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Over this past weekend I ended up purchasing a $250 dollar Barnes & Noble “Nook Color” e-reader from a Best Buy store. It has a very bright, clear 7” diagonally measured widescreen capacitive glass touch screen display. Barnes & Noble ships the Nook Color with a specialized, tightly locked-down version of Android that promotes access to the Barnes & Noble
Recently I received a review unit of the Netgear WN2000RPT WiFi Extender. It's a tool that I am surprisingly well qualified to test. You see, we live in an old, restored Victorian and my office, and router, are on the third floor. However, most life takes place on the first two floors, where a laptop, tablet, and smartphones are in
I'm one of a dozen people on my block who have wireless routers running in my house. I've lived there eight years, and have had wireless almost the entire time. I run a house full of computers from my router, including ones for the kids, my husband, a print server, a media server, and a handful of laptops. From the
Taiwanese Edimax has been making steady inroads at the cheaper end of the market with a range of products which typically undercut the market leaders on price. As with its Chinese sibling TP-Link, I've always been a bit wary of their products but recently I had the opportunity to try out the Edimax 3G-6200n, a 3G 11n wireless router and
Today I took the CR48 out in the field. I went to my local coffee shop (not Starbucks) and got on the WiFi. It was no problem getting though their login redirect. Although the WiFi was really slow, I was able to do my normal web surfing and email. I wouldn’t want to try a youtube video on it at
Todd talks with Ernest Wolf, CEO of YooTechPros, creators of an Android-based tablet PC that actually looks quite good. Using the same LG touch screen as the iPad, this tablet offers twin USB ports, a microSD slot, front- and rear-facing cameras and runs Android 2.2. It's also slightly lighter and thinner than the iPad. Unfortunately, the model in the video
Steve Iommi chats to Todd and Tom about Somfy's new Tahoma system which takes home automation to the next level. It's based round the concept of "scenes" - a scene might be "weekday-morning" which has certain set of actions, e.g. open blinds at 7.30am, whereas the "weekend-morning" opens the blinds at 8.30. With a whole a range of scenes, everything