Little known outside its native Sweden, headphone manufactuer Jays has won us over with not one but two five-star headphones.

We've just finished testing two sets on excellent in-ear headphones: the D-Jays (available in a range of colors as the D-Jays LE) are the basic option, but come with a whole host of accessories nevertheless.

And at the top of the range, the Q-Jays (Q-Jays LE for different colors) are by and away the best in-ear headphones in our Product Survey right now and set an example to the competition.

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in our opinion, the fiere competition amongst monitor manufacturers can only benefit consumers. 

After seeing excellent prices for 24'' screens, we've just found this 22'' model selling online for 153 euros (199 USD / 130 GBP).

Despite the entry level price, the Chimei 222H compatible with HDMI, VGA, composite and component video, has a built-in memory card reader and a height-adjustable stand.

Chimei CMV 222H Find the best price

This is a screen that comes with all of the options we expect from the most expensive monitors at the top of the range--but is selling for a very affordable price.

Whatever your budget, it's pretty hard to beat this scren in terms of value for money.

USB drives are getting larger and larger, and it's no longer unusual for people to carry around 16 GB or even 32 GB of data in their pocket.

With these larger drives, though, the limited speeds offered by the USB 2.0 standards have begun to pose a problem, and have led some to wonder whether or not a flash memory stick running over eSATA or FireWire wouldn't be quicker.

Kanguru is the first manufacturer to respond to the challenge, whether their e-Flash drive, sporting a regular USB 2.0 connection at one end and an eSATA connection at the other.

While the write speed is held back by the flash memory chips inside the drive and is therefore only marginally faster--25 MB/s according to Kanguru in place of 20 MB/s for a regular USB drive, the read speeds with eSATA are apparently enormously fast.

Apparetly, we can expect to go from 30 MB/s to an incredibly fast 75 MB/s.

Next Generation USB

It seems an ideal solution while we're waiting for the next generation of USB, version 3.0, to arrive in 2010, bringing speeds of up to 600 MB/s with it.

Things aren't quite as simple as that, though.

For one thing, the e-Flash needs to be plugged in to an external pozwer source if you're using it over eSATA.

Although the 'power over eSATA' standard was announced as long ago as January of this year, it's still not been widele adopted and we have yet to see a computer adopt it. 

However, if you plan to use it on a desktop computer, Kanguru has promised to provide one free powered eSATA port for you to install yourself.

Given these limitations, it seems to us that a solution to the speed problem using FireWire--both more widely available and with no need for a power source--would have been a more sensible option.