went to sleep). It’s now available in over34,000 cities in 190 countries and there are security measures factored in, so the chances of getting a badger murderer are slimmer than ever. Lining your Crowdfunding Creating an Calling time on digital wallet Hollywood open-source those infuriating with Bitcoins films car company booking fees SATOSHI NAKAMOTO SIMON WEST JOHN B ROGERS JR BITCOIN SALTY LOCAL MOTORS MILLS AND SINX DICE Satoshi Nakamoto could You’d think the man behind If a camel is a horse be one person. It could be The Expendables would designed by committee, It’s one of the great many. He could a woman, Local Motors’ desert-ready mysteries of our time. or she could be a man. Or a have cash thrown at him to Rally Fighter is the camel of You bag a couple of tickets cat (but that one’s unlikely make whatever he wants; the motoring world. Each for a gig, click to buy them given the coding required). but following the success of part has been designed by a and out of nowhere there’s Basically, Nakamoto is the Veronica Mars, Simon West member of the Local Motors an extra £10 mystery tax has opted to crowdfund Salty community, with over Keyser Söze of digital via SyndicateRoom.com 35,000 designs submitted. been added on top. currency. Bitcoin might – meaning anyone who The most popular are then A booking fee, they call it. be mysterious, unstable invests over £1000 will be developed and made in What is it for and why shouId and met with perplexed eligible for a share of the regional micro-factories, I pay for it? Nobody knows. expressions if you mention it profits. Considering West’s with each buyer chipping Ustwo’s Dice is an iOS and to most, but it could become films have made over £600m in. One day, all cars could Android app that gets rid of bigger than the world’s at the box office, that might them altogether, allowing largest novelty cheque. be made this way. you to use the app itself be a fairly decent bet.70 as the ticket.



FIRST TEST MOTOROLA MOTO 360 It’s your round Is this the beginning of the end for bad smartwatch design? Sophie Charara tries on the long-awaited Motorola Moto 360 £200 / motorola.co.uk 1 2 We’re not going back to ugly smartwatches now. That’s 3 not to say the Moto 360, the first real Android Wear icon, is perfect – nothing was going to live up to the hyping and hoping of the past six months. But it’s the first smartwatch you’ll really want to show off rather than hide under a sleeve. The 360’s head-turning design just makes gadget sense. It’s a watch… so it’s round. It’s made from premium materials such as stainless steel and leather. Its Gorilla Glass 3 screen protects it from dust and scratches. So it’s a little pricey at £200. It rests in a wireless handy dock to charge. But what’s it like to wear one? And should any other Android Wear watches get a look in? 1 Design and build The steel body of the 360 feels sturdy, with a perfectly smooth circular edge, very slim bezels around the screen and a single power button on the right-hand side. It is chunky, though: at 11.5mm deep it does declare its presence. But at least it’s light. With the leather strap it weighs just 49g. Six hours with the 360 Good Meh Evil IcsegPuaems6rtBTlPOtMur7eriyohlrudm,eli-rtswgotmaaotieraehrntdisensbtessoedaura?ptpdtlywpdttihTraaeeoantesohrrnircchotlnssMieihf’ioafoonsststmatngjhaaotco.’…rtufnehitsfsihAsettnoefwCcrse–iaeoLhmt2tnunCwcyo0hkpn,fhDnsiatetbmeanoiclmuxtcgr1ntyyaeeu,ajrmtanaprorpedobpyrs:iyumeinttnt’ods, rtpoefhefIre’DmfMiiaWvdesoneneactaaddtcy;orsi.’e’ottrusseOscsmrdS!hoe,pulpwniaeotlWkmWttahieeyefnmoadidtryuwcoeatchsmudbloaatypttiensaoh?tcttreskWuSio9althtuidrtlpsoltpg.earwmea.rStmtcestyBhimn’aoevuvtipoogt!3i.pyc6fe0or 5mins 27mins 28mins 31mins 32mins 41mins 1.55hrs 2hrs 3hrs72

