Nov 10, 2013
And a martini glass that doubles as your egg timer. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Apart from all the latest in technology news, we review the Lowepro camera bag, Transit Backpack 350 AW camera bag. And bluetooth speakers – with a bit of power under their belts – have started to come into vogue over the last few months. Tonight we look...
Nov 3, 2013
Yes, one of the products we review on tonight’s show seriously suck. But then you’d expect that from a vacuum cleaner, in this case Dyson’s powerful DC59 Animal. Of course, Geoff knows a little bit about cleaning, but that’s a concept that is totally lost on me, so we grabbed the Grill’s resident chef, De, and let her have her way...
Sep 16, 2013
Welcome to this week’s show, where we explore the merits of the newly announced iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C, we take NavMan’s recently released MY450LMT GPS for a drive through Sydney’s suburbs, and we again try to remind Australia Post about exactly what the concept of “customer service” really means. The clue here is that it...
Jun 5, 2011
The Netgear N600 is a well designed, high quality router that should satisfy most users’ needs not just in today’s ADSL world, but well into the the NBN future. Providing wireless connectivity on both the 2.4 and 5.0 GHz bands, the setup of this modem was one of the easiest that I’ve encountered, and the connection points provide for a measure...
Feb 27, 2011
While NetGear’s Stora device is essentially just a NAS – Network Attached Storage – it carries with it some very elegant and well implemented design concepts. Let’s start with the basics, though: a NAS is a device that you can connect to your home network that stands apart from your computers, and should be accessible by any of the...
Feb 20, 2011
This week, Sony announced a new music streaming service. Called “Music Unlimited”, their service allows you to listen to music streamed from their servers. Sony has a huge music catalogue, which includes labels under the banners of Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Music. We’re told that the initial...