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Thrustmaster Ferrari Wireless Gamepad 430 Scuderia
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 "Today I am going to check out one of the hottest looking PS3/PC controllers ever to hit the market called the Ferrari Wireless Gamepad 430 Scuderia Limited Edition. The gamepad is an officially licensed Ferrari product and has programmable buttons. If you are looking for a new game controller that can work for your PC and your PS3 read on for all of the details."
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Active Media Products Penguin BLU Pen Drive
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"Active Media Products sent us a surprise with the Executive I 2-in-1 Carbon Fiber Pen we took a look at last month. I have to admit I am not up to date on Linux or the many builds. The last time I sat down and tried to do anything with the operating system was a few nights before throwing my last LAN party where Linux was run on a few of the servers.
The Active Media Products Penguin BLU is quite an odd creature. On the surface it looks like a cute little USB drive that a fifth grader would be carrying around. Once installed the drive springs to life like an action movie. You can use the drive either as a standard run of the mill thumb drive or set your BIOS to boot from a USB device and be looking at a Linux desktop in under a minute."
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FIRST LOOK - USB 3.0 in the PCSTATS Labs (ASUS U3S6)
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 USB 3.0 addresses the needs of large inexpensive storage
by adding an even higher transfer rate to match these new devices. The new name
for the USB 3.0 standard is "SuperSpeed
USB " and it is backwards compatible with Hi-Speed USB 2.0 ports. Data transfer speeds are being
spec'd at 5000 Mbps for USB 3.0, a significant speedboost from
480 Mbps for USB 2.0 and 12 Mbps from the initial USB 1.1 standard. In other
words, USB3.0 is about 10x as fast as USB2.0. Nice!
PCSTATS first look at USB 3.0 comes via a new PCI Express x4 drop in card
manufactured by ASUS called the U3S6. It features two USB 3.0 ports powered by
the NEC D720200F1 USB 3.0 host controller, a PLX Technology PEX8613-BA50BC PCI-E
bridge chip and two SATA 6G ports care of the Marvell 88SE9123-NAA2 chip.
No details yet on what ASUS will be charging for this little wonder-card, but $30 is likely. With Seagate Barracuda XT SATA 6G hard drives now available me
thinks it will be a popular upgrade for existing Intel P55 motherboard
owners.
The search for USB 3.0 devices begins! As is usual for new standards,
USB 3.0 won't be broadly adopted till Intel and AMD natively
include it on their motherboard chipsets. Buffalo apparently have the first
USB3.0 external hard drive, but we're secretly waiting for Corsair, Supertalent,
OCZ and PQI to release a 64GB USB 3.0 flash drive.
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LUXA2 H1-Touch Mobile Device Stand review
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There's something when it comes to luxury: It's not about the
function, nor is it about practicality. It's about the excess and sheer form;
the beauty in itself when it comes to the object's existence. It's about the
image, and the fact that, while you could have better spent your money
elsewhere, you didn't. Because despite the vanity of the object, it's so
necessary, yet completely unnecessary, all at the same time. The fact that,
if function was even remotely a concern, you could have saved a wad of cash
by purchasing something that comes in less form and does the same thing. But
you didn't. Because it's about luxury. To get a hold of what it's like to own
something that addresses such an interesting market segment, what we have
here at APH Networks today is one of the latest creations from LUXA2 -- a
brand created by Thermaltake that focuses on luxury lifestyle products. The
company's H1-Touch is all about coming down to its aesthetic value. Economic
value? What is that, anyway? An iPhone/iPod (Or pretty much any mobile
electronics device, to be honest) stand that "holds nothing but your mobile
device" and costs approximately $50 retail at press time, the LUXA2 H1-Touch
certainly isn't the Swiss army knife of mobile device stands! But for what
it's worth, the LUXA2 stand is constructed of a beautiful, clean aluminum
design; and even a couple Swarovski crystals to give the visual appeal a
little boost. Just for sitting on your desk all day, and that's it. Good
stuff. So we'll show off our little bit of excessive pride today,
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Cocoon Innovations CLB551 Laptop Case
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" Today for review review I’ve got another case from Cocoon, but this one is for laptops up to 15.4” in size. It also features their GridIt system, along with several pockets and lots of room for your stuff. I was truly surprised by just how much stuff I could get in this case and still have room left over. Like the netbook case, this one is also nicely made and should offer decent protection for your laptop while providing room enough for all of your stuff."
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Verbatim Tune Board speaker keyboard review
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Speaker keyboards, this is new! I do understand the concept, less desk space taken up by speakers. This is good market timing, with the idea of more compact computers creeping into the market.
How well do they work? What is the functionality of this keyboard? How about the space saving, is it compact? Let us take a look at Verbatim’s Tune Board that came onto the market this year.
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Teufel Concept E Magnum worth £170
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XSReviews' competition with Teufel has less just one day to go, so if you want to get your entry in do it fast! The German surround sound makers, Teufel have been kind enough to allow us to give away to the winner of this competition, a fantastic Concept E-Magnum set of 5.1 speakers, worth a whopping £170."
