| Games Review - Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel |
| The first two Borderlands titles took the world by storm with their irreverent humour. But now, it seems that the franchise needs to go back to the drawing board if it wants to remain relevant. |
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| Time for a laser all-in-one at home (part 1) - Brother MFC-9330CDW |
| This is an LED printer, which is similar to a laser printer. Its actual print speed is the highest of this lot of printers, at 23 pages a minute (black-and-white and colour). Samsung's Xpress C460FW comes closest at 18 pages for black-and-white printing, but manages only four pages a minute for colour. |
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| Lights On BenQ MH680 Projector Review |
| At a glance, the MH680's physical design is thoughtfully executed, but the aesthetics were the least of the manufacturer's concerns. With that said, the MH680 is designed to save power, project high resolution images, while controlling the amount of light needed and being user- friendly to use and maintain. |
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| The Big Projector - BenQ W770ST |
| This is going to sound odd, but we reckon a projector is very much a value proposition. Think of it this way. Even today, really big HDTVs – we’re talking 60-inch-plus beasts – still cost thousands, but you can buy an HD projector like this new BenQ W770ST for $831.40, and it will happily paint an image 10 feet or more in diagonal across your wall. |
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| Jack Of All Trades Fuji Xerox Docuprint CM215 FW |
| Laser and LED printers generally offer more bang for your buck when you print in black and white, though the initial cost of buying one can typically be more than, say, an inkjet printer. In response to that, Fuji Xerox has released a line of affordable color LED printers, one of which is the DocuPrint CM215 FW. |
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| ESPON L550 – Ink Tanks For Everyone |
| While laser printers are generally cheaper when it comes to the printing cost per page, inkjet printers are better at printing documents with colored images and graphics as well as photo prints. Of course, while most entry- and mid-range inkjet printers don’t cost very much up front, replacement ink cartridges typically don’t come cheap. |
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| Canon imageCLASS MF8280CW - Print Quality Matters |
| We've seen a number of large multifunction printers come through our labs in the past couple of months, and that trend isn't stopping any time soon as Canon has graciously sent us one of their latest and largest imageCLASS printers yet in the form of the Canon imageCLASS MF8280Cw multifunction printer. |
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| Gigabyte Brix BXPI3 - 4010 Projector |
| The term innovative is bandied around an awful lot nowadays, usually by marketing types, but actual innovation is one of the real rarities in the tech industry. When Gigabyte’s Brix Projector landed in our labs, we figured it to sit somewhere between curiosity and novelty. However, once we fired it up it became clear that this was one of those moments where actual innovation has occurred. |
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| Epson Expression XP-810 - Great Quality, Pricey Inks |
| The Epson Expression XP-810 Small-in-One (go.pcworld.com/ epsonxp810) printer could make almost anyone happy. It has an impressively deep list of features for a home printer and is also one of the best all-around performers in its price range. |
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| Lomography Smartphone Film Scanner Review |
| Lomography wanted users to easily bridge the gap between their analogue films and the digital social media that we mostly used. The idea is to create a film scanner using the camera in your cell phone combined with a film feed mechanism and a light source. |
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| Epson WorkForce M1 O5 Printer - No Color Here |
| If you, for example, need a workplace capable printer to handle fair volume, but only need black and white prints prepared, then this particular model – Epson’s WorkForce M105 is a sensible solution. Getting color ink cartridges is not sensible if you don’t need them, even if you only get them once. In fact, it’s starting to look like cartridges, overall, aren’t the best idea. That’s what Epson implies with this particular model. It doesn’t use cartridges. Rather, it has an ink reservoir that is |
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| BenQ W703D - A Compact HD Projector At A Low Price |
| If you want a big screen, but don't have a lot of money, then the BenQ W703D DLP projector seems like a good choice on paper. It's one of the cheapest 1,280x720 pixel projectors we've seen at $662.5. It's a compact model so it should fit easily on a shelf or coffee table. A wide range of connections is provided, meaning you shouldn't have any trouble hooking it up to most computers, TVs and other home entertainment devices. |
