Fitbit Charge review Expert’s Rating Our Verdict The Fitbit Charge is a great activity tracker wristband beats other fitness wristbands by showing the stats right there on your wrist, and – combined with the excellent Fitbit app and dashboard – offers real motivational tools to get you fitter, healthier and maybe a little lighter. Our one concern (and the reason we scored it half a star lower) is its wriststrap that isn’t as secure as that of the superior Fitbit Charge HR....

Samsung Gear VR hands-on review Pros Cons Our Verdict Samsung’s definitely proving to be an innovator with its announcements at IFA 2014, with the Gear VR and the new Galaxy Note Edge smartphone. We think the Gear VR has the potential to be a big hit in the education and gaming markets, and the low price means virtual reality is more accessible than ever. We can’t wait to spend more time with the Gear VR when we get it back to our labs....

Bring Steam gaming to your Chromebook. We likeChromebooks. For very little money they offer aneasy to use experience, the security and convenience ofthe cloud, and a surprising amount of productivity. If there’s one glaring hole in the Chromebook universe though it’s that of gaming. To be fair you can get a number of decent titles from the Chrome Web Store, including Angry Birds, Bastion, and Realm of the Mad God, but for many the mecca of digital entertainment resides in Steam....

How to automate regular tasks and save time with IFTTT Our lives get busier with each year that passes, and tech has only exacerbated the problem. IFTTT lets you regain control of the multipleappsvying for your attention, letting you create ‘recipes’ that automate common tasks. Here’s how to use IFTTT foriOSorAndroid. Our lives get busier with each year that passes. Technology was supposed to be the answer to this problem, but if anything it’s made things more complicated....

HP 255 G3 budget laptop review Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Design and build quality of the HP 255 G3 are workmanlike, but importantly the main comfort areas of keyboard, trackpad and display are quite usable, if with the usual issues of poor display quality we find at this low price. But for only £200 the HP is more than creditable as a get-you-by budget Windows laptop. Illustrating that Intel doesn’t quite have a 100 percent monopoly on processors to power Windows PCs, AMD still makes chips that we find in slower and less efficientbudget laptops....