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By Ken Addison • July 7, 2009
In recent years, there has been a tendency for the media to lambaste earbud headphones because they can damage hearing, as they sit further away from the ear canal, causing the user to turn up the volume more. In ear headphones (also called canalphones) are one answer to this, and today we look at a pair, the Altec Lansing BackBeat Pro. How do they stack up to the popular Etymotic Research ER-6i or V-Moda Vibe earphones? Read on to find out.
By John Pastor • June 23, 2009
A lot of cheaper monitors these days don’t bother checking their power consumption, and are somewhat inefficient in power management, until today. Dell has managed to focus highly on “greener” monitors, and have released their G2210 and G2410 monitors. They took out all the steps in providing one of the greenest monitors available, packaged to help reduce the carbon footprint and made with materials that are environmentally friendly. Today we’ll be taking a look at the G2210.
By John Pastor • June 15, 2009
The Blackberry Curve smartphone has been a staple in the industry for a long time starting with the original 8300 back in 2007. RIM is back at it again with the sleek new Curve 8900 smartphone. How does it compare to the 8300 series and will it become the new champion of the Blackberry?
By John Pastor • June 3, 2009
We reviewed the Amazon Kindle back in January of last year, and now Amazon is back with the Kindle 2. With an improved display (although not larger), sleek new design, and a new navigation joystick, plus text-to-speech, does the Amazon Kindle 2 win our praise? Read on after the break for more details and our final opinion.
By John Pastor • May 25, 2009
Mobile broadband cards are becoming smaller and less bulky over the past couple of years, and have also been adding features as well such as GPS. Like previous cards we’ve reviewed, many of them are also doubling as microSD card readers, which are ubiquitous in cell phones and smartphones around the world. The latest Sierra Wireless 598U mobile broadband card from Sprint is one of them, and we’re taking a look at it today.
By David Plews • April 23, 2009
Offering all the bass that comes with a subwoofer without the wasted space on your floor, the expressionist BASS speakers from Altec Lansing prove to be an interesting concept. Instead of a traditional subwoofer, the speakers have a four inch subwoofer located in their bases.
By John Pastor • April 9, 2009
If you’re familiar with the original Squeezebox network music player, it allowed you to listen to the music on your computer in one location wirelessly over your hi-fi system. Logitech recently acquired the company, and has been making significant advances. One of them is the new Squeezebox Boom. What features does it add and how good is it?
By David Plews • March 29, 2009
Logitech’s Harmony 1100 is the second touch-screen remote the company has produced, and the first that we’ve been able to get our hands on. …
By Kristofer Brozio • March 18, 2009
Most of you out there have at least one USB drive that you use to take your stuff from place to place, and I bet it’s a plain looking thing. It’s probably plain black and plastic, or maybe colored, and possibly rubber, depending on which one you have, the common denominator here is that most USB drives look pretty much the same, small and rectangular pieces of plastic, with some variations here and there. Today for review I’ve got the Teddy Bear 1GB USB Drive, and it’s exactly what it sounds like, a cute and cuddly stuffed animal with a USB drive inside of it. So it’s a cute stuffed Teddy Bear that doubles as a USB drive, but it’s also a bit disturbing as well, read on to see what I mean by that…
By John Pastor • March 18, 2009
Based on the highly popular and portable Mino pocket camcorder, Flip Video has upped the ante once more with the MinoHD. As the name …
By John Pastor • February 18, 2009
It’s been a little over a month since I received my review unit in the mail of the new BlackBerry Storm on the Verizon network, and I have to say, it’s been a great experience, but not an awesome one. With the world’s first “clickable” touch screen display, does it offer a similar experience to the heavyweight, the iPhone 3G?
By John Pastor • February 17, 2009
First released in 2007 and then re-released in 2008, the EyeTV Hybrid has gone through many iterations. The latest iteration, released only weeks ago at Macworld Expo in San Francisco, bundles the TV tuning device with the latest release of Elgato’s EyeTV software, version 3.1 and a new TV Guide service to offer users of the software more complete and explanatory program details. How does the performance measure up to the Pinnacle TV HD Stick for Mac or the previous EyeTV Hybrid (2008)?
