Written by
Milos Jevtic
Friday, 18 February 2011 10:56
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  As evident from the title, Cooler Master’s Storm Spawn comes in a combination of red and black colour. The scroll wheel and all buttons are matted black; according to Cooler Master, Omron microswitches were used to manufacture these, which guarantees at least five million clicks - a mind-boggling piece of information, sufficient on its own to make you want to buy this mouse. The rest of the mouse’s upper body is coloured glossy red, which really has an effect on the overall visual impact.
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Written by
Milos Jevtic
Monday, 06 December 2010 13:01
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 Cooler Master has entered the gaming mice market last year, perhaps in a shy way, but definitely unexpectedly. After a very successful debut model, they've decided to stick to the route, and a year later, we've got the successor, named Inferno. At first glance, it seems that all troubles that plagued the first iteration (if any) have been rectified, giving us a seemingly fantastic mouse.
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Written by
Milan Djukic
Saturday, 06 November 2010 00:54
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  Personally, I'm a big fan of “active gaming”, i.e. forcing players to get up from their chairs, couches and beds and start actively making things happen on the screen by waving their arms and legs, move, jump and whatnot, in order to improve their health, even if not achieve the best possible score in the end. I first tried out Eyetoy, now already obsolete and utterly rudimentary movement detection software, which used a camera to detect environment changes and transfer them to the screen. The problem of this system was that the movement could be of any sort, as the only thing that mattered was that the camera detects change in the assigned key pixel. Although rather basic, Eyetoy did open a new chapter, that was consequently taken over and dominated ever since by Nintendo and their Wii. I first tasted the addiction of Wii a few years ago, at the CeBIT fair, months before the official launch. My impressions were such that I took my care on a ride over a thousand kilometres long just to get my sample of Wii. That was shortly followed by damaging the furniture, ceiling, even other people by Wiimote. All this considered, you can imagine my joy when I was notified that I'd have the chance to test Microsoft's Kinect (once known as Project Natal).
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Written by
Milos Jevtic
Sunday, 01 August 2010 16:43
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  Many of us dislike cables to the point of doing absolutely everything possible to get rid of them. The obvious thing to do is to buy a wireless mouse and keyboard. However, you’ll immediately hit into a major wall - the price. Wireless kits tend to be much pricier than their wired counterparts, and you also need to constantly switch batteries, which makes the wireless option not only costly, but ultimately futile in terms of simplifying things.
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Written by
Slobodan Zivanovic
Wednesday, 21 July 2010 21:38
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  The short definition of a computer network could be put this way - the magical term that will be understood by most people as a bunch of unknown terms related to settings and a mystical image of an incomprehensible forest of cables. This wasn’t that far from the truth until recently, but the definition has changed along with new solutions appearing on the market, especially by the rise in wireless popularity. Another solution which shatters this prejudice, to a greater or lesser extent of success, is networking using the already existing electrical installations. This time around, we’ve taken up DHP-307AV, D-Link’s Powerline AV Network Starter Kit, as well as Devolo’s dLan 200 AVplus Starter Kit, for testing purposes.
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Written by
Marko Nesovic
Monday, 24 May 2010 01:11
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  Losing battery power on the mobile phone, GPS, music player, PSP and similar portable devices with an integrated battery is something that has happened to every single one of us. The author of these lines always carries a spare smartphone battery precisely in case of that misfortune striking - and it usually happens when you need it the most - and he’s hardly the only one using such tricks to avoid those situations. Well, one potential solution for these problems arrives from Choiix, under the name Power Fort, and to the delight and joy of many users.
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Written by
Milos Jevtic
Thursday, 29 April 2010 23:23
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  A long time ago, computer headsets were more of an auxiliary device than anything else. As time went by, they, just like the PC industry in general, transformed, and it’s not uncommon to see models with as much a few pairs of drivers integrated in the “shelling”. Verbatim has recently presented the public with such a model, so despite the fact that they’re rather new in this field, we got hold of a 5.1 gaming headset, largely praised by the company itself. Let’s see how well they fare in practice.
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Written by
Milos Jevtic
Sunday, 21 March 2010 13:27
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  As time goes by, passionate gamers seem to be on an upward spiral. Previously, Logitech used to be the only true gamer’s option for PC peripherals, whereas many new makes and models have surfaced in the past few years, making the gaming market much more interesting. Razer is almost an aboriginal in that respect, and we can freely say that they’ve proved to be one of the greatest innovators on the market as well during the past years, so we were justified to be expecting to see something completely new and revolutionary.
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Written by
Milos Jevtic
Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:28
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  Mouse as PC peripheral had few significant evolutionary steps in its history. Since the 80’s, when first commercial mouse was presented, mouse devices evolved and changed the way they work few times. Until now, we had mechanical mouse devices with ball, after which came optical and finally laser mouse devices. Of course, every evolutionary step introduced improvements in precision and user experience. Laser mouse devices are already achieving precision of 5000dpi which was unimaginable just a few years ago.
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Written by
Branislav Bubanja
Saturday, 03 October 2009 14:38
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  Until now, most notebook and netbook users had problems when it comes to deciding what mouse to use and purchase, which will go nicely with their portable companion. Specialized mouse models (notebook mouse models) are in most cases small, hence not very ergonomic, and not adopted for prolonged usage. On the other hand, traditional mouse models are relatively big, so carrying it around is not a pleasant experience. Engineers from Microsoft noticed this problem and result of their labor arrived in our test lab in form of Microsoft Arc Mouse.
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