Miscellaneous

Whether it was due to Hans Lippershey or Galileo Galilei, humans have been using lenses in cylindrical pipes to enlarge their world for centuries.

Now it’s our turn.

Read on for our take on Bushnell’s Trophy Extreme Spotting Scope along with some accompanying tripods from Fotopro.

Okay, this is a technology review site so why are we having a look at luggage and bags??

It comes as no surprise that our team sometimes has to travel with a fair bit of gear and in this day and age we need to be pretty savvy how we carry our stuff. Anti-theft measures are unfortunately highly necessary and that also includes electronic anti-theft (RFID safe pockets).

So let’s have a look at Travelon, a company that seems to specialise in protecting our hi-tech jewels in the best possible way. We review a backpack, a wheeled under-seat trolley, a convertible shoulder bag/backpack for the ladies and a small shoulder bag with plenty of room for passports, tablet and other valuables.
Plus, for good measure we’ll throw in a self-inflating seat cushion. Wondering how that works?

Come along on a recent domestic flight and trip when we practically lived out of these bags...

Over the next few months we hope to be doing a number of reviews on the powerful Victa 82V range of cordless garden tools.

We are kicking it off today with an impressive unit, the V82VGT lithium ion grass trimmer.

Let us show you how these Victa cordless tools can help you to do your gardening work quicker, with less mess, less noise and safer and perhaps even cheaper....

The observable universe is a fascinating place to discover and even though we have been spoiled with everything that NASA has been bringing out over the last few decades, nothing is as exciting as seeing it through your own eyes with the aid of a telescope.

We have spent quite a few hours over many weeks with the Meade ETX 90 Observer telescope which is a compact and very capable computer-driven system.

And this is what we discovered.

Routers are indispensable in our modern homes. They create data connections between all our devices as well as connecting us (with the help of modems) to that ethereal world wide network we call the Internet.

The RT2600 is Synology’s second generation router and it is looking to make some serious connections.

Read on for our review.