Samsung aims for TV flexibility with bendable TV

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Samsung doesn’t just want to sell you curved TVs (although they already have a few of those), they want to give you the power to bend your TV at your will. Well, you will need the remote control and the new concept from the Korean tech giant. CNet reports you just need to press a button on the concept TVs accompanying remote and a servomechanism on the back of the screen bends the TV to a curve or flattens it out like the current crop of HDTVs.

The demo unit of this concept was an 85-inch LED LCD with 4K. Samsung has managed to make a bendable screen without OLED. We are excited for the possibilities of this new idea and what it entails for the future of television viewing.  

Samsung debuts new Shape speakers and sound bar

Samsung M5

Samsung has released a compact version of the Shape M7 speaker and a new Soundbar for your home entertainment needs. The M5 speaker is said to be a three-driver speaker that can be used on its own or with other Shape speakers for multi-room or multi-channel surround sound. The HW-H750 Soundbar with wireless sub is capable of delivering multichannel sound of 320 watts and can be connected over Bluetooth to TVs that have Samsung’s TV Sound Connect feature through free Android or iOS app.

Source: Samsung Tomorrow

NVIDIA brings PC gaming capabilities to mobile

The next-generation of NVIDIA mobile processors are going to be gamers’ dream come true. The new Tegra K1 has a Kepler architecture-based 192-core GPU, which is the same architecture used by the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti (considered the fastest GPU in the world). The company boldly claims the GPU on the Tegra K1 is more powerful than the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360.

The demo of NVIDIA CEO and co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang showed the Tegra K1 running Unreal 4 without glitch. The new game is said to require extreme CPU power that is enough to hang an underpowered system. There will be two versions of the processor: one 32-bit quad-core, 4-Plus-1 ARM Cortex A15 CPU available in the first half of 2014 and 64-bit dual Super Core CPU based on ARMv8 architecture and carries the codename Denver. The 64-bit version will be available at the second half of the year.

Source: NVIDIA

Acer refreshes Chromebook line

Acer wants to further its stake in the Chromebook market with a new 11.6-inch machine. The C720P-2600 model, or C7 for short, packs in a 1366 x 768 touch-screen, Intel Celeron 2955U processor in an approximately three-pound notebook. It also has 32GB SSD storage and 2GB RAM, which are typical specs for Chromebooks. The C7 will be on display at Acer’s CES booth and is said to carry a US$299. It comes in Moonstone White, is bundled with Gogo Inflight Internet passes, and will be available this month.

Source: CNET