Reviews of all the latest gadgets and technology
Acer has been experimenting with improving its environmental credentials for a while now. Most recent laptops have used environmentally friendly packaging. Even the inks used are specially selected. The new Apire Vero, which would likely be part of the Aspire 5 lineup, takes things a step further, taking an environmentally friendly approach to the whole…
TP-Link continues to expand the product range within its affordable Tapo sub-brand. Recently, this includes the addition of two LED light strips, the Tapo L900-5, which I am reviewing today and the slightly more expensive RGBIC multicolour Tapo L920-5. Tapo L900-5 vs Tapo L920-5: RGB vs RGBIC Light Strips There are two different light strips…
I recently reviewed the Redmi Smart Band Pro, which was a good but perhaps unremarkable fitness band that is very similar to the Xiaomi Mi Band 6. I was also sent the Redmi Buds 3, a pair of affordable true wireless earbuds with an Airpodesque design. Priced at under £40 these are well into the…
The Netatmo Presence was the first smart floodlight camera to enter the market, and this was followed up by the Ring floodlight and EZVIZ LC1. For a time, there were many other options on the market, which I felt was a missed opportunity as I find floodlight cameras one of the best home surveillance products…
The Stage 360 is the latest affordable soundbar from Creative, sitting somewhere in the middle of their product lineup and being geared a bit more towards TV use than the gaming focussed Katana range. At the top of the Creative lineup is the premium SXFI Carrier priced at £900, while the older Stage V2 is…
I have been a big fan of the Eufy security cameras and doorbells ever since I reviewed the eufyCam E back in early 2019. Then the Eufy Doorbell and eufyCam 2C have been two of my main recommendations in recent years for a doorbell and battery camera. I always attributed the excellent battery life of…
Akarina recently sent me the Akarina 01 starter kit to review. Due to plants being annoyingly slow to grow, it will likely be weeks before I can do a full review, but I thought it would be worth posting about this now as this would make a good Christmas present for some people. Neither me…
We are still years away from 10GbE getting mainstream traction. While network cards are reasonably affordable, the switches are still incredibly expensive. On the other hand, 2.5GbE seems to have become quite popular in the past year or two. I have reviewed several affordable 2.5GbE switches, many motherboards are now fitted with network adaptors that…
I recently reviewed the Twinkly Flex, and Line smart LED lights. I came away impressed; while the overall system wasn’t quite as refined as Philips Hue, it excelled at creativity with the option to map your lights and group them together and create custom lighting patterns. While there may be plenty of competing smart LED…
The Redmi Smart Band Pro was announced at the end of October and is one of the few Redmi products to be available in the UK. The smart band shares a lot in common with the Xiaomi Mi Band 6, with Redmi being a sub-brand of Xiaomi. Specification Design / Features vs Xiaomi Mi Band…
I have reviewed most if not all the new Reolink cameras this year, and the new WiFi RLC-523WA is one of the more interesting (though the 8MP POE RLC-823A is more my cup of tea). This crams in all the tech we have seen from Reolink in the past year, including object detection and spotlights…
Three years ago, Qualcomm invited me to London to learn more about Windows on Arm and the new Snapdragon 835 Mobile PC Platform, and I later reviewed one of the first Windows on Arm devices, the HP Envy X2. It was an adventurous move by Qualcomm. ARM-based chips don’t natively run x86 applications, so they…
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