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Turtle Beach is best known for its gaming headsets. Its Ear Force range has traditionally catered for that market with some panache, delivering top notch build quality alongside surround sound and useful built-in presets. This i60 wireless media headset is the flagship in a new range that attempts to branch out into broader multimedia use - specifically for Apple owners. Don't be put off if you're a PC or Android device user though: the i60 will still play nice with your system, it'll just take a couple of extra clicks in your initial setup. Apple aesthetic The i60's aesthetic is very much informed by Apple's minimalist design. Both the wireless headset and the base station that connects to your machine via USB have a glossy white finish with a brushed aluminium trim. It does find itself in an awkward halfway house though, between the elegant simplicity of the Apple products it hopes to sit beside and the rugged functionality of a gaming headset. The cans themselve...

The Force K7 looks like a gaming keyboard, but can this spartan offering from Gigabyte really be considered a gaming peripheral? Beyond its backlighting, there's no killer feature that separates it from the greasy old Dell board lying neglected in the kit corner of your loft. In fact, that Dell may even have a few more knobs and buttons than the K7. Let's run through the features. It uses membrane switches rather than the mechanical ones you get at the fancier end of the gaming keyboard market, which makes it a slightly less tactile experience than a Cherry MX Red board like Corsair's K65. The keys themselves are set with a low profile and low travel, which makes for an agreeable feel, and the unit is built to a sturdy finish. In fact, if we must persist in holding up the dusty old office keyboard as a comparison, the K7 is streets ahead in this regard - until we get to the [3] key on the number pad of our review sample, which is incurably sticky. We must assume this probl...