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A Japanese company called G-cluster is looking to succeed where OnLive failed – make cloud gaming mainstream. It will demonstrate it’s capabilities later this month at CES 2013, but it has already released a handful of details regarding its service.

Based on a September 2012 press release (pdf), the G-cluster streaming service works similarly to OnLive – users plug in a “Game Machine” into their HDTV’s HDMI port (and into a USB port for power), which will connect to G-cluster’s game servers via Wi-Fi. Unlike OnLive however, G-cluster mentioned that users will be able to use their mobile devices as gamepads or controllers, but “generic gamepads” will also be supported. Maybe the Game Machine has Bluetooth capability or additional USB ports.

G-cluster says it has partnered with a variety of developers and publishers to bring games to their service. These companies include heavyweights such as Disney Interactive Studios, Ubisoft and PopCap as well as the likes of Frozenbyte (Trine, Shadowgrounds) and mobile game publisher Bulkypix. The company also mentioned that their service can also be used to deliver on-demand video to TVs and mobile devices. But as of now, the thing I like the most about G-cluster is their commercial:

The family that fights together, is Japanese. Head to G-cluster’s website for more information or you can wait shortly after January 9, which is when the company’s media event at CES 2013 will be held.

[via AVING]

Do you often get bamboozled trying to figure out which cable is which when wiring up your home theater gear? While you could simply put color-coded dots on the cable ends, that’s just not nearly as cool or geeky as these new HDMI cables with light-up color-coding.

Coming soon from PDP, The Afterglow is a 6-foot-long HDMI cable that group four cables into one. The light-up LED heads make it easy to identify which cable is connected to which device, and just looks cool when connected.

What’s not clear is how much slack you’ll get at each end of the cable – since not all of your devices are going to be that close together. I can only imagine that the other end of the cable has a bit more distance between the connectors, but we’ll have to wait until PDP releases the full specs – which I’m guessing will turn up during CES in early January 2013.

NEC introduced today in Japan a new 24.1″ LED backlight Display with the MultiSync LCD-EA244WMi, offering some pretty standard specs including a 25,000:1 contrast ratio and a 350cd/m2 brightness, this Full HD monitor comes however with a new ECO mode that once activated give you at standard performance a maximum of 21w of power consumption. The MultiSync LCD-EA244WMi will be available in Japan middle of January at around 45,000 Yen

Set to hit Japanese stores early January 2013 here you are Iiyama latest 23.6″ Full HD multitouch LED LCD that, oddly enough will only support Windows 7 and not Windows 8. Featuring Iiyama’s X-Res Tech the ProLite T2452MTS offers a 1,000:1 to 5M:1 contrast ratio and a 260cd/m2 brightness with a 5ms response time and come by default with 2xDVI-D, HDMI and D-Sub.
Finally the ProLite T2452MTS will be sold in Japan at around 31,000 Yen

I am not sure that this little REX-HDEX100A is build for the average geek, but if you are looking for a nice and elegant way to transmit Full HD Videos between in devices separate up to 100 of each other or would like to use your home Gagbit ethernet system to stream videos the REX-HDEX100A is definitively made for you!
As you have guess the REX-HDEX100A is a simple pair of box that will use your Gigabit network to help you connect to remote devices via HDMI. Compatible HDPC, CEC, 3D, HDMI 1.4 …