The Surface is Microsoft’s long-awaited tablet. It’s sold as a “do-everything device”, a laptop when you need to get real work done and a tablet when you want to use it more casually. It’s supposed to mark a new era for Microsoft: making and designing its own products. But is it any good? First
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The Zik headphones from Parrot are unabashedly attention grabbing. Combining chrome, matt-black plastic and leather, they’re simply beautiful. Understated design, invisible touch controls, superb noise cancelling and a number of ingenious features make them highly covetable, even with
On paper, the Celluon Magic Cube projection keyboard is great. It’s a light, thoroughly portable unit that connects by cable or Bluetooth – meaning it works with phones, tablets and desktop or laptop computers – and projects a keyboard onto most level, opaque surfaces using an attention-grabbing
This beauty’s a head turner! When Acer’s new top-end Ultrabook, the Aspire S7, arrived in TechCentral’s offices last week, it was like a supermodel had entered the room. There’s no doubt that Acer, whose previous Ultrabooks have underwhelmed next to the competition, is back in the game in a big way
The Z10 embodies BlackBerry’s aspirations. The smartphone’s virtues are numerous, but so are the challenges it faces if consumers are to see it as a bona fide top-end contender and, more importantly, actually shell out their hard-earned cash to
You have to hand it to Samsung’s marketing department. Not only does it have its finger on the pulse, but it appears to have a sharp sense of humour to boot. Only Samsung could launch a device with a 4-inch display, one of the selling points of the iPhone 5, and call it the “mini”. Well played Samsung, well played
Expect to see a lot of machines like Hewlett-Packard’s new Envy X2 tablet/laptop hybrid on sale this year. It’s a form factor both Microsoft and PC makers are keen to bring to the market as they fight off the threat posed by Apple’s iPad and inject new energy and innovation into the PC business. It’s
If you haven’t spilt a cup of coffee, wine or water over at least one keyboard, laptop or tablet computer, you’re not a proper worker bee in the knowledge economy. At the very least, someone you know has. Logitech is hoping these mishaps will encourage people to consider the K310, the company’s
At a glance, Apple’s iPad mini is simply a smaller, cheaper iPad 2. But to think of the iPad mini as some kind of secondary player to the bigger version is a mistake because this isn’t really a step down from its bigger cousin. In many ways, it’s an improvement on the 9,7-inch slate. The design of
At Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference this year, Apple ditched its massive 17-inch MacBook Pro for this: the all-new 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. It’s a pixel-dense, fire-breathing, knee-knocking, man-eating machine! According to Apple, it’s “as light as Air”, but this