Peripherals

Reviews

SteelSeries Sensei [RAW] gaming mouse

A familiar mouse experience with a professional gaming focus

Brother MFC-9970CDW multifunction laser printer

Brother MFC-9970CDW review: A 5-inch color touchscreen enhances this small-office or workgroup machine

OKI MC561 colour laser multifunction printer

Workgroups will like this model's speed and paper handling, but its output quality and ease of use can be disappointing

Epson WorkForce 60 inkjet printer

Although WorkForce 60 offers the speed, features and cheap inks that a small office needs, it falls short in print quality

Canon imageCLASS MF9220cdn colour laser printer

Canon imageCLASS MF9220cdn review: This colour laser multifunction has several small problems

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In Pictures: 10 cool Bluetooth devices for your iPhone or Android

The smartphone is the new computer, and wireless peripherals are popping up everywhere

In Pictures: 10 top Windows 8 peripherals for tablets and PCs

Need a mouse for your Windows 8 laptop or a keyboard for your Windows RT tablet? These devices from Microsoft and Logitech are solid options from proven peripherals vendors.

News about peripherals

Razer just made gamer thimbles

Razer's new gaming finger sleeves are like thimbles for gamers. Or maybe yoga pants for your thumbs?

News Sep 16
Microsoft finally gets real about HoloLens's field of view

The early reception for Microsoft's HoloLens augmented reality headgear has been cautiously optimistic, save for one persistent bugbear: the device's field of view. Up until Wednesday, Microsoft hadn't shown that limitation in its promotional videos,...

News Jul 09
Microsoft's HoloLens is headed out of this world, with help from NASA

Microsoft is sending its new augmented-reality headgear out of this world ... literally.

News Jun 26
Dell aims new printers at the Cloud

Dell is taking its printers to the Cloud as people increasingly use smartphones and tablets to access remote documents.

News May 19
Zensors app lets you crowdsource live camera monitoring

If you feel like you need eyes in the back of your head, there's a crowdsourcing app for that.

News Apr 24

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Tutorials about peripherals

iPad power: How to print

Among other things, the iPad is a great way to save paper: It lets you carry around all kinds of digital documents that you might otherwise have had to print.

Tutorials Jul 15
Digitize your documents

The space required to store paper documents can be a problem. Digitizing your documents renders them exquisitely portable--you can store an entire library on your e-book reader with ease. And because paper documents can be turned into editable comput...

Tutorials Mar 03
Digitize your pictures

Today the digital camera is ubiquitous, but photos used to be taken by momentarily exposing something called "film" to light. Yes, film--the ode to photo-sensitive chemical reactions that produced all of the pictures made before 1990 or so. Those ima...

Tutorials Mar 03
Connect a third monitor to your PC

As I wrote the other day, it's a pretty simple matter to add a second monitor to your PC. But what about a third? That might require a little more doing.

Tutorials Jan 14
My keyboard isn't working

Several keys on reader skyDX's keyboard stopped functioning. He asked the Desktops forum for help.

Tutorials Aug 24

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Features about peripherals

Invasion of the body snatchers: wearable devices are coming for you

A place in your pocket is no longer enough for mobile gadget makers: now, they want your body.

Features Mar 29
Three easy ways to organize digital and paper documents

Filing is no easier in the digital age. Now we have electronic receipts stashed in email messages or on cloud services or on our phones, in addition to the paper documents stuffed in file cabinets and perhaps left in little piles here and there aroun...

Features Jan 17
How to buy the right sound bar to go with your TV

Your HDTV has crappy speakers. Don't feel bad, they all do. There's only so much they can do in that thin enclosure with a tiny bezel around the screen. It's easy to get great sound in your living room, though. All you have to do is buy a receiver, a...

Features Nov 28
How to own (and love) a 3D printer

Not only are consumer-grade 3D printers proving to be useful, increasingly affordable, and easy to find, but they're the vanguard of an emerging technology that will eventually become as ubiquitous as inkjet printers are today.

Features Jul 02
B&W's Z2 is an impressive AirPlay speaker and iPhone dock

Bowers & Wilkins's $400 Z2 is the apparent successor to the company's Zeppelin Mini, but instead of a 30-pin dock connector, the Z2 features a Lightning-connector dock and AirPlay wireless streaming.

Features Apr 25