Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website.

1843 Magazine

1843-web-logo-new

Technology
Test drive

A suitcase you can ride

A suitcase you can ride

Why walk through the airport when you can ride your bag? Jonathan Beckman jumps onto the latest smart luggage
21st-Century Jobs

Meet the Instadad

Meet the Instadad

His photos of his impish children have amassed 1.5k followers. Now he’s branching out into paid content. What could possibly go wrong?

His photos of his impish children have amassed 1.5k followers. Now he’s branching out into paid content. What could possibly go wrong?
Rewind

Information overload is nothing new

Information overload is nothing new

Do you fret about staying on top of a deluge of information? Don’t worry, says Tom Standage, Leibniz felt the same
Transport

Flying cars are on the horizon

All hail the flying taxi

Some of the world’s biggest companies are scrabbling to develop flying cars.
Tom Vanderbilt asks whether they are likely to take off
A gadget, a game and an app

The top new tech, reviewed

The top new tech, reviewed

Kidnap yourself into contentment, mindfully nurture a tree, then call on the gods to destroy the imperialist settlers
What just happened

Who’d want to be friends with a robot?

Who’d want to be friends with a robot?

A machine held its own in a debate with humans this week. But this house believes that intelligence is pointless if you can’t crack a joke
Technology Test drive

How the Bullet Journal stopped me lying to myself

How the Bullet Journal stopped me lying to myself

The humble to-do list has been rebranded for millennials. A sceptical Leo Mirani finds himself converted
Test drive

Alexa on the couch

Alexa reveals all

How well do you know your voice assistant? Jonathan Beckman puts the Amazon Echo Show on the couch¹

How well do you know your voice assistant? Jonathan Beckman puts the Amazon Echo Show on the couch¹
Sport

How GPS tracking is changing football

How GPS tracking is changing football

João Medeiros takes the pulse of the technology that could help footballers perform better at this year’s World Cup

João Medeiros takes the pulse of the technology that could help footballers perform better at this year’s World Cup
Television

Do the bright thing

Dazzling colours and starker contrasts are making TV shows more vivid than ever before. Simon Willis sizes up the latest screens

Rewind

Cast from the past

The Victorians discovered a way to install the world’s great monuments in museum galleries. It was, argues Tom Standage, an incipient form of virtual reality

Test drive

Put a lid on it

The world has gone crazy for the Instant Pot. Jonathan Beckman steps into the kitchen and feels the pressure

Read more from Technology