Really BIG lava lamp.

Advantages: Huge. Soothing. Good value.
Disadvantages: Takes forever to heat up.

...A lava lamp is, in principle, very simple. It consists of a lamp, which heats up a glass bulb filled with a waxy solid and a liquid. These cannot mix together and must have very similar densities. As the solid heats up, its density is lowered, so it rises. This cools it down and it then falls to the bottom of the lamp, creating a strangely soothing effect. In practice, making one yourself would involve messing about with expensive and perhaps flammable chemicals, so I wouldn't bother trying. It is much easier just to buy one yourself. The Giant Grande Lava Lamp comes in two colours yellow and blue or yellow and violet. It is truly enormous at 27" and is guaranteed to be a focal point in your room. It is not called "giant" and "grande" for nothing! My lamp is a yellow and blue model. Although the product description says "yellow...

drewish 10.01.2007 · Read review
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Epson EMP S4, one small, great projector

Advantages: Portable, quick to turn on/off, very easy to set up and use.
Disadvantages: Loud cooling system, rubbish internal speaker.

...three devices can be connected. Switching via signal sources is very simple, remote control has three default buttons (computer, video, composite), each one for different device display. Focus is manually adjustable next to lens. It has vertical keystone (+-30; must have in modern projectors) and display can be electronically shifted off centre up, down, left or right (about 10% of it's width/height). Projector has build in mono speaker (audio signal input by double audio line-in), but not loud (only 1 Watt) so it's usage is limited. Bulb life cycle is 2000h in normal mode (does anyone use economic mode at all?) which is standard in that price range. Replacement bulb is about £120, and is dead easy to fit in. Epson give 3 years warranty for S3 body and 90 days for lamp. In my opinion, it's fair deal. Now my experience with that product...

koobra 24.08.2007 (25.08.2007) · Read review
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Epson

Advantages: Good Value Product
Disadvantages: None

....2 cm x 35.6 cm Weight: 40.2 kg Max Media Size (Standard): ANSI C, Roll (43.2 cm) Max Media Size (Custom): 431.8 mm Print Speed: Up to 12.8 sq.m/hour - draft - A2 (420 x 594 mm) Max Resolution ( B&W ): 2880 dpi x 1440 dpi Max Resolution ( Colour ): 2880 dpi x 1440 dpi Interface: IEEE1394 FireWire, USB Language Simulation: EPSON ESC/P 2 Media Type: Plain paper, photo paper, continious forms Total Media Capacity: 250 sheets Printer Features: Borderless printing System Requirements: Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Apple MacOS X 10.3.9 or later, Apple MacOS X 10.4 or later....

Nazuku 07.08.2007 · Read review
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No cheating with this Epson Cheetah!

Advantages: Clear colours
Disadvantages: A bit pricey

...Printers are marvellous things when they work!We bought an Epson DX4000 a couple of years ago after problems with our HP printer. It was reduced in Tesco and as it is a photo copier and printer we thought it was a bargain but decided to check out the cost of the cartridges before buying. We have used various makes of cartridges over the years for previous printers but had been having problems and always having to clean to get good printing so we were wasting ink. We got sample size cartridges with the printer but bought a Multipack so we were ready when a replacement was needed. The Multipack has 4 cartridges, 1 of each black, yellow, magenta and cyan. The box is blue with a picture of a Cheetah and is in the Cheetah range, there are other ranges like Monkey. Hummingbird and Seahorse makinh it easy to spot the one you want to buy...

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Epson EMPTW10 Home Theatre Projector

Advantages: Great picture quality, quiet, easy to use
Disadvantages: Low resolution

...I've had an Epson EMPTW10 since January 2004. It is my first projector. I love this projector. Not only is it quiet and easy to use, it puts out a fantastic image for the money. I project onto a 65" custom made screen and the so-called "screen door" effect (common to LCD projectors with W-VGA or VGA resolution such as this one) is almost invisible. Even better, the colour fidelity is superb and film-like. The only drawback of this machine is its low resolution - it makes screens larger than 2m across unpractical for home theatre use as details on the screen become soft and indistinct. This isn't really a drawback actually - just a fact of its inexpensive specifications. That said, this projector represents fantastic value for money. My 65" picture is easily as impressive as any plasma or LCD image I've seen and it comes...

