The Archos 2 PMP may not have the Android OS we’ve all been patiently waiting for, and neither does it have the nifty touchscreen interface of its 3 Vision sibling, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be a reasonable, budget media player. Generation MP3 have one in to review – in a hue unpleasantly bordering on puce – and have found that while the Archos 2 may not embody all the innovation we’ve come to expect from the company, it does hit the right price spot.
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EVGA have announced a new LCD display, the InterView 1770, which offers not one but two 17-inch panels fixed to a single central stand. The 1440 x 900 panels each rotate 180-degrees horizontally, so they can be flipped completely around to show a person sitting opposite you, or clamshell in to fit into a narrow cubicle.
The first of Jointech’s JE100 ebook readers have made it out to buyers, and in turn the reviews are coming in. First spotted back in June, the JE100 differs from most ebook readers we see by virtue of its 7-inch LCD touchscreen, rather than using an E Ink panel. According to MobileRead forum member Sweetpea, that’s no great issue; the JE100’s backlight turns down sufficiently low to make long-term reading possible without eye-strain.
As evolutionary updates go you don’t get more basic than a cosmetic refresh, so imagine our surprise to find Lenovo guilty of just such a relaunch. The Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 takes the company’s original S10 netbook and, most obviously, reworks the casing; is that enough to keep the S10-2 near the top of the netbook leaderboard? SlashGear set to finding out.
Having showed up on Amazon earlier today, it seems the ASUS Eee PC T91 really is ready for US prime-time. The reviews have already begun to spring up across the usual suspects, so what’s the consensus? It looks like it’s time for another SlashGear review round-up, this time about what could be ASUS’ most-anticipated Eee PC to-date.
Full round-up, plus video, after the cut
The ebook reader market is hotting up, as the Amazon Kindle continues to propel customer attention, and the latest model to get reviewed is the Cool-ER. Based around the Netronix EB-600 (as is the Elonex 600EB), it lacks the wireless connectivity of the Kindle, but still has a 6-inch E Ink display and reasonably broad format support.
Cats plus lasers probably sounds like some people’s idea of the best thing to do with the LOLCat meme, but for FroliCat it’s a business model. Their BOLT promises to keep your household feline (or dog) active, by giving it a tireless laser dot to chase, and Gear Diary have been testing it out.
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We’ve covered numerous backup systems here on SlashGear, ranging from simple USB hard-drives through network-attached media boxes and full-on RAID arrays, but bar individual drive failure we’ve never really considered the impact of physical damage. That’s exactly the sort of thing that ioSafe have in mind with their Solo drive, up to 1.5TB of fireproof, waterproof storage. SlashGear have been testing it out.
So far, most of the headphone amplifiers that have graced these pages have been portable, budget items; the same very definitely can’t be said for this brushed-steel behemoth, the WooAudio WES Electrostatic Headphone Amp and, dangling insouciantly next to it, Stax’s SR-008 Mk2 Electrostatic headphones. According to audiophile reviewer Steve Guttenberg, you’re looking at “state of the art sound for a tiny fraction of the cost of a system built around speakers.”
Best Buy’s Insignia NS-HD01 HD Radio – first tipped back in May - can be had for $50, and that was enough for digital-media maven Dave Zatz to pick one up to review. For $49.99 you can’t expect too much, but comments to our original article left us worried that the Insignia - which also appears to be the iNiquity KRI – might be a real dud.
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