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Buffalo MiniStation: Portable hard-as-nails drive

Buffalo MiniStation: Portable hard-as-nails drive..

Buffalo Technology has announced the launch of the MiniStation Extreme – a US Military Standard, compact and sophisticated high performance portable hard drive. That’s going to be pretty damn tough, then.\ The MiniStation Extreme combines USB 3.0 and Buffalo TurboPC EX providing data transfer speeds of up to 5G bits per second (bps) making it very useful for all of the important social (and business)…

Asus EEE Pad Slider: Plenty of playtime

Asus EEE Pad Slider: Plenty of playtime..

Business notebook purists, who sneer balefully at early corporate adopters of tablets, often argue that without a keyboard, a tablet has no real value as a part of the mobile corporate armoury. Well, those purists might now be eating their words, as clearly, this tablet means business in both senses of the word. Coming hot on the heels of its well received Eee Pad Transformer,…

Big Lens: DSLR effects on your iPhone?

Big Lens: DSLR effects on your iPhone?..

Claim. There. That’s pretty bold claim isn’t it? But it still doesn’t come close to the new iPhone app Big Lens’ claim to turn your iPhone into a professtional SLR camera. There are some professional SLR cameras that can’t make that claim. So I had to give Big Lens a try. Big Lens (and everytime I say that in my head it comes out at…

Blurb: Self publishing to the iPad made easy

Blurb: Self publishing to the iPad made easy..

The creative publishing platform, Blurb, has announced its first step into the ebook market with publications ready for Apple’s iPad and iPhone. It’s pretty fancy stuff; the ebooks are optimised fully to display images and text clearly, they are created using Blurb’s established (and easy to manage) book-making tools, Bookify and BookSmart. So, for authors wanting to create their own ebook, the file conversion happens…

Thumbs Up’s Desktop Phone for iPhone 4

Thumbs Up’s Desktop Phone for iPhone 4..

I don’t really know what to make of the so-called potential damage mobile phone radiation could cause. Are the suspicions real? Or are they just paranoid hype whipped up by mobile phone and electronics conglomerate despisers? Either way, Thumbs Up, in creating the Desktop Phone for iPhone 4, gives you the functions of your iPhone but without the worry of mobile radiation – real or…

Mophie launches the next generation of iPhone and iPod battery packs

Mophie launches the next generation of iPhone and iPod battery packs..

We all know what a pain it can be when your iPhone or iPod runs out of battery when you are out on the road. Your heart sinks when you see you only have a few minutes of battery life left. With no access to a plug, you are forced to wait until you get home before you can recharge. However, help is at hand…

Small yet perfectly formed – Pioneer’s new range of Slim AV Micro Systems

Small yet perfectly formed – Pioneer’s new range of Slim AV Micro Systems..

Just announced by Pioneer is a new range of multifunctional AV systems. Small in size but big in functionality, the range can cater for most flavours of media, including Apple iPod and iPhone connectors, DVD, CD, AUX input, along with FM radio channels. In fact, everything you could dream of from an AV system. In total there are three models released as part of the…

Dial-a-ride on the iHelicopter

Dial-a-ride on the iHelicopter..

Smartphones seem to be able to do pretty much everything these days, and one company has stretched the bounds of possibility still further with the launch of a helicopter that can be controlled by your iPhone or Android handset. The iHelicopter is set to take to the skies this month, just in time for it to land on many a Christmas wishlist. Gadget fiends can…

The new Dell Inspiron One 2320 desktop PC – fun for all the family

The new Dell Inspiron One 2320 desktop PC – fun for all the family..

The latest addition to Dells Inspiron range of Destop PCs has just updated with the announcement of the Inspiron One 2320. Designed with all the family in mind, the Inspiron One is powered by Intel’s second generation Core I processor and features built in WiFi and a webcam. With its slick looks, the desktop comes with a 1080p high-definition display which caters for streaming HD…

Limey: Your tap’s best, albeit only friend

Limey: Your tap’s best, albeit only friend..

I make no secret of the fact that I am wildly in love with Danish design and its combination of industrial technology, simplicity and functionalism. When I went to Copenhagen I spent a great deal of time (when not stuffing my face with their amazing range of baked goods) marvelling at classic Danish design, the chairs, the lamps, the monkeys – all of it. From…

Kogan’s new Agora tablets: A tablet price war has commenced!

Kogan’s new Agora tablets: A tablet price war has commenced!..

It happened with baked beans, it happened with DVD players, now it’s happening with tablets, with Kogan launching a tablet price war in the UK by thrusting two new tablets on to the market for little more than £100! Kogan, a lesser known consumer electronics’ designer, manufacturer and retailer, has been propelled to global notoriety overnight, by launching the Agora 8” Tablet, which starts from…

Nikon D3100: Everything an SLR should be if you’ve never had one.

Nikon D3100: Everything an SLR should be if you’ve never had one...

I used to hold good photographers in the same high esteem as airline pilots. They, like pilots, had a kind of mystique about them, an aura that made them different to most of us. The sheer ability to create a visual masterpiece in a second, capturing a moment in time for ever, seemed to me to be the work of pure genius. Don’t get me…

Philips Sonicare DiamondClean Electric Toothbrush: The iPhone of toothbrushes

Philips Sonicare DiamondClean Electric Toothbrush: The iPhone of toothbrushes..

I love technology crammed where you wouldn’t normally think to put it. One of my favourite things I came across last year was a fridge with a built-in, internet-connected touchscreen. That is all kinds of awesome as far as I am concerned. So when I heard that Philips were applying their technological might to the humble toothbrush I was eager to find out more. The…

iPhone 4S review of reviews

iPhone 4S review of reviews..

Never can there have been such a emotion-fuelled product launch as with the iPhone 4S, what with the rawer-than-raw passing of the man that made it all possible in the first place, and the moans and gripes of the Apple geekosphere about how it’s not really a new iPhone and how they are now going to have to wait another year to get that gloaty…

Smartphone gaming, convergence and the LG Optimus 3D

Smartphone gaming, convergence and the LG Optimus 3D..

Convergence is one of the big watchwords in smartphones and mobile devices manufactures have long been promising us “one handset to rule the all”. And in many cases it’s quite a valid case. My iPod is all but dead to me, as most smartphones offer a comparable listening experience. In fact with their always-one Internet connection, an all-you-can-eat data plan and apps such as Instacast…