ricsi

Pros:

GREAT intelligent charger.
It charges AA and AAA batteries, it has a chip which checks the battery status, and does not allow overcharge. It recognizes non chargeable batteries, it can refresh old batteries. It gives you a per battery charge indication (how full is the battery). You can charge any number of batteries (no need to use pairs. You can for ecample charge a single battery)

Cons:

Cable a bit short, and the cover comes off VERY easily. (solution -> you do not need the cover, have removed it and thrown it away)
No real cons ... works great!

Other Thoughts:

You can refresh batteries that would not be useable otherwise.

Bottomline:

Great intelligent charger - buy it!!

Pros:

New Genesis controller.
Has 6 buttons (2nd generation, a,b,c,x,y,z) + start button
Seems sturdy (haven't played so much so this may change)

Cons:

Is a bit small in my hands.
and it seems very light.
Can't say anything about long term durability.

Other Thoughts:

Can be used with Commodore C64/C128 and Commodore Amiga!
(B button is Fire, haven't tried if the other buttons can be used as Amiga CD32 additional buttons)

Bottomline:

It is great to have a source for new genesis/commodore 64/amiga controllers!
Seems to work as advertised.
Can be used as second controller for the DX genesis device.

Pros:

small, can be used with AA/AAA/9v batteries and button cells
works to identify the approximate amount of load left in the battery.

Cons:

kind of flimsy
needle is dancing around sometimes, but this is mostly no problem

Other Thoughts:

It sure is not an advanced measuring tool, but it gives a good indication of if a battery is dead or needs recharge.
Also AFTER the recharge you can check if the rechargable battery is still OK.

Bottomline:

Works as advertised, and is a good way to identify dead batteries.

Pros:

comes with 2GB Flash. You can use a crappy USB to GBA link cable to connect to the PC. It is seen as a USB mass storage device. It has a bright good screen. It can take GBA carts (most work ...)
It has softreset, savestat and realtime guide functions.

Cons:

There is a GBA Link port - but it is NOT functional. It is used to load the battery and to connect to a PC via a bad quality proprietary cable. (it would have been 100 times better if they would have used a miniUSB port!)
battery life is really short - they are using a cheap GBA SP battery. Maybe a better battery gives longer battery life.
some GBA ROMs are not compatible (crash or extremely low FPS rate)
some GBA carts not compatible (eg. wario ware twisted or Supercard MiniSD)

Other Thoughts:

I like the form factor, and it can be fun to use.
The proprietary USB cable is of very bad quality, and it already stopped working!
errors in description:
they did not mention the USB cable which is included
they claim GB/GBC cart compatibility which is not true!

Bottomline:

I like the formfactor.
It has a bright screen.
You can use most GBA ROMs and you have a 2GB USB mass storage device to copy them on.

Pros:

very cheap, runs Sega Megadrive/Genesis ROMs,
works pretty well, supports SD card, has a plug for a 6 button controller for a second player (see other thoughts)

Cons:

Games have to be copied from the SD card to the internal memory.
There are only 2 storage slots for games.
There is NO DIRECTORY support.
Game saves cannot be transferred to the SD card.
You cannot make subdirectories to organize games (that is pretty inconvenient!)
Does not run PAL ROMs.

Other Thoughts:

select + up/down changes volume
select + start softresets
b reads SD card, right stores to internal memory, a can select which of the 2 internal games to overwrite and right again starts the process
I was not able to get an original 3 button controller to run as secondary controller. It seems that only 6 button controllers work.

Bottomline:

interesting game console. SD slot is pretty neat for that low price.
Menu system is very limited, and has no subdirectory support.
Only 2 game slots on internal memory, and games can only be played from the internal memory.
Build quality seems better than you would seem from the first look.
All in all and for that price it is a really good value!

