Eee keyboard: A touchscreen Home Theater PC |
Meet the new best keyboard ever. The official Eee Keyboard. It features wireless HDMI, and it’s a “fully functional PC” with full QWERTY and an awesome mini secondary touchscreen.
Asus is mum about if and when we’ll actually see the Eee Keyboard come to market (It looks like a very real product), but if it’s a concept for a home theater PC, it is an amazing one. With wireless HDMI you could probably make any television into your monitor without having a huge PC taking up space.


The IdeaCentre might steal the show at CES 2009 for Lenovo. It’s a thin all-in one PC with an interesting design that has most of the components in the bottom of the computer. It’s a design/diet secret that allows the display to appear thinner than it’s all-in-one competitors. Whether or not Lenovo’s claim that it is, is true.
Space is always an issue with PCs, so Originatic is aiming to put them on your wall. Scheduled for the CES ’09 debut is the all-in-one wall-mounted Smart-Leaf PC, designed with space-saving in mind. If you’re a casual PC user, it’s worth a look.
TG Sambo has a new all-in-one PC. The LLUON B2 comes with a 26–inch widescreen display and 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 processor and a high capacity 320GB hard-drive. Looks like this desktop is perfect for an entertainment PC. And it will save you some space on your desktop.
Some of you probably know Faith Japan, the famous store in Akihabara. They recently introduced the Fortission Q96500XN DVR-4S, which is a desktop computer that boots up in just four seconds thanks to it’s S3 Instant Boot mode.
If you go to your local electronics store and look at the display of mice for your computer or notebook, you will notice that they are all very similar in design. Not only do they share the same design and similar technology, the shape means that virtually all mice put stress on the same parts of the hand and wrist.
Onkyo just released the HDC-1L nettop audio PC, a perfect computer for any small office or room in your home. The computer is specially designed for digital audio playback.
Rockstar has seen critical acclaim and great success from its Grand Theft Auto franchise. At the same time, gamers and critics have loved the game, it has had its share of heat in the form of controversy around the games violent and sexual content.
MLB fans will love these MLB-themed gaming PCs from Commodore. Whether they will hit a home run with them is hard to say, but Baseball fans now have their own fancy machines. The officially licensed desktops feature an exclusive C-kin high-definition paint job and a Core i7 inside.
HP has announced the TouchSmart tx2. The laptop will be able to distinguish between voluntary pinching with two fingers and any accidental input. You can also use the bundled stylus to enter data. The tx2’s 12.1-inch screen is fully multi-touched up, but not in the iPhone/iPod touch way. It uses capacitive touch, which enables more accurate input, also brushes and swipes and two-handed gestures. You can use two hands to crop photos for instance.
When it comes to the perfect case for a new gaming rig you are building, most enthusiasts don’t go with whatever the cheapest enclosure available is. The enthusiast wants something that has good looks and great thermal performance. A good case may cost more, but in the long run the tradeoff is well worth it to most of us.
LG announced two new premium desktop models that will be released under LG’s XPION brand. The specs that we have so far don’t seem to details so far don’t seem to match the “premium” claim, but maybe we will get more specs soon. One thing is for sure, those sleek cases are sexy as hell.
CyberPower has unleashed the Black Pearl. It will be powered by Intel’s recently announced Core i7 processor. Some of the features under the hood are: 3.2GHz 965 Extreme Edition processor, 12GB RAM, Two ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 PCI-Express cards (2GB each), Intel X58 chipset, Support for NVIDIA three-way SLI and ATI CrossFireX technologies, Triple-channel DDR3/1600 SATA RAID with eSATA and Dual GbLAN, USB 2.0 and FireWire connectivity and 7.1-channel audio support. Living up to it’s name as a rare gem, it will cost you $3,999, if you’ve somehow weathered the current economic climate.
Do you miss such classics as Q-Bert and Pitfall? Chances are you’ve figured out by now that your vintage Atari Joystick won’t plug into your computer, no matter how you try to shave the connector into a rough USB shape. Lucky for you, Legacy Entertainment’s classic controller looks exactly like an Atari joystick, but it’s Windows / OS X / Linux compatible, and connects via USB. Supposedly, it will run with “nearly any emulator,” so get the 80’s tunes ready and get ready to play some old classics on your PC. Only $14.99.







