Unfortunately for D-Link, the unbroken blue skies of Nevada aren’t helping the company promote its latest raft of cloud-connected networking products. It’s launching a pair of coke cansdual band routers and cloud-connected cameras that’ll let you coat your house in WiFi and broadcast your antics across the internet. The cameras will save VGA footage to a hard drive, while the routes promise to offer speeds of up to 1750Mbps. If you want an impromptu security system, the cameras will arrive in February, the 1050 setting you back $80 and the 1150 a cool $100, while the routers make their way into stores from April — the AC1200 costing $150 and the AC1750 marked up at $170.
Polk Audio’s Woodbourne could be the new king of the high-end wireless audio mountain. It sports beefy specs and the flexibility of both AirPlay and Bluetooth connectivity. More »
Ring ring ring, all aboard the content-mobile. Roku doesn’t have the best interface, but there’s now an officially overwhelming amount of stuff to watch on those little pucks. More »
Like every other old school component audio company in the world, Onkyo is getting into the headphones game. Its first set, the ES-HF300 on-ear folding headphones, even nod to their heritage with earcups that look like volume knobs on Onkyo receivers. That’s cute and clever, but we can’t help but wonder if the expertise in building A/V receivers, multi-channel home theater systems, and CD players translates to building the speakers you fit over your head. More »
[CES 2013] When it comes to gaming, NVIDIA comes to mind as one of the main GPU manufacturers, although lately they have been attempting to make a splash in the mobile scene by creating their own brand of mobile chipsets, such as the recently announced Tegra-4.However it looks like being the backbone to gaming setups isn’t enough and the company has recently announced a new Android handheld gaming console of their own which they have dubbed Project Shield. Essentially what Project Shield could be thought of as a 5″ Android tablet with a gaming controller attached to it, and one of the highlights of this console would be its “pure” Android experience. What this means is that gamers will not have to put up with weird or funky skins that manufacturers typically install on their products to help differentiate themselves from the competition. (more…)
Sol Republic’s new Master Tracks headphones promise the big sound and distinctive style of fancy, fashionable headphones for a not-so fancy price. It’s basically the same formula behind the company’s successful $100 Tracks headphones, but at double the price. After trying out the new cans, we can say that they’re absolutely better than the $100 model. We’re still not convinced you should buy them—yet. More »
It was made plain this week at the NVIDIA presentation at CES 2013 that their newest beast, Project SHIELD, was a personal gaming machine that could stream games from the cloud with graphics and abilities only otherwise available to a PC. The abilities shown here were foretold earlier in the presentation this week via NVIDIA GRID, the company’s cloud processing solution for the future of gaming. This system connects with STEAM to bring on the games you already play on your PC streamed – and played – through the cloud.
This means, if it wasn’t plain before, that you’ll be able to play games you own on STEAM with your NVIDIA Project SHIELD device no matter where you are – not just at home, not just in a place where you can bust out your laptop. The fabulous graphics and gameplay shown in the NVIDIA presentation were not just shown on the Project SHIELD device itself, it was pushed to an LG 4K television as well.
The Google Play app store curated by the NVIDIA Tegra Zone and the STEAM store from Valve will play host to the NVIDIA Project SHIELD device. Because this machine goes by the name “project” SHEILD, we’re not expecting to see it tonight – but later this week? We shall see!
Have a peek at the rest of the action as presented by NVIDIA through our very own Tegra hub through the week and through the future, and don’t forget to stick to the SlashGear CES portal as well – hands-on and up to the minute updates galore!
This week NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsung Huang spoke onstage during CES 2013 about a brand new NVIDIA push for the future of gaming, that being NVIDIA Project SHIELD. Speaking on how their engineers are gamers and how gamers want to make what’s most innovative and fantastic in this universe, Huang showed a video which constructed, piece by piece, starting with the NVIDIA Tegra 4, moving on to show three 3400 mAh rechargeable li-ion batteries, and an audio system all it’s own – a tuned port and custom bass reflex. From there it only gets better for this personal gaming device the likes of which we’ve never quite seen before.
The world’s first custom-based reflex system lives inside this device, this understanding and knowing when you set the device down so it can stop rumbling around, and right on par with a dedicated Jambox – so sayeth Huang. This machine works with Android and is able to “drop back into Android” at a press of the SHIELD button right up front and center.
UPDATE: Have a peek at the construction video we’ve described right here front and center – and experience one of the more impressive looking reveal reels we’ve seen in recent history:
This amalgamation of gaming magic works with a 5-inch 1080p touchscreen display and has mini HDMI out, micro-USB, and a headphone jack for good measure – not to mention a microSD card slot. The whole system has one giant customizable tag on its back (or on top if you close the lid) – this being another “SHEILD” that, when this beast comes to fruition, you know good and well we’ll be blasting with SlashGear and Android Community marks galore.
Project SHIELD is set up to work with Android, so you’ll be working with Android games, of course, but it’s also connected to the cloud – so you’re able to play games with the same prowess we’ve seen made possible with NVIDIA GRID. Have a peek at more information on NVIDIA GRID from earlier today (if you’ve not already) in the timeline below and make sure you stick close to SlashGear for more on this device and the ecosystem that surrounds it all week long and into the future through our NVIDIA Tegra portal!
Before today, Nvidia made parts to put inside gadgets other people build. Today, it has its own gaming device: a Tegra 4-powered handheld system with both an integrated controller and screen. It does 4k. But what the hell is it, exactly? More »
Alongside the WeMo Light Switch that we got our little grubby hands on earlier, is the company’s new Thunderstorm Handheld Home Theater. It’s essentially an iPad case that comes with a built-in speaker, giving Apple tablet users improved audio quality over what the default speakers provide, and providing a better movie-watching experience overall.
Belkin claims that the Thunderstorm is the “only truly portable, full-range stereo speaker system” for the iPad. We certainly can’t argue with them, as we’ve never really seen an iPad case that comes with quite a substantial speaker before. However, the case itself does add a little bit of thickness that’s a bit greater than most other iPad cases, but that’s obviously to blame on the added technology.
As far as sound quality goes, we definitely noticed an improved difference in the audio quality, and while we tested it out in a loud environment with a bunch of people chatting around us, the Belkin Thunderstorm provides a little bit of added bass that’s desperately needed for those who want a better experience when watching movies on the iPad.
The best part is, the Thunderstorm can connect to both 30-pin connectors or the new Lightning connector on the 4th-generation iPad. However, the added audio quality will cost you — $199 to be exact, and it’ll be available on Belkin’s website and Amazon later this month with Apple Store availability in February.
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