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Film is expensive, and a half-frame camera halves the cost. The Kodak Ektar H35N takes two pictures in the space of one 35mm frame, so a 36-exposure roll gives you 72 photos. It’s a light, simple point-and-shoot with a built-in flash. This version improves the lens and adds a switch that puts a star filter over it, a bulb mode for long exposures, and a tripod mount to go with it. The viewfinder and rewind have been tidied up too. It comes with a wrist strap and a soft case, in six colours. The sage green is pictured.

QuestBar is a to-do app for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. You pick one task as your current quest and it stays in view: in the menu bar next to the clock on a Mac, as a Home Screen or Lock Screen widget on an iPhone or iPad, and as a complication on your watch. You scribe a quest, begin it, vanquish it, and resurrect it if it turns out you weren’t finished. Quests sync through your own iCloud, there’s no account and no tracking, and it’s a single purchase covering every device rather than a subscription.

The Playdate is a handheld games console made by Panic, the company that published Untitled Goose Game, and designed with Teenage Engineering. It’s bright yellow, fits in your palm, and has a crank on the side. The screen is a 400×240 black-and-white display with no backlight. It’s sharp, and it’s easy to read in direct sunlight. The crank is used as a game control alongside the D-pad and buttons: depending on the game you’ll use it to reel in a fishing line, wind time backwards, or steer. It launched with a season of 24 games, released two a week. Panic also publishes a free SDK for making your own.