Inspect-a-Gadget

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  • OWC Thunderbolt Dock

    Adrian Bridgwater 26 Jan 2021
  • Inspect-a-Gadget is of course a real person.  He/she/it is gender-neutral, but the elves that work for Inspect-a-Gadget are very much of this Earth and composed of a pound (or more) of flesh, just ...

  • Logitech Rally Bar family & BRIO

    Adrian Bridgwater 14 Jan 2021
  • Camera-envy used to be that ‘thing’ that long-lens-toting tourists would exhibit when parading around beauty spots, well-known tourist locations and perhaps even Disneyland. That time has passed. ...

  • Hacking a Roberts transistor radio

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 04 Jan 2021
  • Gadgets come and go. There's always something better on the horizon. But some things seems to last and last. They pass down generations but then they eventually break. A decade ago I wrote about a ...

  • Kyvol Cybovac S31 Robot Vacuum

    Adrian Bridgwater 24 Dec 2020
  • The Kyvol Cybovac S31 Robot Vacuum sucks - and we mean that. But here’s the thing, we mean it in a good way. One might argue that robot vacuums have been brought to market before their time i.e. ...

  • Razer Kaira Pro headset designed for Xbox

    Adrian Bridgwater 07 Dec 2020
  • The Inspect-a-Gadget lab elves had some slightly unusual moments testing out the Razer Kaira Pro headset designed for Xbox, in a good way. Where’s the dongle?  We were sure there must have been a ...

  • D-Link Wi-Fi Spotlight Camera

    Adrian Bridgwater 30 Nov 2020
  • Deep in the Inspect-a-Gadget lab, our elves don’t always get out and see the light of day that much; they’re quiet reflective characters who sometimes prefer the dim light of the backlit keyboard ...

  • Huawei MateBook 14 review: ultraportable powerhouse

    Adrian Bridgwater 23 Nov 2020
  • All laptops are pretty much the same today, right?  Open the packaging and you get your basic clamshell unit, a power cable and adapter, a little warranty leaflet that you leave in the back of the ...

  • EPOS | Sennheiser gaming headsets: GSP 370 & GSP 670

    Adrian Bridgwater 17 Nov 2020
  • Let’s go back to basics and step back in time. When you’ve had a pair of (now considered ‘retro’) Sennheiser headphones in your teens (example shown here) the experience tends to leave you with a ...

  • Microsoft Xbox Series X & S review

    Adrian Bridgwater 11 Nov 2020
  • The Inspect-a-Gadget team elves are a confirmed bunch of gamers.  Having started gaming life with TV Pong games back in the late 1970s and then graduating to the Atari 2600 in the 1980s, we’ve also ...

  • Huawei Mate 40 Pro

    Adrian Bridgwater 06 Nov 2020
  • A new Huawei smartphone is always a bit of an occasion - and it’s usually an occasion that comes with the top brass from HQ flying into town to book out London’s ExCeL centre with an accompanying ...

  • HONOR Watch GS Pro rugged smartwatch 

    Adrian Bridgwater 29 Oct 2020
  • Are you a so-called ‘urban adventurer’ at heart? That’s what Huawei sub-brand company Honor wants you to be with its latest smartwatch.  Actually, you could be an office-based user (oh okay, it’s ...

  • Down the encryption tunnel with NordVPN 

    Adrian Bridgwater 19 Oct 2020
  • The lion’s share of the product analysis carried out by Inspect-a-Gadget is typically hardware-based. They’re things, devices, tools, machines and extensions i.e. the focus here is gadgets - that’s ...