CES 2018

ASUS ROG Strix SKT T1 Hero Edition first ever hardware to tap into eSports

It looks to be a good start!

Published

January 10, 2018

Leez

ESports has been kicking up and getting its long overdue attention. To support fans of the community, ASUS aptly teamed up with SKT T1 to make a special edition of their new iteration of the Republic of Gamers (ROG) Strix gaming laptop line. And, it’s a mouthful of a name: ROG Strix SKT T1 Hero Edition.

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The ROG Strix SKT T1 Hero Edition sports a RGB backlit keyboard, a 15.6-inch Full HD (1080 x 1920 pixels) LED display with a wide-viewing angle of 178 degrees, a refresh rate of 120Hz, and an anti-glare panel. It runs on an Intel Core i7 7700HQ processor, coupled with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 graphics. It has 16GB of RAM, a 1TB HDD, and 256GB SSD.

This special edition of the ROG Strix has a USB Type-C port, four USB 3.0 ports, an HDMI port, an audio jack, a mini-DisplayPort, and an RJ45 jack.

It’s the first time that ASUS has created custom units for eSport professionals and it looks to be a good start. A nice touch to the laptop is the team’s logo plastered on the lower-left part of the cover and sick accents on the chassis, but the highlight of it all is SKT’s Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok’s signature on the bottom-right side of the keyboard palm rest.

SKT T1 is one of the world’s most successful League of Legends teams earning multiple World Championship titles. Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok is no-question the most popular League player, winning Best Esports Player at the The Game Awards in early December last year.

The ROG Strix SKT T1 Hero Edition comes with posters, a jersey, and a mouse pad with SKT T1 and ROG logos. The laptop costs US$ 1,700 and will be available early this year.

CES 2018

Podcast Episode 1: Getting lost at the world’s largest tech show

Published

January 23, 2018

GadgetMatch

In this first epidose of GadgetMatch Podcast we talk about the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2018) which just wrapped up in Las Vegas. Michael Josh and Isa share behind the scenes challenges of covering the world’s largest tech show. And the team talks about the most attention grabbing tech from the show including an entire range of Artificial Intelligence and Google Assistant gadgets, Vivo’s new phone with an in-display fingerprint sensor, Sony’s new robot dog, and Razer’s Project Linda.

CES 2018

LG’s InstaView ThinQ is one smart fridge

This is the future

Published

January 20, 2018

Isa Rodriguez

The future of smart appliances is upon us.

LG has not only dared to venture into connected kitchen technology, they’ve taken it a step further with their newest smart appliances. We got to see all this at CES.

The InstaView ThinQ is the fridge of the future. It’s equipped with the smart voice assistant Alexa which means you will be able to talk to it — the better to figure out what you want to eat! Not only that, it will suggest recipes depending on what food items you have stored. The best part is that it can be connected to your phone and all your other smart appliances for a seamless everyday home experience.

CES 2018

Best of CES 2018: Project Linda, Smart Display, and more!

From prototypes to full-fledged products

Published

January 19, 2018

Chay Lazaro

CES 2018 gave us a glance at all the wonderful consumer tech that’s in store for us — not just this year, but for the years to come. The show had tons of products, almost too many to count, so we came up with this video compiling the most interesting gadgets that caught our attention.