A New technology magazine! Well ish... (Wired Magazine UK)

Member Name: Touring

Product:	Wired Magazine UK
Date:	11/06/09 (16 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Very easy to read

Disadvantages: Slightly too expensive?

I love this magazine. I used to regularly read T3 and Stuff magazine, however I found that most of the information in them could be found online through various websites etc. Since then (about 2 years ago) I have not found any magazine which I wanted to buy on a regular basis. However I was travelling on the train a couple of months ago and was reading GQ magazine. Inside was a sample copy of this new wired magazine so I decided to flick through it and see what it is like.

Wired is a magazine which has been produced in America for several years. I have never read a copy of the American version of this magazine so cant tell you how it compares.

At the top of the magazine it describes briefly what the magazine is all about in the titles "Ideas/Technology/Culture/Business". I have now read the first 2 issues and have yet to buy the third issue however I have found both issues I have read to be very entertaining. It has various pieces of news related to the 4 key areas of the magazine but also includes some other interesting things like the odd thing about art etc. Most of these types of articles are however related to technology in some way.

The magazine is written very well and is very easy to read. There are some really interesting articles. One which i found particularly interesting in the first issue was an article about a group of people who try to recover sinking ships and stop them from sinking and losing all their cargo. There are other interesting reads like the power of Google and how they can monitor so much of your activity etc.

Priced at £3.90 an issue it is a little steep, but not that badly priced. A subscription is available for £24 for 12 issues. With a subscription you do not receive anything extra except an entry to win a mountain bike. (worth £1,199) The magazine is roughly 150 pages long and I would say around 10% is adverts, if that. The latest issues usually come out the first Thursday of every month.

Overall I would recommend the magazine if you are interested in technology and the future etc. It is a very easy to read magazine and it certainly kept me entertained for my 5 hour train journey!

Summary: A great eay to read magazine that will keep you up to date with future technology