Monthly Archives: September 2010
RIM – BlackBerry Curve 3G
The BlackBerry Curve 3G is the latest smartphone from a very successful manufacturer. A central part of the BlackBerry Curve ‘look’ is the upwardly curved miniature QWERTY keyboard so beloved of mobile email and SMS fans. Its keys are separated from each other and raised nicely from the baseplate. These are factors which help make…
Capcom – Dead Rising 2
Zombies are lonely creatures. They hang around together in huge packs, yet the spark of undead romance is never seen. The reason is obvious: no one caters for zombie love. Unlike normal humans, zombies don’t have the necessary dating products to help them pull. There’s no zombie cologne to make them smell more attractive to…
Olympus – FE-5050
The Olympus FE range of compact digital cameras has been designed to be chic, lightweight and practical, and the two latest versions – the FE-5040 and the FE-5050 – continue in the same tradition. The FE-5050 differs only minutely from the FE-5040, with the former sporting a 14-megapixel CCD sensor and the latter the 12-megapixel…
LaCie – Minimus
USB 3.0 drives offer a serious boost in performance for those who work with large amounts of data and Lacie’s Minimus claims to be the “world’s smallest USB3.0 desktop drive”. We’re not quite sure what definitively constitutes a drive fitting the “desktop” criteria, but as high-capacity storage goes it’s a fairly slimline, if weighty, device…
Sega – Mega Drive Classic Collection Volume 1
This ten-strong nostalgic compilation of Mega Drive games is headed up by a golden oldie which needs no introduction. Or perhaps just a very short one. Sonic the Hedgehog was the fast paced platformer which consumed hour upon hour of our time as a student at the turn of the nineties, and caused much frustration…
Carbonite – Carbonite 4.0
Modern security suites have done a fairly decent job of supplementing core protection with online and local backup functionality, but few offer the kind of automated protection found in dedicated solutions such as Carbonite. Updating its software for 2010, Carbonite offers a number of improvements, all of which seem centred around convenience without compromising the…
FujiFilm – FinePix Z800EXR
You don’t appear to be anybody in technology these days if your device doesn’t have a large LCD screen and preferably a response to finger gestures. Fujifilm’s FinePix Z800EXR mid-range compact certainly has the big screen, its 89mm widescreen display covering pretty much the whole of its back face, and responds to simple gestures, like…
Toshiba – Satellite Pro C650-121
The range of Toshiba Satellite Pro laptops stretches from a tiddly 11.6-inch T110 that weighs a sylph-like 1.58kg, all the way up to an enormous 17-inch L550 that comes in at 3kg. At the extreme end of the scale we have the slightly larger 17.3-inch L670 Pro. The point is that Satellite Pros come in…
Y-Cam – Bullet
Surveillance and security are two of the top obsessions of the current century and, as ever, technology is always willing to lend a helping hand. IP cameras (often called network cameras) for business use tend to be either cheap and cheerful or pricey and fully-loaded. And when you enter the world of outdoor models, things…
Iceberg Interactive – Global Agenda
We’re a sucker for a good post-apocalyptic romp. Whether it’s films or games, Mad Max or Fallout, there’s nothing like a bit of bleak survivalism in the wreckage of the future to remind you that perhaps the world today isn’t so bad. Or at least, it could be worse. Global Agenda is set in the…