When Google TV was shown to the world a couple weeks ago, only Logitech was on stage as a hardware partner for peripherals. Google would do well to check out the offerings of the Taiwanese-based Cideko. At Computex, it’s showing several new devices that would fit very nicely within the Google TV ecosystem–or, since it’s DLNA-compliant, even the Windows environment.
The Air Player (photo after the jump) is a device that can stream audio and video from multiple interfaces over to your HDTV. It can connect to your PC, external hard drive, or memory card and wirelessly transmit audio and video. And the Air Sender delivers up to 1080p A/V programming from your PC, external hard drive, or memory card and transmit it wirelessly up to 100 meters. The Air Player can then receive those signals and play them on your HDTV or any other remote monitor.
Although no one wants to keep a keyboard on the coffee table, console controllers have certainly found a home there. Cideko’s Air Keyboard Conqueror (above) offers the flexibility of a game controller with a full QWERTY keyboard. It also works as a 3D gyro mouse, so you can point and click on icons on your HDTV.
Cideko reps can’t say when, or if, these products will hit the U.S. But if the connected living room is going to catch on it will need products like this, or something a lot like them.
Check out our ever-growing slideshow of Computex 2010 at PCMag.com.
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