Category: Reviews
Signalex iPhone/iPad Docking Station
This review is part of the 1 Pound Challenge – can you find a decent gadget in a pound shop? Before I start, I should add that although it’s called an iPhone/iPad Docking Station there is a sticker on the product which states that it doesn’t work with iPads. However, I have tried this with an iPod Touch and [...]
Raspberry Pi Case
The bare-bones Raspberry Pi board is great for looking at and being generally tactile with technology, but it’s sometimes equally nice to try and keep it away from prying fingers To this end I decided to see what cases are available for the Pi. Naturally, I turned to eBay and quickly found something that sounded [...]
Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi is a novel, brilliant idea. A cheap $25 computer that will help re-invigorate people’s (particularly children’s) interest in computers – the hardware, software and in programming. You can put free versions of Linux onto it, and there would be programming packages available too. There’s no better way to learn about computers than a [...]
TP-LINK 5-Port Gigabit Desktop Switch
I’ve been needing a switch for some time. As with most people I rely on the ports on the back of my ISP supplied router, but those 4 don’t get very far. For some time it’s been filled by my desktop PC, NAS, Pogoplug and Solwise Homeplug. Now I have a Raspberry Pi I could do with one more. [...]
1 Pound Challenge – Signalex 4 Port USB Hub
This review is part of the 1 Pound Challenge – can you find a decent gadget in a pound shop? Not to be confused with the identically named product , this has a more square design with each of the 4 USB ports on their own separate side. The top is domed and the plastic hub measures approx. 6x6x2cm. The version I have [...]
Lenovo ThinkVision LT1421
There are a number of USB monitors now beginning to come into the market. The idea is that you plug these into your laptop, as required, to give an extended desktop. The problem with most of them, however, is that their output is usual quite poor, often with reduced angles and low levels of brightness. [...]
Kingston Wi-Drive
One of the problem with Apple devices (and a growing number of Android devices now) is the inability to expand the device’s storage. With Apple pushing music and films via iTunes unless you picked wisely in the first place you may find yourself rapidly running out of space on your iPad, iPod or iPhone. As [...]
PlayStation Vita Pre-order Pack
Those people who pre-ordered their PlayStation Vita from certain retailers would have recieved a special Pre-order Pack as well, as a “thank you” from Sony. They can also be found selling separately on eBay, for instance, so you can still get hold of them if you wish. Because I ordered by Vita from Amazon I got an [...]
ReTrak USB Laser Travel Mouse
ReTrak , popular in the US, are now selling their range of products in the UK at retailers such as PC World , Dixons and Amazon. You may have come across retractable cables before – often found on portable mice for laptops, they wind excess cable into real which is suspended half way along the cable length. What [...]
Signalax USB Notebook Cooler
This review is part of the 1 Pound Challenge – can you find a decent gadget in a pound shop? Whereas most of the pound products that I’ve so far reviewed are compact, small gadgets, this one is very much larger. Coming in a cardboard box, the USB Notebook Cooler looks very nice. It’s a clear perspex stand, standing [...]
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