Monthly Archives: August 2005
Konica Minolta – 2450
Colour laser printers for small business or workgroup use are continuing to drop in price and it’s now possible to find models at around the £400 mark. Konica Minolta has joined the fray with the 2450, a carousel-based printer with a couple of interesting twists. The printer is substantial in size, but could still be…
GSP – Anne Hooper’s Ultimate Sex Guide
You can’t blame GSP for trying. Adorned with an 18 certificate, the promise of video clips and a full encyclopedia of sex, they’ve put together a product that’s no doubt eyed-up by anyone trying to legitimately sneak ‘adult’ material into their home. Or, toeing the party line, they’ve found an educational and responsible product that…
Samsung – YH-925
There’s increasing convergence between straight music players, digital voice recorders and photo viewers. Samsung wants a piece of that action and has just released the YH-925 as its latest pitch. This PDA-sized gadget has a 1.8-inch, full-colour LCD display set into its front face above a four-way thumb-pad for menu navigation. There are three buttons…
Electronic Arts – Battlefield 2
Everyone has a different definition of fun. One man’s adrenaline-pumping and fantastically liberating bungee jump is another man’s suicidal plunge with only an elastic band between him and a very messy death. It’s all a matter of perspective. However, we defy you to play Battlefield 2 and not experience fun. Unless you hate the first-person…
EZ-AV – Xen EMP-500
The lines are beginning to blur between high-end MP3 players and low-end multimedia devices. This mirror-finish, multi-format player, produced by the Korean EZ-AV Corporation, has a number of excellent features which make it a real contender when measured against some bigger-name alternatives. The lozenge-shaped Xen EMP-500 is about the size of a non-flipping mobile phone…
Epson – PictureMate 500
Epson is one of the main manufacturers of photo inkjet printers and its dedicated, small-format PictureMate 500 is interesting not only as a convenient, portable photo lab but also because it prints in six colours, rather than the three colours provided by equivalent HP and Lexmark printers. Where these small appliance printers are sometimes said…
Sony Ericsson – K750i
There are plenty of handsets that claim to offer something special, and the jaded journalist reviewer can sometimes feel that the hype is overdone. So it was with some relish that we found SonyEricsson’s K750i to offer a great deal. We’d even go as far as to say we’d choose to carry it. The headline…
MSI – NX6600GT-TD128E
MSI uses a tried and trusted formula when it develops a new graphics card, and it has followed it to the letter with the NX6600GT-TD128E. The box is large and impressive and the graphics card itself looks bigger than many other 6600GT models, but that’s an optical illusion as the copper-coloured heatsink is large and…
Focus Multimedia – Infinite Sudoku
The thing with a good fad is that there’s no shortage of people trying to ride it. At Easter there wasn’t a single Sudoku product on the shelves, to our knowledge. Now there are three of them in a matter of weeks, with Sold Out and GSP joining Focus’s Infinite Sudoku, all for under a…
Swissbit – Swissmemory USB Victorinox RetroALOX
USB key drives are everywhere these days, and there’s a number of ways in which manufacturers try to make theirs special. Swissbit has come up with what has to be one of the best ideas ever; combining a USB key drive and a Swiss Army Knife. This squeezes scissors, knife, nail file and screwdriver into…