ReviewsIn the Lab: Michael Brown Re-examines 802.11n Draft 2.0 Routers
Posted 01/10/08 at 08:02:39 PM by Michael Brown
Real-world testing yields surprising results.
ReviewsIntermatic Home Settings Lighting Control Starter Kit
Posted 09/17/07 at 03:13:18 PM by Michael Brown
If you’re considering automating your home, lighting is the best place to start. But if you’re afraid that handling bare electrical wires will leave you with an Einsteinian hairdo, pick up Intermatic’s Home Settings Starter Kit.
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ReviewsXFX 8800 Ultra XXX Edition
Posted 09/10/07 at 05:09:03 PM by Michael Brown
ATI and Nvidia have long entertained us with their game of GPU one-upmanship. Each time ATI thought it had a part that could beat Nvidia, Nvidia moved the goalposts. But now that ATI has been reduced to an AMD brand, it seems its engineers no longer want to play.
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ReviewsPowerColor Radeon HD 2900 XT
Posted 09/10/07 at 04:45:19 PM by Michael Brown
Having designed the graphics architecture for Microsoft’s Xbox 360, ATI’s management had boasted for months ahead of its acquisition by AMD that its engineers were experts at designing the type of unified shader architecture envisioned by DirectX 10. Imagine our surprise when the R600 not only hit the market several months after Nvidia’s take on unified architecture but that the company’s best offering can’t compete with Nvidia’s top two GPUs.
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ReviewsShure SE530PTH Earphones
Posted 07/31/07 at 07:10:48 PM by Michael Brown
For the price of one set of Shure’s SE530PTH earphones, you could buy two 30GB iPods, 17 sets of Apple earbuds, or 500 encrypted songs from iTunes. A worthy investment or Marie Antoinette–style consumption? With that question in mind, we couldn’t resist auditioning these pricey phones to the sound of Cake’s Fashion Nugget, ripped and FLAC-encoded, on Cowon’s D2 digital media player. We don’t know if Shure’s BOM (bill of materials) justifies a $500 price tag, but we did have awfully big smiles on our faces after using these earphones.
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ReviewsAccolade Duet Projection Screen
Posted 07/31/07 at 03:42:54 PM by Michael Brown
Your current video projector has a 4:3 aspect ratio, but you’re planning to move up to a high-def model with a 16:9 aspect ratio next year. In the meantime, you need to replace your projection screen, which your two-year-old recently mistook for an artist’s canvas. Quite the pickle, eh?
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FROM THE ARCHIVEToshiba TDP-FF1AU Video Projector
Posted 07/31/07 at 01:33:39 PM by Michael Brown
Toshiba TDP-FF1AU Video Projector lights up dark rooms.
ReviewsGenius HS-04U
Posted 07/26/07 at 06:04:17 PM by Michael Brown
The Genius HS-04U plugs into your PC’s USB port, instead of your soundcard’s analog speaker output and mic input, so it bypasses any EAX or OpenAL audio effects that game developers might have painstakingly programmed into the software. What you get instead—after installing a driver—is what Genius calls “Virtual Dolby.”
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