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By Matt Hanson Introduction and design Huawei is one of the few Chinese handset makers to enjoy a rise in popularity outside its home country. Being linked to Google (it’s heavily rumoured that they will be working together to bring us this year’s Nexus phablet) certainly hasn’t hurt, and with the launch of the Honor…

By John McCann Introduction and design The tricky second album. That’s probably the best way to describe the OnePlus 2. After the surprise success of the OnePlus One there were big expectations for its successor, so has the fledgling Chinese brand delivered? OnePlus has dubbed its new phone ‘the 2016 Flagship Killer’, a claim that’s…

By Alastair Jennings Introduction and design XYZprinting produces FDM 3D printers that are perfect for education such as the Da Vinci 1.0. These printers feature enclosed environments, cartridge filament systems and no nonsense straightforward software that makes them incredibly easy to use and an ideal choice for demonstrating the technology to students. At present FDM…

By Nick Pino When it launched back in June 2012, Alienware’s original X51 system had all the merits of a Steam Machine without the title: It was small in stature and perfectly tuned for gaming in the livingroom. Packing Ivy Bridge, the three year old model had a marked advantage over the much smaller crowd…

By Nick Broughall You would think, in the day and age of digital content, that it would cost less to pick up a digital file than a blu-ray disc, given it’s little more than a collection of ones and zeroes transferred via the internet. But the sad truth is that in many cases, you’ll still…

By Kane Fulton Introduction AMD reckons the Mini-ITX spec hasn’t got enough attention in recent years, with many gamers passing up on smaller boxes due to performance concerns. To change how you think about mini gaming PCs, the company is launching the Radeon R9 Nano on September 10. A tiny graphics card that’s barely bigger…

By Juan Martinez Introduction and design Let’s be honest: most mobile workstations are too heavy (and ugly) to comfortably carry around. These powerful and expensive devices typically weigh more than five pounds (2.26 kg) and they look as boxy and boring as the laptops in ’80s sci-fi films. Luckily, HP has done its part to…

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction Just about any household with broadband internet will have a wireless router supplied by the service provider – but there are plenty of good reasons to buy a newer, more powerful model. Your existing router may be a bit long in the tooth, and that means it doesn’t have the latest…

By Desire Athow As the laptop leapfrogs its desktop cousin to become, for many, the main (and often only) work computing device, it is not surprising to see that docking stations are becoming more popular as well. Factor in the unstoppable, relentless drive towards thinner devices with fewer connectivity options (like the new MacBook), and…

By Chuong Nguyen It’s all integrated While many are looking forward to Intel’s Sixth Generation Skylake CPU for its improved processing performance and power efficiency, the chip’s graphics may be its most underestimated asset. With Skylake, Intel’s Gen9 integrated graphics not only brings significantly better graphics performance to the average computing users, but Intel is…

By Dean Evans Features and performance Smart heating systems are all the rage these days. Every home should have one. But it’s only when you start using something like Nest, Tado, Hive, Honeywell’s Evohome or Heat Genius for several months that you realise just how wasteful your old, dumb central heating can be. A traditional…

By Dean Evans Features and performance Smart heating systems are all the rage these days. Every home should have one. But it’s only when you start using something like Nest, Tado, Hive, Honeywell’s Evohome or Heat Genius for several months that you realise just how wasteful your old, dumb central heating can be. A traditional…

By Lily Prasuethsut Introduction, design and comfort Augmented reality is an older technology but, like virtual reality, is starting to regain attention again. Mostly known for making printers and sensors, Epson branched out into the world of AR with the Moverio BT-100 a couple years ago. The design was clunkier and was solely for enterprise…

By Lily Prasuethsut Introduction, design and comfort Augmented reality is an older technology but, like virtual reality, is starting to regain attention again. Mostly known for making printers and sensors, Epson branched out into the world of AR with the Moverio BT-100 a couple years ago. The design was clunkier and was solely for enterprise…