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Irish Daily Mirror
4 days ago
- Irish Daily Mirror
Redmagic offers fans €50 off high-end gaming smartphone in flash summer sale
Gaming smartphone market pioneer Redmagic has officially launched its summer sale. The firm is giving fans the opportunity to avail of exclusive regional discounts on the Redmagic 10 Pro, from the high-end gaming smartphone series that continues to raise the bar for mobile gaming performance. Redmagic is a world-renowned gaming smartphone brand that offers more superior performance for gamers along with plus points such as the highest frame rates, sharpest graphics and the longest battery life. READ MORE: I tested Starlink Mini to see if satellite internet really could be the future READ MORE: Eufy E15 robot mower review: is this clever wireless machine the future of gardening? It is a global leader in this category, offering similar specs as the Asus ROG Phone series but at much more affordable prices. Last year, Redmagic 10 Pro became the first phone to market in Ireland and the EU with the blazing fast high-end Snapdragon Elite chip that has gone on to power all of the main 2025 Android flagship smartphones. The star of the show on Redmagic 10 Pro is the latest high-end Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC (Image: Redmagic) When Redmagic 10 Pro was launched, my review said it was 'by far the most powerful smartphone I tested in 2024 and a gamer's delight'. I added that it was an 'affordable gaming powerhouse with liquid cooling tech, unbelievable battery life and an array of Google Gemini AI smarts'. My review added: 'Redmagic 10 Pro offers plenty to get excited about. You get a dazzling 1.5K AMOLED display with ultra-slim bezels and a 144Hz refresh rate. The company claims this is the most advanced full screen on the gaming phone market. The new device also boasts a 7,050mAh battery that is the largest capacity I've ever seen in a gaming smartphone.' Now you can buy that phone with a huge discount of €50 off in the Redmagic summer sale. The discounts are applied automatically on the official Redmagic store and are available on a first-come, first-served basis while stocks last. The promotion covers all variants of the Redmagic 10 Pro in every available colour, giving fans the freedom to choose the configuration and style that best suits their gaming needs and personal taste. From bold designs to signature finishes, every edition is now more accessible than ever. There are also deals to be had on a range of accessories such as the clip-on Redmagic VC Cooler 6 which now costs €10 less at €44.90 You also buy a range of Redmagic products from Amazon, while the Rog Phone 9 Pro competing gamer phone is also on sale at Amazon. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news from the Irish Mirror direct to your inbox: Sign up here.
Irish Daily Mirror
4 days ago
- Irish Daily Mirror
Hozo Design M-Cube 02 review: hands-free laser level sticks directly to surfaces
Hozo Design M-Cube 02 Anti-Gravity Laser Level is a clever hands-free laser version of a spirit level. It is capable of the most precise wall measurement and alignment. It's such a tool useful for all manner of DIY projects thanks to its brilliant suction mounting system that means it can sit securely on any wall or surface, once it is relatively smooth or slightly textured, leaving both of your hands free to do the job in hand. The firm said that it's compatible with most wall materials, including drywall, brick, concrete, wood and stone. READ MORE: I tested Starlink Mini to see if satellite internet really could be the future READ MORE: Eufy E15 robot mower review: is this clever wireless machine the future of gardening? Hozo Design M-Cube 02 everyday use Laser levels come in handy for a variety of tasks such as hanging pictures. This one features a vacuum pump that attaches directly to your working surface with plenty of suction every time. It comes with EPDM rubber suction cups that ensure a firm hold without causing any damage to your walls. M-Cube 02 has horizontal and vertical levelling beams and laser-based distance measuring which allow you to mark exactly where your fittings should go without the need for a separate tape measure. It allows you to measure in Imperial or Metric. Hozo Design M-Cube 02 sticks to any relatively smooth surface (Image: Hozo) There's also a convenient midpoint finder and a mode to measure the distance between two surfaces. This is ideal for room layout planning, aligning wall art with symmetry and evenly spacing furniture. You can use the M-Cube 02 as a high-precision laser level, complete with horizontal and vertical bubble indicators, or take it to another level by pairing it with an original M-Cube for advanced digital angle readouts. Both come together in the Premium Combo bundle, incidentally. The companion Meazor app then syncs measurements directly to your smartphone. Hozo Design M-Cube 02 verdict I'm not the most enthusiastic or capable DIY person, but I found M-Cube 02 super helpful and game changing. And I'd imagine anyone in the building trade would find it an essential and helpful tool. Pricing and availability Hozo Design M-Cube 02 Anti-Gravity Laser Level costs €175.50 (on Amazon), or the Pro version (with the Green Laser Measure) costs €207.95 from Hozo, while or the Premium Combo bundle costs €268.95, also from Hozo. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news from the Irish Mirror direct to your inbox: Sign up here.
