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We look at the latest technology gadgets and consumer tech toys and what they can offer to business IT.

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  • Viwoods AiPaper Mini

    Adrian Bridgwater 25 Jun 2026
  • I have massively enjoyed using electronic writing pads up to now, including the Viwoods AiPaper product over the last couple of years; I rewrite my daily TO DO list at least twice a day (sorry if ...

  • Jabra Evolve3 85 review

    Adrian Bridgwater 20 Jun 2026
  • I’ll confess to being a bit of a fan of Jabra earphones and earbuds already, the tiny in-ear ones I use to go running are the only earbuds that relentlessly agree to Bluetooth-connect to my Amazfit ...

  • Xiaomi Pad 8 Pro review

    Adrian Bridgwater 16 May 2026
  • Airport security dropped my “second screen” that I use religiously while on the road at technology conferences. Okay, maybe it got squished in between my laptop and my back or just wore out as a ...

  • Honor Magic8 Pro review 

    Adrian Bridgwater 26 Jan 2026
  • At the risk of writing in the first person, I have a true story to tell. It was 5.45 am in New York’s JFK airport and I had just jettisoned my “liquids” into the TSA security tray and took out my ...

  • Logitech Signature Slim Solar+ K980 keyboard & MX Master 4 mouse

    Adrian Bridgwater 16 Jan 2026
  • The Logitech mouse and keyboard combos of the last half-decade and more have, for my money, become something of a de facto standard for writing with.  There are one or two contenders (Bakker ...

  • Reolink video doorbell & floodlight cameras

    Adrian Bridgwater 12 Jan 2026
  • True story, I had to be out of the country on some international travel for a couple of technology trade conferences.  Nothing unusual there so far. But, also true, I had planned to extend the ...

  • Nubia Z80 Ultra review

    Adrian Bridgwater 06 Nov 2025
  • In a world with too many smartphones, why do we need another one and - crucially - what might set one apart from another? The Nubians might have originated in the Nile Valley, but Nubia today is a ...

  • D-Link DPP-201 powerbank 

    Adrian Bridgwater 02 Oct 2025
  • Anybody who travels knows that sinking feeling when, just as you’re settling into your favourite movie on a long flight, your phone suddenly pings with a low battery warning. It’s not just a ...

  • HONOR Magic V5

    Adrian Bridgwater 28 Aug 2025
  • A smartphone that's the right size at last… and it’s about time. I’ve been saying it for weeks, months and years… in the age of the mobile-first ubiquity, the rise of smartphone OEMs telling us ...

  • Viwoods Aipaper E Ink writer

    Adrian Bridgwater 23 Jul 2025
  • The Viwoods Aipaper is more remarkable than the reMarkable. I’ve been working with a reMarkable for some time and it’s good, but this product has interest too. The Viwoods Aipaper is usable, faster ...

  • OWC USB-C quad HDMI 4K adapter 

    Adrian Bridgwater 18 Jul 2025
  • Not enough connections. Well, not enough HDMI connections… and it has always been a problem that I’ve been trying to work around. On my constant mission to find more productive ways of working, I ...

  • Mobile Pixels Glance monitor range

    Adrian Bridgwater 20 May 2025
  • There’s a lot of really way-out product development happening in the monitor space. We’re now at a point in the industry when companies like Mobile Pixels are creating large curved monitors, ...

  • Acer Chromebook Plus 514

    Adrian Bridgwater 31 Mar 2025
  • I’ve been using an Acer Chromebook 11 C732LT Celeron 1.1 GHz with 32GB since I came across it on sale in a department store in the USA while on a trip to attend a technology conference. On sale for ...

  • Curve banking app on Amazfit 

    Adrian Bridgwater 26 Mar 2025
  • As someone who has never been comfortable with enabling payment on my smartphone, I’ve watched the increasing presence of people “tapping” their iPhones or Android devices in bars, restaurants and ...

  • Honor Magic7 Pro, a smartphone with an eye for AI

    Adrian Bridgwater 25 Mar 2025
  • AI is everywhere… and it’s in the Honor (stylised as HONOR) Magic7 Pro smartphone. At first take, I hadn’t been positively “looking for” AI services on my smartphone and at no point was I say ...