GADGETS

Gadgets cover wide and varied areas including accessories, imaging, audio and visual and the likes.

LaCie Rugged USB3 Thunderbolt Series

you only need one good portable hard drive but you have a few rigs with a couple of different interfaces including Thunderbolt and SuperSpeed USB 3.0, so what do you do? before September, i’d advise you to get two portable HD but lucky for you (and everyone else), there’s one drive that will take on both: the LaCie Rugged USB3 Thunderbolt Series. as the name implies, this…

Roth OLi POWA-5 Speakers

want to an audio system to boost your flat screen TV’s sound but with the flexibility of hooking up with a bunch of other sources without being a rocket scientist? well, then the new Roth OLi POWA-5 Active Monitors is the one to go for. the system comprises of two speakers: one active and one passive, and features a class D amplifier built into on of the two…

Kyocera DIGNO S LTE Smartphone

Kyocera is not usually a brand known for mobile phones outside of Japan. if you ask me, i’d say that i am more familiar with their photocopier machines than anything else. for the uninitiated, the Japanese firm have been making mobile phones for quite a while now and though unaware to us, the gai-jin, they are actually doing quite well. in fact, they have just announced a…

V-MODA Crossfade M-100 Headphones

more often than not, a tech product is born out of how the makers’ perceived the product to be but not with the new V-MODA Crossfade M-100 Headphones. this pair of futuristic looking audio cans is the result of V-MODA’s unique crowd-sourced effort with inputs from hundreds of audiophiles, journalists, producers and renowned DJs around the world. to this end, V-MODA…

GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition

with the number of entrants into the action cam market, it is hard not for GoPro to take a shot, in this case, three shots back and show the rest who is the boss. though the GoPro Hero 3 lineup consists of three models, the one that caught our eyes is the GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition. despite sporting a significantly smaller chassis, the Black Edition stands out with its 12.0-megapixel…

Boxee TV

gone is the sinking cube and in comes a regular rectangular black box that says pretty much what it will do – a set-top DVR. the Boxee TV features a dual tuner that works with both unencrypted basic cable channels and over-the-air HD broadcasts. also packed inside this unassuming black box is a slick UI, preinstalled apps including Netflix, VUDU, Pandora, YouTube and…

NuForce S3-BT Bookshelf Speakers

it was not long ago that audiophile community cringes at the idea of streaming music over Bluetooth but that was then. with the latest Bluetooth 4.0 and apt-X audio coding technology introduced into Bluetooth stereo products, wireless streaming over Bluetooth is now almost indistinguishable from its wired counterpart – a cue for audiophile equipment maker to jump into…

Lomography BELAIR X 6-12 Camera

we bet you didn’t think there’s anymore innovation in analog camera, do you? to be honest, we thought the same too but the king of modern day analog cameras, Lomography has proved us wrong with the BELAIR X 6-12, a new medium-format camera that captures 6×12 (hence, the namesake) sweet panoramic photos, 6×6 square, as well as 6×9 format photos…

Intelligent Design Titanium Mouse

computer mice – they are a humble and yet indispensable part of any desktop computing experience, well… at least that was before trackpad started to become ‘magical’. anyway, who would have thought that it can be anything more luxurious than a $199 gaming mouse? we bet you didn’t and neither did we but here it is, a mouse that cost €399, that’s around US$…