The Independent
18-06-2025
- The Independent
I've finally tested a robot lawnmower that hasn't annoyed me
Design and setup If anything screams don't judge a book by its cover, it's the Eufy E15. This thing is kind of ugly. It gives Robot Wars more than Tesla Bot. It's chunky and awkward with a grey and black body that looks like a toy tank. There's a handle on the front for lifting it, a small LED display and a few physical buttons on the top as well as that big emergency stop button. I love that its charging base is like a little garage with a roof, so your lawnmower is protected from the rain (it is waterproof, IPX6 rated), and sun, which is bad for batteries in general. But while it won't be winning any design awards anytime soon, the Eufy E15 is by far and away the easiest robot lawnmower I've ever set up. You don't have to lay a perimeter wire around the garden, and there's no GPS RTK satellite antenna to faff around with. Some robot lawnmowers have such tall antenna, that it looked like I was trying to communicate with aliens. The bit that probably took the longest was securing the charging station to the ground. It comes with some chunky screws and an Allen key, and you just need to push them through the holes to keep the base in place. It's simple enough. Once that's all done, you turn the robot on using the switch underneath, and continue setup in the app. The robot needs access to wifi, so hopefully you've got a router close to your garden (or a wifi extender). If you're out of coverage, the Eufy E15 also comes fitted with a 4G SIM, but you have to pay an extra fee to activate it. I recommend placing the charging base on a solid surface like concrete or paving, mainly because it can't mow underneath itself. Leave it on the lawn like I did and you'll end up with a scruffy patch of grass growing up around it. That said, the included screws are meant for soil, so you can't fix it in the usual way. If you're placing it on concrete, you could either drill in some anchors or screw it into a bit of treated wood or decking first, though I doubt it would not budge if you just propped it up with some bricks. Once it's all turned on, you just tap the auto map button in the Eufy app and watch as the E15 use its camera system to scan the lawn and figure out what's grass and what's not, driving around your lawn like a controlled car. It generates a map exactly like a robot vacuum cleaner, all without ugly antennae or perimeter wires. It's the most seamless setup process I've ever experienced. It felt like a relief after testing such time-consuming models. Performance and features Before you get going, ensure your lawn is freshly-mown first. After that and it's all set up, the Eufy E15 will just roll out of its dock, do its job and head back home when it's done. It's fitted with a rain sensor, so if it starts raining at any point, it'll abandon the job and return home automatically. You can set a delay in the app so it waits a few hours before heading back out. Most of the controls live inside the app. You can adjust the cutting height (from 25mm to 75mm), tweak how close it gets to the edges, set the overlap between each pass and even change the mowing direction by rotating the angle on the map. There's also a setting for travel speed and blade speed. It's much more detail than most people will ever need, but great if you like to tinker with how your lawn looks and want total control. As a lazy person who still wants the lawn to look good, I set mine to 8cm path spacing, -15cm edge spacing and 25mm cutting height. The tighter path spacing means it overlaps more with each pass, so there's less chance of missing patches. The –15cm edge setting helps it get closer to borders, and the lowest cutting height keeps everything looking trim for longer. Basically, I wanted to do as little as possible if I ever had to get the big boy lawnmower out – I wanted the robot to do most of the hard yards. In terms of cut quality, I've been really impressed. It moves in straight, clean lines, never lost signal and never spun in confused circles like some others I've tested. It often looks like someone's professionally mown your lawn, with faint wheel stripes that make it look super neat. The mulching blades also chop the grass finely enough that there's nothing left to collect. But while the general cutting quality is good, it misses patches. One thing I would say is that even with the edge setting pushed to the max, it still doesn't do a great job at trimming some of the sides of the garden. There are huge patches of grass that it hasn't touched, despite not being super close to a fence. While, sure, it doesn't happily bounce off skirting boards like a robot vacuum, the Eufy E15 just misses patches near the fence entirely. That means I still have to go around with a strimmer to tidy up the areas it misses, such as near the patio door and the fence. It also seems deathly afraid of long grass, so it won't go near the patches it keeps on missing. Mowing aside, there are lots of features inside the app. You can also set up no-go zones by drawing squares or lines directly on the map, great if you want it to avoid specific flowerbeds or kids toys. Scheduling is equally straightforward. You just pick the days and times you want it to run, and once that's locked in, the mower handles the rest, rolling out, trimming the lawn and going back to sleep in its garage without needing any help. It's also nearly silent. There's a low hum at most, so it didn't annoy the neighbours. It's even got a satisfying blade-cutting noise, so you can actually hear it working. The app includes a remote control mode that lets you steer the mower around like an RC car, complete with a live camera feed. Annoyingly though, you can't actually control it while it's mid-mow, so if you spot a patch it's missed, you can't just drive it over there. The remote's really just for helping it out of tight spots, though mine never got stuck once, so I just ended up playing with it like a toy. Also, big props to Eufy for including some really decent anti-theft technology in its mower, too. The mower is linked to your Eufy account, so if someone tries to nick it, they won't be able to pair it with a new device or app. It also locks itself and can sound a loud alarm if it's taken outside its mapped area. There's built-in GPS tracking, and if you activate the optional 4G SIM (which requires a subscription), you'll still be able to locate it even if it's out of range. Sure, someone can still pick it up and take it away from your garden, but it'll turn into a brick if they try and use it. The other that lets it down slightly is zone management. Unlike robot vacuums that let you save maps for different floors, the E15 can't create multiple lawn maps. If you want to mow both your front and back garden, you'll need to buy a second charging dock, and I couldn't find an obvious way to do that through the app or on Eufy's website. For the price, it feels like users should be given that flexibility. Because it relies on cameras to navigate, it can't mow in the dark. I don't think that's a deal-breaker. Personally, I'd rather only be able to mow in daylight than have to line my garden with boundary wire or bolt a huge antenna to the top of the thing. Plus, in summer, when it's light until 9pm, it's barely an issue. I wouldn't be surprised if Eufy adds a headlight in a future update, but for now, daylight mowing is the trade-off.
