The Halo Capsule XR is the answer; and after weeks of rigorous testing, including deliberately excessive flour distributions and hair-wrap challenges that would break lesser machines, I can confidently say this vacuum isn’t messing about.

Meet the Cascadia Elite. Carbon-infused plate. PEBA foam midsole. Vibram Megagrip outsole. Kevlar upper. It is, without question, the most aggressive, most uncompromising, most unapologetically fast trail shoe Brooks has ever strapped to a human foot. And if you’ve spent the last few years assuming Brooks was happy to sit out the super-shoe revolution while the cool kids had all the fun; well.

Enter the TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi : a device that isn’t so much a security camera with a floodlight bolted on as it is a full-blown outdoor sentinel. It pans, it tilts, it tracks, it blazes with 3,000 lumens of light, and it can search its own footage using AI. At around £219, it’s an ambitious piece of kit. The question is whether it lives up to the ambition.

From LED light therapy patches you can wear on the tube to reverse-ageing masks that belong in a sci-fi film, the tech is real, the results are clinical, and the options are overwhelming. We’ve done the legwork. Here are the beauty devices, tools and treatments worth every penny of your glow-up budget.

The Shark FlexStyle arrived like a promise you want to believe, an all-in-one styler that claims to curl, smooth, volumize, and speed through a blowout without the hefty price tag that makes you wince.

The TheraFace Depuffing Wand feels like Therabody doing what it does best: taking a proven concept: in this case, hot and cold therapy, and engineering it into a sleek, highly effective, everyday tool.

Whether you’re chasing a PB, running your first, or just determined to finish before the pubs close, what you wear and carry on race day matters more than most people admit until they’re hobbling to the finish with a blister the size of a 50p coin. I’ve pulled together twelve of the best bits of kit for the London Marathon this year. Some of it I’ve run in. All of it, I’d trust.

Meet the Cascadia Elite. Carbon-infused plate. PEBA foam midsole. Vibram Megagrip outsole. Kevlar upper. It is, without question, the most aggressive, most uncompromising, most unapologetically fast trail shoe Brooks has ever strapped to a human foot. And if you’ve spent the last few years assuming Brooks was happy to sit out the super-shoe revolution while the cool kids had all the fun; well.

The Huawei Watch GT 5 Series stands out as a game changer for fitness enthusiasts and style-savvy women alike. This smartwatch promises not only to elevate your workouts but to enhance your overall wellness journey.