PQI H560 HDD: Putting the hard in hard drive
It was amusing to learn that there is a bunch of volatile folk out there in the big wide world whose job it is to test the ruggedness of our consumer technology. They drop, throw, bash and molest the products for us so that we may rest assured that, when our clumsy mittens fumble with that brand-spanking new hard drive and it flat-spins its way face first into the tiles, our machinery... Read more
Hands on with Apple’s new quad-core iMac
iMac’s used to be the obvious choice for people who prefer style over substance. This is no longer the case, over the last 10 years Apple have steadily improved their all-in-one computer and the latest incarnation is the fastest all-in-one solution on the market to date. The two ultra-high-end 27-inch iMacs are the first to uses Intel’s Core i5 and i7 quad-core processors. And the... Read more
ATI’s 5970 fastest pixel-pusher goes up to (DirectX) 11
In the bleeding edge world of technology, graphics cards are probably the bloodiest of them all. The new world’s fastest pixel-pusher is ATI’s 5970, essentially two of its (already pretty impressive) 5870 GPUs squashed into a single card for the considerable sum of £580. Well, I say “squashed”, but by all accounts this card is a monster. It’s barely able to fit in even some... Read more
Analysis: Will the Wii fall foul of its own success?
Hardware sales in Japan have always been a good indicator of Nintendo’s prospects, strong sales in Japan synonymous with Nintendo’s continued success worldwide. Recently however, Sony Japan have slowly but surely been eating into Nintendo’s market share. During the week ending 15th November 2009, the PS3 sold nearly 40,000 units a piece in Japan while the formerly all-conquering... Read more
Compare the tunecat? TuneChecker launches
“Compare market” returns 183m results on Google. TV is flooded with adverts for services that compare prices on everything from insurance, to deliveries, to flights, to car deals. It was only a matter of time until someone realised there was another market missing online. Developed by MoneySavingExpert yet rather tragically designed; ‘Tunechecker.com’ instantly... Read more
Heritage Key: History for generation “Second Life”
Heritage Key lets online adventurers explore virtual reconstructions of some of the world’s most awe-inspiring historical sites. And what could me more awe-inspiring for your first outing than a trip around the tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen? The people at developers Rezzable have undertaken a painstaking job of reproducing by hand in 3D modelling, both the artefacts and sites... Read more
Veedesk brings you face-to-face with customer service
The massive growth in online shopping over the past decade has changed the way we think about retail forever and has become to many shoppers a cheaper alternative. It is not, however without it’s detractors. Retail is an art and there is real value in face-to-face interaction with trained staff. I like to think of myself as a fairly competent shopper but when faced with a baffling... Read more
Access and Emblaze Mobile release ‘Else Intuition’
With the iPhone currently seeming near uncatchable in terms of branding, even companies with established names within mobile technology must resort to good old-fashioned ingenuity to widen their slice of the smartphone market pie. Rather than following the popular trend of churning out a phone that looks a bit like an iPhone but has a bigger screen, that so many manufacturers are peddling,... Read more
Can you emWave away stress?
We all know that life contains unavoidable pressures, and unless you live in a bubble, it’s impossible to dodge them all the time. Luckily, emWave Personal Stress Reliever is here to help you stay calm when tension and hassle become overwhelming, like a calming influence you can keep in your pocket. Whether your stresses are caused by confrontations with a colleague, keeping up with... Read more
Look out Q, here comes the W Phonewatch
Miniscule, inconspicuous and with its real identity masked, even James Bond’s “Q” would be proud of Kempler & Strauss’s W Phonewatch. As the name suggests, the W Phonewatch is a cellphone, disguised as a wristwatch. Although unlike the torrent of wrist-watch phones that have saturated the market in recent years, which awkwardly lie on its owner’s wrists and become more... Read more