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Devolo has rounded out the range of sensors in its smart home system, Home Control, with the addition of two new sensors for humidity and water (flood). Although previously announced over the summer, these devices are now available for purchase through several on-line and high street stores. The folks at Devolo were kind enough to send two units for review.
Back in June I reviewed the Devolo dLAN 550 WiFi Starter Kit and this time round, I'm looking at the "plus" version of the same kit. What makes it a 550+? Simply that the WiFi adaptor is now bigger and has a power socket pass thru. Let's take a mini look... As the Starter Kit is broadly the same as last time
Designing out the headphone jack on the iPhone was a brave move by Apple but the price of both Bluetooth headphones and speakers have fallen to the level of an impulse buy. Consequently the change isn't quite as costly as it would have been a few years ago. Naturally audiophiles may disagree on audio quality grounds. Still, anyone with a
It's a real first world problem - finding enough USB charging points to keep your gadgets powered up, especially for families with multiple phones and tablets. Fortunately there's a solution in Choetech's 6-port USB-A desktop charger which combines two QC 3 ports and four smart ports that will deliver up to 2.4 A for charging thirsty smart phones and tablets. Let's
The physical USB type A interface connector seems to have been around forever and to be fair, it's had an impressive lifespan starting with USB 1.0 back in 1996. Since then, the communication standard has been updated several times and the connector is still very relevant with USB 3.1 which now sports transfer speeds of up to 10 Gb/s. USB
If you spend any time at all tinkering with computers, it's inevitable that one day you will have a computer with one set of ports and a peripheral with a completely different set of ports. Back in early 90s, before USB, serial ports changed from 25 pins to 9 pins and you needed a whole bag full of adaptors and
When it comes to media streaming via hardware, it's a four way fight for your eyeballs between Roku, Apple TV, Amazon's Fire TV and Google's Chromecast. The most recent entrant, Amazon and the Fire TV, came to the UK in October 2014 and I reviewed one of the boxes back in January 2015. Over eighteen months later, Amazon's Instant Video