FIRST TEST MOTOROLA MOTO 3602 Screen 3 Android Wear Tech specsWhile colours don’t pop off the This the most comfortable Android1.56in display, they are appealing. Wear watch yet. When you get Screen 1.56in, 320x290, 205ppiAt 205ppi, the resolution might not a notification on your phone, the OS Android Wearmatch the Samsung Gear Live’s, 360 vibrates and a card pops up Processor TI OMAP 3but it is sharp – text looks fairly on the watch face. The wrist-flick RAM 512MBcrisp, if a bit distorted around the gesture to turn the screen on Storage 4GBvery edge of the raised, waterproof works well enough, and voice Battery 320mAhGorilla Glass 3. The feature we love search and commands are just Dimensions 46x11.5mm, 49gis auto brightness, a light sensor as excellent as, if not better than,that adjusts to the environment. its Android Wear rivals. The many faces of the Moto 3604 Performance 5 Battery life Motorola has squeezed an impressive amountWe’ve had a couple of teething A day should be the minimum for of functionality into one small, circular screenproblems with the 360. While a smartwatch battery. Sadly, thepairing to our phone went 360 doesn’t always reach that. Q Dial up a dial Q Don’t be squaresmoothly, soon after the Bluetooth This battery gets us home fromconnection dropped out. We’ve the office – but just about. On the From an animated ticking We’ve seen examplesalso noticed a bit of lag with Google first day Stuff got our mitts on it, clockface with timezone of apps making full useNow cards. Both the LG G Watch the 360 conked out at eight and dials to a stylish rotating of the round screen. Butand Gear Live performed better, so a half hours. At least Motorola has set of circles, the 360’s some apps we’ve triedif you’ve used other Android Wear made charging pleasant with its faces show off the form have cut-off text, havingwatches you’ll spot the difference. clever wireless ck. factor superbly. There been designed only to be are only seven (for now) square. We’re sure this but they’re customisable. will improve in time. Q It’s got heart Q A strapping lad The heart-rate monitor Compared to the works, though we’d stick rubber-band-like to sports accessories for strap that Samsung medical readings. Both provides, this leather the red-and-white-hued one feels lovely. This reader and the circular is the first smartwatch graphic showing weekly we’ve really compared goals look very pretty. to a premium wristwatch.tcswwhcaiIerrte’’TBGGedrlhhuvemseeao.tteennIugh,teltbclooiWioeioaaanokitenbvsttregkg,eukeeyiaatstrldtwnno:hsyalhgttlge.soiereothfdraoSpewe,idevuo’mri3rebgspmeriinl6eetyguet,m0dWt’shdsybhesitCsoiuatpdstcbctstoheykehstadioeaaalAmyarndimapaypegnriueppa?…ginnspcmtngipehlrubattut We’re suckers for a pretty face, and this stylish and supremely4hrs 4.01hrs 4.02hrs 5.35hrs 5.45hrs wearable smartwatch doesn’t disappoint. The watchfaces are classy, Android Wear is as clever as ever and you won’t want to take it off. Just bear in mind that the battery life might make you anxious and it does need a performance boost. @sophiecharara STUFF SAYS ++++, The first wearable you’ll want to wear – the Moto 360 is just a few specs short of brilliance 73

TEST APPS App:roved FOR FOR FOR FOR ANDROID FINER BAD DREAM MEAN TWEAKERS DINERS FINGERS PLAYERS O Hangar ODojo O The Nightmare O They Need Cooperative To Be Fed 3 The sort of app that looks Many apps purport to swishen rubbish until you try it, at which up your social life, but when you Collaboration and a unified front You might think your job’s a bit point you realise it’s even better search for a nice new restaurant are all very well, but there’s a rubbish, but it’s got nothing on than chocolate-covered Netflix. you get a Wimpy next to a point when these things can go the little critters whose lot is It simply installs a shortcuts bar motorway (actually we have a teensy bit too far. That point is to leap about the place, darting in your notifications screen then a soft spot for Wimpy, but you probably when you’re part of a between tiny planetoids, trying populates it with your favourite know what we mean). Dojo cooperative tasked with raiding not to get killed by all kinds of apps based on how often you offers a nicely curated selection dungeons full of things very hostile things, and scooping use them. You can also pin apps of pop-ups, exhibitions, much out to kill you, yet still up diamonds along the way. At to it, install another launcher on new exercise classes and feel compelled to act as one, level’s end, they find a giant plant the homescreen and view app other delights. Offering no matter the consequences. with far more teeth than foliage usage stats. But, useful as those Time Out expertise and YPlan But this is a skilful, sharp, should own, jump into its maw extras are, it’s the notifications immediacy, it’s a must-have for refined mash-up of puzzling and get munched to death. A far launcher that’ll change your life. Londoners – just a shame it’s and rogue-like turn-based cry from Gardeners’ World, but Seriously, it’s that good. restricted to one city for now. play. Highly recommended. an excellent little platform game. Stuff says +++++ Stuff says +++++ Stuff says +++++ Stuff says +++++ £free / Android £free / iOS £2.49 / iOS £1.19 / Android; £1.49 / iOS74

