Rod Drury isn't a fan of Google Glass or the Apple Watch but loves electric cars. Picture / Jason Oxenham
We asked gadget-fiend Rod Drury about the year's best, and most over-rated, pieces of tech and popular culture.
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"I tried it. But, no, it doesn't look good. With face recognition it'd be really good for memorising names, but the killer app would have to be swimming goggles. You could change songs with blinking, have a lap count, and if you're swimming in the sea could avoid sharks."
"Didn't like it. I kept looking at my wrist, and people watch when your eyes move - it was too intrusive and there wasn't anything there that wasn't on my phone. I couldn't find its killer app, but if you were really into health and all that sort of stuff I could see the heart monitor being interesting."
"It's just amazing. I really think what'll happen is we'll all be sitting in our retirement villages, or our small Japanese drawers, and we'll be talking to each other with avatars. We'll all have had fully body scans to build those, and I hope we get that done soon so my avatar is under 50 when I'm 70."
"I run a New Zealand and US Netflix account. They need to unblock us and we all need to get on to US TV. I think it's super-important because if you're watching US TV you're part of a global conversation.
"We'd watch a series a week. And online is great, because you can just binge watch. I liked House of Cards, I'm just finishing Homeland - I'm up to season five of that - and I really like The Fall, with Gillian Anderson."
"I love them. It's so frustrating that Tesla won't supply, everyone's been asking. After the VW emissions scandal, the push for electrification is actually accelerating. So I think by 2017-18 we'll have fantastic product. Why don't we in New Zealand have a goal of, by 2030, flipping the fleet? [We should because] we're the perfect test lab."
"They released forcetouch, but the new giant iPad - which looks awesome - doesn't have it so I won't get one until it does. What's so frustrating with recent Apple stuff is nothing completely works. A bit of the sheen [has come off this year]. I got the new Macbook as a loyalty thing, but I can't plug it into my 27-inch monitors."
The New Zealand sharemarket reached its highest level in a month.