Creative Vado HD review

Creative flips Mino the bird with this HD-shooting, HDMI-outputting, battery-swapping, software-packing 8GB Flash memory camcorder. But how does it compare with the big boys? Read on… …continue reading Creative Vado HD review

Creative Aurvana X-Fi review

Multi-functional, noise-cancelling, and a tech-geek’s deligh, the Aurvana X-Fi headphones splice together some of Creative’s top techy features. But are they as good as some of their more expensive brethren? …continue reading Creative Aurvana X-Fi review

Creative Zen Stone Plus 2GB review

Designed to be an iPod Shuffle beater, the Zen Stone succeeds on several fronts. It’s got a tiny screen so you can actually browse tracks, assuming your eyesight is especially keen; there’s an FM radio built in; and it’s cheaper. Oh, and there’s a speaker on the back of the MP3 player, so you can delight fellow passengers on the bus with your exquisite taste in hardcore ragga. …continue reading Creative Zen Stone Plus 2GB review

Creative Vado HD camcorder incoming

If you thought Flip had the budget camcorder market sewn up with its range of one button flash memory boxes, guess again. Creative has been cutting in with its own series, the easy to use Vado, and the latest offering, the Vado HD, offers 720p high-def recording for eye-bursting visuals at a price that’s anything but high. …continue reading Creative Vado HD camcorder incoming

Top 50 PC Speakers dissected

Gone are the days when PCs were meant to be seen and not heard. Hook some of these pumping PC Speakers up to your computer box and let it sing to its heart’s content.

We’ve fallen out with the neighbours pushing the top 50 PC soundsytems to the limit so you can get belting audio out of your PC and still stay on speaking terms with the Joneses down at number 37.

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Creative Vado geared up for YouTube duties

The Vado is a svelte pistol-grip portable pocket camcorder for the YouTube generation. It’s been designed to be ready and always primed to go, so you can just whip it out and capture and upload top-notch footage with as little fuss and fiddling as possible.

Think of the times you could have made a tidy £250 from your mates’ mishaps by sending them into You’ve Been Framed, if only you’d had a quick-draw camcorder to hand. This tough little blighter is perfect to have holstered in your trouser pocket just in case someone takes a tumble.

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Philips rubs extra polish into portable audio

One of the smartest dressed songsters we’ve seen in a while, the upcoming Philips SA52 GoGear portable jukebox is hoping to shame style rivals such as the iPod nano.

As part of its GoGear tribe, the 4GB-toting SA52 has serious smarts as well as a killer body. See, hiding inside its slimline noir suit is some nifty audio upscaling voodoo.

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iPod touch capacity boosted

Apple has just updated the iPod touch, doubling its maximum capacity from a mediocre 16GB to a much more comfortable 32GB, making it a viable option for housing entire music collections.

If storage might have stopped you, erm, touching a touch (sorry) before, it won’t now!

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