TEST APPS Mini memeOComics COMIC OChunky READERSComics by Comixology was We’re long-time Comic Zealthe Amazon of comics, until ZOK! BIF! POW! ZAKAM! And other fans, and that £2.99 app isAmazon bought it. Now it’s stereotypical words you might find still best for iPhone. On iPad,just Amazon, with the politics in a comic! If you can tear yourself though, Chunky won usthat brings: the Android away from ink and paper, grab one round with its streamlinedapplication lost Google Play of these graphic apps immediately! interface, great controls,payments, and iOS lost its smart upscaling and two-upstore entirely. But, oh, the range. landscape option. There’sIt’s hard to stay angry when plentiful cloud support, butthere are so many affordable a £1.99 ‘pro’ upgrade addscomics to buy. a mini web server too.Stuff says ++++, Stuff says +++++£free / iOS, Android from £free / iOSOMarvel Unlimited OComiCat OSequential O2000 ADDescribed as ‘the Netflix of Yes, we’ve – gasp! – gone A comic app for the more Edited by a green alien withcomics’, there is a whiff of for a paid Android app. That’s discerning reader. The a phone dial glued to his head,bargain bin about Marvel because ComiCat is excellent, Sequential collection is and featuring fascist futureUnlimited. But c’mon: for automatically scanning your heavily curated and possibly cop with a permasnarl Judge$10 per month you get access device to find any lurking comics a bit worthy, but you can Dredd, 2000 AD is a Britishto 15,000 digital issues, in and deftly handling whatever guarantee pretty much institution. Thirty-seven yearsan all-you-can-eat buffet CBRs and PDFs you throw at anything you buy will deserve young, the comic’s digitalof spandex and scientific it, unlike most Android comic your time and money. The venture is sleek and smartlyexperiments giving rise to viewers – and we tried many. reader itself is smooth and designed, providing access tosuperpowers in an extremely (Cheapskates can make do with fast, if lacking Chunky’s level 2000 AD itself, the Megazineunlikely fashion. Perfect Viewer). of elegance. and classic thrills.Stuff says ++++, Stuff says +++++ Stuff says ++++, Stuff says +++++£free ($10/month) / iOS, Android £1.99 / Android £free / iPad £free / iOS 75

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Crew of two TECHSPEDITION If you’re flying in a particularly hazardous Hold steadylocation it’s best to have The drone has sixtwo remotes: one person carbon fibre propellers,focusing on the UAV and retractable landing gear another concerned and a GPS-enabled A2 flight controller, which only with the allow it to remain stable camera. even in strong Alpine winds. , w e Flying around Britain in Google souped-up Land Rovers, scientists Maps’ 3D view is one of our in the Alps are taking it to new favourite wastes of time. But extremes to help study mountains next-gen mapping isn’t just and the effects of climate change being used to destroy afternoon in mind-boggling detail. Sam productivity or provide a bird’s-eye Kieldsen took a ride with the view of how your garden looked in team to find out how it works 2009. Thanks to a combination of and what it could mean for our drones, clever software and some understanding of the real Earth… 77