Pros:

very cheap, very small
it works

Cons:

very, very, very thin wire.
Microphone is of not so good quality.
only mono (only one ear peace)
microphone is simply dangling down, not close to the mouth.
earpeace is not very loud

Other Thoughts:

can be carried around easily because of its size
very handy that you can roll up the wire
good for skype or SIP calls.
eg with www.voipdiscount.com

Bottomline:

cheap small earphone with microphone
if you can choose between this and no microphone at all, than this is better

Pros:

very small, comes with a small cord to put onto a keychain or similar thing.
price is OK
usb plug can be protected by plastic (USB Plug can be turned in a circle, so that the metal USB plug is protected)

Cons:

looks a bit flimsy
no LED which would show USB activity (no big deal anyways ...)

Other Thoughts:

Can be a very good substitute for an USB memory stick, if combined with a 2, 4 or 8GB MicroSD card

Bottomline:

IMHO a very neat product, for an OK price
it can be attached to a keychain, so that you have it allways with you

Pros:

very high compatibility with games and homebrew
perfect support for ezflash 3in1 (gba game support, rumble and ram extension)
upcoming rela time save and real time guide (textfile)
very good build quality

Cons:

fimware is still evolving, and there are some quircks.
realtime save not very stable yet

Other Thoughts:

If used in a Nintendo DSi it can react to Firmware updates of the DSi, if you have a NDS fat or lite to reflash the EEZFlash Vi.
The only other cart able to do this is Supercard DSi one (they come even with an USB flasher)

Bottomline:

promising cart, great compatibility, direct support of GBA (with 3in1)
very active team behind the product

Pros:

Comes with 2 wii remote rechargeable batteries
remotes fit well into the charging stand (I do not use silicon case, ot wii flap)
red light show charging

Cons:

battery quality is questionable
it is VERY hard to clip the batteries on.
they are using standard rechargeable AA batteries, but they cannot be exchanged :((
charging is VERY strange.
It takes ages, and if you take on wiimote down, and put it up again, it charges AGAIN for hours.
After many, many hours of charging it is lit blue.
I hate it, IMHO simply the red light should go OUT if it is not charging any more.

Other Thoughts:

contains a blue LED, which is constantly lit (additionally to the blue LED which is lit when it is not charging any more) - THANX GOD there is a switch to at least disable the LED on the button!

Bottomline:

Basically it seems to work OK.
I hate that it ALLWAYS is lit (either red - charging [which is OK] as well as BLUE when it is NOT charging)
Charging itself is VERY strange.
I have let it charge for 24h (led was blue when I came home)
if I take one out, and place it back immediately, the charging LE stays on again for hours.
Same if you unplug the power, and plug it back, it will "charge" the fully charged batteries ...

Pros:

PSP slim battery
has a push button which is used to activate a LED signal of load status (howmuch power is left)
there are 4 LEDs ... alllit == battery full
if you press the button for a longer period the LEDs blink,and the battery is in pandora mode

Cons:

battery has definitely less power than an original slim one.
(also the munufacturer claims that it has the same power)

Other Thoughts:

I wanted to put it permanently into pandora mode (as I use timemachine) but this is hardly possible, because the LEDs are constantly blinking 24 hours a day, and so the battery discharges.
but anyways it works good, and if you need pandora, you can activate it.

Bottomline:

I use it as a backup battery, and until now it works well.

Pros:

very very good price
very small, can be retracted

Cons:

build quality is not good.
Cables are very thin, and look like they cannot take the abuse.
As I have not yet used it much, I cannot say anything about long term durability.
length is very limited ...
when you pull it out, the cable curles up ...

Other Thoughts:

does its job ... at least at the beginning. long term durability questionable.

Bottomline:

Fits very well into the Laptop bag ;)
good for occasional use - question is how long it will remain functional ... as it is VERY thin I doubt that it survives too long, on the other hand it is very cheap ;)

Pros:

You can combine 2 MicroSD and/or MicroSDHC cards into one big memory stick pro duo.
Can be used with only one card, with cards of different size and speed. You can even combine sd and adhc cards.
speed is OK

Cons:

build quality is not that great, as the adapter is small, and has to be able to take 2 cards.
So the plastic is pretty thin, so that it fits. But if you use it normally, this is no problem
You have to wait 4-5 seconds when entering VIDEO menu in PSP
in god of war CSO compressed I get slight lags.