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| 3D Printed Guns |
| For many, 3D printing is a revolution, using a special hardened plastic to print, layer by layer, actual physical objects. While there are many uses for this, for example the printing of spare parts for models or architects constructing 3D replicas of their projects, American Cody Wilson had other ideas. |
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| Lights, Camera, Action! (Part 2) |
| A projector’s ANSI lumens rating tell you how bright it is. Home projectors are designed to be used in darkened environments, so they don’t need to be massively bright as your eyes will adjust to the image. Even so, most of the models here do a fair job under bright light. |
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| Lights, Camera, Action! (Part 1) |
| There’s no better way to replicate that cinematic experience in your living room than with a projector and a huge screen. No matter what your budget, we’ve got a perfect model to suit. |
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| 3D Printing And What’s Available Now (Part 3) |
| The Replicator 2 is a bigger and more professional-looking printer than the previous selections. It has a large 410 cubic inch build volume, measures in at 19.1 x 16.5 x 14.7 inches and weighs just under 12kg. It uses a spool-fed PLA filament as the printing material, claims to use up to 32% less energy than building with ABS and can print an object measuring 11.2 x 6 x 6.1 inches. |
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| 3D Printing And What’s Available Now (Part 2) |
| The Cube is a 10 x 10 x 13 inch 3D printer that revels in the fact that it's uniquely one of the only plug-and-play 3D printers available. You can literally order the Cube, get it out of the box, install the software and off you go, although there are a few more steps to the process admittedly |
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| 3D Printing And What’s Available Now (Part 1) |
| 3D printing has once again made its way into mainstream headlines. This time, though, not through an astronaut making a spanner for themselves on the International Space Station or some clever engineer creating an artificial limb. This time it's the questionably immoral creation of the world's first printed gun. |
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| Canon i-Sensys MF4890dw Laser Multifunction Printer |
| Sitting at the top of Canon’s family of small-office mono MFPs, the MF4890dw allies 25ppm print speeds with useful features such as Canon’s 50-page duplex automatic document feeder (DADF), which can scan both sides of a page for copy, fax and scan operations. |
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| A List of Printers with AirPrint (Part 3) : HP Envy 120, HP Photosmart 7520 |
| The Photosmart 7520 has a very different design to the others, eschewing the low and flat look for a stepped shape. The smaller top shelf has the scanner platen, a 25-sheet foldaway ADF and a protruding tablet-style touchscreen, then there’s a cut-out thin body before you reach the bulky base, where A4 and photo trays sit. |
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| Brother DCP- J4110DW - An A4/A3 Multifunction Device |
| With its DCP-J4110DW multifunction device, Brother has continued its recent policy of adding A3 printing capability to the standard A4 print, copy and scan feature set. To achieve A3 printing on an A4 printer, Brother has switched from a portrait to landscape orientation throughput. Paper is delivered, printed and ejected in landscape mode. |
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| Looking At Printers And Projectors In A Whole New Way |
| Printers and Projectors have been around from several years now. Right from age old bulky printers to the new age petite ones, right from limited color projectors to full - fledged ones, this industry has come a long way. Gone are the days when we were ruled by complicated installation drivers and wires, now we have progressed to an era of wirelessly accessing and using them. |
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| ViewSonic PJD7820HD Projector |
| Projectors seem to fall into two distinct categories: one for the business user, the other for the home cinema user. What usually works well with one tends to fail with the other, with it being, most of the time, down to a simple lack of connector, high noise levels or resolution. However, the ViewSonic PJD7820HD projector ticks the boxes for both business and home and laughs heartily at the competition. |
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| Canon PIXMA MX525 - PIXMA Inkjet All-in-One Printers |
| Like the Canon Pixma MX395, reviewed recently, the Pixma MX525 is a multifunction device aimed at the small office/home environment. Offering print, copy, scan and fax functionality with a 30-page ADF (Automatic Document Feed) module, the Pixma MX525 gives you the choice of USB, wired Ethernet or Wi-Fi with support for WPS connectivity. |
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