Category: Toys & Technology

Well, this wasn’t something I was expecting to receive: an Oculus Quest 2, and coming by way of the Christmas present from the wife and kids last month! The Quest 2 was announced by Facebook in September – just a

It’s December of another year, and time for me to write a summary post of the tech toys I picked up during the year. I’ve spent most of 2020 in WFH mode. But thankfully, our home from the start had

No, I wasn’t planning initially to get one of these! I was however interested in replacing my four year old iPad Mini 4 later this year with the long expected iPad Mini 5, which according to rumours would be finally

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a detailed review of a video game, but the hugely anticipated Star Wars: Squadrons is just too good a material for a pass on it! The three films in the Star Wars sequel

There’s a long row of A4 sized framed photos of our extended family at my parents’ home, and most of those prints had been done using the Epson L550 inkjet printer we’ve had for just over five years now. Truth

Since the pandemic began, the reporting in the newspapers around this part of the world have pointed to a general increase in online purchases. That’s to be expected of course, since for a good part of 2020, brick and mortar

Continued from the last post that discusses a first series of VR content and apps that I picked up for the Oculus Quest! Vader Immortal. There aren’t a lot of VR games set in the Star Wars universe at the

One of the best features of the Oculus Quest is its ability to access both tethered and also full-on mobile content i.e. the best of both ecosystems. At the point of purchase, I assumed that I would be full-on just

My first comments two weeks into the Oculus Quest! Setting up the Quest and pairing it to my Samsung Galaxy S20+ was easy and worked without a hitch, as did also the  Windows app to enable Oculus Link. The Oculus

It’s been nearly 4.5 years since I tried out VR gear, and that was with the Samsung Gear VR, blogged here. The technology was still in relative infancy – consumer-grade that is – back then, and suffered from issues that

Ever since picking up the Huawei Watch GT more than 18 months ago, the watch preceding that – the Samsung Gear Sport – has been returned to its box. I took it out for a while over the weekend. And

Some years back – around 7-8 years at least probably – I wrote a post listing the mobile phones I’ve owned since 1995 till that time. Unfortunately, that post got lost when I migrated between blogging platforms. I probably still