Samsung Series 7 Slate 700T provides you with full PC power packed into ultraportable device, taking mobility to next level with touch-focused design. It offers strong performance with its Core i5 processor, solid design, solid pen support, touch friendly interface and useful accessories. It is a powerful touchscreen Windows 7 PC with very Windows 8 like optional interface. The 11.6 inch screen of Series 7 Slate boasts 10 digit and stylus input for excellent ease of use. It is a slate by characterization, however Samsung Series 7 provides you with all the performance and power of notebook PC. The Slate comes with Core i5-2467M processor, a significant boost over usual Intel Atom processors found in other Slates. With Samsung Series 7 Slate 700T, you can enjoy the power of Windows based PC and convenience of the tablet. A Slate PC with light and thin design means you can take it wherever you go. On the other hand, the second generation Intel Core i5 processor and genuine  [...]

Skullcandy Roc Nation Aviator Headphones looks really stylish and it is made for the younger audience. It has a very sophisticated look and the sound design too is pretty detailed. However, this set is a bit light on bass and might not satisfy people how are looking for a thumping sound. I would still recommend buying this pair looking at the unique thematic design and exceptional clarity in music. For testing the Skullcandy Roc Nation Aviator Headphones, I used it over a week and didn’t have any complaints about the shape and fit of this set. Ear protectors are made of plush leather and they make a loose seal to let in ambient noise and still keep the music between the ears through adequate sound isolation. These headphones are quite light courtesy of the stainless steel accents and you get a lot of room inside the big pyramidal shaped earcups for accommodating different ear sizes. A lot of headphones from

Minebea Cool Leaf Keyboard is a touch screen keyboard and you will like it if you love typing on touchscreen. The keyboard is a big touchscreen but it doesn’t bring any kind of versatility like format (which I saw on Razer laptop keyboard). For example, you cannot substitute the number pad with video window or make your own keyboard layout for different tasks or even display Photoshop tool palettes. I am hoping that Minebea explores some kind of versatility through this keyboard which already has multitouch capabilities. If you are touch typist, you will be disappointed because the keys don’t give you any feel while typing. However, if you like to keep your gadgets clean, this keyboard is a must buy for you because it is very easy to clean up. The surface is very shiny and the manufacturer has included a cleaning cloth which means that it must attract a lot of fingerprints easily. This keyboard will be released on May 13th in Japan and the USB  [...]

For testing, I played ‘Avatar’ Blu-ray version on the Dell UltraSharp U3011. The blacks were deep and the color too was accurate. Content looked great on a 30 inch screen. The faces were natural looking and there weren’t any egregious color tint problems. For game tests, I played StarCraft II or SCII; it is my new tool for judging the color quality and the vibrancy in games. I played it at full resolution of 2,560x1,600 and with such high quality, it is difficult for any game to look bad. The pictures were indeed stunning on the monitor. Take a look at the quality of this monitor and you will never look at a 24 incher again. The vibrancy and colors on the Dell UltraSharp U3011 are the best ever. Everything looked really detailed and it popped up from the display. There are plenty of options for color calibration and display presets and you can tweak the output in a lot of ways. The refresh rate of this monitor is seven milliseconds  [...]

Samsung SyncMaster P2770FH is a very attractive looking computer monitor and the connection options include DVI and HDMI port. There is one port for digital audio and normal audio. These ports are located on the display’s back and are backward facing. Accessing them is quite easy. You can set the OSD or onscreen display of the Samsung SyncMaster P2770FH to be on the screen for 200, 20, 10, or 5 seconds. Array consists of Menu button, Down and Up button, Enter button, and Auto button. The up/down buttons also double up as the brightness and the preset shortcut keys respectively. The options for picture include sharpness, contrast, and brightness. The color tone can be set to Custom, Warm, Normal and Cool. They let you change the attributes of blue, green and red manually. There are 7 presets in all – Text, Custom, Game, Internet, Sport, Dynamic Contrast, and Movie. These presets just change the brightness, color temperature or both according to the  [...]

Optoma Neo-i is projector having a dock for connecting iPod Touch or iPhone. You can connect the Apple devices and view the content on a larger screen. The projector even comes with speakers built in. For testing the sound and picture quality of this device, I played a Blu-ray movie by connecting Blu-ray player through HDMI and played some digital movies that I’d stored on my iPhone. The movies were all full length and their sizes were around 1.4 GB. I could have tested more video apps on iPhone but I realized that most of them don’t support output of videos. This is certainly the limitation of Apple of the app developers and Optoma Neo-i has got nothing to do with it. You won’t be able to watch videos from iOS Netflix app. The manufacturer says that you can project images up to 120 inches but in  [...]

Mitsubishi HC6000 has good collection of picture controls and it includes Gamma modes. They are really the picture modes along with different curves of gamma. The best preset, for me is Cinema and the two user modes let you do some gamma curve adjustment but I won’t recommend doing this unless you don’t know what you’re doing. There are some selectable color temperatures available and for people who want to calibrate the unit professionally, there is User color temperature. Auto Iris feature lets you open and close the Iris and this depends on the brightness of the scene. I would recommend you to keep this shut off because it causes both the black and while level to shift up/down depending on the content of the picture. Both the white and black needs to correctly set and it has to remain constant too for best picture performance. Connectivity on the Mitsubishi HC6000 is quite generous considering this is a front projector. There are two HDMI ports which is better  [...]

The Web interface of Vizio XWR100 dual-band wireless router is divided in 3 parts – Wireless, Router and Internet. These parts let you customize the settings of the router’s function. For instance, the Internet lets you change the way this router will access the Internet and you can also optimize the connection for streaming video. Apart from that, you can turn the Internet connection on and off for some computers on the network. There is also handy Internet speed test which quickly shows you the broadband connection speed. The router part too lets you access the settings of the router like firewall, default IP address, etc. The Wireless part lets you customize the wireless networks. You can also turn on the third network here for use with the host legacy slow clients or guests. I found that the Vizio XWR100 dual-band wireless router interface was responsive and intuitive. It has most of the basic features that you’d want in  [...]

Xbox 360 60GB has been plagued with a lot of problems in the past but the company says that they have been working hard to overcome them. I have been reading all over the internet that the latest iteration of the console was much more powerful than its predecessors and in my lab tests, I found this to be true. Put horizontally, this console weighs 8.8 pounds and is 12.15 inches wide x 3.27 inches high x 10.15 inches deep. This makes it smaller than the previous Xbox. You can prop up this console in vertical position and there are also interchangeable faceplates which cost about $20. Also noteworthy is that the system’s beige color clashes with the back and silver colors of the modern AV devices. Xbox 360 60GB has a laptop styled hard drive inside and this is the secret behind its slim chassis. The earlier model had desktop styled hard  [...]

Wireless speakers have become very popular in the market these days because they relieve you from the cable clutter. This technology seems really cool but it involves a lot of challenges and I have seen a lot of awful sounding wireless speakers. I am not kidding, there are tons of dreadful products out there and hence I didn’t expect anything spectacular from the the Rocketfish Universal Wireless Rear Speakers Kit when I first saw it in my labs. You might be unfamiliar with Rocketfish – it is one of the inhouse brands of Best Buy, the megaretailer. I was pleasantly surprised to see the performance of this product; it was better than a lot I have previously seen. Rocketfish Universal Wireless Rear Speakers Kit consists of power amplifier/wireless receiver and wireless transmitter which can be used along with any surround speakers brand provided they use a standard speaker wire (not the proprietary hardwired connectors). This wireless rear  [...]