Monthly Archives: September 2004
Bluetake – i-Phono BT420EX
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. The kit has two components. A headset which can be paired with Bluetooth devices, and a small box with…
Electronic Arts – The Sims 2
It seems to be a national pastime amongst PC gaming critics to knock The Sims at every opportunity, largely because of its astonishing popularity (it’s the highest selling PC game ever). But as the success of a game is ultimately judged by its re-playability, it’s not difficult to work out why creating a number of…
LG Electronics – 4120B
In the world of DVD writers the state of the art is making rapid advances, and you’ll find LG right at the cutting edge with its GSA-4120B. Last year the big question was whether a DVD writer supported either the DVD-R/-RW format or DVD+R/+RW, but this year every drive that we are interested in is…
JoWood – SpellForce Gold
When you get a large circle of mages together, trouble is never far away. The air bristles with their electric, enchanting auras, egos clash, great minds find themselves distracted and spangly-costumed women end up being sawn in half, in the literal rather than the entertaining way. Of course, SpellForce Gold’s mages aren’t the rabbit-in-the-hat types,…
ThinTune – Mobile
Thin clients are a good way of providing secure, easy to manage access to task-oriented applications. They are often found, for example, controlling stock levels in warehouses or accessing patient records in hospitals, indeed anywhere where ordinary PCs are too complex, vulnerable or expensive a solution. To really succeed in such environments, however, the hardware…
Epson – EMP-TW10H
We’ve reviewed a fair number of business projectors on IT Reviews, but not so many home cinema projectors. These gadgets are growing in popularity, so it’s time to redress the balance a bit. After all, would you rather pay four grand for a plasma screen or less than a quarter of that for a projector…
Software Imaging – InkSaver 2
Though the debate over the value of inkjet ink cartridges will run and run, there’s little doubt that they’re pricey. Typical costs for the four coloured inks in a general-purpose inkjet printer is £40 to £60; even more with the latest six, seven and eight colour photo printers. Anything that can reduce these running costs…
Troy – PocketPro USB Wireless
To connect a printer to a network without a host PC or file server, you need a dedicated print server. To connect it wirelessly, you need a print server with a wireless networking interface – which is exactly what you get with the Troy PocketPro USB Wireless. Plus, as you can tell from the name,…
Nokia – 7610
Some phones from Nokia seem to happen to have digital cameras built in. The cameras get mentioned among a barrage of other features. Not so the 7610, whose camera is its key selling point. You can take 1-megapixel stills with it, and capture up to ten minutes of video. Of course, this being a Nokia…
InFocus – X2
Generally speaking LCD (liquid crystal display: like a flat-panel monitor) projectors are cheaper than their DLP (digital light processing: using a small chip with thousands of tiny mirrors) counterparts. Although it is possible to find a cheap DLP projector, they tend to be designed down to a price and as a result can suffer from…