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PlayStation showed off an interesting piece of hardware that’s been dubbed Project Leonardo. They’ve teamed up with accessibility experts, community members, and game developers to create the new controller to make gaming more accessible for everybody. The super-customisable setup consists of a kit of swappable components that can be used to craft a vast array of different control layouts. Two Project Leonardo GAME HARD!

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Any colour , as long as it’s… uh, any colour! BMW showed off a new model dubbed the iX Flow. That isn’t unusual, but its ability to change colours using an electronic display tech called e-ink certainly is. Just press a button and you can change colours – and hopefully remember which one you chose when you come back to the carpark.

own – including options for the latest 13th generation of Intel processors and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 laptop GPUs. Asus were busy on the Republic of Gamers – or ROG – front, showing off

controllers, plus one DualSense controller, can also be combined, opening up more options allowing for greater control flexibility. For those of more of a PC gaming

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The human factor? Finding Zoom calls a little impersonal?

bent, there’s a huge array of exciting machines on their way this year, packing all the latest in processing and graphics power. Lenovo revealed their latest Legion range, including what they’re claiming to be the world’s most powerful 16-inch, AI tuned gaming laptops. Yes, they’ve made

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display, which is a series of screens that’s designed to represent a remote person as a physical entity in a meeting room or in your home office, making eye contact, head gestures and more.

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Tree change Reckon old school Chrissie tree lights are past it? Why not let loose with the latest from Twinkly, which is an app that allows video to be shown on their smart Christmas lights! Just video your tree and the app will work out how best to display videos, animation, patterns, and more.

a range of desirable new kit. Offering support for all the new chips from Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA, they’ve also added top notch mini-LED ‘Nebula’ displays to their gaming laptops, and improved their already impressive cooling technology. Two new models join the range alongside ROG’s updated Strix machines, in the Zephyrus M16 – complete with wild AniMe Matrix LED lighting - and Flow X13. The likes of Acer, HP, MSI, and Razer also unveiled slick new machines, so one thing is for certain, and that is that gamers looking to upgrade their laptops or desktops this year are going to have plenty of exciting options to check out.

an AI chip, which uses a software machine learning algorithm to keep performance at optimum tuning. These superpowered laptops join newly announced Legion desktop computers and dedicated gaming monitors. On the Alienware front, six new gaming laptops were revealed, featuring updated form factors and materials, best-in-class performance upgrades, and design and comfort enhancements like 16:10 ratio screens across the board. Joining in the fun is a new 18-inch, the m18, which it’s claimed is in a performance class all of its

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