Audio & Video

Our team of audiophiles check out the latest high-performance speakers, headphones, streaming music players and more. Meanwhile we also check out the latest TVs (3D, OLED, 4K, etc.) and HD projectors.

Trulink 2 Port HDMI Splitter review

Trulink 2 Port HDMI Splitter  review

Think you’re special because you have sexy new flat-screen TV? Well some people have two. And even then their lives aren’t as rosy as you’d imagine.  Their kids are glued to the PS3 in the lounge of what I can only presume is a mansion but they want to watch…

Find your voice with two new voice recorders from Olympus

Find your voice with two new voice recorders from Olympus

Olympus has just released two compact, easy-to-use VN voice recorders, which are perfect for taking notes and ‘writing’ shopping lists as well as practising for speeches, presentations and lectures. The VN-7700 is £39.99, while the VN-7600 comes in at a very reasonable £34.99. Both can be operated hands-free, thanks to…

Tune in, log on and watch movies while you’re on the move

Tune in, log on and watch movies while you’re on the move

If you’ve been inspired by the London Marathon or are one of the thousands who took part in the Race for Life, and are keen to continue your running training, a few tunes should help you along the way. Radiopaq has just launched a designer sports headset that has been…

Parabola DAB radio: Stylish, portable and cheap

Parabola DAB radio: Stylish, portable and cheap

Anything that advertises itself as being “too hot to handle” whips up a certain degree of intrigue and interest. When, therefore, an email titled, ‘a DAB that is too hot to handle’ arrives in your inbox, you feel compelled to take a further look. At a first glimpse at a…

Radiopaq Duo headphones

Radiopaq Duo headphones

Ever play music on your laptop with headphones on and pretend to be a DJ at heaving, sweaty club in some dodgy Spanish town? Just me? A big part of the DJ look is all in the headphones. Forget about all the vinyl scratching and the disc swirling, bobbing headphones…

BlueAnt S4 True HandsFree

BlueAnt S4 True HandsFree

You might think you have a handsfree car speakerphone … but is it really? The folks at BlueAnt would argue not – pointing to the number of buttons you have to interact with at some stage in using it – and the subsequently point to their new BlueAnt S4 True…

Livescribe Connect: Skywriting with cloud-connected smartpens

Livescribe Connect: Skywriting with cloud-connected smartpens

I sometimes feel like I’ve seen too much. Endless product demos makes it hard for technology to really wow me. I still remember how I felt when I first saw Wii Tennis, the original iPhone or Microsoft’s surface table. A genuine feeling of “wow I’m living in the future”. After…

Trulink HDMI over Cat5e Extender: Extend HDMI signal range whilst maintaining image quality

Trulink HDMI over Cat5e Extender: Extend HDMI signal range whilst maintaining image quality

How do you extend high-definition TV signals over long distances without comprising image quality? That’s easy; simply purchase a Trulink HDMI over Cat5e Extender. Seemingly providing the answer to the challenge of sending HD TV signals where regular HDMI wiring struggles to perform efficiently and produce high-quality images, Telford-based Cables…

Logitech Ultimate Ears 300vi review

Logitech Ultimate Ears 300vi review

I love to run through the streets of East London, rueing the discover of a Krispy Kreme stand *right next* to Latest Gadget towers and listening to the Pod F Tompcast. Running is hard enough, especially when filled with sugary donut-goodness, but it’s even harder when you have to fiddle…

Samsung Free-D TV app

Samsung Free-D TV app

Still not convinced that 3D is the next big thing? Neither am I, but Samsung are doubling down (yet again) with an innovative 3D VOD system beamed direct to their latest and greatest TVs. Couple this with their price cut on 3D glasses and at the very least they deserve…

Stunningly slim or painfully thin? Five of the world’s slimmest gadgets

Stunningly slim or painfully thin? Five of the world’s slimmest gadgets

With advances in precision manufacturing it has become much easier to design much smaller and more efficient microchips, hence the era of super-slim and mega-minute technology were are firmly entrenched in. But does small necessarily mean more beautiful? LG looks at five almost ridiculously super-slim gadgets… Samsung C9000 3D TVs…

Make your handsfree calls sun-powered with the soIVUE

Make your handsfree calls sun-powered with the soIVUE

We seem to have been inundated with stories about solar-powered gadgets over the past few weeks and as the sun has shone almost relentlessly since Easter, it’s been remarkably good timing on behalf of these technology companies. Up next is the solar-powered Bluetooth speakerphone the soIVUE, from Scosche Industries. Scosche…