Hydragun – your body will love you for it

8.8 The Hydragun is not so much as a personal massager but a sports recovery tool. Designed by a fitness buff and Muay Thai competitor, this is a ‘high performance percussive massage gun’. It’s made from futuristic-sounding materials like nano silica gel and aerospace grade aluminium. It can vibrate between 1200 to 3200 rpm to deliver a deep-tissue massage, and has a...

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Poor mobile phone signals – shonky mobile 3/4G boosters are illegal

In case you did not know all mobile 3/4G boosters are illegal in Australia. Yet dodgy dealers and shonky online stores sell with abandon. According to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), a mobile 3/4G booster is a device that regenerates (boosts) a mobile signal. Like any other RF (radio frequency) signal booster (TV, Wi-Fi etc.) these are highly illegal. Let’s...

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Viomi 2-in-1 robot vacuum cleaner and mop

8 This is a review of two Viomi 2-in-1 robot vacuum cleaner/mops – The V2 Pro (V-RVCLM21B) and the newer V3 (V-RVCLM26B). While both are functionally twins, there is a technology generation differnce. What is Viomi? It is a Chinese public company. Xiaomi is its strategic partner and major shareholder, and Viomi is part of its ‘mi HOME ecosystem’. Viomi has developed...

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Apple’s iPhones still need internet security

Trend Micro Internet Security for iOS Transcript: With all the personal information stored on your mobile devices, it’s more important than ever to have protection against dangerous websites and viruses. Let’s have a look at how Mobile Security for iOS from Trend Micro can help to keep you and your devices secure. For starters, there’s Web Guard, which automatically blocks malicious, fraudulent and dangerous websites.  With Safe...

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Motorola – Legends are made moving forward

It is a hugely competitive smartphone world. There are over 180 smartphone makers, although we only see the bigger brands in Australia. Motorola Mobility, a US icon now owned by Lenovo, knows that legends are made moving forward. That is how it must differentiate itself. Motorola is in a resurgence. It believes the brand will soon be back in the top five global smartphone...

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Save money on mobile data – you could get it for free!

Average monthly Australian mobile data use is a very closely guarded secret – only Telstra, Optus and Vodafone know and they are not talking. Why? Because the current mobile data pre-and-post-paid plan systems are a huge cash-cow for them and their MVNOs (mobile virtual network operators). Mobile data plans work on the principle of users never using their data plan fully each...

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Sennheiser IE 300 earphones (Review)

Reader Rating0 Votes 0 9.5 Great performers What’s in a name? We used to call them earphones. Sennheiser sometimes calls them that, but other times calls them in-ear headphones. Where quality is excellent and sound isolation effective, we tend to call them in-ear monitors, or IEMs. As far as I’m concerned, the Sennheiser IE 300 “High-fidelity earphones” are...

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