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Star Wars: The Old Republic Gaming Mouse Review

Others/Mice & Keyboards by stefan @ 2013-05-22 read/post comments(0)

The Naga Epic has been reincarnated in the form of the latest Star Wars: The Old Republic Gaming Mouse from Razer. Besides the 3.5G sensor and replaceable Republic/Empire emblem, we will also get a customizable LED lighting system and no less than 12 programmable buttons on the left side. The SWTOR mouse was designed to work wirelessly and features a themed dock, but can be also converted to a wired version by using the included cable. read more

Mad Catz F.R.E.Q. 5 Gaming Headset Review

Audio/Others by stefan @ 2013-05-20 read/post comments(0)

The F.R.E.Q. 5 headset from Mad Catz is available in multiple colors and sports a robust design by combining plastic and light metal. The product comes with 50mm Neodymium drivers, a removable microphone and two types of connectivity options: 3.5mm jack and USB. read more

HIS 7790 iCooler Turbo 1GB GDDR5 Video Card Review

Videocards/VGA Reviews by stefan @ 2013-05-20 read/post comments(2)

The new HIS 7790 iCooler Turbo card is well balanced and is recommended to people on a tighter budged which will want to upgrade their old GPU in order to be able to play the latest games on monitors up to 24’’. The cooling system is simpler compared to the offerings from XFX or PowerColor and an overclocking utility is supplied on the HIS website for added value. read more

ASUS unveils Z87 Lineup

Tradeshow & OC events by leeghoofd @ 2013-05-17 read/post comments(1)

A while back Europes' media was invited to visit the lovely city of Amsterdam. At the Club Excellence, right in the heart of the popular neighborhood, the ASUS team unveiled it's new Intel 4th generation motherboard lineup. Based on Intel's Z87 chipset, the mainstream motherboard lineup got a complete overhaul in the looks department. Gold is the brand new 2013 theme, while being promoted as original, we have seen this color scheme before on several competitors boards. Look wise it seems a missed opportunity, but luckily there's more below the surface. The ROG lineup get's a new addition in the shape of the HERO version. Similar with the TUF series, were the Gryphon mATX which sees the daylight. Sadly we… read more

ADATA DashDrive Air AE400 Wireless Storage Reader and Power Bank Review

Others/Miscelleneous by stefan @ 2013-05-16 read/post comments(0)

For users on the go, ADATA has created a new multifunctional device which acts as a wireless AP, USB storage drive or card reader and as an extra it also functions as a power bank, to recharge the tablet/mobile phone when we need it most. read more

Cooler Master NotePal A200 Dual Fan Laptop Cooling Pad Review

Cooling/VGA & Other Cooling by stefan @ 2013-05-13 read/post comments(0)

The new Notepal A200 Laptop Cooling Pad from Cooler Master comes with a 2-fan solution, one fan controller and two extra USB 2.0 ports. The pad can be also set at an angle, for more comfortable typing and the top brushed aluminum finish gives the product an overall professional look. read more

Videocards/VGA Reviews	PowerColor Radeon HD 7790 TurboDuo 1GB Video Card Review	by stefan @ 2013-05-13
Cooling/Water Cooling	EK Waterblock L 360 Kit Review	by leeghoofd @ 2013-05-10
Others/Miscelleneous	Noreve Sony Xperia Z Leather Case (Tradition - 21038T) Review	by stefan @ 2013-05-09
Storage/HDD	Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB Hard Disk Drive Review	by stefan @ 2013-05-07
Videocards/VGA Reviews	XFX Radeon HD 7790 Black Edition 1GB Video Card Review	by stefan @ 2013-05-06

Hardware or Gadgets/Multimedia news

Leaked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Review

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

The Chinese site EXPreview has posted somewhat of a review of the GeForce GTX 780 complete with benchmarks, temperature and power usage data. Go To Full Article