davidLormans 29.12.2004 · Read review
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EPSON Stylus SX515W - stylish, capable but not perfect

Advantages: Stylish, fast printing, quality output, good range of functions
Disadvantages: A bit noisy, poor manuals

... Introduction We have three computers in the house, one desktop & two laptops which are used wirelessly. Previously, I had a simple low cost printer connected to the desktop. This was fine but in recent months use of the desktop has declined so it has stood unused most of the time. To print it was a case of transfer document to USB stick, switch on desktop, print from USB stick, switch off desktop. What a pain !! I decided enough was enough and after researching the market for multi-function wireless devices I decided to purchase the Epson SX515W as it looked good, had all the features I wanted and was a good price. Installation The salesman advised me to set it up on the desktop initially as it would be hard wired via USB. If you hear this don't let it put you off. The set-up works fine even if you have a single...

Bossman1959 08.11.2009 · Read review
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Epson SX515W is an excellent printer.

Advantages: Wireless function is easy, print from anywhere.
Disadvantages: While the black finish is nice, it really is a dust magnet.

...After having Epson printers before, I decided to go for another one. But this time, one with wireless capabilities. In box with the printer is the power cable, USB cable (you need these for the initial set up), a set of cartridges and a small pack of photo paper. Was really easy to set up. We use 3 laptops at home and for the first set up I needed the USB cable. Follow the prompts on the discs and it automatically detects your wireless network. For the 2 additional laptops, I didn't need the USB cable and just had to set them up as "additional computers". It's really easy to install the cartridges. Printer has a helpful little screen to prompt you. Scanning and copying functions are really good. When you scan an item, so long as you computer is switched on, it will appear on the little screen, just select it and it scans...

Abbafan1972 03.09.2009 · Read review
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Excellent Epson

Advantages: Good Quality Prints & Lots Of Useful Features
Disadvantages: Small Colour Ink Provided

...Epson Stylus DX8400 Before Christmas we set out looking for a new printer for the computers as we didn't currently have one and were fed up of using my dads to print stuff out. We went into the local town of Burton on Trent and found a computer shop they had quite a wide selection of printers, after having a look through them we decided we would like an Epson because they are reliable, cartridges aren't overly expensive and Epson is a trusted brand that we have used previously without any problem. So having decided upon an Epson we narrowed the model down and picked the Epson Stylus DX8400 it had everything we wanted and also had a cool LCD display screen for viewing status information and also images that are downloaded off any memory cards which I thought was a really useful feature. The Epson Stylus DX8400 is far from...

almarsden 16.04.2008 · Read review
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T0715 for Epson printers

Advantages: cheaper to buy 4 but can also buy singly
Disadvantages: you have to look around for the cheapest as prices do vary

...We have a very good Epson DX6000 printer. This printer takes 4 separate inks. This comes in handy when just one colour gets low. I know its low because when I go to do some printing I will get a low ink flashing sign come up and it will then show me how much ink is left and roughly how much copying I can do before it finally runs out. It will also tell me which ink is low. I print off a lot of photographs so it is not just the black ink that runs out but the coloured ones as well. When we first had the printer we did notice that some non epson inks were cheaper and we did think of buying them. We were then informed that if we used these on this printer that was still under guarantee they might refuse to honour the guarantee as we had not used their own brand of ink. We therefore decided to stick to Epson...

MAllen400 23.03.2009 · Read review
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Epson 4490

Advantages: Excellent quality when scanning slides and negatives
Disadvantages: Professional mode could cause problems for the novice used

...I bought a 4490 specifically to use for scanning slides and negatives. There is no doubt that this scanner is an excellent item for those people that want a professional looking job at a very good price. Previously I had the Epson 2480 and although this was good, it is no match for the 4490,expected really with the time elasped between the release of the models. With the resolution set at least 2400dpi and with only unsharp mask and colour restoration selected the faded slides and neagatives were nearly as new. There are a few points that should be noted. If you are a novice and just want to scan something quickly without having to set different functions this may not be a scanner for you. By selecting colour restoration and Background correction when they are not needed, you can have a negative effect on what would have been...

Bruce_uk 09.05.2008 (08.05.2008) · Read review
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