Leica M9-P for budding Cartier-Bressons
The Leica M9 is unique in that it packs a full-frame sensor into a compact camera body. If you’ve ever used one of the film-based Leicas or the digital M8, you’ll find both…
BlackBerry: The PlayBook with some serious appeal
The spectacular demise of Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad and the expected arrival of BlackBerry Tablet OS 2.0 should give Research In Motion’s PlayBook tablet a new lease of life. If you’ve tried one, you will…
Olympus E-P3: this Pen is mighty, but pricey
“I really like your camera. What is it?” said the hip young checkout guy in my local Waitrose supermarket, eyeing the Olympus I had on loan for review. Earlier, taking pictures in Nonsuch…
Pure Sirocco 550: a versatile multi-function music box
Not so long ago, a high-tech audio system only had to provide a CD player and an FM radio. Today, sources have multiplied to the point where it has become a challenge to…
Google launches a Death Star to vaporise Facebook
Google+, the new kid on the social networking block, is attracting a massive amount of attention. So did Google’s previous attempts to break into this market, including Orkut (2004), Open Social (2007), Friend…
A Blogger’s Guide to The Olympus PEN E-P3
Being flown out to Vienna for the launch of a new camera is a pretty sweet deal. Not to say it wasn’t intimidating, I mean, 300 tech journalists discussing the finer points of…
BlackBerry, not Apple, is the celebrity fruit
We live in an age of celebrity, where countless websites and magazines feed on a never-ending stream of red-carpet and paparazzi pictures. We gossip about film, TV and pop stars, fashion models and…
HTC Flyer: The tablet as oversized phone
The Apple iPad has set the size of tablet screens at 10 inches, but it’s a new market, and there is still plenty of room for variation between seven and 12 inches. HTC’s…
Livescribe’s Echo smartpen puts a computer in your shirt pocket
Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke said that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. I think even the creator of 2001′s HAL 9000 would have been impressed by the new Livescribe…
Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF101
The Transformer is well named. If you’re using it to answer email in a local cafe, it looks like a netbook or ultraportable laptop. But if you want to tweet in front of…
