Monthly Archives: November 2002
HP – PSC 2210
Like all multi-function devices, the PSC 2210 from Hewlett Packard prints, copies, scans and faxes. What sets the PSC 2210 apart, though, is its ability to read from CompactFlash, SmartMedia, Memory Stick and Secure Digital memory cards. The unit does all this in a fairly compact 46.3cm by 37cm by 22cm package. Helping to save…
Seiko – InkLink
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 notes, diagrams and sketches. The paper can be any old pad that you’d like to draw or write on,…
Interplay – Hunter the Reckoning
During the mid-eighties, there was a four-player arcade action game into which many a teen pumped endless ten pence pieces, in an effort to conquer various goblins, wizards and witches. It was of course that classic, Gauntlet. If you’re nostalgic for such four player mayhem, Hunter the Reckoning drags it kicking and screaming into the…
Gyration – Ultra cordless optical mouse
The humble computer mouse has undergone a number of changes in the last year or so. First it lost its ball, to be replaced by an LED and optical sensor, which effectively takes pictures of the desk to tell it how it’s moving. Then it lost its tail, to acquire a couple of batteries and…
Travel InfoSystems – RailPlanner
Planning a journey on the UK’s embarrassingly inefficient rail network can be problematic. It’s simple enough – at least in planning terms – if you only want to travel within one franchise’s area, but as soon as you take a longer journey and have to switch networks, the problems really start. None of the main…
Canon – i320
The latest addition to Canon’s lineup of bubble-jet printers is the i320, a 2400dpi USB 2.0 printer that offers good quality prints and reasonable performance at an amazingly low cost. The first thing that strikes you about the i320 is how flimsy it appears to be, especially the paper feed and the output tray. The…
Pinnacle – Studio Deluxe Version 8
This is Pinnacle’s top-of-the-range video editing package for the home user. It’s designed for those who want to work with their home videos, either analogue or digital, tidy them up with a few well-placed edits and save them to videotape, CD or DVD. There are three main components to the package; two hardware and one…
Optronix – USB Network Cable
At first glance, this seems like rather a difficult product to review. It is, after all, just a cable. When you examine the whole package, though, you realise that this humble lead can considerably improve the functionality of two or more stand-alone PCs. It’s the bulge in its middle that makes the difference. There are…
PURE Digital – Digitheatre Platinum
There’s something incredibly exciting about a brand new set of speakers, especially a hefty package like this; a full 5.1 home cinema speaker kit from PURE (which used to be Videologic). The raw anticipation is monumental, as you lug it out of the box, spraying polystyrene everywhere, settling the big sub-woofer on the floor, flicking…
Lexmark – X85
Inkjet printers have dropped in price to an extent that it has become more economical, in some cases, to replace the entire printer when the ink runs out rather than buying the extravagantly-priced ink cartridges. And flatbed scanners are similarly cheap, available in some cases for less than fifty quid. All of which means that…