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LG's experimental marketing platform is teasing a retro-modern reworking of the jukebox ahead of CES 2024. Dubbed the DukeBox, the concept fronts a stylish speaker unit driven by valve amp technology with a thoroughly modern transparent OLED panel.

The Nintendo Switch is a nifty concept, but arguably underpowered and lacking in game variety. Valve is now having a crack at it with the Steam Deck, a handheld gaming console that can play your existing Steam library on the go or on a big screen.

Camcon's Intelligent Valve Technology (IVT) replaces the camshaft with electric actuators for precise digital control over the air charge of any engine. Now, the company's focus is shifting from cars to heavy diesels and artificial intelligence.

The gasoline age is giving way to electric, but there's still plenty of room for last-gasp improvements to the combustion engine.

Set to debut in a new 1.6-liter 4-cylinder Smartstream turbo engine, Hyundai's new valve tech is able to continuously change the duration of valve openings to suit driving conditions, which results in a 4 percent performance boost, 5 percent better fuel economy and 12 percent lower emissions.

Having teased its arrival last month, Valve has now revealed all the key details for its new Index VR headset, and is opening up pre-orders today. The high-end headset can be yours for US$999 with all the trimmings, but if you already own some HTC Vive gear, you won't need to spend that much.

British company Camcon Automotive has built a fully digital engine valve system, uncoupled from the crank, that offers unprecedented control over the combustion cycle. It enables some weird and wonderful ideas we've never seen before, such as giving 4-stroke engines brief 2-stroke power boosts​.

Martin Young of IMS Electronics has launched a hybrid tube amp on Kickstarter that's undoubtedly something of a looker. But the Desktop Valve Amplifier – housed in an enclosure machined from a single block of aluminum, with a viewing window up top – is promised to deliver top notch sonics, too.

​Today, HTC announced a new “VR for Impact” program, an effort meant to excel virtual reality’s potential as a humanitarian tool. The company has pledged US$10 million for industry partners and developers whose efforts support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Eight months after launch, we look at how the HTC Vive stacks up in a changed virtual reality landscape.

If Sony delivers a product that's even a reasonable approximation of the Rift​ and Vive​, then PlayStation VR​ should be practically a cinch to "win" the consumer VR wars. Let's see how its specs and features compare to the Vive.

When they launched, the HTC Vive​ and Oculus Rift​ both had multiple games bundled with the headsets, to help sweeten their respective pots. While that hasn't changed today, the specific games that come with the Vive just did.