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27/04/2008

Review: Weiguo Solutions Spotlight


A rechargeable LED flashlight for the car that's always ready to use.


21/04/2008

Review: More cheap LED flashlights


A small, very bright LED flashlight running on mildly exotic batteries and a medium power one running on common AAs. Any good? Click to find out!


20/02/2008

Firepower pill censorship attempt


Automotive snake oil manufacturer Firepower hasn't much liked fellow reviewer Daniel Rutter's exposition of their scam. They first threatened to sue him and sent him a "results" PDF file which they told him to publicise in order to avoid legal action.

Then, since he wasn't particularly convinced, they sent him a report.

After that, too, was thoroughly debunked, they apparently decided it wasn't so good that their PDF was linked from him, and told his blog's hosters to force him to remove the links.

Acting like any censorship hater worth his salt would, he's made the file available anyway on his site, and he's asked for help with the Streisand effect.

I'm rising to the call, being a censorship hater myself. Here's the Firepower PDF. Download and spread at will. Anything you can do against censorship is good.

Good luck Dan!


25/01/2008

Review: Cheap LED flashlights


Can flashlights that cost about as much as a large ice cream be any good?


25/01/2008

Let's get back to work

It's been more than a year since I last put any content online. And to think I was hoping of having a good number of reviews up by now! Alas, when family calls, one can't always do what one wants... but I'm back now, the family issue is solved (although not quite in the way I'd hoped) and with any luck I can resume work on the site. For starters, here's a new review!


08/12/2006

Review: Acer MP330 mp3 player


Cheap. Large capacity. Featureful. Where's the catch?


22/11/2006

Review: Walkera 5#4 "Mini Lama" coaxial RC helicopter


Pure, concentrated airborne fun.


22/11/2006

Still no mail, still no links

I had a lot of work to do and had to take a trip, so I couldn't work much on the website. I can't figure out why some of the mails get redirected, while others don't. There doesn't seem to be any pattern. Oh well, the gmail account is still there. Also, I'm starting on the interesting and friendly links. Bear with me.


12/11/2006

Work is progressing slowly but steadily

I've updated the digicam piece.

I also added an email address to the menu on the left. I'm currently trying to understand why the @technfun.com addresses provided by my hosting service aren't working as they should. Until I do, I've opened a temporary gmail account. Feel free to mail me!


10/11/2006

Tech'n'Fun goes online!

I've been wanting to do this for a while, but all sorts of problems forced me to keep delaying it. No more: here is my new website!

I'll work out the kinks and get the links working in a few days. Stay tuned!


10/11/2006

DIY modification: increasing voltage to your digicam for fun and profit


The digicam in this picture looks weird, but works rather better than it did when it looked normal. Read on to find out why, and why you may want to do the same to yours.


25/02/2006

Review: "Extreme technology" nameless 4GB mp3 player (aka GoDot M8470)


A cheap MicroDrive mp3 player with a quirk or two but with lots of redeeming features.

Be advised review is outdated; I meant to start this website months ago with this review as its first article, but events I couldn't control forced me to delay it.