Google Drive for Android updated with card UI and refined scanner function

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

Cards, cards, cards... that's the refrain around the Google campus these days. Everything is getting turned into cards. That now includes your documents stored on Drive, too. The Google Drive app for Android was updated today with a whole new… Go To Full Article

NVIDIA enables full virtualization for graphics

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

You probably won't have noticed the following problem, unless you happen to be the IT manager in an architecture firm or other specialist environment, but it's been an issue nonetheless. For all our ability to virtualize compute and graphical workloads,… Go To Full Article

Amazon's New Seattle HQ Takes Some Balls To Build

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

When I say the new building will take some balls to build, I mean it. Go To Full Article

WD to Demonstrate Solid State Hybrid Drive and 5 MM Technologies

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

WD®, a world leader in storage and connected-life products, today announced that it will demonstrate its solid state hybrid drives (SSHD) and 5 mm ultra-slim hard drive technologies in tablet and other thin-and-light devices at the COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2013 trade… Go To Full Article

Wackypedia admits pagan purge

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

Wikipedia has admitted that one of its editors has been conducting a campaign to purge the encyclopaedia of all references to the occult and modern pagans. The problem was first flagged by the pagan community in November… Go To Full Article

GeForce GTX 780 Pricing Revealed

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

Ahead of its launch just a little later this week, online retailers appear to be stocking up on NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce GTX 780 graphics card. An EVGA-branded card is being offered by distributor SYNNEX to retailers at US $644.44. This… Go To Full Article

Sparkle Calibre X660 Review

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

The Sparkle Calibre X660 Graphic Card arrived Technic3D. Technic3D will check the Calibre X660 in the following Review with a Resolution from 2560x1600, 1920x1200, 1680x1050, the real Power Consumption, loudness, temperature, Overclocking and many more in Games against other Graphic… Go To Full Article

LoJack for Android to be embedded in Samsung Galaxy S4's firmware

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

Since the Galaxy S4's launch, Samsung's been eager to make security one of the device's stronger selling points. Through its partnership with Absolute Software, makers of LoJack for Laptops, Samsung will soon embed a theft recovery system right into the… Go To Full Article

Cricket launching Galaxy S 4 on June 7th, starting at $55 down

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

The Galaxy S 4 is now readily available in the US, but it hasn't had much sway with the prepaid crowd so far. Cricket should be addressing that deficit soon, as it just narrowed down its launch of the Samsung… Go To Full Article

Adding stereo to monophonic audio

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

A lot of awesome stuff happened up in [Bruce Land]‘s lab at Cornell this last semester. Three students – [Pat], [Ed], and [Hanna] put in hours of work to come up with a few algorithms that are able to simulate… Go To Full Article

Roccat Kone Pure review: a mouse for delicate hands

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

The Roccat Kone Pure performs really well. The precision and sensitivity are very good, there's no acceleration and the lift-off distance is only 0.95 mm after calibration. The grip lends itself to low-sense gaming. The software is comprehensive and you… Go To Full Article

A year later: Transformer Prime @ LanOC Reviews

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

I'm going to come clean to you guys/girls. I have had tablets for the past 2-3 years and for the first few years, I really never put them to use. I found them to be cumbersome, slow, and there just… Go To Full Article

Shuttle OMNINAS KD20 @ techPowerUp

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

Today, we will take a look at a small and affordable NAS server from Shuttle, a company that specializes in the development and production of mini PCs. The OMNINAS KD20 supports up to two HDDs, doesn't cost much, and supports… Go To Full Article

3M, Nanosys ready to bring quantum dot film to LCD makers

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

3M and Nanosys have just announced that they'll start shipping qualification samples of their Quantum Dot Enhancement Film (QDEF) to manufacturers to bring a 50 percent wider color gamut and lower power consumption to LCD displays. Consisting of trillions of… Go To Full Article

Logitech unveils $60 wired iPad keyboard built for classroom abuse

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

Bluetooth keyboards for the iPad are nice and all, but aren't you going to need to be within a wire's-length to see the thing anyway? To that end, Logitech has announced a full-sized wired iPad keyboard targeted to classrooms with… Go To Full Article

