Arquivos de Tag: Screen

Tony Stark’s Screen Used Acura NSX Roadster Concept from The Avengers Reaches Auction

Robert Downey Jr. drove away from the final scene of 2012’s The Avengers in a low, open roadster finished in a deep red close to Iron Man’s armor, wearing a New York plate that read STARK 33. That exact car now sits on Cars & Bids with no reserve, and every dollar of the winning […]

Apple HomeView Arrives on Counters and Walls as a Screen That Recognizes Who Walks Up

Apple HomeView landed this morning as a dedicated screen meant to sit in a kitchen, on a nightstand, or fixed to a wall, handling music, video calls, and the controls for lights, locks, and cameras all at once. Both the tabletop version and the wall-mounted version cost $299, with pre-orders open today and units shipping […]

OnePlus 16 Lands in China With Massive Battery and Lightning Fast Screen

OnePlus released its newest flagship in China today. The OnePlus 16 centers on a 9,000mAh silicon-carbon battery, a display that can update as fast as 185 times a second, and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip built on a 2nm process. The battery life has increased significantly compared to the previous model’s 7300 […]

Amazon Alexa Tablets Arrive With Full Android and a Glare Free Screen

Amazon spent years selling Fire tablets as cheap doorways into Prime Video and Kindle. Yesterday, the company set that approach aside and introduced three devices that carry the Alexa name instead: an 8.7-inch model from $229.99, an 11-inch model from $329.99, and a 12-inch Pro from $499.99. Orders opened the same day. Shipments in the […]

SEGA Game Gear Turns 36 With a Color Screen That Drank Batteries

SEGA shipped its first handheld in Japan on October 6, 1990, priced at ¥19,800 ($320 today) and built under the internal name Project Mercury. Hayao Nakayama had pushed the company to answer the Game Boy, which Nintendo had put on shelves the year before. Engineers reused the Master System’s Zilog Z80 running at about 3.5 […]

DOOM on the Vectrex Draws a Glowing Hell on a Forty Year Old Screen

Milton Bradley shipped the Vectrex in 1982 as a complete arcade cabinet small enough for a coffee table. A screen, a speaker, a joystick, and a cartridge slot arrived in one case. Games showed up as bright strokes rather than blocks of color. Mine Storm, the pack-in, looked related to Asteroids because both were drawn […]

GPT-6 Astra Clears World of Warcraft Orc Quests Without Ever Seeing the Screen

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra finished every quest in World of Warcraft’s orc starting area in 40 minutes and never died once. A level 1 orc walked out of the Valley of Trials and into Sen’jin Village with the full list checked off, and the model never looked at a single frame of the game. The run […]

AOC 16T20 Portable Monitor Packs a Budget Full HD Second Screen for Travel

AOC sells the 16T20, priced at $47.49 (was $70), as a 16-inch portable monitor, though the panel itself measures 15.6 inches on the diagonal. Resolution sits at 1920 by 1080, the panel type is IPS, and the refresh rate tops out at 60 Hz. AOC lists a 4 ms gray-to-gray response time, 178-degree viewing angles, […]

VITURE Pro 2 Packs a 146-Inch Screen Into 63 Gram XR / AR Glasses for $299

VITURE Pro 2 ships as a $298.99 (was $380) pair of XR/AR display glasses that treat a private cinema as the whole job. Sony micro-OLED panels sit behind birdbath optics and throw a 1920 by 1080 image to each eye at up to 120Hz, with a 50-degree field of view that the company sells as […]

JBL Live Buds 3 Boasts a Color Screen on the Case So You Can Leave the Phone in Your Pocket

Most charging cases only hold a charge and a pair of buds. JBL Live Buds 3, priced at $129.95 (was $200), add a 1.45-inch color touchscreen that turns the case into a control panel you can use with a laptop, tablet, TV, or phone without opening an app. Swipe to play, pause, or skip, raise […]