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Sony Recalls About 69,000 Vaio Adapters

It's a known fact that Sony has had a series of mishaps with a number of its laptop batteries in the past, with the company being forced to issue recalls for those affected models. Just last year, Sony batteries powering systems from the likes of HP, Dell and Toshiba were recalled, with 19 reports of batteries o...

29 October 2009
06:24 GMT

Uber-Pricey Gefen's A/V Scaler Pro Upscales Your Video, Audio

Everyone's talking about upscaling nowadays as if it were the new “Mesiah” of consumer electronics. While the truth is that, albeit good, upscaling will never achieve the same level of image quality as “genuine” HD content (such as the one provided by Blu-ray discs), quite a lot of compan...

11 November 2008
14:21 GMT

IOGEAR GCS1784 KVMP Switch Connects Pretty Much Everything

Although for most of us, one monitor, one keyboard, one mouse and one desktop unit are quite enough, there are certain fields of activity where users have to control several computers at the same time. For this reason, the IOGEAR company has launched the GCS1784 4-Port Dual Link DVI KVMP Switch with 7.1 Audio, a devi...

5 November 2008
13:51 GMT

Extend Your HDMI Cable to 100 Meters

The problem with most HDMI cables available on the market is that they're either too expensive, too short, or both. There are several ways in which one can extend the length of a USB cable, and one of the simplest and easiest of them has just been presented by Gefen, in the form of their GefenTV Repeater for HDM...

5 November 2008
13:31 GMT

Turn Your CompactFlash Card into a Wireless One – Eye-Fi for CFs

Have you been reading about those very innovative Eye-Fi cards and wishing that the manufacturers had come up with a CompactFlash (CF) version as well? Something like...CF-Fi? Well, even if, for the time being, Eye-Fi cards are restricted to the SD format, there's also a workaround available, namely the CFMulti ...

20 October 2008
06:30 GMT

Monster's Latest Powerstrip Charges Even Your USB Devices

Whenever you leave your home for a business trip, a laptop (or notebook) is a mandatory accessory. However, most users also pack other devices as well, such as a portable MP3 player, portable printer or projector, or any other accessory that's powered via USB. So, how to accommodate all of these things when you&...

9 July 2008
04:21 GMT

How to Add an Extra Monitor to Your System via USB

Let's say that you've got a lot of files to work with on a daily basis and you need a lot of extra-desktop space (actually, a secondary desktop altogether). A second monitor would be the perfect solution to your problems, but, sometimes, installing such a device can prove to be pretty tricky, especially whe...

4 June 2008
07:16 GMT

The Adapter to Link Them All And Under USB Bind Them

The amount of data we've got to work with almost on a daily basis has reached GB levels, and this is the reason why most computer users go for increasingly larger HDDs. However, transferring data from an old storage unit to a new one can prove to be a rather tricky process sometimes, and this is exactly the reas...

15 January 2008
02:29 GMT

Control Up to Four (4) Computers Using a Single Keyboard, Mouse and Monitor

KVM switches can prove to be quite useful devices, especially for those users who want to control multiple computers from a single "station" (namely, by using a single set of peripherals). And this is exactly the reason why the Avocent company has just rolled out the SwitchView 100 family of desktop KVM switches for ...

18 December 2007
08:06 GMT

The Princeton PTM-UBT3S - Japan's (and Probably the World's) Tiniest Bluetooth USB Adapter

Bluetooth technology has virtually changed the world of communications as we know it, considering the fact that it has provided a much easier and more accessible data and voice transfer method even between previously completely incompatible devices. Bluetooth is used everywhere these days, and the adapters used for t...

24 August 2007
14:21 GMT

Multiple Connectivity, the IOGEAR Style: Two Computers, One of Everything Else

KVM switches have really proved their worth over time, as they allow users to share certain peripherals (keyboards, mice, monitors, etc.) between two computing systems in a very fast and reliable manner, without carrying out any "extreme" re-wiring operations. And one very interesting device of this type is IOGEAR�...

14 August 2007
09:36 GMT

SuperBoost Your USB Connection up to 45 Meters (150 Feet)

Most peripherals launched on the market nowadays use the Universal Serial Bus in order to connect to a computing system. However, in certain situations and for various reasons, technical problems make such a connection impossible and this is exactly the reason why the USB SuperBooster Wall Plate that has just been ma...

20 July 2007
03:16 GMT

The iWay Of Loading Photos onto the iPod

The iPod is by far the most popular portable digital audio player on the market, and it's no wonder that just about everyone is trying to come up with all sorts of accessories for Apple's player, each capable of carrying out certain more or less useful functions. And one such device is the iWay presented by...

4 June 2007
08:24 GMT


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