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Saturday, June 28th, 2008Happy snapping
Review It’s clear that the design of Sony Ericsson’s C902 is far more conventional than the likes of the K810 or K850. Gone is the ’small key’ design, the keypad now being a sort of cross between that of a W960 and a K800.…
Ripfactory Ripserver CD-ripping NAS box
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Rips your CDs then serves the songs
ChannelFlip Video Review This little beauty takes your CDs, rips them to its 1TB NAS storage then pumps them out to all your network devices. Nifty - but is it worth the cash?…
Canon EOS 450D digital SLR
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Truth be told, we hoped for more
Review The EOS 450D is more like a step-up than a follow-on to the EOS 400D entry-level digital SLR we recently looked at. The question is, what does the extra 50 in the model number mean in terms of improvement?…
Dalek Security Camera
Thursday, June 26th, 2008ChannelFlip Video Review This might look like your average remote controlled Dalek toy, but nothing could be further from the truth: it’s been retro-fitted with a miniscule pinhole spy cam by a London security firm, which has lent it to us to have a play with.…
Intel Atom 230 ultra low-power desktop CPU
Thursday, June 26th, 2008Build your own Eee
Review We recently reviewed Asus’ Eee PC 901, which uses the new 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor. Atom uses the same 45nm technology that you’ll find in the latest ‘Penryn’ Core 2 CPUs and it packs in some nifty power-saving features that result in a TDP of a mere 2.5W which makes [...]
Logitech Squeezebox Duet multi-room music streamer
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Slim Devices’ winner revamp
Review Media streamers are all too often the jack of all trades yet the masters of none. Thankfully, no such blight tarnishes the Logitech Squeezebox Duet’s shiny black carapace. The first product to come from the Slim Devices team since its purchase by Logitech in 2007, the Duet has been developed to [...]
Pinnacle Video Transfer
Friday, June 20th, 2008PC-free H.264 video encoding
Review Gadgets now capable of playing video have left owners are hungry for content. Folk with large VHS tape collections want to digitise them, just like vinyl. Two problems, one solution, says Avid offshoot Pinnacle: its Video Transfer standalone H.264 encoder.…
Sony Alpha 200 digital SLR
Friday, June 20th, 2008Surprise super snapper from Sony
Review Sony came to the digital SLR party late, with its first model, the Alpha 100 - launched in 2006. Its successor, the Alpha 200 (A200), is also aimed at the entry-level market. First announced in January, Sony recently sent one over for a more in-depth look.…
XM-I X-Mini capsule travel speakers
Friday, June 20th, 2008Small, cheap and the sound’s not at all bad
Review Ask most people what they look for in a pair of travel speakers and they are likely to say they want something small and cheap but which nonetheless sounds like the stacks at Donnington.…
iRobot Roomba 560 robot vacuum cleaner
Friday, June 20th, 2008Clean quietly… or there will be… trouble
Review Robots. Everybody loves them, but not many of us - unless we’re members of the armed forces, cybernetics profs, supervillains etc - actually get to own one. Unless you invest in a domestic droid from iRobot.…