Convenient kitchen appliances for work

Design: minimalist magic
The Elfin is beautifully small and, well, just beautiful full stop. A black and white minimalist square slab with no protrusions and tastefully curved corners, it weighs in at under a kilo and measures less than 20cm on its longest edge. It’s compact enough to stick in a drawer, as we said earlier, but you can also b**g it in your backpack and take it to a friend’s house with zero fuss.

Unlike the Samsung Freestyle, it can’t run off an optional battery pack, so you will have to plug it into a power socket, but the cable supplied is generously long. Other than that, its wireless connectivity, integrated speakers and smart TV features mean it doesn’t necessarily need any further wires shoved into it; there are HDMI and USB inputs though, plus a 3.5mm headphone output if you’d rather your sound came from cans or bigger, beefier speakers.

GoPro Hero 10 Black
GoPro’s latest model is the culmination of incremental improvements introduced over the last few Hero generations. The 10 Black doesn’t break the mould: it’s still a little black box with screens front and rear, plus a lens housing that juts out. But under the hood, it’s got an engine that transforms the user experience.

GoPro’s GP2 processor powers an interface that’s nippier and more responsive than ever. It also boosts image processing performance, as well as giving the Hero 10 Black the ability to shoot 4K super slow-mo at 120fps.

Besides eerily effective HyperSmooth 4.0 image stabilisation, GoPro’s updated Horizon Levelling proves a phenomenal party trick: it can keep the scene straight, even if you tilt to 45 degrees.

Low-light results still aren’t the best and battery life borders on mediocre. But as a package, the Hero 10 Black is the most competent and polished GoPro action camera to date.