IT Reviews

Accomplished, value-busting 1080p video projector

Office projectors adept with still images and Powerpoint slides are all very well – and very cheap – but with an increasing need for video and moving images in work situations, the video-capable category is getting more and more exposed to the mass market.  Vivitek's latest, a...

Instant digital camera using ZINK paper

Like Hoover, Sellotape and Tannoy, in its heyday the Polaroid brand was used almost as a generic term for a certain product. Can the instant photography concept make a comeback in the digital age? The Z340 is hot on the heels of products such as the X720E camcorder and an extension of the Lady...

The original Asus Eee Pad Transformer was a real wow-inspiring Android tablet with a separate, but attachable keyboard. The Eee Pad Transformer Prime now adds a quad core processor and Android 4 into the mix. What could go wrong? We’re all talking about GPS Asus may have caused itself an...

First, there was the notebook, then the netbook and now, the ultrabook. Acer's Aspire S series is their first attempt to enter the genre that's big on fast performance, in a slim and stylish package. After taking the S3 out of the box, you have to admit, it's a chic little beauty. The...

With so many different audio and video standards and so many devices capable of playing them back it’s commonplace to find you’ve got some media you’d like to enjoy, but can’t quite get to work with your hardware or software player. This is where Mediavator’s Media...

Looking more and more like Apple’s Garage Band, Music Maker MX conceals a proper home-recording product with all the effects, instruments, loops, samples and support for professional-level plugins, such as VST instruments. This is all beneath a friendly interface that allows you to make...

It was two years ago that the original version of this arcade style zombie gore-fest was released, exclusively on the Wii, where its tongue-in-cheek B-movie atmosphere brought a refreshing dose of humour to the genre. Now SEGA has decided to give it a full makeover, while throwing in some extras...

Looking rather like a cartoon alarm clock, the Tick Dock Dock is a combo clock radio/speaker dock that is designed to work with all iPods and iPhones and uses Apple's standard oblong connector. When listening to music, the speaker is surprisingly articulate so long as you don't go much above half...

Ultrabooks might be the products that change the face of computing in 2012. They are small, thin, light and powerful, with a lot of allure. Most ultrabooks are currently aimed at consumers, but Toshiba has added one to its Portégé range – and as you’d expect, it is aimed...

A solidly built, versatile AMVA monitor which is unsure of its audience

Buying a monitor for your PC is becoming an increasingly complicated affair, with an ever broadening range of screen technologies (TN, IPS, PVA, MVA) as well as vital factors such as contrast ratio, screen resolution, response time, screen size and of course, price. So, who will the ViewSonic...

Toshiba has built a good reputation for its Portege range of notebooks, with the R series doing very well in the thin and light market arena. The latest update to the R830 model includes modern specifications, while retaining a look and feel from older models. Familiar territory The Toshiba...

Brother's new budget-conscious A3 MFP dips on quality

They say bigger isn't necessarily better but when it comes to printers, the greater the range of paper you can feed into your machine, the more versatile and useful it should be for your office. While there are a significant number of compact size multifunction printers available for small...

THX-certified 5.1 speaker package that promises ?theatre quality? sound

Logitech’s Z906 is a 5.1 surround package that’s designed to be hooked up to either your PC or your TV, as a home cinema system. It boasts three digital inputs, two optical and one coaxial, along with a standard analogue RCA input, and a 6-channel direct input so that it can be...

AirPrint is a mere distraction on this quality photo printer for the home

Epson's latest printer may be provisionally aimed at iDevice owners, but it's D-SLR owners that are the real benefactors. The lab-quality photos is the carrot offered by Epson here. The mid-priced option from its Stylus Photo line-up does indeed deliver a convincing argument, for home...

Acer aim for practicality over good looks with the Aspire 5749

With all the current excitement about ultrabooks, it's important to keep in mind that there's a large market out there for people who need a good, honest, straight forward notebook that can meet most day-to-day needs without costing the earth. The Acer Aspire 5749 was designed to do just that,...

Previous versions of the CX made a name for themselves as solid, compact point-and-shoot cameras with just enough extra photographic oomph to attract the more serious travelling snapper – with a justification for the slighter higher than average price tag. The CX6 continues the progress,...

The Nokia Lumia 710 is basically an entry level version of the Finnish Windows Phone 7 launching pad device - the Lumia 800, which incorporated the radical new user interface from Microsoft. This UI was designed to make Windows Phone 7 accessible to the masses, where the 710 is intent on providing...

ViewSonic's new Android tablet is let down by a non-certified OS

Ever since Apple's iPad 2 became the most desired (but most expensive) tablet on the market, all of its rivals have been hell bent on producing cheaper but similar Android and Windows versions, which would hopefully make a decent dent in Apple's profits. ViewSonic was one of the quickest to get in...

Canon's latest PIXMA MFP puts image quality first

The joy of the current multifunction printer market is that the sheer volume of machines on offer has reduced prices to extremely friendly levels. This is along with causing manufacturers to think carefully, about how many extra features they can squeeze into the design before falling foul of the...

An all-in-one 500GB music streamer and CD player

The X10 is all about digitising, accessing and even adding to a music collection – and all without the need for a computer, with the ability to fit over 7,000 albums on its 500GB innards. Working as a NAS drive as well as a modern day hi-fi, we're not sure the X10 fills a gap in the market...