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Playstation Vita Review

Playstation Vita Review

The Sony Playstation Vita is a new handheld console that blends the classic gameplay of traditional consoles with new technologies offered by tablets and mobile phones and has more features than any single console today.

Hacking the Mio C220 GPS

Hacking the Mio C220 GPS

I’ve never owned a pocket knife.  I discovered long ago when my grandfather gave me my first Coleman multi-tool that a simple blade that tucks into its own handle is nothing compared to a nice multi-tool with screwdrivers, blades, saws, ect… So when I bought my Mio C220 GPS unit for my geocaching hobby, I [...]

NitroX X835 Bluetooth Handsfree Kit

NitroX X835 Bluetooth Handsfree Kit

Cell phones are practically ubiquotous in today’s modern society.  A natural response to new technology are laws to make that technology safer.  Most people use their cell phone as an extension of their physical being, and as such talk and text in the car, which have caused many unnecessary accidents.  It is not advisable to [...]

NitroX iConn+ iPhone Battery Case Review

NitroX iConn+ iPhone Battery Case Review

Nearly every hardware critic agrees that Apple’s iPhone is an evolutionary leap in cell phone gadgetry.  Those same reviewers unamimously condemn the company for its battery policy.  The iPhone’s battery life is woefully inadequate and the battery cannot be easily replaced.  Normally a company puts limitations on a product in order to upsell an additional [...]

Peregrine USB Gaming Glove Controller

Peregrine USB Gaming Glove Controller

We have seen a host of funky contraptions for PC gamers.  We have seen force-feedback flak jackets, custom keyboards, gyroscopic 3d joysticks and 3d glasses.  Never before have I encountered a gaming gadget like the Peregrine USB glove. That’s right… a USB glove.  It’s a new way to control PC games that you wear on [...]

Evercool Defender Turbo Cooling Fan for PS3

Evercool Defender Turbo Cooling Fan for PS3

Sony’s Playstation 3 is well known for being loud and hot. Unfortunately, those are not qualities that most people look for in electronics, especially when it comes to gaming systems. One of the most highly recommended accessories for the PS3 or Xbox 360 are cooling fans, and Evercool has produced the Defender Turbo Cooling Fan [...]

Enermax Aeolus CP001 Notebook Cooler Review

Enermax Aeolus CP001 Notebook Cooler Review

Notebook computers tend to get hot.  Some are even considered to be “desktop replacements” because of all the advanced hardware thrown into such a small space.  With desktop systems, we have the luxury of adding large and advanced heatsinks with fancy LED fans, but laptops pretty much have to rely on the OEM cooling that [...]

Rock Band Unplugged Review

Rock Band Unplugged Review

All I can say, is: it’s about time.  Why did it take so long to get Rock Band on PSP?  Nintendo DS has had Guitar Hero On Tour for a couple of years now, and while everyone else was playing FPS and old rips of Playstation One games, we got the pleasure of watching other [...]

SansDigital MobileStor MS2UTN+ RAID Enclosure Review

SansDigital MobileStor MS2UTN+ RAID Enclosure Review

Sometimes setting up a RAID array can be a pain in the butt.  For one, professional RAID cards can be expensive.  Two, many “easy RAID” features of motherboards are closed solutions.  Three: cheaper solutions may not be reliable, and often require offline rebuilds when something goes wrong..  What if you want to have the redundancy [...]

nMedia 1000B Home Theater Case Review

nMedia 1000B Home Theater Case Review

More people are trading in their complicated rack of home theater equipment in exchange for an Home Theater PC.  Most HTPCs are all-in-one appliances that can easily replace a DVD player, BluRay player (or burner), DVR, MP3 player, and can do many other entertainment tasks like gaming. If you’ve made the decision to upgrade your [...]

Teknmotion PulseWave Headphones

Teknmotion PulseWave Headphones

PC Gamers need to hear in order to play effectively.  What good is your genetically-enhanced super-soldier if he doesn’t know to shoot through the wall to take out the hidden zombie horde?  If he (or she) walks through that door unprepared, then his (or her) brains are Kibble Chow. Seriously, PC gamers expect a lot [...]

Digital Foci PhotoSafe II Review

Digital Foci PhotoSafe II Review

Digital photogrophers need media… it’s a fact of life.  You can be away on vacation or lost in the Australian bush, and inevitably you’ll run out of storage space on your memory cards.  You can run out even quicker if you shoot in RAW mode or have one of those new-fangled HD video cameras that [...]

Xbox 360 Controller for Windows

Xbox 360 Controller for Windows

I’ve been looking for the perfect gamepad ever since I had a PC, which was way before the original Doom debuted. Back then, the Super Nintendo presented its revolutionary controller, and many companies like Gravis tried to create knock-off solutions for the PC gamer. They were quite innovative at the time and had several improvements [...]

ATEN CS1782 2-port DVI KVMP Switch Review

ATEN CS1782 2-port DVI KVMP Switch Review

Many PC enthusiasts play video games and do regular computing on the same machine, and we all know that the more software you add, the more cluttered and unstable your computer becomes. Imagine batching up a bunch of videos for compression, and then getting online for some fragging without any slowdown or distractions. This dream can [...]

OCZ Rally2 Turbo 4GB Flash Drive Review

OCZ Rally2 Turbo 4GB Flash Drive Review

USB flash drives are almost standard issue amongst IT professionals, and are useful for students and pretty much anyone who uses more than one computer.  The capacities of today’s flash drives allow us to carry many gigabytes of personal data, so the write performance must also increase to fill the drive in a timely manner.  [...]

Get a List of Vista’s Drivers from the Command Prompt

Get a List of Vista’s Drivers from the Command Prompt

If you’ve had your PC running for any length of time, then you’ve no doubt added and removed hardware since Windows was first installed.  Even if you uninstall the hardware, there may still be traces of the drivers on your system, and possibly even multiple versions that could cause conflicts. Even if you have a “semi-closed” system [...]

Razer Lycosa Gaming Keyboard Review

Razer Lycosa Gaming Keyboard Review

PC keyboard technology has remained pretty much the same in its 30-year existance, so why is it that there are scores of new models coming out every year?  I personally have gone through the rise and fall of the first IBM “tank” keyboards, quiet keyboards, ergonomic keyboards, media keyboards, and the latest gaming keyboards. What [...]

Nyko Lineup at CES 08

Nyko Lineup at CES 08

Nyko has been creating inventive and functional third-party console gadgets for years, many times improving on the original manufactuer’s design with a lower price point.  Nyko was at CES 2008 showing off some of their new (and not-so-new) products for gaming enthusiasts. Wireless Nunchuck This is the killer device that Nintendo fans have been salivating [...]

Boynq Toastit 7-in-1 USB Card Reader

Boynq Toastit 7-in-1 USB Card Reader

Card readers are pretty handy these days. With everything that requires or uses memory sticks, flash drives, and SD cards now-a-days, toting around a card reader can be helpful for getting tasks accomplished in our busy lives. So out rolls Boynq with a sweet 7-in-1 card reader in the shape of a… erm… toaster? A [...]

Razer Lycosa Gaming Keyboard Hands-On

Razer Lycosa Gaming Keyboard Hands-On

Razer’s Tarantula gaming keyboard is easily one of the PC gamer’s favorite gaming peripherals, and Razer has built on this success with the new Lycossa Gaming Keyboard. The previous Tarantula was unique in that it offered backlighting on the keys that gamers use most: the standard WASD keys used for movement.  This new keyboard has a [...]