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Antec Rockus 3D 2.1
Introduction Antec and speakers, not a combination you’d have expected to hear a few years ago, but here we are, with the Rockus 3D speakers from Antec’s Soundscience division. It’s an interesting looking 2.1 setup with a purported 3D mode that delivers virtual surround sound. Or at least that’s the plan. Let’s see if they…
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Plextor PX-B120U BD Rom
Introduction HD content is here to stay and 3D is becoming the latest high end viewing feature to be hitting living rooms around the world. However, full HD and 3D movies are only just beginning to appear in streaming or “on-demand” formats so what to do in the mean time? You’ve gotta go bluray. If…
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Startech VGA, USB Docking Station
Well we can’t review graphics cards, headsets and motherboards every day now can we? Sometimes you have to knuckle up and review something a little less exciting. Today is such a day as I’m taking a look at the Startech VGA, USB Docking Station. Yup, hold on to your hats folks, this is gonna be…
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Sapphire Edge Mini PC
Introduction Well here’s an alternative to the HTPC and lounge media center, possibly the smallest full scale PC around: the Sapphire Edge Mini PC. It’s about the size of a DVD case and comes packing HDMI out, dual core atom CPU, a 512 MB nVidia ION 2 GPU, 2GB of RAM, 250GB of storage and…
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AC Ryan Playon!HD Mini 2
Introduction For those of you that took a look at the AC Ryan Playon!HD2 1TB and thought to yourself, well that looks great, but I already have a PC full of movies, why do I need one in my lounge too? Well, that’s a good question and here to answer it is the Mini 2,…
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AC Ryan Playon!HD2 Media Player
Introduction It’s no secret that I was pretty pleased with how the original Playon!HD media player performed, so I was quite excited to check out the revamped 1TB version. This 2.0 iteration has an improved GUI, a new Gigabit ethernet port, USB 3.0, an “EZ” drive slot and some extra formats in the official supported…
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Edimax 5500g
Introduction The easiest way to get yourself some faster network transfer rates is to throw a Gigabit switch into the mix. That’s what I’m looking to do today with the Edimax ES 5500G 5 port gigabit switch. Is it worth the money? Does it give good transfer rates? That’s what we’re here to find out.…
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Compro Videomate U680F
Introduction While mobile phones are certainly the gadget of choice that is seeing ever increasing numbers of features shoved into them, PCs have in-fact had this done to them for the last couple of decades. One thing that some people like to do is add TV watching functionality. If you don’t want to do it…
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ChoiiX Power Fort 5.5whrs
Introduction With the ever expanding use of smartphones and other clever little electronic gadgets, one problem the world is starting to come to terms with is that there is just never enough power to go around. Lugging around chargers can be a real pain, especially if you need a different one for each device. However,…
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FaceVision TouchCam N1 720p
While we may not all be sporting gamer keyboards, high end processors and screamingly fast graphics cards, almost everyone has something they want to show off in their house to a video calling friend. However, what if you want to do it in a nice high defintion, or at least 720p; where do you turn?…