Devialet Silver Phantom

A futuristic speaker, with an exceptional price

With more than 41 audio awards under its belt, the French company Devialet has finally released its much anticipated Phantom range of speakers.

The Silver Phantom, however, isn’t your everyday speaker. Within its glass fibre-filled polycarbonate shell lies an 800MHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor, with 512MB of DDR3 memory and a single Cyclone-V system-on-chip sound processing engine.

Trendnet Home Smart Switch with Wireless Extender

A networking device, with a little something extra

The Trendnet Home Smart Switch is designed to bridge the gap between a network wireless extender HomePlug and a smart electrical outlet.

It’s designed for use with a number of home automation projects or simply just one remotely operated and automated item of houseware. For example, you can be sitting there enjoying the extra stretch of your home wireless coverage, when you decide to switch on the radio in the kitchen. Provided the Home Smart Switch is configured as correctly, a single tap on the accompanying app will power up the radio.

WebSite X5 Evolution 12

A new release from Incomedia of its flagship WebSite X5 website designer

This month sees the latest update from Incomedia of its WebSite X5 product line, adding another digit to make it the 12 edition. It's also reduced the Evolution version to £49.99 and the Pro version by £30 to £139.00 – something to factor in when you’re looking for a website designer. In fact, the company encourages potential users to try it out first before parting with their money.

Brother DCP-9015CDW

While not an all-in-one device, this multifunction product still has a few tricks up its sleeve

The Brother DCP-9015CDW brings together the functionality of a colour laser printer and an A4 flatbed scanner. Along with the main scan and copy features, this Brother multifunction product offers remote and duplex printing, plus a choice of USB, wired or wireless connectivity. This sturdy device, with dimensions of 410 x 483 x 410mm (W x D x H) and weighing 23.2kg, will certainly be more at ease in an office rather than a home environment.

Remembering… Nintendo Game & Watch

David Hayward recalls why his thumbs now hurt when the weather gets a little cold

Prior to having elaborate handheld consoles or even the smartest of smartphones and tablets, kids of the early 80s, because they were hip, could instead be seen strutting their stuff with a Game & Watch in hand.

PicaPic’s Retro Handheld Games Collection

Handheld gaming has never looked so good

Since we’ve been looking at the Nintendo Game & Watch handhelds in our weekly Remembering page, we thought it was only fair to mention this wonderful resource of online Game & Watch goodness.

PicaPic’s Retro Collection of Handheld Games is developed by Hipopotam, a small development studio from Warsaw, teamed by husband and wife Daniel and Aleksandra Mizielinscy. Together they design a number of projects using Flash and HTML5, which include children’s books, cookery books and retro gaming.

"Fast food" design

David Wieland on why taking the shortcut when creating your website is bad for your company’s health

Interactive design is a complex and poorly understood industry – after all, it is only decades old. What to an outsider seems a simple, albeit technical process (‘make a website’), is actually a complex combination of dozens of disciplines intertwining over an entire spectrum.