Irish Daily Mirror
05-06-2025
- Automotive
- Irish Daily Mirror
Eufy E15 robot mower review: is clever wireless machine the future of gardening?
Eufy's revolutionary robot lawn mower debut, E15, has no boundary wire or antenna, which means that set-up is super easy and quick. Many other robot lawn mowers use a perimeter wire (also called a boundary wire) or an RTK antenna and GNSS to navigate and stay within the designated lawn area. But Eufy E15 uses visual recognition, AI algorithms and 3D sensors to distinguish the boundaries of your lawn and avoid obstacles in real time. It does this by mapping your gardens in a similar way to the many robot vacuums that Eufy manufactures map the rooms of your home. (The Anker subsidiary became Ireland's number one robovac firm in late 2024 in terms of sales, incidentally.) Setting up and installing the grey-coloured Eufy E15 unit and the accompanying covered base station including connecting to WiFi and Bluetooth takes about 15 minutes. Everything you need for setting up is in the box, incidentally including the mains cable and plug for charging it. You are then ready to unleash the robot for its initial auto-mapping run. Eufy E15's Visual Fusion Sensing and Decision (V-FSD) tech drives the mower around your garden to see which areas are grassy and which might be no-go zones such as flower beds, hedges and pathways. This process took me only 10 minutes. The same Eufy app you use for your vacuum then saves a map of your garden and you're good to go. The E15's obstacle avoidance tech is smart too - it will avoid any changes on your landscape such as toys strewn on the grass or pets. The intuitive-to-use app allows you to customise most of the Eufy E15's mowing abilities. You can set path directions, grass height, edge spacing, path spacing, travel and blade speed, rain detection and schedule up to eight events. You can also control the device manually in the app using the live camera feature. It's like playing with a remote controlled car that just happens to be mowing your grass. For the most part, however, you are going to let it run autonomously. The firm said the battery has enough capacity to mow a lawn up to 800 square metres in size. The three-wheel machine does a great job of snipping the lawn, even one with rough terrain like mine. It is equipped with a spinning 20cm diameter disc of small but tough cutting razor blades that create clean lines and cut with professional-looking consistency. It will automatically adjust the cutting height from 25mm to 75mm in 5mm increments. And it can handle slopes of up to 18 degrees. E15 is relatively quiet in operation too. The Noise app on my Apple Watch measured the volume at just 55dB of sound. It's a light and easy mower to move around. It measures 60.3cm x 39.4cm x 31.8cm. It has a convenient handle on the rear and it is easy to clean the blades underneath. You can use a garden hose to blast away any dirt or mud or just brush it off. The company recommends changing the blades every couple of months, depending on usage. And it said the camera sensors should be kept clean to ensure accurate navigation and prevent the rain sensor from getting blocked. The camera system employed means E15 can't mow your lawn in the dark. But I doubt that will bother too many people. It's worth noting that you may still need to tidy up some edges with a strimmer. Eufy's base station is waterproof and designed to be located outdoors so the device is ready for use at any time. If you are worried about theft, the mower has a handy hidden compartment for an Apple AirTag or similar tracker which should help you locate it. Eufy E15 is a robot that could well be the future of lawn mowers. Between its precision cutting skills and its simple-to-use app and controls, it is will prove to be a game-changer for anyone with small to medium size and relatively flat gardens. Eufy E15 is on sale now at Amazon and elsewhere, with an RRP of €1,499 (and £1499 in Northern Ireland).
