When people think of gaming systems, they often imagine large beige or black boxes overflowing with cables and accessories. And while these types of rigs may be fine with a certain class of gamer, there are many who'd prefer something compact and sleek to take them into their preferred virtual worlds of play. For those who'd like to devote a
Over the past year, I've noticed more and more people wearing activity tracking devices and here in Northern Ireland I tend to see Fitbits rather than anything else. Fitbit has been advertising on TV lately too with "It's All Fit" and I'm sure that there will be a good number of Zips, Flexes and Charges under the Christmas tree come
David shows off Xi3's latest developments including the X7A modular computer and the Z3RO Pro. If you haven't seen Xi3's offerings before, you need to check them out - they're small cube-like units totally unlike your normal case. The X7A is aimed at the power user with a quad core AMD Trinity processor, Radeon graphics, 8 GB RAM, SSD (up to 1
Todd and Don interview Nortek's Rob Halligan about the new wireless speaker system called Korus, which instead of using wifi or Bluetooth, uses SKAA, a wireless hi-fi audio standard that won CES Innovation awards in 2010 and 2011. The benefit of SKAA is low latency and greater range, but the downside is that it's not built-in to any smartphone, tablet or media
HP has announced the second generation of its Z1 high performance all-in-one workstation, with a 27" ten-point touchscreen running Windows 8. The Z1 G2 is aimed squarely at power users, featuring 4th Generation Intel Xeon and Core processors, and RAID storage options paired with the latest NVIDIA Mobile Quadro GPUs for the best graphics performance. It also comes with Intel Thunderbolt
Hardware outfit Roccat Studios are dropping a whole bunch of new toys at CES for the hardcore gamer, including headphones, mice and keyboards. Known for their signature Kone gaming mouse, the new products look the business. First up are two additions to the Roccat range of mice. On the left, there's the new Kone XTD Optical which has a 6,400
This is the era of the touch user interface with smartphones and tablets present in large percentages of households in the US and Europe. Microsoft has taken touch to the heart of Windows 8 which is great if the device has a touch screen but an exercise in frustration if it doesn't. However, all is not lost, as a mouse