HDMI

Home or hybrid working has become the norm for many over the last few years, which inevitably involves video chatting with colleagues. Ahead of CES 2023, Lenovo has launched an all-in-one modular lamp to help fix some of the pain points.

The Nintendo Switch may be portable, but its dock not so much. The OmniCentro, aims to solve that problem with a pocket-sized gizmo that fast-charges the battery and outputs the visuals to a display – upscaling the resolution to 4K in the process.

Dell has pulled the wraps off a shiny new monitor at IFA in Berlin this week. The 27-in display is designed to be crisp and bright, with an ultra-thin profile. Dell calls it the “world’s brightest in its class,” but there’s a few caveats to that claim.

The HDMI Forum’s Technical Working Group has released the specs for HDMI 2.1, as well as a new Ultra High Speed HDMI cable. Some of the 2.1 spec’s features will be backward compatible with your existing HDMI 2.0 cable, others will require you to upgrade.

There have been a number of PC-on-a-stick devices released in recent years, but most are powered by ARM processors and manufactured by companies you've never heard of. Not so the Intel Compute Stick, which is different in the sense that it's made by Intel and powered by an Atom Bay Trail processor.

There are a burgeoning number of ways to receive content streamed from the internet to your living room TV, and no single provider is proving significantly dominant. One service that is certainly popular, though, is Roku. Gizmag takes a look at the recently-launched Roku Streaming Stick.

HDMI 2.0 specifications have just been released by the HDMI Forum’s technical working group. Most importantly, HDMI 2.0’s extra bandwidth of up to 18Gbps will allow 4K pictures at 50Hz and 60Hz frame rates, which is four times the clarity of existing 1080p at 60Hz video resolution.

Founder and CEO of Parts-People, Nathan Morgan, has built a feature-packed portable PC around the Raspberry Pi board and packed everything into a colorful 3D-printed case.

The GameStick is an Android-based games console set to go head-to-head with the OUYA with an even smaller form factor.

The first ultra-high-resolution televisions (UHDTV), one from LG and one from Sony and both costing US$20K or more, have been introduced to the market.

Always Innovating will be showing off its HDMI dongle at CES this week, a compact device that can turn any HDTV into a Smart TV.

Cotton Candy is a USB/HDMI stick designed to add Android-based smart capabilities to any HDMI or USB-equipped device.