Sound off Your brain is amazing. With two holes and some cartilage on the sides of your head, you can precisely pinpoint the position of an object in 3D space purely based on auditory cues, a process known as localization. Stop for a moment. Listen to the sounds around you. No, really. Stop. Listen. Even…
It’s dark, lonely, and an empty house that was once familiar now feels foreign. As you wander the halls and explore each room, more of your family’s history is laid bare before you. Where is everyone, and what happened here? The critically acclaimed, first-person story Gone Home is coming to PS4 this week. What a…
CES is becoming more of an automotive show than anything else. Every year there’s more car companies and more car demos. This year was no exception. The PC industry really needs to have its own show. Thankfully, there are still plenty of nuggets to be found and ASUS showed off some goodies this year. ROG…
New lineup for 2016 Before leaving Las Vegas and saying goodbye to this year’s CES, we met up with Origin PC to see what it has on tap for 2016. One of the rigs it showed us is its new mini ITX Chronos system, which supposedly rocks the world’s smallest chassis for the amount of…
There can be only one Eurocom has been a routine purveyor of high-end—nay, extreme—notebooks for several years, and last year they announced their new Sky X9 offering. Hot on the heels of that beast comes the new Eurocom Sky DLX7, which is sort of the slightly less monstrous version of an incredibly high-end notebook. The…
Tricked out motherboard Just ahead of CES, Asus announced a new flagship motherboard for Skylake builds, the Maximus VIII Formula. We got a chance to see one in person before zipping out of Las Vegas, along with some of the company’s other products. If it’s an LED light show you’re after, the Maximus VIII Formula…
Keeping your cool Digital Storm has a new rig in its stable, the Aventum 3, and it’s not just a minor revision of the previous model. When we met up with Digital Storm’s Darren at CES, he told us that the Aventum 3 was built from the ground up to accommodate the company’s HydroLux Pro…
Let there be light Waterblocks aren’t overly interesting, not outside of their function, anyway. But with so many parts of a build getting blinged out by manufacturers, it was only a matter of time before a company gave the same treatment to a waterblock. That company is Zotac. Inside Zotac’s booth at CES, we had…
Why not? For those of you who remember Home Improvement, you’ll recall that Tim “The Toolman” Taylor never once asked why he should mod a lawn mower into a hot rod, instead living by a philosophy of ‘Hey, why not?’ And so it is with DeepCool, which brought a liquid cooled power supply to CES….