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Review: Logitech Z-5 speakers

Aims to make music more immersive with only two speakers and no spider-web-like cabling.

Review: D-Link HD media player

This player acts as a bridge between your computer and your home entertainment system.

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Review: HP Touchsmart IQ818a

If you can find somewhere to fit the Touchsmart in your home, you'll love it.

Review: Altech NRG Storm

The massive Altech NRG Storm case brings the movie 2001: Space Odyssey to mind.

Review: Logitech Squeezebox

The Boom could easily stand as Exhibit A in the case of Logitech vs The Rest.

Compare: USB TV tuners

Your humble computer can now run rings around most dedicated personal video recorders.

Screen Play

What financial crisis?

Screen Play Australian game and console hardware sales have already surpassed 2007's figures, with the market recording growth of 48 per cent for the year-to-date. While there is obvious concern from game publishers, developers and hardware manufacturers that the global financial crisis will have a negative im...

Gadgets on the Go

Watchdog calls on telcos to lift their game

Gadgets on the Go The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman has launched its connect.resolve campaign, calling on Australia's telcos to improve customer service. Last financial year saw the largest jump in complaints to the TIO in a decade, no doubt driven by the mobile broadband wars as it became clear some telcos ...

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Shape up, bit by bit

There is no shortage of fitness gadgets for sale to help you stretch, strain, push yourself and then map, graph and critique your progress.

HDMI cables: buyer beware

Australian shoppers are being duped into spending hundreds of dollars on so-called "high performance" HDMI cables.

Surrounded by wireless sound

One man's house is wired for sound - without the wires. Adam Turner reports.

Video stores setting up for digital delivery

Video Ezy and Blockbuster press ahead with plans to deliver movies to customers electronically using in-store kiosks.