Sennheiser PXC350 Review
Review by Product: • Sennheiser PXC350 ($299 USD) (company site) • What's Good: • Good noise-cancelation, strong sound, comfortable • What's Bad: • Relatively large, expensive. • I get pretty bad headaches when I fly, largely due to the incredible amount of high-volume white noise in an aircraft …
Logitech VX Revolution Review
Review by Product: • Logitech VX Revolution (company page) • What's Good: • accurate, comfortable, configurable yet simple, compact-ish • What's Bad: • need a dongle, not recharable, expensive • After tiring of the terrible performance and mac-unfriendliness of a Microsoft Bluetooth mouse I …
WaterField Designs Vertigo Laptop Bag
Review by Product: • WaterField Designs Vertigo Laptop Bag (company site) • What's Good: • Compact, tough, made by a great company. • What's Bad: • Premium price, mediocre laptop protection. • Last spring, the nice people at WaterField, here in San Francisco, emailed me and asked if I'd like to …
Logitech Z-2300 PC Speaker Review
Review by Product: • Logitech Z-2300 PC Speakers (company site) • What’s Good: • Good value, smooth bass, volume control. • What’s Bad: • Fixed cables, 'modern' style, hard to locate. • I had been spoiled for the past eight months or so with a really nice set of borrowed Boston Accoustics 2.1 …
iTrip Mini Review
Review by Product: • iTrip Mini (company site) • What’s Good: • Good idea, no wires, decent reception. • What’s Bad: • Limited open frequencies in city. • When I bought an iPod Mini last fall, I bundled it with an iTrip Mini so I could listen to my iPod on road trips in the car. Originally, I …
Cuz Dog Toy Review
Review by Product: • Cuz Dog Toy (Available from Amazon) • What’s Good: • Cool design, squeaks. • What’s Bad: • Not nearly as tough as it looks. • What birthday gift do you get the dog that has everything? Why, this great dog toy of course. I recently got my sister's dog the devilish dog toy …
Michelin Wildgripper Lite Tire Review
Review by Product: • Michelin Wildgripper Lite • What’s Good: • Light, fast, day-glo green. • What’s Bad • Low tread, expensive, day-glo green. • I just got back from a great ride out in the Don Valley here in Toronto around the Brickworks and figured my old Wildgripper Lite tires could use a …
Mario Kart Double Dash!! Review
Review by Product: • Mario Kart Double Dash!! (company site) • What’s Good: • Balanced gameplay, good multiplayer, upholds the legacy. • What’s Bad • Lame ending, addictive, minor glitches. • Anyone who has visited our new offices will likely have noticed the GameCube upstairs hooked up to a …
Adidas Samba Classic Review
Review by Product: • Adidas Samba Classic (company site) • What’s Good: • Classic style, strong, great sole. • What’s Bad • Narrow, not as good as Samba K. • I'm on to my third pair of Samba indoor soccer shoes. I was so confident in these shoes that when I bought the last pair three years ago …
IKEA Tertial Lamp Review
Review by Product: • IKEA Tertial Lamp (company site) • What’s Good: • Cheap (under $10), simple. • What’s Bad • Hot shade, annoying switch (fixed?). • I bought my most recent Tertial lamp about two years ago. I can remember having one of these lamps in my room all through my childhood and it …