Miscellaneous

We’ve had our run-ins with laptop coolers and with notebooks that were too hot to touch after some use. These coolers take many shapes and forms and have a built quality that runs from a typical throw-away item to something like the Ninja HS Adjustable Notebook Cooler, which is probably the top-of-the-line in this genre.

Let’s have a quick look at what is in essence a simple product.

What's in a name? I like it when a device is just named for what it is: I'm talking about the Video Name Tag. Simply put it's basically a video playing business card which you can wear on your shirt. Nothing attracts more attention than moving images particularly if you're wearing it in a busy crowd! So if you're not too self-conscious and you want to draw some attention to yourself or your business let's switch it on and see what kind of response it generates.…

Here is an Australian invention that got me and my family really excited: the PianoMaestro.

What is a PianoMaestro you might ask? It's an electronic teaching and tutoring aid for piano students and which aims to make learning the piano an enjoyable experience. If this could be true, bring it on! So let's see how the PianoMaestro is able to achieve -at a fraction of the cost- what we look for in human piano teachers.

The name “KArcher” has always been synonymous with high pressure cleaning, but boy, they have really come up trumps this time. Never have we reviewed a product of this type where the constructors must have designed the product by customer demand.

We have just received the best of the Premium Class, high pressure water cleaners - the KArcher K6 – 450 T400. It simply has everything. Made in Germany, it reeks of quality and engineering innovation. With the T400 you get everything you need for specialised jobs such as; Variable high pressure available in each of these applications, general cleaning, patio cleaning, gutter cleaning, vertical high situation cleaning. And all of these cleaning functions can also be assisted by use of a special purpose chemical injection.

Read on and we will tell you about a high pressure cleaning machine where we really struggled to find any issue that could be improved upon.

For years I have been looking for an easy to use backup solution that would run in the background continually updating my backup files. I found the solution years ago and it already saved my bacon on more than one occasion. But it wasn't all that fast and the interface left something to be desired. Now, the folks at Rebit brought out version 5 that addresses all these issues plus has some new features and is cheaper to boot. So, are we a happy camper?