"Green" electronic products are extremely popular nowadays, since more and more people are becoming aware of the major environmental issues of our planet and actually try to do something about it. And that's exactly the case with the EarthDrive USB flash drive from ATP, a device that really screams "green," starting with its packaging and ending with the material it's built from.ATP Inc. is a well-known manufacturer of all sorts of memory products, whether we're talking about Flash memory or DRAM. However, with the EarthDrive, it has managed to create a product that's entirely bio-recyclable, manufactured from a biodegra... [read more >>] Apple's iPhone is most likely one of the trendiest and most popular portable devices available on the market nowadays, so it should come as no surprise that there's a huge number of various accessories available for it on the market, ranging from all sorts of pouches and headphones to some pretty serious gear, like docking stations. One such docking station is the Altec Lansing T612, which offers quite an interesting set of features, while managing to keep the retail price at a low level.The T612 arrived on the market in the first half of 2008, and really managed to prove its worth in time. Plus, despite general concerns, it ... [read more >>] The South-Korean iRiver company is considered by many users out there the next best alternative to either Apple or Microsoft and their respective flagship products, the iPod and Zune. Over the years, they've launched a very large number of highly-innovative products, each of their MP3 or MP4 players providing certain features or combinations of features rarely found in the case of other similar devices.And this is exactly the case with one of the company's latest and most interesting players, the Spinn model, which was launched earlier this year and which has finally made it to Softpedia's gadget-testing lab. This device offe... [read more >>] The world of computing has changed drastically over the recent years, the evolution of technology making computers increasingly portable, smaller and more lightweight. This led to the appearance of a whole new segment of users, called “digital nomads” or “road warriors”, who tend to spend a lot of time out of the office, while still being connected at all times to the Internet and carrying out their work-related tasks.With the aforementioned market segment in mind, Sony developed and launched back in mid-2008 the Vaio Z Series of notebooks, a family of products that combine an ultra-portable form factor with a very i... [read more >>] We have to admit that, when we received the Siberian Tiger CPU Water Cooler from NorthQ, some investigation was required. That is because NorthQ isn’t among the biggest names in the computer hardware cooling market, where companies such as Thermaltake, Zalman, Cooler Master and other take the center stage frequently. However, we are not in the habit of discrediting any manufacturer until we have a chance to test at least one of their products. That is also the case with the NorthQ Siberian Tiger CPU Water Cooler, a solution that will most probably meet the requirements of most computer users out there on the lookout for a custom cooli... [read more >>] Intel's famous and long-awaited Montevina platform (now officially known as Centrino 2) was just launched around one and a half months ago, on July the 15th, the first products based on it arriving almost at same time with the official announcement. And one of these early implementations of Montevina is the Sony Vaio FW notebook, a 16.4-inch portable computing system that was officially launched back in mid-July and that brought to the market a few very interesting features, mostly related to the design and multimedia playback and less to other activities involving a notebook (such as gaming). We're not saying that the FW is ... [read more >>] You've probably been able to read time and time again over the past couple of months about all sorts of security breaches that have affected a tremendously large number of people (state authorities simply losing various storage media filled with the citizens' private data, etc.). These situations are extremely dangerous, since there are quite a lot of "cyber-criminals" out there who have the technical ability (not to mention the desire) to take advantage of the respective data. For this reason, ultra-secure portable data storage solutions should be adopted by all major state authorities and agencies, and this is exactly the type o... [read more >>] Probably just about any football (or soccer) fan out there knows by now that Spain won the Euro 2008 Championship, thus proving to be the best team on the old continent. As expected, this event, one of the most important around the world, has brought about a whole range of related products, from various souvenirs to all sorts of electronic products. And this is exactly what we're going talk about as follows, namely Kingston's "DataTraveler Vienna" USB Flash drive, a device that provides users with something a lot more important than GB of storage space. It comes packed with football-related content, which every football-avid user ... [read more >>] The Taiwan-based company Mio really plans to conquer as much as possible from the PND (GPS-enabled personal navigation device) market this year, as it has launched a completely new line back at CeBIT 2008 (the Moov series) and still has some surprises in store for the second half of 2008. As you might know from one of our previous articles on the subject, Softpedia has had the chance to get close and personal with the new Moovs and experience their behavior in real-life conditions first hand. However, that was just a "preliminary" testing session, but then we've taken one of the devices from the series for a more in-depth spin, namely ... [read more >>] IntroductionRazer's latest gaming keyboard, the Lycosa, has been around ever since November 2007 and I was keen to get my hands on it for quite some time. The name "Lycosa" comes from a really mean-looking tarantula spider, which is located somewhere on the lands of Italy. So it seems that Razer meant to keep our attention on arachnids, as far as gaming keyboards go. Nevertheless, the new one looks quite promising and was especially designed for those of you who really know what terms like "OWNING" or "GODLIKE" mean.PackageStraight out of the box, the Lycosa keyboard provides the user with everything he/she will need to get some seriou... [read more >>] | 
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