Ikea’s tiny smartphone bed isn’t as stupid as it sounds. The company’s weird little bed for your phone received a mix of ridicule and love online. In this week’s Stuff column, I outline how psychological tricks such as this really can help you combat smartphone overuse.

I reviewed the iPhone 17. TL;DR: it’s the iPhone most people should buy. Are you most people? Read the review to find out.

The Sega Master System is 40. Sort of. The Sega Mark III that morphed into the SMS in 1986 turned 40 last week. Either way, this was a good excuse to write about Sega’s 8-bit machine for Stuff. (Also: the PS2 hit 25 in the US, and so I bumped a piece about that console too.)

The Commodore Amiga is back. Again, sort of. Retro Games Ltd is releasing another plug-and-play telly box, but this one is an Amiga 1200 (minus Commodore branding) with a full-size keyboard. I wrote about it and the revamped THEC64 Mini for Stuff.

Halloween is on the way. Wooooo! Etc. If you want some iPhone apps and games to celebrate the scariest of days, then check out my Halloween apps and Halloween games round-ups for TapSmart.

Looking for work? Your iPhone can help, as I outline in my latest toolkit for TapSmart.

Kagi News wants you to stop doomscrolling. Having rethought search engines, Kagi is taking on news provision, largely shaking things up by providing a single update every day. It’s a bit like a newspaper. How refreshingly old school. Natch, it won a place in my best free iPhone and iPad apps round-up.

Magazines are being further squeezed. In the UK, WHSmith morphed into TG Jones, and the new owner has continued reducing space for magazines. Our local branch has now shoved them to the rear of the store, and there’s not enough space to face everything. So you have to look behind magazines to see if the one you want might be lurking. I didn’t find any copies of The Week Junior (or the science sister paper). Staff confirmed our local branch still orders it. One copy per week. Good grief.

Tech companies helped destroy the White House. In that sense, it turns out they part-funded it. Good job, everyone! That definitely makes you not appear to be evil!

Lego is releasing a BTTF DeLorean. Only, for some reason, it’s not allowed to call it a DeLorean and so in January we’ll be getting ‘Time Machine from Back to the Future’. Licensing is fun! Anyway, the set looks great, and is part of my new upcoming Lego update.

Sleaford Mods and Gwendoline Christie: not the collab you expected but quite possibly the one you needed.