The T3 Awards 2018 is its 12th year on earth, and it's moving to big school. We're hosting the winners' party at the Ministry of Sound, possibly the world's most famous club, and the guest list is already about four miles long.
- T3 Awards 2018: all the news
- T3 Awards 2018: connected home winners announced
- T3 Awards 2018 shortlists (all 50 of 'em)
Over the next 3 days, leading up to the event itself, we'll be revealing the winners in 42 of the 51 shortlists, with the final victors to be announced on the night. That's in the following categories:
- Gadget of the Year
- Best Brand
- Best Phone
- Best Laptop in association with AO.com
- Innovation of the Year
- Tech Personality of the Year
- Tech Legend
- The Eco Award in association with Shell
- £10,0000 Tech Innovation for the Future prize in association with Honor
Most of these are well established and self-explanatory but Tech Personality is given to the man or woman who's propelled tech to the forefront of the public's minds in 2018, while Tech Legend is given to a figure who's made a lasting impact on the tech landscape over a prolonged period. This year's winners, without giving too much away, actually also form an amazing tech double-act that's now lasted for an incredible 30 years. Figure that one out if you can.
Previous winners of the Personality and Legend awards have included everyone from Stephen Fry to Lord Sugar to Will.I.Am to Mark Zuckerberg to Gary Numan, so it's fair to say the field of potential winners is wider than an extremely widescreen TV.
This year, the Eco Award (in association with Shell) makes its first appearance in the T3 Awards line-up for nearly a decade. It celebrates some quite remarkable innovations in the world of renewable energy and sustainable tech, from solar-powered gadget-charging stations in Rwanda, to a state-of-the-art, solar-powered soccerball stadium in Amsterdam.
Tech Innovation for the Future in association with Honor
Not so much a mere award as the culmination of 6 months of planning, events and sifting through competition entries that veered from near-genius to near, uh, not-quite-so genius, shall we say, this £10,000 award will be handed over on T3 Awards night to one brilliant entrant.
T3 and Techradar asked Britain's students and recent graduates to come up with a truly innovative tech idea, and received hundreds of entries, covering everything from life-enhancing social networks to ambitious energy projects to extremely novel new ways of boiling and serving eggs.
Sign up to the T3 newsletter for smarter living straight to your inbox
Get all the latest news, reviews, deals and buying guides on gorgeous tech, home and active products from the T3 experts
As part of this process, we also toured Britain with sponsor Honor's support, speaking to audiences about tech, innovation, security and privacy issues, and Alexa's quite uncanny ability to recognise and bleep out swear words.
Duncan is the former lifestyle editor of T3 and has been writing about tech for almost 15 years. He has covered everything from smartphones to headphones, TV to AC and air fryers to the movies of James Bond and obscure anime. His current brief is everything to do with the home and kitchen, which is good because he is an excellent cook, if he says so himself. He also covers cycling and ebikes – like over-using italics, this is another passion of his. In his long and varied lifestyle-tech career he is one of the few people to have been a fitness editor despite being unfit and a cars editor for not one but two websites, despite being unable to drive. He also has about 400 vacuum cleaners, and is possibly the UK's leading expert on cordless vacuum cleaners, despite being decidedly messy. A cricket fan for over 30 years, he also recently become T3's cricket editor, writing about how to stream obscure T20 tournaments, and turning out some typically no-nonsense opinions on the world's top teams and players.
Before T3, Duncan was a music and film reviewer, worked for a magazine about gambling that employed a surprisingly large number of convicted criminals, and then a magazine called Bizarre that was essentially like a cross between Reddit and DeviantArt, before the invention of the internet. There was also a lengthy period where he essentially wrote all of T3 magazine every month for about 3 years.
A broadcaster, raconteur and public speaker, Duncan used to be on telly loads, but an unfortunate incident put a stop to that, so he now largely contents himself with telling people, "I used to be on the TV, you know."
-
These tree-mendous earphones are the ones I wood like for Christmas
Never mind the Christmas tree. Put these trees in your ears instead
By Carrie Marshall Published
-
Can't spend a million on new speakers? Magico's new audiophile option is a lot more affordable
Magico's new S2 speakers promise million-pound sound without costing a million pounds
By Carrie Marshall Published
-
Deezer’s research proves it: music is helping people get through lockdown
It’s reducing loneliness, getting you motivated and even soundtracking sex
By T3.com Published
-
T3 Awards 2020: stop that noise and pay attention, Sony’s superb WH-1000XM3 just won TWO prizes
Sony’s superb sonic silencers banish the noise of planes, trains and people making them a double T3 Award winner, in association with Deezer
By Carrie Marshall Published
-
T3 Awards 2020: Kanto TUK of North America is a gen-u-wine Bluetooth speaker for the discerning
Proof that 'Bluetooth speaker' is NOT synonymous with 'small, portable, cheap thing' – in association with Deezer
By Duncan Bell Published
-
Get 3 months of FREE music on Deezer to share with all your family!
Make big savings on a Deezer Family account and get access to millions of great tunes for you and your whole family
By T3.com Published
-
T3 Awards 2020: Cambridge Audio Melomania 1 are a better buy than AirPods… and the year's top cheap buds
These true wireless earbuds punch way above their weight and are the top headphones under £100, in association with Deezer
By Carrie Marshall Published
-
T3 Awards 2020: Audio Technica’s ATH-M50XBT bring Bluetooth benefits without sacrificing sound quality
Superb sound and incredible battery life wherever you may roam make them our top wireless cans of the year, in association with Deezer
By Carrie Marshall Published
-
T3 Awards 2020: Treat your ears with our wired headphone champ, the truly sensational Grado SR325e
Revealed: the wired headphones of the year, in association with Deezer
By Carrie Marshall Published
-
Lessons of the T3 Awards 2018 #37: you want an Honor phone and an Anker charger
The judges' votes are in for the Mobile awards categories, and we can reveal who most of the winners are…
By Robert Jones Published