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Inspect-a-Gadget

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

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  • 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 is rather better. The Viwoods Aipaper is more usable, ...

  • 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 ...

  • Cevaton 15.6” laptop screen extender

    Adrian Bridgwater 19 Mar 2025
  • Two laptops or one? One large-screen laptop and a Microsoft Surface? One laptop and Chromebook, or one laptop and an iPad with a keyboard, or just two laptops? Those are the choices I make every ...

  • A road-warrior kit: Dell Pro keyboard, mouse, briefcase & backpack

    Adrian Bridgwater 12 Feb 2025
  • It’s always interesting to see if a new keyboard option can make a difference to working life. After all, it’s hard to beat what is (arguably) the gold standard in the form of the MX Keys from ...

  • Amazfit T-Rex 3

    Adrian Bridgwater 05 Feb 2025
  • Santa was good to me this year, I got an Amazfit T-Rex 3 and it was a gift worth waiting for. It’s taken me a while to write this up (I know the yuletide season has passed), but it takes a while to ...

  • Envoy Pro Elektron, a no-risk disk that whisks

    Adrian Bridgwater 30 Jan 2025
  • As a grown adult, you really shouldn’t get excited about a hard disk, but I managed to get my hands on a unit that could be the answer to my needs.  To be clear, I need to work across about five ...

  • Xiaomi 14T Pro smartphone review

    Adrian Bridgwater 10 Dec 2024
  • In keeping with my end-of-year tablet update, I dovetailed my recent embrace of the Xiaomi Redmi Pad Pro with the chance to get hold of the Xiaomi 14T Pro. Having been using the same smartphone for ...

  • Xiaomi Redmi Pad Pro 

    Adrian Bridgwater 08 Nov 2024
  • As it’s Christmas (well, nearly) and I updated my Android mini tablet option last year with around this time, I decided that it was time to “go large” and get something more powerful, with a bigger ...

  • Logitech Keys To Go 2

    Adrian Bridgwater 30 Aug 2024
  • I am always looking for better (smaller) ways to work on a plane.  It’s a life mission and I’ve been through laptops, mini handhelds like the Planet Gemini (wonderful, but keyboard too small), plus ...

  • NexDock 360: Flexible laptop alternative?

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 02 Aug 2024
  • People may choose to upgrade their laptops every couple of years. But they are likely to update their phones more frequently. Each new generation of smartphone provides users with the latest ...