TECHSPEDITION ountains haven’t always been models using a process called 1 seen as playgrounds for snow- structure-from-motion,” says based frolics. Without films, TV Mark. The images (as many as or photos to prepare them, many 1000 per survey) are fed into a European travellers a few hundred piece of software called Bundler, years ago were so overwhelmed which analyses them all over the by the sight of the Alps that they’d course of a day or so, identifies request blindfolds as they were led the same rock features that occur through the rocky passes. in multiple images using colour and shading, and links them together. But my eyes are wide open as I head into the French Alpine But it’s not all flying drones and town of Chamonix, nestled in sitting in front of a PC. Ahead of a wide, forested valley between each photo survey, Mark and his those same imposing mountains. team venture out into the glacial Because I’m about to see a brilliant valleys and place square white new method of surveying these cardboard targets on the valley mountains – a technique that slopes. I ask him how he does that. involves some incredible, and “Carefully!” he laughs. surprisingly accessible, gadgetry. The process often involves Drone rangers climbing gear, as some of the I meet with Mark Allan, a PhD valleys aren’t easily accessible. researcher from the University “In terms of adding ground control, of Northumbria, who specialises you look for features that you can in the study of glacial valleys, of physically get to… and that don’t which there are dozens in the Alps. move.” GPS data is then taken Mark is among the first to analyse over each target’s location. When these valleys with this technique, the drone flies overhead, the which means he gets to fly a targets will appear in the pictures camera-equipped drone through and can be used to add scale and some of Europe’s most stunning location data to the models. scenery. As jobs go… Next-gen Google Earth “We’re looking at how the That evening, I get a chance to fly landscape is changing in response through some of the resulting 3D to a change in the climate,” Mark models on the team’s computer. tells me over lunch in a Chamonix Looking like a hi-res version of cafe. “We’ve been using state-of- Google Earth’s 3D mode, they’re the-art 3D technology to create so detailed that you can make models of the landscape and we out individual boulders – not to use these models to detect which mention rock climbers. This level areas are changing in response to of detail is essential, as it’s how shifts in glacial patterns.” Mark will identify the changes occurring in the landscape when For the past few months, Mark he repeats the surveys in the next and his team of fellow researchers two years. But it also points to an have been driving all around the excitingly precise future for Google Alps – Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Maps: Now, how many seats does Germany, Slovenia and now that pub garden have…? France – in a Land Rover Defender carrying climbing kit, tents, Because this technique is so £50,000 worth of GPS gear, innovative, Mark doesn’t have an insanely high-spec PC and an £8000 unmanned aerial vehicle “We’ve seen the landscape the landscape is changing. And (UAV). Oh, and a Sony NEX-7 changing – we’ve seen next year he’ll be showing off his camera – the sort you can pick up the ice falling and heard findings in an exhibition at the in Jessops for a few hundred quid. the glacier moving” Royal Geographical Society. He tells me to expect 3D printed Third eye older models to which he can glacier models and 3D video “Using the UAV, or on foot, or in compare his own, but he has fly-throughs created using a helicopter, we take hundreds been poring over the archives of the team’s data. of images of glacial valleys and the Royal Geographical Society in combine these to create 3D London, which include images of I ask him if his months of the same valleys from over 100 camping out in the snow and years ago. “That allowed us to find braving icy glaciers are paying out exactly where these glaciers off. “As a life experience it’s were at a particular point in the been unbelievable,” he says. past. It has been crucial to the “We’ve driven through some success of the project.” of the most impressive mountain passes in the world and we’ve Eventually, Mark will be able seen some views that are going to determine just how quickly to stay with me forever.” And from a scientific point of view? “We’ve seen first-hand how these landscapes are changing: we’ve seen landslides, seen the ice falling, heard the glacier moving. It’s incredible.”78

1 Land Rover Defender Drones: a secret life The Land Rover acts as a UAV launch and landing pad Goose-shooing via a platform on its roof After geese started bothering visitors to 2 DJI Spreading Wings Canada’s Petrie Island, S800 Evo officials turns to UAVs to provide a solution. The chief tool for surveying Using scare tactics, glacial valleys, worth £8000 drones reduced the number of feathery 3 Terra Nova Ultra nuisances from about Quasar tents 120 to just 20. Because it’s hard to find a hotel room halfway up an Alp 3 Crop-dusting 2 UAVs can spray crops with pesticides far more quickly than a tractor and more cheaply than a plane. Farmers in Japan have been using Yamaha RMX helicopters to boost their yields for 20 years.An extra dimension Web access Facebook purchasedThis project turns 2D photos into 3D models using a heavy bit of academic Ascenta, a companysoftware called Bundler. But how about trying its trickery on a smaller scale? specialising in solar- powered UAVs, to build flying Wi-Fi hotspots that will bring the net to parts of the developing world that as yet can’t ‘like’ cat pictures. Lucky them.Structure Sensor PVMS2 Seene Criminal-catching Seeking an aerial viewThis Kinect for your iPad lets you Used by ILM, Weta and Google This camera app can’t (yet) of crime scenes, policescan rooms, people and objects in Maps, this slightly more capture full 3D models, but it does in Seattle employedthree dimensions in a few seconds, professional but free application let you take 3D photos by plotting a hexacopter droneso you can work out if that Eames weaves together 2D photos of points on your subject and using sporting a thermalchair will squeeze into your lounge. rigid objects (buildings rather than parallax to determine where they imaging camera asOr if your dog will make a nice pedestrians) into a mesh model to are in 3D space. Yes, you can use an alternative to3D-printed ornament. play around with like digital Lego. it for selfies, if you must. a full-size chopper –$379 (iPad) / structure.io £free / www.di.ens.fr/pmvs/ £free (iOS) / seene.co but the programme was dropped over public fears. 79

GROUP TEST ELECTRIC CARS Q BMW i8 Q TESLA MODEL S P85THE LEAN,THE MEAN& THE GREEN Stuff’s steeliest pilots whizz from coast to coast to find out which of the new eco-supercars is the most future-friendly80