Innodisk Releases World's First Industrial-Embedded SATA µSSD - nanoSSD

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

Innodisk, a designer and manufacturer of SSDs for commercial and industrial applications, announces a release of the industrial-embedded industry's first SATA device in accordance to SATA ÂµSSD standards - nanoSSD. Through the integration of a control chip,… Go To Full Article

Labour MP asks Treasury about missing laptops, Blackberrys

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

Gareth Thomas, Labour MP for Harrow West, has asked questions about lost or stolen computers, mobiles, Blackberrys and other IT equipment to the Treasury and other government departments. Thomas asked the Secretary of State for International Development… Go To Full Article

Toshiba AT10LE-A tablet (Nvidia Tegra 4-powered) pays a quick visit to the FCC

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

The Toshiba AT10LE-A could be the world's first ever tablet with a Tegra 4 processor inside. The thing has been in the rumor mill a couple of times before and has been spotted earlier today getting FCC certified. … Go To Full Article

ASRock Announces A-Style Conformal Coating For 8 Series Motherboards

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

You have butterfingers, unfortunately we're not talking about those delicious sweets, but the kind that makes you practice Newton's law of universal gravitation every once in a while. And according to Murphy's law, things tend to get even worse when… Go To Full Article

Vizio's 42-inch 5.1 soundbar setup available now, costs $330

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

Vizio trotted out a new line of soundbars back at CES, and true to its word, they're starting to materialize out in the real world. It's the middle-child, 42-inch unit we're seeing become available today. As a refresher, the 5.1… Go To Full Article

The Xbox One: Hardware Analysis & Comparison to PlayStation 4

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

It’s that time of decade again. Time for a new Xbox. It took four years for Microsoft to go from the original Xbox to the Xbox 360. The transition from Xbox 360 to the newly announced Xbox One will take… Go To Full Article

Xbox One - Just what is Microsoft thinking?!

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

The whole tech world knows about the upcoming next-generation Microsoft entertainment device, the Xbox One. We give you our thoughts on it. Warning: Microsoft may not like it. Go To Full Article

i-Mego Throne Gold Over Ear Headphones Review @ TestFreaks

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

Music is a huge part of our lives, I know I don't leave home without my MP3 player and if I do happen to forget it I have music on my phone. The problem with these mp3 players and phones… Go To Full Article

Scientists develop printable graphene ink

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

A team of researchers at Northwestern Engineering has come up with a new way of producing graphene, which could eventually lead to printable graphene ink. One of the methods used to produce graphene involves exfoliating graphite through… Go To Full Article

Scanadu finalizes Scout tricorder design

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

We first saw a prototype of Scout, the tricorder and companion app built by Scanadu for the Tricorder X-prize competition late last year. Today, the company is unveiling Scout's final version and launching an Indiegogo campaign to let folks order… Go To Full Article

Google's conversational search goes live with latest version of Chrome

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

After revealing it at I/O 2013 only days ago, Google's new conversational voice search function is up and running on Chrome 27. If you've got that version, you'll now get a spoken response on top of a web page display… Go To Full Article

HGST's 1.5TB laptop drive is the densest hard disk available

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

If you're looking for pure storage for the dollar, SSDs have nothing on good old hard disks. And WD subsidiary HGST has packed more gigabytes into a smaller space than ever before with the new Travelstar 5K1500. It's a 2.5-inch,… Go To Full Article

Samsung buys 10% stake into Pantech

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

The South Korean electronics giant Samsung has just taken a 10% buy into Pantech. While Pantech may not be as popular as LG or Samsung, they are still South Korea’s third largest handset maker. Go To Full Article

Thanko presents their ultra-portable "SLR" camera

@ 2013/05/23 read/post comments(0)

Thanko unveiled a new camera that has all the touches and edges of a standard SLR camera, except that it is scaled in a size that is a lot lower than what you'd normally expect. Go To Full Article

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