Nvidia has finally unveiled their RTX 2060 graphics card bring the expensive Ray Tracing performance to lower tied cards. Nvidia’s RTX 2060 Founders Edition will ship on January 15th for $349 (for Founders Edition), packing 5 Gigarays of Ray Tracing performance, placing the graphics card not that far behind the RTX 2070. There is no…
It wouldn’t be CES without a whole heap of TV tech with each company trying to one up the other. 8K already dominated the TV tech at IFA last year so the trend continues at CES. In order to stand out, LG has announced a new 88-inch 8K OLED panel that produces 3.2.2-channel Dolby Atmos…
Samsung introduced MicroLED technology last year with the customisable Wall TV that was 146-inches. This technology hasn’t entered the market yet, and at IFA in Berlin last year both Samsung and LG were demoing the technology. Samsung is continuing to push this new technology and upping the ante with what they call the Window which…
Sadly we did not get the announcement for the desktop AMD 3000-series Ryzen chips at CES. However, AMD is launching the first parts of the Ryzen 3000-series of processors, focused around the Ryzen Mobile 2nd Gen family for both the general 15W market as well as the high-performance 35W market. The new range of processors are based…
For a while Ring smart doorbells were the only decent option on the market, but, quite likely due to their success, several other brands entered last year including Arlo Audio Doorbell and Nest Hello. Not to be left out Netatmo have just announced their own smart video doorbell at CES 2019. With the Netatmo Smart Video…
Last year Nvidia announced the Big Format Gaming Display that were 65-inches and capable of 4K HDR at 120 Hz. No products have materialised from that announcement in 2018, but it looks like HP will be one of the first to deliver. The monster HP Omen X Emperium uses a 64.5-inch 8-bit AMVA panel featuring…
I have previously reviewed the Lightwave Generation 2, but Lightwave has been kind enough to send me one of the radiator valves to review so I thought it would be worth redoing the review of the system and see how it has improved since its first launch. For UK users Lightwave is one of the…
I have had a traditional Yale alarm fitted in my home for years but I never use it as I generally found burglar alarms annoying. I am not sure of anyone that actually responds to one going off we all just assume it is a false alarm. The new Yale Sync Smart Home Alarm brings…
A leak for the Xiaomi Mi 9 has been posted on the Chinese microblogging website Weibo which is often the source of most phone leaks. This is a unverified leak so take everything with a pinch of salt. The new addition to the Xiaomi Mi has significant upgrades and combined with a relatively low price…
In the past couple of years, Qualcomm has been targetting the laptop CPU market with the Snapdragon 835 Mobile PC Platform, which was then followed up by the Snapdragon 850 and more recently the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx. The main selling point of these chips has been the always on always connected status, promising a 24h+…
Released in late last year the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite is an exceptionally well-specced budget phone running Android One. Outside of the UK this is branded as the Redmi 6 Pro and features the MIUI interface rather than Android One. Currently priced at just £144.18 on GearBest it is one of the cheapest phones featured…
The Ring Video Doorbell 2 is probably one of my favourite gadgets that I reviewed last year. I get some many packages it is frustrating missing them, quite often I used to miss the doorbell even if I was in. With Ring not only do my two chimes ring but my phone rings which then…