GROUP TEST ELECTRIC CARS Q VOLKSWAGEN XL1The mission Weston- super-MareIt began as a noble endeavour:drive three practical electric Cheddar Clacket Lane Whitstablecars from coast to coast, and Gorge Servicesput everyone’s range anxiety at Tilshead Garageease. Then we looked at whichcars to take, and we realised The route STOP 1 STOP 2 that put enough sparks [ Pictures James Lipman ]we didn’t just want to save Cheddar Gorge, Tilshead, on Salisbury in the Tesla to take it allthe planet: we wanted to zoom START birthplace of actual Plain. Londis sandwiches the way to Whitstable.around it in a fleet of next-gen Weston-super-Mare, cheese and a number all round.dream machines that outpace birthplace of John of goats. The goats FINISHtheir old gas-guzzling forebears Cleese (whose family seemed particularly STOP 3 Whitstable: oysterson a whiff of petrol and a gulp name was originally interested in nibbling Clacket Lane Services, (hmm…), fish and chipsof lightning. So, we rounded up Cheese) and gateway the white paint from M25, home to a high- (better!) and England’sthree different approaches to to the Bristol Channel. the middle of the road. voltage charging point largest village green.the eco supercar – BMW’s i8hybrid supercar, Volkswagen’sretro-futuristic XL1 hybrid andTesla’s all-electric Model S –for a low-carbon cruise acrossEngland’s middle. 81

GROUP TEST ELECTRIC CARS TOP 5 DRIVING SONGS FOR THE MODEL S Q THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Mach 5 Q ROY ORBISON I Drove All Night Q THE JEZABELS Electric Lover Q MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA Simple Math Q SCORPIONS Too Far THE CHALLENGING ONE Screen-tastic Extra factor Family-friendly Modest machine Not only does Full disclosure: our test Unlike the other It doesn’t have the the Tesla have a car came with enough bachelor-mobiles, out-there looks of the touchscreen the size extras to take it up the Tesla has enough i8 or XL1 , but that’s of two iPads – it’s got to £100,000, but the room for four plus part of the charm. And another screen visible standard P85 has all a whole holiday’s you still get attention through the wheel. the essentials. worth of luggage. when charging.82

GROUP TEST ELECTRIC CARSTESLA MODELS P85Q Price £69,000 / teslamotors.comQ Driver Tom ParsonsThe i8 and XL1 are cheat cars. They’ll entering warp, and what could be Driver specsrun forever because they run on more awesome than that?petrol. Admittedly a much smaller Last car ownedamount of petrol than the average Onwards to the winding roads of Honda Civiccar, but everyone knows petrol’s Salisbury Plain, and the Tesla proves Type Rgoing to cost £450 per teaspoon to be pretty darn chuckable for a car Fuelsoon. When that happens, batteries so big and heavy. You can’t throw it Lucozade,will be the only way to power your into corners quite the same way you Cornish pastycar, and the i8 and XL1 have got can the lithe little i8, but there’s still Favourite UK roadabout as much battery power as more than enough grip to take them A939a Sony Walkman. far quicker than you probably should. near Tomintoul And you can fit a Tom Wiggins in the Driving heroIt’s a big ’un bonnet – something we genuinely Jean-Luc Picard did while photographing our motors.The Tesla’s different. This thing has Tech specsa massive 85kWh battery that it Quick pit stopreckons is good for 312 miles. It may Powerlook less radical than the other two, I’d avoided using the air-con, but had 85kWh batterybut underneath it’s a technological otherwise driven the Tesla like the Top speedmarvel, and arguably represents the frustrated racing driver I am so far, 130mphtrue future of motoring. yet the readout was telling me I had 0-60mph enough juice left to make it the rest 4.2 seconds And boy is it big. Nerve-rackingly of the way to Whitstable. Just. Before Weight 2100kgso when your first experience of it risking it I did a little research on Claimedinvolves the close confines of the zap-map.com, only to discover that fuel efficiencylabyrinthine Westfield. The 720p Whitstable doesn’t have a single Infinitefeed from the parking camera that’s electric car charger (seriously, (but a 312-milefed to the ginormous screen in the Whitstable, sort it out). range per charge)centre console does come in handyfor reversing, though. Now I like Whitstable a lot, but I didn’t fancy being stranded therePractical but powerful in a totally dead car, so it was with some reluctance that I had to insistWhen the challenge started I had the convoy stop at Clacket Lane300-odd miles in the ‘tank’, and by Services for a little power-up.our first stop in Cheddar I was totally Thankfully this meant I had thein love with the Model S. Yes, it’s range to complete the journey andpractical (a boot in the boot and get home again after a 50-minutein the bonnet, plus loads of legroom) break – plenty of time for a reallyand yes, it’s gizmo-tastic (it’s all rubbish Costa Coffee experience.touchscreen-controlled, from thepanoramic roof to the suspension A car for the futureheight, steering weight and anabsolutely humongous Google By the end of our challenge I wasMaps-powered sat-nav), but it’s still in love with the Model S, butalso insanely, giggle-inducingly fast. there was no escaping that I’d beenFaster than the i8, in fact. And this is challenged more than the other two.immediate power. No delay for the Sure, for 360 days a year the Tesla’scar to decide how it’s going to hook range would be way more thanup two different motors to most I needed and I could just charge iteffectively deliver the acceleration, overnight, but I occasionally enjoyjust all the power you could possibly a drive to Devon, Wales or Scotland,require the moment you put your and I’m the type to find nothingfoot down. other than depression at motorway services. That’s why I wouldn’t buy I thought I’d miss the noise of an a Tesla now. Next year there will beengine, but there’s something just 23 Superchargers in the UK, andas exciting about that burst of speed they can pump in 170 miles’ worth ofbeing accompanied by near-silence charge in 30 minutes. That’s when I’d– it’s like the Starship Enterprise buy a Tesla. If I could actually afford it.STUFF SAYS ★★★★★ Going totally petrol-free is utterly amazing, even if it’s not always easy 83

