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Nokia - 8800 Arte
ultra-expensive mobile that is lacking in features - 04/07/2008
If you think paying more than £700 for a mobile phone is a bit much, then stop reading right now. The Nokia 8800 comes in two versions, and £700 is the least you'll get away with ...
Avanquest - Encyclopedia of Nature 3
an exploration of the natural world - 04/07/2008
Recently we looked at the revamped version of Dorling Kindersley's Encyclopedia of Science, and here's another one that Avanquest has polished up and re-released for the education of the masses. As you would expect, it deals ...
Epson - AcuLaser M4000
fast mono office printer - 03/07/2008
While there are several impressive printers on the market catering for the needs of photographers, or graphics intensive users who need plenty of colour for their presentations and image reproductions, there will always be a need ...
Focus Multimedia - Create Your Own Business Cards Second Edition
not the way to make a first impression in business - 03/07/2008
Modern day desktop publishing programs, and even word processing packages, have vastly simplified the job of designing business cards at home. So much so that it's not even the kind of feature that's talked about on ...
Samsung - F110 miCoach
mobile phone with special features for runners - 02/07/2008
You may already be one of those people who run wearing a portable music player strapped to their arm, or a phone that can play music and take calls strapped to their arm. Or, indeed, you ...
Martau - Total Uninstall 4.9.1
simple way to blast the remnants of programs from your system - 02/07/2008
If only all software were as straightforward and effective as Total Uninstall 4. It's a tool that never deviates from its given intent; to rid your machine of unwanted programs once and for all. Sadly, in ...
Sanyo - Xacti VPC-CA65
world's first underwater digital movie camera - 01/07/2008
Sanyo's Xacti range has sported the unusual but undeniably original ‘gun look' for a good few years now. Although smaller details such as colour, size and specifications have altered from model to model, the general idea ...
Codemasters - Race Driver: GRID
sterling racing game with a quality career mode - 01/07/2008
The latest game in the evolution of the Race Driver (formerly known as TOCA) series makes some interesting tweaks to the standard racer formula. Perhaps the most novel concept is the addition of flashbacks. One minute ...
Touchstone - Turok
dinosaur and human blood-bath - 01/07/2008
It seems like a hundred years ago that the dino-hunting game Turok appeared on the N64, and now it's returned with a complete makeover to try to attract the first-person shooter crowd who want something a ...
Epson - GT-1500
business flatbed scanner with LED light source - 30/06/2008
Flatbed scanner mechanisms are best known as the top parts of all-in-one machines, but they do have lives of their own, too. Epson's GT-1500 is a business scanner, as opposed to one intended for the home ...
Kingston - DataTraveler HyperX
not a cheap 8GB flash drive - 30/06/2008
Flash drives are a must-have in this day and age, and with capacities increasing they're no longer just to be used for documents and small files. Kingston has always been pretty active in the memory market, ...
ViewSonic - PJ513D
budget DLP digital projector - 27/06/2008
The price of digital projectors continues to drop, but a device using a Digital Light Processor (DLP) chip for under £300 is still something of a breakthrough. ViewSonic's PJ513D/DB uses the well-known Texas Instruments chip, which ...
OKI - C3450n
colour LED office printer - 26/06/2008
If there were a style award dinner for colour office printers, OKI wouldn't need to prepare a speech. It somehow manages to make its printers look out of date, even when they're brand new. The C3450n ...
SanDisk - Sansa Fuze
small format player with big ideas - 24/06/2008
SanDisk hasn't been in the mobile music arena for long, but its products, and particularly the higher capacity ones, have caused a splash. We loved its 'e' series, and although the video-playing View left us a ...
ZoneAlarm - Forcefield
extra protection when browsing the Web - 24/06/2008
Taking steps to ensure that your PC is sufficiently protected against threats is a must these days, and there's a range of suites and tools around to help. What's frustrating is when you hear of a ...
Sony Ericsson - W890i
tiny Walkman-branded mobile phone - 23/06/2008
Sony Ericsson doesn't always get its handset design right, and this is particularly the case when it comes to the number pad buttons. Often in the past we've found these buttons to be too small for ...
Ricoh - Aficio GX2500
Gel ink printer - 23/06/2008
It's not often a new print technology comes to market, such is the power and maturity of inkjet and laser technology. OK, there's OKI's LED office printing and Canon's dye sublimation photo prints, but both these ...
Oakley - Split Thump
MP3 player glasses - 20/06/2008
Technology and eyewear have not made good bedfellows in the past; in fact they're almost guaranteed to produce reasonably functional but ultimately unattractive products that you wouldn't be seen dead wearing outside the home. Oakley would ...
Samsung - i8
portable multimedia digital camera with MP3 and video player - 19/06/2008
It's natural to be a little dubious of a digital camera when you hear that it doubles up as a portable multimedia player. After all, most people would agree that if a job's worth doing, it's ...
Babies again
Humans versus machines, but not in the Terminator sense - 08/11/2007
In my previous editorial I compared my daughter's early behaviour to that of a simple computer program. A few people got in touch and called me a nerd. Can't think why. What quickly became apparent, though, ...
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