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Review: Mini Review: Turtle Beach Ear Force i60

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...

Hands-on review: CES 2014: SteelSeries Sensei Wireless Mouse

SteelSeries, a major purveyor of mechanical keyboards, had a big secret to share with us and it turns out the PC gaming peripheral maker had a new wireless mouse called the Sensei Wireless. The mouse promises to deliver lag-free wireless gaming with a one-millisecond response time from dragging the device to whipping around in FPS games. What's more the mouse has a maximum sensitivity of 8200 Counts-Per-Inch (SteelSeries' version of DPI) to recognize every hand flick. We got a quick couple of moment to manhandle SteelSeries new wireless addition based on the older, wired Sensei mouse models to see if it was just as quick as the tailed rodent. Southpaw or not Stats aside the ambidextrous mouse feels nice in hand. It's nowhere nearly as ergonomic as a mouse specifically sculpted for right or left hands, but the top is lined with a soft, rubbery material to keep our palms glued to it. For a gaming mouse, the Sensei Wireless is incredibly light and there aren't included we...

Hands-on review: TCL Roku TV review

The TCL Roku TV is a natural fit for the No. 1 Chinese television manufacturer's expansion into the Western marketplace. It joins the company, unfamiliar to many consumers outside of China, with the well-established Roku streaming platform. We got a chance to channel surf using their app-filled offspring at CES 2014 . Both the 48-inch TCL 48E4610R and the 55-inch TCL 55E4610R run the new smart TV operating system that Roku users should be immediately familiar with. That means apps like Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant Video, YouTube, HBO Go and Crackle are all pinned to the customizable home screen. What makes Roku even better is that it has just about every special interest streaming app too. From the more known food channel Chow and the anime channel Crunchyroll to the almost certainly unknown Vietnamese American Real Estate and esoteric sciences channel Occult TV, there's no shortage of content for niche audiences. In fact, there are over 1,000 streaming apps here, giving...