HERE'S HOW YOU CAN HAVE LESS REEL TIME AND MORE REAL-TIME IN 2025
Start 2025 by turning those New Year’s resolutions into habits that stick. Whether managing screen time with innovative digital detox features, embracing smart home robotics for more family time, or exploring eco-friendly products to boost your health and sustainability, we’ve rounded up the best tools to help you focus on less reel time and more real-time.
DIGITAL DETOX MODE: Human Mobile Devices (HMD) recently launched a proprietary Digital Detox Mode on its flagship HMD Skyline smartphone. HMD’s Digital Detox Mode allows you to take back control when it comes to your smartphone breaks, customising your device to the level of detox right for you - including app and contact customisation, scheduling and the option of “soft” or “hard” locks.
2. EMBRACE HOME ROBOTICS: Put your feet up and say yes to more fun and less work with ECOVACS’ range of home robotics. The DEEBOT N20 PRO PLUS is a game-changer for cleaning! It features ECOVACS PureCyclone Technology, giving you 95% dust separation and potent suction that lasts.
The 4-Stage Filtration System keeps your air fresh, and the consumable-free dust container saves you money and is better for the environment. Say goodbye to hair tangles with its ZeroTangle tech, and let the OZMO Pro Mopping System take care of those tough stains. With 8000Pa of suction power and a 400ml dust bin, it gets the job done.
The TrueMapping tech helps the DEEBOT navigate like a pro, mapping your space in as little as 8 minutes. The high-traction wheels can tackle up to 20mm thresholds. Your floors are about to get a serious upgrade!
3. GET CREATIVE A NEW HOBBY: You can't stop once you start! Cricut Joy Xtra is a compact smart cutting and writing machine that will provide endless excuses to organise, personalise and customise your life. The Cricut Joy Xtra Bundle includes everything you need to start making today! With a range of innovative materials, stickers, tools and accessories,
Cricut Joy Xtra makes it possible to create something unique for you – or anyone – at a moment’s notice. The bundle includes a Cricut Joy Xtra Cutting Machine, Printable Waterproof Sticker Set, Smart Permanent Vinyl, Transfer Tape, Printable Iron-On for Light Fabrics, Smart Iron-On Sampler, and Light grip Machine Mat.
4. SAVE ON YOUR MOBILE PHONE: Make conscious choices about your finances in 2025 with pre-paid leader Boost Mobile. Many Australians use January to start the year looking for savings, finally sitting down and reviewing their electricity, utility and other household bills.
Using the Telstra network, Boost Mobile delivers a great way to make some serious savings on your mobile phone costs while staying connected.
Alongside its ongoing pre-paid deals, you can pre-pay for 12 months of data and connectivity in advance and save big. Starting at just $300 for 12 months of unlimited calls and texts and 265GB of data – less than $1 a day.
5. INVEST IN YOUR HEALTH: Invest in your nutrition in 2025 with the premium blender Vitamix. Vitamix is one of the world’s premium blender brands to promote healthier living among Australians through whole-food nutrition.
For the past century, Vitamix has been the gold standard for blender brands across the globe and is beloved by commercial chefs, health advocates, and home cooks alike. Whether you are looking for smoothie inspo or trying to pack as many vitamins in as possible, Vitamix can help you stick to your 5-a-day.
6. SUPPORT SUSTAINABILITY-FOCUSED BRANDS: Support the companies doing sustainability right - Belkin is proudly cutting profit margins to ensure eco-consciously built products,
Belkin chooses recycled over virgin plastics when engineering its products using 100% plastic-free packaging. With its ‘open ear’ design, the new Belkin ClearFit Open Ear Wireless Earbuds will stay comfortably secured around the outer ear for great sound while allowing the user to remain aware of their surroundings.