GROUP TEST ELECTRIC CARS TOP 5 DRIVING SONGS FOR THE XL1 Q KRAFTWERK Aerodynamik Q WU-TANG CLAN Diesel Q MY BLOODY VALENTINE Glider Q XZIBIT Paparazzi Q MODEST MOUSE Perpetual Motion Machine VOLKSWAGEN XL1 Q Price £98,000 / volkswagen.co.uk Q Driver Tom Wiggins Driver specs Choosing a Tesla or an i8 for this too (a hearse, not a dead dog) but guidance towards Cheddar, challenge is like using a fork to with everything about it designed gradually getting used to the Last car owned eat a bowl of soup: frustrating and to reduce drag and extend its range Tarmac-scraping driving position, Toyota Corolla wasteful. That’s why I parked my – from the covered rear wheels and slight lack of rear visibility and GL Executive behind into the driver’s seat of the compressed cardboard interior to increased attention from camera Fuel VW XL1 – a concept come to life the lack of power steering – the XL1 phones. Even a local bus driver Beefeater that Volkswagen claims is the most is clearly all about efficiency, not made his commuter cargo wait mixed grill and a fuel-efficient hybrid available. How power or luxury. It even eschews while he took a picture. No doubt banoffee sundae could I possibly be beaten? airflow-disrupting wing mirrors for the snaking roads of Cheddar Favourite UK road cameras. Only the i8’s head-up Gorge were a little tougher on A272 Cut ’n’ shut display is more sci-fi than that. the unassisted steering of my Driving hero XL1 than the other two but Inspector The XL1 looks like two cars stuck Cheddar Gorge-ous the narrow tyres meant I barely Clouseau together. I like to think the squared- noticed and I still beat them to off rear end makes it look like Don’t get me wrong, the XL1 is by the first checkpoint, giving me Ferrari’s ‘Breadvan’ 250 GT but in no means a chore to drive. Setting time to pair my phone to the car’s all honesty it’s probably more like off from Weston-super-Mare in sat-nav and stream my roadtrip a futuristic hearse, albeit one with all-electric mode, I quietly nipped playlist to the car’s speakers only enough space for a generously through early morning traffic while I waited. sized dog. It accelerates a bit like one following the built-in Garmin’s84

GROUP TEST ELECTRIC CARS THE STYLISH ONE Offset seating The two seats are offset, which not only makes it easier to see at junctions but also creates enough space for the batteries. It’s butter-smooth Because it doesn’t need to worry about downforce, the XL1 is actually more aerodynamic than a Formula 1 car (but less than a penguin). Custom-made Apart from the badge, which comes from a Scirocco, everything is designed and made to order. That’s partly why it’s so expensive. Adrenaline rush The XL1 is only about the size of a Polo, although it feels a bit like one of those solar- powered wings with wheels that break world records. Tech specs Perpetual motion onboard. I put my foot down to Slow and steady... overtake slow-moving tractorsPower After a minor detour into the on the A37 and when I hit the The sun had already started to800cc diesel plus Stonehenge visitor centre car M3 it never struggled to keep go down when I got to Whitstable,20KW electric park thanks to out-of-date maps, up with the rat race. just a couple of minutes behindTop speed 99mph I started to get into the swing of the vastly more powerful i8 and0-60mph driving this clever little hybrid. Say cheese comfortably ahead of Tom’s Tesla.12.5 seconds Whenever I hit a proper descent Hares, meet the tortoise. It mightWeight 795kg I lifted off the accelerator and glided I don’t care what Will Dunn says, the lack some of the luxuries offeredClaimed down the hill to let the battery suck XL1 is by far the most eye-catching by the other cars but that’s thefuel efficiency up some additional charge. At one of these cars. I haven’t had my price you pay for such incredible313mpg point it had dropped to about 9% and picture taken by so many strangers efficiency. The XL1 has air-con without plugging it in I managed to since Beyoncé piggybacked me and a surprisingly connected revive it all the way back to 16.5%. through Piccadilly Circus. When we stereo and sat-nav system. Is VW on the verge of inventing stopped at Clacket Lane it earned I think I can survive without a perpetual motion machine? another admiring glance from me touchscreens and voice control when five litres of diesel (half a tank) when half a tank of fuel costs That’s not to say I drove the added 250km to the XL1’s range. less than two pints of lager. XL1 like it had an unexploded bomb STUFF SAYS ★★★★★ A glimpse of the future, the XL1 ticks every box. Now all we need is a four-seater version… 85

