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Seagate Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid Drive Lightning Review: A Taste of SSD, for Cheap

My computer takes too long to boot up. Around a minute and 18 seconds, to be precise(r). Which is why I want a solid state drive. But I don't want to pay ~£400 for 256 gigs of storage. Enter Seagate's Momentus X Hybrid drives, which promise near-SSD speeds, but with giant HDD storage—and not-so-giant prices.

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Braun BNC400 Alarm Clock Lightning Review: How to Ruin Good Design

I have something of a sleep problem. Or I guess, more accurately, a waking up problem. And my alarm clock died. So I bought this re-issue of Braun's Dietrich Labs and Dieter Rams-designed BNC004 travel alarm clock. You should not.

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Logitech Cube Lightning Review: This Is Not a Mouse

Logitech arguable makes the best mice you can buy. I guess it tires of doing so, as the Cube mouse-plus-PowerPoint-clicker is an ergonomic war crime and peripheral abomination. At least it's small enough to purge from memory.

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Shure SRH-940 Headphones Lightning Review: Serious Bang for the Buck

Shure has been killing it for years with their line of professional in-ear monitors. In 2010, they turned their attention to full-sized headphones. Does the SRH-940, their latest and greatest closed-back model, earn its keep?

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Samsung NX200 Lightning Review: It Has More Megapixels, But…

The NX200 could almost be a DSLR camera, with its giant image sensor and fat lenses. And it's closely priced like an entry-level one, at £490. However, it's not, since it doesn't have a mirror in its heart—but on the other hand, it doesn't fit in your pocket like most other mirrorless cameras. Hmm.

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LaCie Little Big Disk Lightning Review: The Future Is Shockingly Super Fast

The Little Big Disk is simply the fastest way to backup your data you've ever used. But it's also, finally, a delivery on Apple's promise that Thunderbolt would do crazy things to our tech lives. That promise came true.

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Panasonic Lumix GX1 Review: This Is Why Micro Four Thirds Cameras Exist

The Panasonic GF1 helped convince a lot of photographers that a compact shooter could feel delightfully professional. The Lumix DMC-GX1 is Panasonic's most evolved Micro Four Thirds camera yet, and it delivers huge on that promise—but is it enough?

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Nokia Lumia 710 Lightning Review: Windows Phone On a Budget Isn’t Bad at All

Nokia’s first Windows Phone effort was met with decent reviews, but not exactly staggering sales. Networks even complained about the cost of the Lumia 800. Now Nokia’s hoping to win the hearts and minds of the budget-conscious, Windows Phone-craving crowd with its cheaper Lumia 710, but is it any good?

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Monster Gratitude Headphones Lightning Review: Shining Stars You Can’t Take Anywhere

Beats by Dre are great for listening to hip hop and looking cool around the city. But if you're not into their bottom-heavy sound, you're left out of the party.

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Motorola Xoom 2 10.1-Inch Wi-Fi Tablet Lightning Review: Mark II Is Still In Need of Polish

Motorola's second attempt at a decent Android tablet certainly reeks of the original Xoom -- even the box states "this time around we've even beefed-up the battery life". But is the sequel a real winner or is it just another also-ran?

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Pioneer S-DJ05 Monitors—This Is What Awesome Sounds Like

Making music, mixing beats, tweaking demo tapes—if you do any of these on your computer you'll want to give the S-DJ05s a listen.

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Victorinox Presentation Master Multitool: Because Even James Bond Has to Use PowerPoint Sometimes

They're called "trade secrets" for a reason. And if the competition gets their hands on your company's IP because you drunkenly left it in a bar, you'll need stringent security to keep them from peeping—like the Victorinox Presentation Master's 256-bit AES encryption. It's a Swiss Army Knife on loan from MI6.

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Sony PlayStation 3D Display Lightning Review: The Perfect Small TV for the Rich Gamers

Online console gaming is the status quo, but nothing will ever usurp the joys of throwing your controller in disgust, cursing, and punching your friends in the arm during couch multiplayer. Sony has a magical, magical reinvention of offline competition.

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Kindle Touch Lightning Review: The Only Book Gadget You Need

We've more or less accepted e-readers as the best way to read a book digitally, but there's still a whole lot that gadgets can do that e-readers suck at—literally anything you own with a screen is better at this stuff than an e-reader. The Kindle Touch is the first to really bridge that gap in a way that makes sense.

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Kindle Fire Review: The iPad Finally Has Serious Competition

The Kindle Fire is stuck between e-ink minimalism and gleaming iPad decadence. That could either make it the goofy middle child in the tablet family, or a singular wunderkind. But the Fire will not be overlooked. Apple: Be afraid.