Memory sticks are all the rage now, especially if you're in a high-pressure profession, constantly on the go and wanting to keep a reasonably large amount of data with you at all times. The chances are ...

In an age where PC gaming is a serious business and multiplayer gaming via the Net is the biggest growth area, the dedicated gamer is demanding higher quality in everything from graphics and frame rates to ...

Bluetooth has not really taken off as a technology for wireless stereo listening: its forté is more in the realms of wireless mobile phone conversations. But you can combine these two worlds with the i-Phono BT420EX. ...

At first glance, you could be forgiven for approaching the HP MovieWriter DC4000 with cynicism. It's billed as a device to transfer your old analogue video and camcorder tapes to DVD and, as such, it would ...

Rumours of the death of the low-cost Digital Data Storage (DDS) tape format appear to have been exaggerated. The name may have changed but DAT 72 is, in effect, the fifth incarnation of DDS, based on ...

Despite BT claiming it'll have broadband to everybody in the UK by 2005, there are currently large swathes of the country where it's not available. Most of these are rural areas, where the number of potential ...

Permission to get all the cheap gags out the way in the first paragraph? Ah, splendid. We can't see the point of an invisible mouse mat, it's a transparent concept, it's clear what its problems are, ...

SilentStream is a water cooling system for your PC. For many people, the idea of introducing anything containing water inside the box of their PC may cause sweaty palms, but Global WIN has thought of this ...

We recently reviewed another of Lindy's card readers, and at first glance there's not a huge amount of difference between that one and this. For example, this card reader, like its predecessor, can read and write ...

At the lower cost end of the hardware market, the products on sale are increasingly tools to do a specific job, and little more than that. And fitting firmly into this bracket is Lindy's 6-in-1 card ...

There's a growing trend among makers of PC cases to mount within them connections for the likes of FireWire and USB ports at the front of the case. It's proven to be a great idea, and ...

If you rely on your PC in a home or small office and risk losing valuable data in the event of a power failure, you need more than a simple surge suppressor - you're in the ...

The popularity of customised PCs continues to grow and is showing signs of moving out of the enthusiast/gamer market. Adding bells and whistles, or more appropriately flashing lights and windows to your PC won't improve its ...

Manufacturers of high-end tape drives aim to double capacity and performance every couple of years. Which is exactly what HP has managed with its Storage Works Ultrium 460, the first of the new generation LTO Ultrium ...

Every so often you come across new technology which appears magic. The InkLink, from Seiko Instruments, is just such a piece of kit, enabling an ordinary pen and paper to become a computer input device for ...

Bluetooth has been a long time coming. The wireless connection protocol has been mooted for five years or more, but only now are we seeing viable Bluetooth-equipped peripherals, such as HP's DeskJet 995c. To make use ...

AIT is increasingly taking over from DDS as the tape technology with the more promising (i.e. higher capacity) future, so it's not surprising that LaCie has taken an AIT1 drive and squeezed it into one of ...

With all the talk in the media about broadband Internet connections, it's easy to forget that the vast majority of UK home and small business users still have dial-up access to the Internet. The reasons for ...

There are two fast connections you can make from your PC to the outside world; FireWire, standardised as IEEE1394, and USB 2. Both are fast enough to connect mass storage devices like DVD and hard drives ...

Multi-purpose memory card readers such as this one are becoming increasingly popular, due in part to the IT industry's complete inability to settle for one particular type of flash memory storage. There's a limit to how ...