Monthly Archives: January 2008
ViewSonic – PJ758
The Viewsonic PJ758 is a hefty projector that is intended to be used in a fixed installation such as a meeting room. That’s not to say that you can’t lug the PJ758 from one meeting room to another, but it weighs in at a substantial 3.5kg and measures 340 x 100 x 270mm, so you…
Nintendo – Link’s Crossbow Training
Twenty quid and a sort-of-free sort-of-peripheral? How about that for a billy bargain? Only thing is, it’s unlikely to be the best £20 you’ve spent in recent times. We’re talking about Link’s Crossbow Training, which takes Link from the Zelda games and marries him up to an old-fashioned, lightgun-style blaster. Only the problem is it’s…
Focus Multimedia – 3D Globe Deluxe
When even the average computer user has had a good tinker with Google Earth for free, you’d better have something impressive up your sleeve if you’re trying to sell a product called 3D Globe Deluxe. Especially if you want even a tenner for it. Focus Multimedia makes a healthy fist of things, though. Initially you’re…
Neuros Technology – Neuros OSD
In the search for the Holy Grail of media management and distribution around the home, we’ve stumbled across the Neuros OSD. It’s a small black box that, at least on paper, promises to offer a massive range of solutions to digital media problems. The Neuros connects to your television and can play back digitally encoded…
Hitachi – CP-RX70
Hitachi isn’t a name that you usually associate with budget products but in the case of the CP-RX70 LCD projector the low price is a headline-grabbing figure. It’s no great surprise that the package is fairly basic, so the black carry case is rather ordinary and the remote control is fairly large and clunky. The…
Casio – Exilim Z1080
We’ve been pretty impressed by the consistency and quality of Casio’s Exilim range, which has recently been updated with the release of the 10.1-megapixel Z1080. It mimics the rather minimalist design of much of the rest of the family, which is no bad thing, with a small array of effectively laid out controls and a…
Nokia – N81 8GB
With 8GB of memory built in, the quad-band, 3G, N81 8GB might sound like the music fan’s ideal mobile phone. Certainly the presence of Nokia’s podcasting application, an FM radio, a two-piece headset with 3.5mm connector beyond the hands-free and music controls section and a 3.5mm connector to the phone itself, and good playback quality…
E-TEN – Glofiish X800
The Glofiish X800 is a very well specified Windows Mobile Pocket PC. It doesn’t come cheap, and that is in part explained by its high end specifications, in part by the fact that it is only available SIM-free. If you are prepared to part with the money you do get one massively functional handheld device….
Nintendo – Sight Training
Nintendo has spent much of the last two years reaping the benefits of testing people’s brain power on its handheld DS platform. The Brain Training games, along with Big Brain Academy, have been some of the biggest selling titles of the past few years, and arguably Nintendo’s most lucrative franchises right now. However, now the…
IBM – Lotus Symphony
Freely downloadable, Lotus Symphony marks IBM’s re-emergence into the office suite marketplace, long after Lotus Smartsuite last made a fresh appearance. The twist this time, of course, is that it’s a free project, and one with a reasonably narrow focus. The tools provided with the installation – which spins out of a comparably slim 135MB…