GROUP TEST ELECTRIC CARS BMW i8 Q Price £95,000 / bmw.co.uk Q Driver Will Dunn There are plenty of examples of moves with a precision that speaks Driver specs clever, bespoke technology that of some kind of advanced machine make the i8 a singularly brilliant car, intelligence. You can also speed into Last car owned but the most important thing is this: a corner with conviction. I doubt Vauxhall Astra 1.4 it looks like the Batmobile. Driving you all remember the Mitsubishi Fuel it is like walking through a busy GTO I spent months upgrading Coffee, beef crisps shopping centre with a levitating in Gran Turismo 2 as a teenager, Favourite UK road clockwork monkey made of gold: but that’s what it reminds me B3212 everyone wants to know what of: a 4WD with more power than Driving hero that expensive-looking thing is. seems realistic for something Michael Knight Cars slow down and speed up to so sure-footed. be alongside it, usually with a phone Tech specs held to the window. It’s good to be inside Power Goat-botherer Next, we put the three cars through 357bhp the most exacting motoring Top speed The i8 doesn’t just look like the experience in the UK: the M25. Limited to 155mph Batmobile; it also moves like it’s Fortunately, even in the variable- 0-60mph just emerged from a cave through speed hell of our nation’s most 4.4secs a waterfall. While Cheddar Gorge’s boring thoroughfare, the i8 is a Weight 1485kg population of goats dawdled in front wonderful place to be. The front Claimed of every other car on the road, for two seats are luxurious, divided fuel efficiency the i8 they stepped aside – partly by a wide central hump that also 134.5mpg because it looks like it might eat houses iDrive’s minimal but effective them, and partly because of the wheel-button control system. The noise it makes. When you push it out back seats are big enough for a of its near-silent electric roll, the i8 handbag or a medium-sized duck. leaps forward with a cackle-inducing My i8 had the Harman/Kardon robot growl that is one of the most speaker upgrade, allowing me to satisfying noises in the world. wallow in a big bath of music while the motorway did its thing outside. Our second stop, a deserted bit of road somewhere in Somershire First place, naturally or Borset or something, was a good 50 miles of mini-roundabouts and It was to be expected that the i8 got country lanes away. After a bit of to Whitstable comfortably ahead mucking about with the sat-nav, of the others, but as I glimpsed the I was guided by easily the best east coast it had one more surprise heads-up display I’ve seen in a for me: in the gullwing doors there’s car: directions and speed limits a gently glowing strip of blue that are projected onto the windscreen, only becomes noticeable when it floating steadily in your field of view. gets dark, underlining the fighter-jet While naturally I observed the rules feel of the cockpit. It’s just an LED of the road, I arrived at our next strip, but it sums up what’s brilliant rendezvous with time to buy and about this BMW: it’s a concept car consume a chicken sandwich and that has, for once, actually been a 250ml bottle of chocolate milk built with its mad design flourishes, before the next car turned up. spaceship lights, science-fiction powertrain and carbon-fibre Snarly precision everything. It’s a supercar that uses as much petrol as a small hatchback On the motorway and in Comfort (much less if you drive carefully), but mode, the i8 drives like a BMW, albeit the best thing about it is its lack of an incredibly posh one from the compromise. Someone had a bold, future. On a snaky little road in Sport, exciting idea for how it should look the dials go red, the engine develops and what it should do, and BMW a more high-pitched snarl and the made that idea real. That doesn’t handling becomes light and twitchy. happen often. The i8 is ferociously quick, but it STUFF SAYS ★★★★★ It’s the freaking Batmobile. Seriously, what more do you want?86

