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Article | 24/05/2013 WD My Passport Ultra portable hard drive

The WD My Passport Ultra is the fastest portable hard drive that Western Digital makes. Despite this, it’s quite small and light, runs silently, and i...

Article | 23/05/2013 AMD Radeon HD 7990 graphics card

Top-of-the-line graphics cards usually come out first in a company’s annual launch cycle -- they’re the fastest, the biggest and the most powerful. AM...

Article | 21/05/2013 HP Officejet Pro X 576dw printer

HP has a very interesting printer in the Officejet Pro X576dw. It’s a multifunction inkjet printer that promises extremely fast print speeds and low p...

Article | 21/05/2013 Spotify's 1st birthday in Oz: all the stats

It's Spotify's first birthday tomorrow -- the incredibly popular music streaming service, which boasts millions of tracks and thousands of albums from...

Article | 20/05/2013 In pictures: the Philips Hue light bulb

The Philips Hue is one of a new breed of light globes. It's built around a high-efficiency LED light, with a cluster used to equal the output of a tra...

Article | 20/05/2013 Samsung Series 8 (F8000) LED TV

Every year since 2010, Samsung has been an easy go-to for top-end LED TVs. They have always been slim, easy on your power bill, look great, and have a...

Article | 17/05/2013 Canon EOS 100D camera

Canon has always been an easy choice for entry-level digital SLR cameras, combining low prices with good feature-sets and impressive image quality in ...

Article | 16/05/2013 In pictures: Samsung's NX300 camera

Samsung's new NX300 camera was launched in Australia yesterday. It's a 'compact system camera', with interchangeable lenses like a digital SLR, and a ...

Article | 13/05/2013 Meet FLASS: one Aussie’s DIY Google Glass headset

Google Glass is one of the more innovative computing devices we’ve seen in the last few years. As the name implies, the concept takes the frame of a p...

Article | 9/05/2013 Braven 650 Bluetooth speaker

The Braven 650 is a premium portable Bluetooth speaker, joining a category kick-started by the Jawbone JAMBOX. It’s a versatile little device, althoug...

Article | 8/05/2013 Denon CEOL mini hi-fi

Streaming music services have taken Australia by storm in the last year. Spotify’s first birthday is in a couple of weeks, and Rdio is another six mon...

Article | 7/05/2013 HP Envy 120 printer

The HP Envy 120 is an inkjet multifunction printer that looks more like a piece of home entertainment equipment -- an amplifier, Blu-ray player, or pa...

Article | 7/05/2013 Intel introduces Silvermont, the future of smartphones and tablets

A few days before the Computex trade show in Taiwan, Intel has announced the launch of a new processor architecture, called Silvermont, designed to be...

Article | 6/05/2013 ASUS RT-N66U N900 wireless router

Wi-Fi routers aren’t usually the most impressive products in any company’s arsenal, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that they’re just beige boxes h...

Article | 2/05/2013 Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX50V camera

If you want to buy a camera with a lot of zoom, you don’t have a great deal of choice. Most decent super-zoom cameras are big, with bodies that mimic...