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When I inquired a NEC professional series MultiSync from a local vendor, he asked if I would be using it for medical application (I wish); apparently, according to him, most of medical clientele are using NEC MultiSync monitors for critical medical imaging applications. Make no mistake, a wrong shade of color could be a life [...]

Before this week’s big Nokia announcement let us introduce you to the Nokia N97. Boasting HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, an FM transmitter so you can play your tunes through a radio, a 3.5mm headphone jack and a 5-megapixel camera, the Nokia N79 is a rather nifty phone if ever we saw one.

Very few jobs these days can be accomplished without leafing through Wikipedia, Yahoo! Answers or eBay, so getting your workstation of choice online is a priority. Linksys’ sleek little WTR110 will get you (and any web browsers in your house) connected in a flash and has, courtesy of a gleaming pearl black finish, the looks [...]

Want to do your bit in keeping the earth green while decorating your home? Well, there are many ways to do so, including solar-powered fairy lights, solar-powered lawnmowers and the like, and today we have yet another idea for you to consider – the Firewinder. Let’s face it, any product named like it will definitely [...]

If you have an old, dead iPod kicking around and are also looking for a way to disguise your disgusting cigarette addiction, here’s a nice way to kill two birds with one stone: hide your cigarettes in your iPod! It’s a pretty straightforward operation

Okay, we’re cheating slightly with this one – it’s not so much a radio, more a palm-sized touchscreen media player that manages to pack an awful lot in, including MP3/WMA/Ogg/FLAC playback, video, photo viewing and SD memory expansion. For our purposes though, how does its intriguing DAB functionality hold up? The D2 tunes in to [...]

These “CupSpeakers” from designer Dmitry Zagga are MacGyverific. With nothing more than a large disposable drinking cup, a couple of toothpicks, and the included iPod earbuds, Zagga has constructed a sleek, cheap, and easy speaker system for his iPod. He claims the volume increase is “significant,” and his photography makes this self-aware DIY project look [...]