GROUP TEST ELECTRIC CARS TOP 5 DRIVING SONGS FOR THE I8 Q STEREOLAB Super Electric Q DEFTONES Be Quiet And Drive Q KRAFTWERK Autobahn Q MOGWAI Wizard Motor Q PRINCE BatdanceTHE LIGHTNING-QUICK ONEScooper-car Go electric Non-crash tech Nice viewThe i8’s bold side- While our i8 stayed It has some very …but we did appreciatescoops don’t just look in Comfort or Sport, sophisticated collision the car being studdedbat-amazing, they’re you can drive it as a avoidance tech we with cameras thatalso bat-practical: you completely electric car didn’t have the nerve give you a drone’s-eyecould fit a baguette in eDrive mode, giving to test, what with it view, making parkingin there. a range of 23 miles. not belonging to us… much easier. 87

GROUP TEST ELECTRIC CARS “WITH NEW DRIVING HABITS WE RECKON WE’D HAVE THE XL1 WELL OVER 200MPG” THE WINNER Q VOLKSWAGEN XL1 WTINESNTER We’d be foolish to suggest stop again to charge it.” that the XL1 offered more For an all-electric car to For behind- visceral, foot-down driving be practical for a journey the-scenes excitement than either the like this we need more fast Tesla or the BMW, but this chargers at the roadside images test was all about making – not those that take download it across the country in the eight hours to hit 100%, the Stuff most efficient way possible but something that brings tablet app – and considering the charging an electric car Model S couldn’t manage it in line with filling a tank88 without lengthy recharging of petrol. and the i8’s 40mpg average is about as eco-friendly as a We got an average of heavy smoker coughing in a 133mpg from the XL1. kitten’s face, the VW almost That’s some way off the wins by default. claimed figure but we spent most of the journey driving In terms of space it’s it like any other car. With a pretty much equal to the few new habits we reckon BMW, while the Tesla’s we’d have it comfortably seven seats mean nothing over 200mpg. Just add if your answer to “Are we a couple more seats and nearly there yet?” always this would be the ultimate has to be: “We just have to green machine.

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TEST SAMSUNG GALAXY S5 MINI Dinky dimples Each year the Android king is joined by a little sprog, a Happy Meal alternative to the Big Mac. The Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini is this year’s kid QFrom a quick glance, the S5 Contrasting fortunes Long-distance runner Mini looks like an S5 blasted with a shrink ray. Its 5.1-inch screen Unfortunately the S5 Mini’s Stamina isn’t bad in the S5 Mini. has been minified to a 4.5-inch camera only has half the power You can comfortably get a day and one, but the dimpled back, the of the S5’s fancy 16MP Isocell a half’s use without touching any slightly questionable ridged snapper. It’s fast and image quality power-saving modes or being chrome plastic sides and the is decent, but it’s less adept with careful with how much 3G/4G light-up soft keys are all identical. bright-light contrasts. data you fling around the place. QOne positive change over its big sister is the waterproofing, which doesn’t need a microUSB port cover. It also packs in the two main bonus features of the full-size S5: the heart-rate sensor and fingerprint scanner. QBut while it may be tougher, the Mini isn’t as sharp. The screen is scaled down to 720p and, although the Super AMOLED display looks good, with strong black levels and punchy colours, it is not dramatically better than some of its cheaper rivals. QAnother thing that’s not quite so hot is general performance. There are some laggy moments, such as when it’s updating an app. The Exynos 3 Quad 3470 isn’t really any more powerful than the Snapdragon 400 in last year’s S4 Mini. QWhile it looks and feels very similar to its big brother, there are cutbacks. So it’s not bad, just unremarkable. We can’t help but feel that Samsung’s asking for slightly too much cash for this little Android. Tech specs OS Android KitKat Screen 4.5in, 1280x720 Super AMOLED RAM 1.5GB Storage 16GB (microSD expandable) Cameras 8MP main, 2.1MP front Connectivity 4G, micro USB 2.0, Bluetooth 4.0 Battery 2100mAh Dimensions 131x65x9.1mm, 120g STUFF SAYS The cut-down S5 is a fairly high-quality phone, if a bit pricey ++++, Not quite The Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini is a pretty good miniature take on the Galaxy S5. Most a flagship importantly, you get the S5’s fantastic screen contrast and black levels. But look a experience little deeper and there are a few cuts – a far less powerful CPU and a far more ordinary camera being the deepest. It just isn’t quite the flagship experience in a compact Tom Parsons chassis that we were hoping for, and I reckon the Samsung’s just a bit too expensive.90

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