Most new Android TV boxes on the market today support 4K resolution at least up to 30 Hz, but Amlogic decided to target the lower end of the market with S805X quad core Cortex A53 processor that...


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Pandora’s Box 5S Arcade Game Console – Teardown and Mini Review
Last year – and even in 2016 – , there was a fair amount of new retro gaming news, with products such a Nintendo SNES Classic Edition or GameShell Portable Retro console, as well as...


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Getting Started with ANAVI Light pHat Starter Kit with RGB LED Strip, Light Sensor
ANAVI Light pHAT is an expansion board best suited for Raspberry Pi Zero (W/WH) boards, but also working with any other Raspberry Pi boards with a 40-pin header, that can control a 12V RGB LED strip...


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QNAP Launches TS-128A & TS-228A Entry-Level NAS Powered by Realtek RTD1295 SoC
Realtek RTD1295 can be found in mid range to high-end 4K TV boxes that often include a SATA bay or interface, as well as an HDMI input port that supports PVR, PiP, and UDP broadcasting, with the...


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ASRock Unveils J4105-ITX & J4105B-ITX Gemini Lake Mini-ITX Motherboards
We’ve already seen several Intel Gemini Lake mini PCs at CES 2018 from companies such as ZOTAC, MeLE or ECS, but if we exclude LattePanda Delta development board, I had not seen any...


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$38 MECOOL M8S PRO W “with Voice Control” TV Box Runs Android TV 7.1 OS
There was a time when most TV boxes would run Android operating system for mobile with lots of modifications to make it suitable for the big screen, except for a few models that would run the...


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ORICO 1088USJ3 Multi-Bay SATA to USB3.0 Enclosure Supports up to Ten 3.5? Hard Drives
USB expansion drives and multi-bay NAS devices are both very common form of storage which have different applications, but I had never thought or seen multi-bay USB expansion drivers until I came...


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ODROID-HC2 Linux NAS System for 3.5? Hard Drives Launched for $54
We knew it was coming, and Hardkernel has now launched an updated version of the ODROID-HC1, called ODROID-HC2 based on the same Samsung Exynos 5422 board, but instead supporting 3.5″ hard...


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Cracking Open a Self-Powered Shower Temperature Display
A month ago, I wrote about a $10 self-powered thermometer display that connects to your shower header and can display the water temperature near real-time to help with mixing hot and cold water tap...


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Samsung Unveils Exynos 7872 Hexa-core Arm Cortex A73/A53 Mobile Processor
Samsung has introduced a new hexa-core Exynos 5 series processor with Exynos 7872 featuring two Cortex A73 cores, four Cortex A53 cores, a Mali-G71 MP1 GPU, and an LTE modem that supports Category 7...


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