All in Hardware Review
Standing desks are all the rage these days – just walk into any Silicon Valley startup and you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone sitting down on a traditional office chair anymore. But with so many manufacturers rushing out products to meet the demand of this latest craze for health-concious office commuters, how do you know which desks are worth it and which are just a pile of metal bolts and particle board strapped together at standing height?
The Piper nv Home Security system is another in a long line of IP cameras that are branching out their detection capabilities, including door sensors and smart outlets to bring attention to break ins as they happen, and using WiFi and your smartphone to notify you as soon as a burglary is in progress. But does this system do enough to evolve beyond the same Internet of Things technology pieces we’ve already seen, to qualify as a best home security system that’s strong enough to protect your home on its own without your neighbors getting involved in the process?
The Scout Alarm home security system is just one in a slew of new smartphone-centric personal security devices, manufactured by a rising category of companies designed to overtake an industry that has been dominated by giants like Bay and ADT for years. Using an array of do-it-yourself sensors, Scout aims to make your home safer for cheaper, all while giving you full control over how the system detects threats and alerts you about them in real time.
As the health craze for green smoothies hits critical mass, blender manufacturers around the globe have seen their sales surge in response, and just as many new companies have come out of the woodwork in hopes they can catch the tail end of the trend. But one blender maker has been around since before many of those companies were even born, and will continue to live on after they’re all dead – Vitamix.
The Dell UltraSharp 24 Wireless Monitor uses the sometimes divisive Miracast technology to beam a signal from your Windows computer or Android device directly to your display, removing all the hassle and ugly organization of HDMI cables hanging off the back of your screen. But does removing a few wires make up for the slow performance and laggy input that we suffered through while the Dell chugged to keep up with the daily demands of our office?
The Nutri Ninja iQ 1500-Watt blender is a complete set of kitchen appliances that can all be tied back to a single base, handling many of the same tasks you’d do separately in one easy to use system. But at only $249, can one blender really do all the jobs you need it to without dropping the ball where it matters?
The Acer Predator XB271HK is just one of three models that made our best 4K gaming monitors list for 2016- but what are the key components that really set it head and shoulders above the rest? Was it the imposing design, the endless settings choices, or its speedy performance when it came to all things gaming?
With the release of the new Arctis series of “gaming-but-not-only-gaming” headsets, SteelSeries is attempting to blur the lines between where the headsets we use at home ends, and those we’d be proud to take on the train begin. In other words, until now, gamers have been forced to spend money on one headset they want to use when they’re in the thick of battle online, as well as an additional pair of cans they wouldn’t be ashamed to show off in public.
Of all the different headphone categories out there today, the Bluetooth “sportbuds” market is easily one of the most crowded of the bunch. With every company trying to outperform and outshine the other with increasingly loud drivers and bright colors, will new buds like the Optoma NuForce BE Sport3 find a place where they can compete?
If you’ve got a large property that needs a lot of security with not a whole lot of cameras in the mix, you’re probably thinking about investing in wide-angle options like the D-Link DCS-8200LH.
With its 180° lens, this camera can easily cover twice the viewing landscape of some competing options, but is that one benefit alone enough to help us forget the many places where it falls flat on it face?
As Linksys continues to reinvent the ways we all get online while still sticking true to what fans of their routers love, the company has since slowed down its “revolutionary” designs for more “evolutionary” choices instead. The WRT3200ACM is another in what’s looking to become a whole series of routers that rely on nostalgia to hook old users, and performance to bring in new ones. But will those two factors alone be enough to recapture some of the magic that’s been lost in the router market over the past few years?
Optoma may be recognized in the technology world primarily for their work on great projectors like the HD25-LV and HD27, but did you know they’ve got a department filled with audiophiles too?
Determined to offer the perfect combination of both high quality audio and sound for your complete home theater experience, the company’s latest mobile Nuforce µDAC5 mobile DAC is a pocket-sized powerhouse that delivers rich, boisterous sound on the go.
In the world of projectors, it can be hard to find models like the newest Optoma HD27. This is a projector which can create insanely bright images with stellar picture quality behind them, all at a price that makes the home theater hobby available to almost every level of potential buyer out there.
The introduction of the Pascal GPU architecture from Nvidia has raised the bar for all gaming laptop manufacturers to hit, and the MSI GT73VR is a machine that’s poised to break every performance record we have on the book.
The words “Samsung” and “affordability” have rarely been found in the same sentence over the past few years, but now the company is looking to change that stigma with its latest 28″ UE590 4K gaming monitor. The Samsung UE590 comes with all the features that gamers want at a price that won’t bust your budget – earning it the number two spot on our best computer monitors for 2016 list – but will that low cost alone be enough to forgive its stagnant stand and smaller display size?
Now that Pascal graphics cards have officially begun the steady process of flooding the market with new laptops and desktops, MSI has updated their GE line of laptops with the release of the comfortably portable and highly adaptable GE62VR Pro Apache gaming laptop.
The BenQ P-Seriese PV3200PT is an unapologetic monitor built for a very select, specific number of functions to help film editors, animators, and CAD/CAM designers get their job done in glorious 4K resolution. But with a desk-crunching weight of 33lbs and 32″ of screen real estate, is the BenQ PV3200PT too big for its britches (and your cubicle at the office)?
The latest ultra-portable BenQ i500 LED projector incorporates a short-throw lens, Bluetooth speaker, and wireless streaming capabilities into a single sleek and compact device that’s made to keep up with “youthful” users who are always on the go and want something they can pop out of their backpack and get watching in minutes. But will BenQ’s focus on portability prove to be too much for such a small projector that costs the same as others twice the size and three times the performance?
With the announcement of the Pascal generation of Nvidia graphics cards coming out this summer, many AMD fans were left wondering “what’s next for us?”. Smartly, it seems that instead of trying to directly compete with the likes of the GTX 1080 high-end cards, the latest Polaris variants of AMD’s cards have their sights set squarely on the budget-oriented gamer, those who need the most performance possible out of their gaming desktop and don’t want to drop an arm and a leg to get it.
In recent years, mechanical keyboards like the SteelSeries Apex M500 have surged in popularity with hardcore PC gamers and casual gamers alike. Their sturdy base and ultra-quick responsiveness are exactly what gamers need during the heat of battle, when a missed keystroke can virtually mean the difference between life or death (no pun intended).
