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Simba Hybrid Pro mattress: 90 day review

After moving into our first home recently (yay!), the number one priority was getting a high quality, reliable and comfortable mattress. Being the geek I am and wanting to get the latest and greatest technology for my home, Simba’s mattresses had been on my radar for a while. To be completely honest, I was pessimistic…

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NordVPN – Protect your personal data on public WiFi

Thank you to NordVPN for sponsoring Let’s Talk Tech. They are currently having a big sale starting from just £3.62 per month so do check out their website for more information! With businesses and world travel slowly opening up after a year of lockdowns, many of us will be logging back into public WiFi networks…

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Home & Entertainment Networking

How to swap Virgin Media SuperHub router for a D-Link router

Let’s face it: the routers we get from internet service providers — or ISPs as they’re known to geeks like me — just aren’t great. You may get reasonable performance if you live in a small space, but they simply lack the range if you need WiFi in parts of your home further away from…

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Home & Entertainment TVs

Tech Savvy Consumer Guide: How To Buy The Best TV for Your Needs

Guest Author: Kostas of TechiSignals.com If you are one of those people who love spending long hours in front of the television, you may want to know which kind of TV can give you the best viewing pleasure. Today, we will talk about how to choose the best TV for your intended needs. Buying a new…

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Home & Entertainment Security

Home security made easy with WiFi/IP cameras

Home security is something that everyone cares about, but setting up systems to keep you safe can be costly and complicated. For example, CCTV (closed-circuit television) camera systems can cost hundred or thousands of dollars to buy and install. They require tonnes of wiring, drilling through walls and unsightly monitoring and routeing equipment. While that…

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Home & Entertainment Networking

Unboxing F-Secure Sense: A router with network-level internet security

As Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer at F-Secure addressed at the TNW conference in Amsterdam, we’re living in a world where everything is becoming connected. From our fridges and washing machines to our baby monitors and home security cameras, our devices are connected to the web and that opens up a whole new kind of…

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Home & Entertainment Security

Blink home security camera review: Wireless, affordable & easy protection

My house is packed with home security cameras from older reviews, and while my favourite to date has been the HomeMonitor HD by Y-Cam, Blink’s home security cameras are serious contenders. See, the problem with home security solutions is that they’re usually too complex or technical for the average Joe to figure out. Blink is…

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Gadgets Home & Entertainment Smart Homes

5 smartest kitchen gadgets that foodies will fall for in 2017

Guest author: Kostas Chiotis is a technology enthusiast and blogger. You can check out his tech blog at Techisignals.com and follow him on Facebook and Twitter. While our technology has grown by leaps and bounds, one thing doesn’t seem likely to change any time soon: we all need to eat. While you could try your hand…

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Home & Entertainment Security Smart Homes

F-Secure Sense is a router that protects your devices from online threats

The average household tends to use the router their internet service provider sent them, but F-Secure wants you to ditch that in favour of Sense: their new router that adds a layer of online security protection to your home network. Note: F-Secure clarified that Sense connects to your existing router; it doesn’t replace it entirely.  …

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Home & Entertainment Networking

Hands-on with Devolo’s GigaGate WiFi Bridge

Earlier this week, German networking brand Devolo invited me to check out their WiFi bridge called GigaGate. I was excited about GigaGate because in principle it’s supposed to enhance my WiFi connection at home, and considering my room is two floors away from the router that’s a promising idea. Streaming is a constant problem, and too often I get drop…