The Internets rumour mill has been steadily churning out whispers of a new NVIDIA Shield TV. In all honesty these rumours have been more wish and hope than reality, until now. This week eagle eyed shoppers noticed something new on Amazon, the Shield TV Pro.
Continue reading NVIDIA Shield TV Pro: The King of Streamers Gets an Upgrade…Action packed video games don’t get any bigger than Grand Theft Auto (GTA). Rockstars most famous game franchise is always controversial, always pushes the limits and its always fun. Now you can get a full copy (minus Hot Coffee mini game) of GTA: San Andreas for free by simply installing the Rockstar Launcher. Get in quick this one is only availble till the 8th of October.
Game developer Bungie has finalised its divorce from Activision, both have now parted ways, and we are all the winners of this new arrangement. With all the vigour of a divorcee on a Friday night out Bungie has let Destiny 2 loose, converting it to a free to play game via Steam.
Bungies entire back catalogue has now moved from its old home at Battle.net to its post-divorce accommodation at Steam. Bungie hasn’t neglected its old fiends either, all current Battle.net accounts can be easily migrated to Steam keeping your gaming history intact.
Fellow lovers of free wares jump onto Steam and secure your copy of the now free to play Destiny 2 Shadowkeep. Now that Destiny 2 is a Free To Play title there is of course no deadline inspired rush but remember the longer you wait the more action you will miss. Prepare to light up the moon with all of the hellacious gunfire and destruction this reborn shooter has to offer.
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Reference: TechSpot
The relentless celebrity beat down that is ‘Celebrities Read Mean Tweets’ has returned to continue the hilarious tradition. For this round of mud slinging Kimmel has focused on Hollywood Celebrities, and Kim Kardashian. Who knows how the hell she made it in there but make it she did! Sit back, buckle up and make sure you have your laughing pants on, this one is a ripper.
It is often said that you can’t have your cake and eat it too. Fellow lovers of high-quality audio prepare to rejoice; our cake has arrived, and we shall be eating it. Long have we been forced to choose between having cabled headphones with all the frustration that goes with them, or no cable and lower quality audio. Now there is an option that lets us listen to superb high-fidelity audio without having to endure the tangle of frustration. This new all-encompassing option is aptX HD Bluetooth audio.
Continue reading aptX HD 24-bit Bluetooth Audio, Unwired for High Definition Sound…Lotus don’t just produce some of the most spectacular sports cars in the world, no they produce the cars that dreams are made of. They are a dream factory and the latest four wheeled dream machine to emerge from the mists of Lotus’ imagination is the purely electric Evija. With 1972 horsepower this is the eclectic hypercar that will represent Lotus in the looming electric hypercar wars due to begin in 2020.
When it comes to spectacular forms of illumination LED Cubes lead the way, but they are dime a dozen in today’s high tech world. Hungarian tech start-up PirateGames have recently been show-casing their take on the LED cube, the PiXXL, and it has a twist that may just re-invigorate the way we look at these brightly lit six sided cubes, its interactive.
As its name might suggest each of the giant cubes six sides are covered in a 32×32 grid of RGB LED pixels but buried underneath its skin is a Raspberry Pi with a full array of motion sensors that gives the PiXXL the ability to sense movement aloowing it to interact with its owner.
Dreams are at their most powerful when they are chased, when we do our best to convert them from imagination to reality. The Queen of Shitty Robots Simone Giertz had a dream, a crazy whacky dream to own the world’s first Tesla pickup truck, and the pursuit of this dream is cool on so many levels that it just has to be seen.
Continue reading Queen of Shitty Robots Converts Tesla Model S into a Kick Ass Pickup Truck, So Cool…Optical illusions are candy for curious minds and artist Sean Augustine March has crafted a full candy store of illusions. His latest piece of brain candy is the mind-bending lamp Fresnel Major. One of the slickest examples of Infinity Cube available it seems to bend the very properties of physics to create an infinity of space within a handy little glass box.
At their very core every infinity mirror is based on the power of pointing a mirror at another mirror, bouncing light between the two. Adding Dichroic glass to the equation adds an interesting twist that changes the colour of the light as it bounces between the reflective surfaces.
Pixel pushing powerhouse NVIDIA are well known for producing powerful video cards but they have another product that has been quietly selling by the millions for the last 4 years. The Tegra X1 SOC is that piece of silicon and it is the electronic brains inside two very impressive gadgets, the Nintendo Switch and the NVIDIA Shield TV.
First announced in 2015 the X1 is a mobile gaming powerhouse built onto a single tiny silicon chip. The X1 got its first big break in 2016 when Nintendo decided to use the chip in its new transforming console the Switch, which was subsequently launched March 2017. In the 2 years since the Switch has sold over 34 million units. At the same time NVIDIA has sold millions of their Shield TV’s.
Continue reading Next Generation Nintendo Switch and NVIDIA Shield TV, Tegra X1 Brothers in Arms…