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HP USB 2.0 Docking Station
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"Docking stations for laptops have been around almost since the existence of laptops themselves. The problem is that not all laptops have a docking port built in. Usually only the business class notebooks, which are often more expensive than their consumer grade counterparts, have provisions for connecting to a dock. The product we have for review today is a universal laptop dock featuring DisplayLink technology. Although this device carries the HP brand name, its design allows it to work on just about any computer that has a USB 2.0 port. Freed from traditional docking station restraints of specific brands and/or models, the HP USB 2.0 Docking Station allows external connection of VGA, DVI, USB, SPK, MIC and NIC devices and shares these peripherals through one standard USB connection to the host computer."
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Thermaltake Ultra Slim 65W Universal Laptop Power Adapter Review
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"The Thermaltake Ultra Slim 65W power adapter features a universal design to work with most laptops. The Thermaltake Ultra Slim 65W power adapter is compact with a slick carrying case for convenient carrying. Thermaltake also produces this charger with a European plug for international travel."
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Speedlink Base Line USB Keyboard Review
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Input devices are essential to the running of every single PC out there – after all they allow the user to control their processes and applications; a good mouse and keyboard are invaluable and can make working or gaming much easier. One such company which has a good track record in the peripheral industry is Speedlink and they are renowned for producing top quality products at a range of price levels that can suit a specific user’s needs. With a large number of keyboards already available, Speedlink have created the Base Line – a keyboard designed with the economic crisis in mind sporting a very reasonable price tag. We’ve seen brilliant things from Speedlink in the past, so let’s see how this latest product shapes up…”
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Eagle Consus ET-CS2XMESU2 @ LanOC Reviews
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Hard drive bays come in all shapes, sizes, features, and functions. What exactly are important in a good external hard drive adapter? Especially when considering the smaller 2.5? hard drives. Of course you’re looking for something that will obviously connect your hard drive and transfer data, but what about the other aspects that push the experience beyond average? Today we look at the Eagle 2.5? External to see how it performs.
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OCZ Sabre OLED Gaming Keyboard - Needless Bling
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Sometimes cool ideas have to be dumbed down to get to market. While the Art Lebedev digital keys are fancy - Oooow Lights! - it's an unnecessarily complex level of bling for a keyboard. We're talking switches here people, switches.
The Studio created a whirlwind of excitement when their Optimus Maximus keyboard concept surfaced in 2005. The peripheral touted a full set of OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) buttons that were 100% user-customizable and downright amazing-looking.
I had the opportunity to see it in person at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show as well as get some hands-on time with its little brother, the Mini Three. The hype was real and the technology very cool indeed. I wanted one, as did nearly everyone else -- that is, until the company revealed how much it would cost. Priced at over $1,400, the Optimus Maximus remains more fantasy than reality, as the closest most users will come to it are the photos and videos available online.
Fortunately for those interested in OLED keyboard technology, Art Lebedev isn’t the only player around. OCZ Technology recently released their Sabre OLED Gaming Keyboard, which features a bank of nine programmable OLED keys and a significantly cheaper price tag.
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Kingwin F-35
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"After thoroughly using the F-35, I really can't think of too many things wrong with it. Actually, all I can think of is that it lacks e-SATA, and it fingerprints easily. Neither of these are a big deal at all. The F-35 looks awesome! The shiny black coloring works. I love the two 50mm fans and the blue LED on the front is great. More importantly, the performance is great as well! The F-35 does perform slower then an internal drive, but that's to be expected when using an external enclosure."
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Modtek Mini Flexible Keyboard
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The keys feel spaced oddly and the space "bar" has to be pressed in a certain spot in order for it to work properly. I typically press the space bar with my left thumb and the sensor position inside the Modtek keyboard seems better suited to right-thumb spacing. Thankfully the "Shift" keys are doubled up and they are positioned quite well. . .
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Proporta USB TurboCharger 3400
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"Proporta shouldn't sound new to you if you have been following our reviews closely. Today we will take a step further to review one of their lately launched products; USB TurboCharger 3400. Proporta USB TurboCharger 3400 is the successor of Ted Baker where both of these devices are a USB portable charger with internal battery storage for charging up any gadget at anytime anywhere."
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Aerocool Touch 1000
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"Today we are glad to introduce another new brand arrived on our doorstep; Aerocool. Aerocool isn't a new brand, in fact they are in the market quite some time ago and LCD touch screen control panel is one of their legend products. Let us have an in-depth review on Aerocool Touch 1000 which is a single 5.25" control panel with fan speed controller and temperature monitoring."
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Thermaltake Soprano Aluminum Keyboard
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Today Tom Gowing takes a look at the all new Thermaltake Soprano Aluminum Keyboard. Stepping out of their norm, will this new keyboard be the next must have in gaming technology? Or should Thermaltake stick to what it knows best: Cases, and Cooling? Join TechwareLabs as we take a look...
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Startech.com KVM Console to USB 2.0 Crash Cart Adapter
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I can see the Startech.com KVM Console to USB 2.0 crash cart adapter as an invaluable item in an IT professional's tool kit, providing an easy way to access terminals, industrial computers, headless servers, and other applications where you might not keep a keyboard, mouse, and monitor installed at all times.
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Startech.com KVM Console to USB 2.0 Crash Cart Adapter
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: I can see the Startech.com KVM Console to USB 2.0 crash cart adapter as an invaluable item in an IT professional's tool kit, providing an easy way to access terminals, industrial computers, headless servers, and other applications where you might not keep a keyboard, mouse, and monitor installed at all times.
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