Other Thoughts:

I have tried with a 4 GB noname microsdhc + a 2GB noname microsd
speed is 8,6 MB/s
with faster cards I reached slightly over 10 MB/s
I read some people telling that they get over 15MB/s with kingston 8GB class 4 cards - I do not believe it ...

Bottomline:

Great idea.
You can use 2 cheap MicroSDHC cards in your PSP or other MS pro duo device.
you get ca. 66% of the speed of a real good MS pro duo (10MB/s vs. 15 MB/s)

Pros:

works as expected
small and easy to use
you can attach normal headphones to the mini headphone jack 2.5mm Male to 3.5mm Female Convertor.

Cons:

radio reception quality seems a little degraded
build quality seems not that great, but very OK for that price

Other Thoughts:

Can be used to enable radio reception, as the headphones act as antenna. Do not hear any noticeable degradation in sound, but radio reception seems a bit worse.

Bottomline:

I have bought this 2.5mm Male to 3.5mm Female Convertor for my Nokia 6210c phone. Seems to work good so far.

Pros:

looks is very close to the original
overall works pretty well
comes with wrist strap and wii remote silicon case (in the DX page it says without silicon ... I got one delivered ;)

Cons:

loudspeaker is noticably worse than the original
if you are very near to the wii bar, than this one will not work (original one works)

Other Thoughts:

Mine does state WII on it, it looks exactly like the original (the 1 and 2 buttons are a bit fainter ...)
it does not come with batteries.

Bottomline:

You have to be a bit wider away from the wii bar than with the original, and the loudspeaker is louder and crappier, apart from that it works pretty well.

Pros:

very, very cheap microsd card
comes with a microsd 2 sd card adapter (quality of the adapter is not that good)
speed and access time are very nice (0.8 ms average latency, 16 Mega Byte/s average read speed), especially when compared to the price

Cons:

build quality of the micro sd to sd card adapter is not really good.

Other Thoughts:

I was very positively surprised about the microsd card quality ... it has decent speed and access time.

Bottomline:

if you need a cheap Micro sd card (not SDHC), than this one is for you.
Perfect for all the devices which are not compatible with the newer and bigger MicroSDHC cards.

Pros:

very cheap component cable for wii. enables the use of 480p mode (full image, not interlaced)

Cons:

build quality is not the best, but the cable works very well, and for that price it is great

Other Thoughts:

this is the only cable supporting 480p mode. composite cable which comes with wii gives worst output (video is transmitted over only one wire)
additionally some wiis do not support s-video poutput.

Bottomline:

I have not seen a big difference, but get this cable, if your tv supports component input.

Pros:

game cube controller for wii and game cube
color fits nicely with that of wii
works pretty well, supports rumble

Cons:

comes with a nunfunctional turbo button (it seems that it is not doing anything), and with a useless slow button (goes repeatedly from game mode into pause mode and back, and so slows down games)
rumble is a bit loud

Other Thoughts:

works very well with my wii
can be used to play gamecube games, and also to steer some wii games
or eg. wii64 the nintendo 64 emulator for the wii

Bottomline:

cheap and good working game cube controller for gc and wii

Pros:

works as a regular game cube memory card
white color fits wii very nicely
seems to be the maximum supported size of a game cube memory card

Cons:

fit is very tight (you have to force it in, but it works)
size is not 128 mega byte, but mega bit

Other Thoughts:

there are some 256 mbit cards, but these use bank switching ... so you can switch between 2 128 mega bit cards

Bottomline:

It seems to work perfectly for my wii, the color fits nicely, it is hard to insert (a bit too big ...) and it seems the maximum size supported by the game cube
for me it works nicely

Pros:

cheap game cube sd card adapter (sd gecko)
works well
can be used for sd-boot (boot gamecube isos from sd card)

Cons:

not many programs use this nowadays
less functionality than a usb gecko
photos on DX show a white one, but I received a gray one

