Sometimes the best thing technology can do is free you. A phone has the power to translate almost any language, but the time we most want to use this service (on holiday) is also when we least want to look at phones; hence the genius of PocketTalk, which only translates languages. Bang and Olufsen’s Beolab 28 speakers are not an exercise in replacing technology so much as making the technology we have look like something else entirely: art. And Fliteboard — while in theory just an electric motor on a surfboard — gives us experiences that are otherwise inaccessible. Such as surfing with dolphins . . .
How do you judge a sound system? I once interviewed the lead singer of Napalm Death who said
