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A couple of years ago I found myself looking for an espresso machine and after much deliberation I bought myself a Saeco Odea Giro Plus from a coffee shop near my school. I paid about 40,000 yen for it – a little more than one can get it on sale for in the States, but this is Japan and appliances tend to be pricey. Why did I pick this machine? I had started out looking [...]
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I have spent the best part of the last two weeks on vacation in Singapore and Australia testing the Hama Katoomba 150L, one of two camera bags that the folks at lovecases.co.uk were kind enough to send me shortly before my departure. After spending two weeks lugging this pint-sized camera backpack through airports, on the steamy equatorial streets of Singapore and through the relative cool of Australia in fall, I have come to love it [...]
I’ve had my sweaty palms on a Logitech G27 Racing Wheel for the last week or so, replacing a still functioning but ancestral Logitech Momo Force wheel, here’s what I found out about it. The G27 kit, wheel, pedals and shifter weigh in at almost 20lbs. This makes the wheel itself very sturdy, an H pattern shift knob is included and the pedals are absolutely marvelous and include a clutch. All three parts even come [...]
D-link’s pitch for the DCS-932L is that it’s a wireless night-vision camera that connects to your existing WiFi and automatically uploads stills to an FTP server when motion is detected, comes with My D-Link, an online service to keep tabs on your stuff from work, that’s supposed to be easy to use. On paper it’s all good. The reality however is quite different. First off, the camera is designed for indoor use, you cannot mount [...]
I’ve gotten my hands on not one, but two Ideapad K1 tablets from Lenovo and I’ve been playing around with them for almost two months now. Here’s what I found about the weird looking tablet. The first thing that strikes you as you open the box is the look that the tablet has, most tablets are well, rectangular. Some might have slightly rounded edges but no other ones have this weird long swooping rounded edge [...]
I’ve gotten my hands on an Asus OPlay Live HD Media Player, one of the latest Asus media streamers and players to come out, and given it a test run against the LG Smart TV Upgrader I already had in my living room that I’ve also reviewed here some time ago. Initial setup for the ASUS unit is simple; It has an HDMI connector, an optical sPDIF out for digital audio, a network and a power [...]
Last spring I was at the Montreal launch of the Nintendo 3DS and after briefly testing it, I came to the conclusion that it wasn’t for me. The steep price and the fact that all the demos were using 3D in maximum mode, gave me not only a headache but also made me cross-eyed, vomitous and possibly infertile. This along with the lack of any new Mario franchise games at launch, had turned me off [...]
Last summer, my daughter asked to have a television in her room, initially I said no. I had my reasons, first there was the issue of getting the cable wiring to her room, and after the “how?” came the “what?” under the form of what content would be delivered to the TV. I have a dual tuner satellite receiver from Bell (9241) in the basement, and a second, single tuner receiver (6131) upstairs. Both are [...]
LG is one of my favorite electronics companies, and I was waiting anxiously for my chance at trying out the LG Smart TV Upgrader (ST600) so as soon as one became available I picked it up and gave it a try. In the box are included the Smart TV unit, a power supply with its cord, a CD-ROM with instructions as well as a trial version of Nero MediaHome 4, which I immediately discarded as [...]
Yes, I know that things do go wrong with operating system upgrades – sometimes tragically wrong – but I am not one to beat around the bush and spend hours and hours lovingly backing up my system. Nope, when the upgrade hit the App Store, I jumped straight in… with both feet. Given that I had kept up-to-date with my updates, I assumed that there would be no problems. It is a significant upgrade, downloading [...]
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The Planex MZK-MP01HD is a high-definition media player aimed at the wider consumer market. If you want to digitize your DVD collection so that it is on hand at the push of a button, the MZK-MP01HD is your player. I grabbed mine on sale for about $100, slapped a 2TB 3.5″ SATA HDD in it and voila 2TB of high definition capacity for around $150. The setup If you are not technically inclined, then the [...]
As a father of two little ones I need all the help I can on saving my back. This became evident when I started showing my oldest one how to ride a bike. After a lot practice and a seriously sore back I decided to look into something to help make this rite of passage smoother. This is when I discovered and fell in love with the Balance Buddy. The Balance Buddy refers to itself [...]
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