Other Thoughts:

can be used with sdload, sdboot,sddvd and other homebrew.
this simply connects some lines from the game cube memory card to the sd card

Bottomline:

get this of you know what you want to use it.
And beware: a sd gecko cannot be used as a regular gamecube memory card

Pros:

very, very, very cheap microsd card
comes with a microsd 2 sd card adapter (quality of the adapter is not that good)
speed and access time are very nice, especially when compared to the price

Cons:

build quality of the micro sd to sd card adapter is not really good.
size ... as this is only 1 GB ... but hey ... for that price ;))

Other Thoughts:

I was very very positively surprised about the microsd card quality ... it has decent speed and access time

Bottomline:

if you need a cheap small micro sd card, than this one is for you

Pros:

it is very cheap, it works great and is very stable. Helicopter is charged with a charger (not from remote) that is a big plus!
2 white leds shine pretty bright.

Cons:

you need 6 AA batteries for the remote controller (not included)
there are no spare rotors in the pack and they are also not available on deal extreme.

Other Thoughts:

it is a great toy! very much fun to use it, and you get to know how to fly pretty fast.
I got the 40 MHz version, which seems to work better than the other one.

Bottomline:

Great product.
It is really, really, really FUN ;)
comes with its own charger for the Heli!

Pros:

good price, works as remote and has built in microphone from PSP slim and light, remote has hold switch

Cons:

build quality of the headphones and the microphone is not that good
low speech quality of microphone

Other Thoughts:

bought it because I wanted to try Furikup (SIP client for PSP) and the built in Skype. Skype worked pretty well, SIP had hickups because of WLAN disturbances
remote seems to work good that far, but I have not tried it extensively

Bottomline:

great for that price.
Works pretty well, for occasional use
can be used with built in skype, and for custom firmware also with furikup

Pros:

cheap
very practical to have microSD as a universal medium

Cons:

slow even when coupled with high speed microsd cards (2GB japan kingston, 4gb a-data turbo class6)
slightly thicker than a regular memory stick pro duo
there are many different types sent out. only some are sdhc compatible. (I got a replacement when I have sent a ticket)

Other Thoughts:

first adaptor did not work in a PSP with a SDHC micro SD.
medium slowdowns with CSO files on PSP (bearable, but very noticeable)

Bottomline:

convenient but slower than native memory stick pro duo

Pros:

cheap, gba sized, extendable through miniSD (or microSD in miniSD adapter), supports NES/GB/GBC ... emulators directly (simply copy the roms)
can be used in GBA and Nintendo Dual Screen (NDS)
can be used to play NDS ROMs too (when used in a NDS with passme)

Cons:

it needs windows flashing software on the PC (eg no clean GBA ROMs)
also patching required for NDS games
it needs either a passme card in slot1 or a flashed DS for DS ROM support.
RAM a bit slower than original GBA ROM. This results in minor slowdowns in some games.

Other Thoughts:

I have a flashed DS Lite, and wanted to try what slot2 solutions look like. For 18.3 $ (and the strong euro) I could not resist ;)

Bottomline:

Slot2 cards are generally inferior for DS to slot1 cards (Supercard DS1, Acekard2 ...)
Some say that the Supercard Mini SD is suboptimal for GBA because of slowdowns.
It is a fact that the RAM is slower than the GBA, but to be honest I did not find much slowdown.
I personally would recommand this for GBA.
For DS an ezflash 3in1 would be better IMHO.

Pros:

you can remove the operator lock of phones very easily with this little slip of plastics. it is very thin, and usually fits well into the sim card holder of the phone.
worked perfectly

Cons:

a chip is protruding, and you have to cut out the sim card, so that it fits in the holder together with the i-SmartSim 2008 SIM Card Unlock Attachment

Other Thoughts:

worked with a nokia and a samsung phone, but there is no compatibility sheet delivered, which shows what models of phones are supported.

