EVGA has been producing graphics cards since the late 90s and has doing a pretty good of it too. It not be quite as prominent these days as it once was, but its hardware is still up to scratch and can stand toe to toe with the more popular manufacturers.The EVGA GT 740 Superclocked graphics … Read more

When it comes to LED TVs, only a few major brands come to mind. One wouldn�t think of a sound system player moving up the rank to fit right in. However, Bang & Olufsen (B&O) believes otherwise as it has moved into the display panel business to show all-comers how it is properly done. In … Read more

Under-the-hood tweaks make the DTR-T2000 Humax�s nimblest YouView PVR � Martin Pipe enjoys the slick experience offered by the hybrid TV platformBack in the last century, an electronics magazine I used to work for ran a fantasy inventions competition. One of the winners was a gizmo that would allow a VCR to retrospectively record programmes … Read more

For all the money that is generated via professional competitive gaming one would imagine that gaming monitors would be at the forefront for many display vendors. This isn�t the case, even though we have many high scan rate monitors to choose from. Other than that particular aspect of gaming monitors, most vendors ignore or rather … Read more

For years on end, GIGABYTE�s orange and black overclocking boards have been legends of sorts within the community. From the original X58-A right up to the latest X99-SOC Champion, they have always been met with great expectations and for the most part they have risen to expectations.Unfortunately as we had feared when the X99 chipset … Read more

It�s been a while since I last saw a HIS product. For years, it has been one of the most prominent manufacturers of (at the time) ATI Radeon GPUs and had been famous for its competitive pricing and cool designs (pun intended). So it had been a real surprise when I received a HIS product, … Read more

Yo, check out this phone from Lenovo! Sorry, that came out of nowhere. But really, the team likes the stuff Lenovo sends us most of the time. In November last year, I attended the launch of the Vibe X2 in KL and yet the one I had really been interested in is the Vibe Z2 … Read more

Michael sits back to listen to his music delivered by an Edifier speaker system The Prisma Encore is a 2.1 speaker system from Edifier. As you would expect, it consists of a subwoofer and a pair of satellite speakers. Not surprisingly, as this is an Edifier speaker system, the appearance of the subwoofer and satellite … Read more

Divoom widens the choice for those who like their music broadcasted Like London Buses, once a Bluetooth speaker appears, another half dozen seem to follow in quick succession. The Airbeat-10 slots into the well-populated category of battery-powered speakers designed to be taken on holiday or at least down to the local beach. It carries an … Read more

Not content with giving away Windows 10 free, Microsoft now wants to float 3D objects in your living room What is it? A futuristic-looking headset that displays 3D objects (which Microsoft calls “holograms”) to the person wearing it. It can show the weather as a floating map, turn living-room walls into virtual screens, and let … Read more

We look at how custom firmware can give your old gadgets a whole new lease of life When hardware reaches a certain point in its life, it’s normal for a company to declare it deprecated or unsupported. This means that it stops issuing updates and fixes for its software, and consumers are expected to move … Read more

    A portable hydrogen fuel cell for your mobile devices     The Upp is unlike any portable USB power bank we’ve seen before. Most have a battery, similar to the one in your smartphone or tablet, that’s charged from a wall socket. The Upp is a hydrogen fuel cell, which uses a technology … Read more