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Shure E500PTH review

Reviews With the sounds of the outside world almost completely excluded, the E500PTHs are left to pump music directly, it seems, into your brain. According to Shure, the E500s are derived from personal monitor technology designed for professional musicians.

Editor's rating   9

Tags: cable, sounds, microphone, headphones

5 October 2006, 10:30

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 review

Reviews Barely wrapped your brain around dual-core processors? It only gets worse from here -- welcome to quad core, by way of Intel's Core 2 Extreme QX6700. Don't let the 'Core 2' fool you (great job, Intel Product Naming department), this new chip has...

Editor's rating   8.7

Tags: intel, raw, photoshop, chip

15 November 2006, 13:40

How does an MP3 player work?

Reviews Using principles of psychoacoustics (how the brain perceives sound) and perceptual coding (eliminating imperceptible sounds), engineers develop algorithms, called codecs (compression decompression), that compress songs into the smallest possible...

9 May 2005, 15:33

Shure SE530 noise-isolating headphones review

Reviews At lower volumes you may not be able to notice the difference in performance between the SE310s and the SE530s, but crank the volume up to its higher levels and prepare to have your brain hammered from the inside.

Editor's rating   9.1

Tags: shure, noise, pair, headphones

25 May 2007, 10:00

Samsung Q45 review

Reviews The keyboard is a decent size for such a small model, but Samsung has inexplicably swapped some modifier keys around, so if you're a fan of keyboard shortcuts you'll need to re-program your brain before you're back up to full speed again.

Editor's rating   7.5

Tags: samsung, ram, windows xp, glossy

25 October 2007, 10:16

Samsung P200 review

Reviews If you use a lot of keyboard shortcuts you'll have to reprogram your brain slightly to adjust to this awkward anomaly. However, look further than its suit-and-tie attire and you'll find that this £700 laptop still has plenty of fire in its belly.

Editor's rating   7.5

Tags: samsung, wi fi, hard drive, ports

14 May 2008, 9:29

Nokia 7280 review

Reviews Impatience often caused us to overshoot and the complexity of the task left us with no spare brain power to handle spelling or grammar. Only the Nokia label on the side and the relentless advertising make it recognisable as a mobile phone.

Editor's rating   7

Tags: nokia, spell, wheel, scroll

8 May 2005, 16:31

Sharp LL-151-3D review

Reviews If your eyes aren’t getting the separate images correctly, your brain can’t do its job of interpreting them as a single 3D picture. The Actius RD3D has not shown up in the UK, and Sharp has no plans to launch it here.

Editor's rating   8

Tags: sharp, material, eye, speakers

3 November 2004, 23:00