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The weekend is here, and while most of us are off spending time getting ready to bring you all some goodness next week, we’ve also prepped a few of our favourite things to share with you all today: this week’s Staff Favourites. Each week, we try to show off some things that have brought us some joy in the hopes it’ll help you find your own.
This week we’re going to help you study, as well as show off some cool stuff we’ve been using.
Life Cykel Professional Biohacker Set
Alex Martinez – Media Sales and Brand Partnerships
The Life Cykel Professional Biohacker Set has been a much welcome addition to my daily wellness routine. I appreciate the natural, thoughtfully sourced ingredients and the ease of incorporating the extracts into my day. I take the Cordyceps, Lion’s Mane and Shitake all together with a morning cup of water, and the Turkey Tail in the afternoons prior to my gym session.
Whilst at my desk at work now resembles an unhinged chemist with mushroom drops, vitamins galore and gym powders, The Biohacker Set It feels like a simple, consistent step toward supporting overall health, and I enjoy the ritual of using it regularly. A solid choice for those looking to explore functional mushrooms as part of a broader wellness approach.
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Blunt Metro Umbrella
John Guanzon – Head of Creative and Production
There are umbrellas, and then there’s Blunt.
To be real for a moment, Blunt umbrellas have officially ruined all other umbrellas for me. It’s compact enough to fit in a backpack yet sturdy enough to take on Sydney storms. It’s wind-tested to near-cyclone levels and has a sleek, curved-edge canopy that won’t take out a pedestrian’s eye.
Also, this might make me come across as an umbrella snob, but I found that as soon as you own a Blunt, you start to notice others who do too. You see that curved canopy in the wild and give a silent nod of respect, because those who know, well and truly know.
Before this, I was grabbing $9 umbrellas from Woolies that barely survived a drizzle, always ending up deformed and in the bin a day later. The Blunt Metro, on the other hand, is built to last. Yes, the price point is much higher than the Woolies kind, but it’s an investment in dryness and durability. You’ll never go back to the throwaway kind, and you’ll earn your place in the unofficial club of umbrella snobs.
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I’m Obsessed with Study with Me Videos
Scott Purcell – Co-founder
I began writing this searching for Justin Sung’s video that’s a 3 hour study session and has some crazy good music from Brain.FM that’s scientifically proven to improve your focus, but I now feel like I’m going crazy because I can’t find the video.
If you’re not aware yet, up in the top right of the site you should see a nice little sign-in button now and that has kept me crazy busy with a huge amount on my plate. Just about the only way I’ve gotten through all of my work, is to slap on one of these Study With Me sessions on YouTube with good music, crack-in and get to work.
They’re surprising successful rather than having music on in the background as you feel pressured or almost guilty having someone work alongside you. Give them a try next time you feel like procrastinating.
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Lego’s Game Boy Throwback
Dean Blake – Tech & Entertainment Writer
I’m really not a collector. I do my best not to end up with shelves lined with miscellaneous things, but Lego’s been tempting me lately. I grew up playing Nintendo games, and the Danish toy company is intent on releasing fun, buildable versions of a few of my favourite series: Mario and Zelda chief among them. But now they’ve gone full retro and decided to release a 1-to-1 buildable replica of the original Game Boy.
If you’re like me and grew up with the Game Boy as your main method of entertainment, spending literal hours playing Pokemon with your friends in the back of your classroom hoping your teacher wouldn’t notice, you probably get where I’m coming from: but this thing is cool.
The device comes with various screens you can add in to showcase either game cartridge it comes with (Super Mario Land and Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening), but make no mistake: this thing isn’t a working device. It’s just a very cool ornament that I’m very tempted to buy.
It’s launching on October 1, through the Lego Store and Amazon, for USD$59.99. Thankfully it isn’t available in Australia yet, or else I’d probably have pre-ordered it already.
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