Yearly Archives: 2011
Big Lens
Reallusion have built up a deserved reputation for their range of 3D and 2D animation software but they’ve also recently started experimenting with fun camera effects for the iPhone. Their latest – Big Lens – promises grandiosely to ‘turn your iPhone/iPad into a professional SLR camera’ and while it falls short of that lofty aim,…
Kodak EasyShare M5350
The clue, of course, is all in the name. Kodak’s EasyShare range is specifically designed for happy snappers who don’t want to spend hours in micro-management before they take their photo and who are also impatient to share with the world (or at least with their friends) their most recent events on film. One look…
Acme: MP-01 Portable Media Player
The creation of the external hard drive revolutionised the way in which data and entertainment could be handily transported – which was a lifeline to both business people and students. What began as a solid brick-like unit diversified into slim USB flash drives and what was just a data ‘warehouse’ transformed into a multimedia player….
Iron Brigade
You might have heard of Trenched – although you won’t hear of it any more. Trenched was released over in the US in the summer, and was supposed to follow swiftly in Europe. However, due to an EU copyright problem with the name – it clashed with a Portuguese board game, of all things –…
Belkin Play N750 DB (F9K1103) router
Belkin’s latest top-of-the-range wireless router, the Play N750 DB, has dropped most of the unimpressive third-party add-ons that we met in last year’s Play Max model, but introduces some clever (and rather more useful) new antenna technology to improve wireless range. The N750 DB is available for use with either cable/BT Infinity or ADSL2+ connections,…
Epson WorkForce Pro WP-4025 printer
The market for affordable, fast printers for small offices is on the rise, but it is laser printers – usually budget mono models – that have been making the most noise of late. This inkjet effort from Epson not only claims to be faster than its laser-based competitors for smaller jobs, but it’s also marketed…
Samsung GT B2710 Solid Immerse
Why should sedentary city folk have all the fun? Samsung has outdoor types firmly in its sites for the Solid Immerse, a handset with tough phone credentials – though there’s nothing smart about this Android-less offering. Design The Solid Immerse has several aspects to its protective design. First comes a dust and water protector that…
Samsung GT-S5670 Galaxy Fit
Is Samsung’s latest smart phone designed for joggers or bloggers? Its name may lead you to believe that it’s for the former, but this Android-based handset is little more than a lightweight, mid-range option that’s all about the low price. The Fit, which runs Android 2.3.4, seems more at home in the pocket of an…
SEGA: Sonic Generations
It’s almost impossible to imagine that it’s twenty years since a small blue speedy creature first appeared on the SEGA Mega Drive and Game Gear consoles and became an overnight gaming legend. Yet remarkably in all that time Sonic the Hedgehog is still doing almost exactly the same tasks as at the beginning – i.e….