Bottomline:

in my humble oppinion this is a very good way to remove the operator lock from mobile phones, without actually touching the phone.
you can reuse it with other phones. you have to cut a hole into the sim card, for the micro chip on the i-SmartSim 2008 SIM Card Unlock Attachment

Pros:

keychain with led illumination
very cheap
looks interesting

Cons:

very long for a keychain
too small to be really a "Lightsabre"

Other Thoughts:

looks interesting ... but I do not see where one could use this ;))
nice gadget anyways
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Bottomline:

looks cool and is cheap ;)

Pros:

great keychain flashlight
comes with batteries included
cheap
hard to press on/off switch (that is a big pro, as I had another keychain flashlight from DX, which worked good as well, but it allways switched on in my pocket)

Cons:

build quality is not top notch, but for that price I'm very satisfied!

Other Thoughts:

on/off switch is at the end of the tube, and offers big resistance. So it is exactly what I was looking for, because this flashlight will not be switched off accidentally
it will not illuminate the whole street, but the light cone is absolutely helpfull in the dark

Bottomline:

great little cheap flashlight keychain

Pros:

very cheap
functions as advertised

Cons:

build quality is sub par
(i received one completely non functional item, which got replaced by DX for free)
the 2. item works, but only lights in 2/3 when you press the trigger. (nevertheless good or that price)

Other Thoughts:

not made for extended use, as it contains much plastic in the lightning head.
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Bottomline:

very cheap lighter, good for once in a while use

Pros:

very cheap
can be used with the bliss loader (many new features), and with the soon to be released AceKard All In One (AKAIO)
*VERY* fast and great looking GUI
can support YSMENU alternative menu
bliss loader supports ezflash 3in1 GBA slot2 cart out of the box

Cons:

build quality not that good (looks flimsy)
there are some reports of bad batches, which do not work at all, or stop working after a very short time ... mine seems to be fine

Other Thoughts:

acekard all in one brings most features of the acekard RPG to the Acekard2.
BTW: acekard RPG with mini USB connector and 1GB internal flash memory can be also bought here @dealextreme
people who are not that much into GUIs and want even more features, can look at suoercard ds 1 here on DX.

Bottomline:

coupled with the bliss loader (and with the EZ 3in1 if needed) its a GREAT solution.
Which works very good, costs very little and is very fast.

Pros:

bigger plastic case for (micro/mini) SD cards and M2/Duo/Memorysticks.
One half is for SD, the other half for MS.
There are multiple compartments for different cards.
handy to store many cards with relatively small space

Cons:

too big for a keychain
relatively cheap plastic clip holding toghether the halfs

Other Thoughts:

Description shamelessly stolen from another reviewer (In order to overcome the 500 char limit, and because its very helpfull)
The MemoryStick tray contains 3 main bays.
- Bottom bay fits 3 cards: 1 Full size MS (top) and, 1 Duo and 1 M2 card (bottom):
- Upper left bay fits 2 cards: 1 Duo stick (top) and 1 sim card (bottom).
- Upper right bay fits 3 cards: 1 Duo stick (top) and, 2 M2 cards (bottom).
The MemoryStick tray supports a total of 3 M2 cards, 3 Duo sticks, 1 full size stick and 1 sim card.
The SecureDigital tray contains 4 main bays:
- Upper left bay fits 3 cards: 1 SD card (top) and 2 TF cards (bottom).
- Upper right bay fits 2 cards: 1 miniSD card (top) and 1 sim card (bottom).
- Lower left bay fits 2 cards: 1 miniSD card (top) and 1 TF card (bottom).
- Lower right bay fits 2 cards> 1 SD card (top) and 1 miniSD card (bottom).
The SecureDigital tray supports a total of 2 SD cards, 3 miniSD cards, 3 TF cards and 1 sim card.

Bottomline:

I was not sure if I needed this.
But in the end it is a good solution to consolidate many memory cards.
It takes ip less space then to store each memory card in its own plastic casing.
also great to combine with adapters.
Eg 3 TF cards + micro2mini2sd card adapter + MS pro duo TF adapter + MS pro duo 2 MS adapter + 3in1 (usb reader, sdcard and tf slot)