Gaze at distant galaxies and do your bit for science with the eVscope smart telescope

Smart jackets? Pfft. Smart doorbells? Dodgy. Smart cooking pots? Whatever. Smart telescopes that are 100 times more powerful than classical telescopes, automatically align with stars, and enable you to play citizen scientist? Now you’re talking. And that’s eVscope ($1,499, plus shipping and taxes) in a nutshell. Via the magic of patent-pending tech, a custom low-light sensor, and proprietary image processing algorithms, it gives you an insanely detailed view of the cosmos at a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. An app can align eVscope to whatever you fancy gawping at, and campaign mode (in partnership with SETI) dings you with notifications, so you can observe asteroids and comets whizzing past, and feel all smug when scientists make amazing discoveries based on data you helped collect.

Craig Grannell Contributor

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I’m a regular contributor to Stuff magazine and Stuff.tv, covering apps, games, Apple kit, Android, Lego, retro gaming and other interesting oddities. I also pen opinion pieces when the editor lets me, getting all serious about accessibility and predicting when sentient AI smart cookware will take over the world, in a terrifying mix of Bake Off and Terminator.

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Mobile apps and games, Macs, iOS and tvOS devices, Android, retro games, crowdfunding, design, how to fight off an enraged smart saucepan with a massive stick.