I was told our meeting at the Mandalay Bay would be something I’d find interest in. Though the suite had many products scattered about, the majority of our time with Swiftech would be spent with an all-in-one water cooling kit. With all of my rigs currently air cooled, it’s a fairly obvious entry point; but this isn’t a new concept. Gabriel Rouchon,  prepared an impressive demonstration of why the H220 stands out from the rest.

January 18th, 2013 – Func breaks new ground by introducing an ergonomic gaming mouse which features 10 fully programmable buttons. With a clean black rubber coated body a sophisticated and detailed ergonomic design coupled with multiple setting capabilities, the Func MS-3 delivers a tool suitable for hours and hours of gaming.

Twinsburg, OH - January 18th, 2013 - AVADirect, a leading provider of custom server systems, is the first system builder to offer 2U server system with support for up to four GPU or Tesla card units. Never has the industry seen or utilized such a solution, so AVADirect was quick to support and provide such a solution for professionals and end-users to use to their advantage.

Gothenburg, Sweden - January 18, 2013 - Entropia Universe AB, the largest Massively Multiplayer Online Real Cash Economy (or MMORCE) game, announced today that MindArk has released a brand new avatar system.  This new system will bring Entropia Universe to the forefront of graphics technology in an MMO with highly detailed and fully customizable new avatars.

January 17, 2013, Chino, California – Genius today announces the Gila professional gaming mouse, a 2013 CES Innovations Award Honoree, to the North American market. Offering unparalleled precision and comfort, the Genius GX Gaming Series Gila is the ultimate configurable gaming mouse.

SAN DIEGO – Jan. 16, 2012 –Satechi, a mobile accessories manufacturer, announces the availability of the USB 3.0 Aluminum External Hard Disk Enclosure and Multifunction Card Reader. The two new peripherals feature a sleek, clean aesthetic complimenting Apple computers and laptops perfectly in both form and function.

"Nay, Nay" said the CES News. "I'll be going nowhere." Some more stories from CES today, but the hardware reviews are starting to flow again. Our friends over at Legit Reviews got their hands on one of the new high capacity Kingston flash drives and did an in depth review. I know it is one of the things I have been curious about since their announcement at CES, and we finally get to see a pricetag on that sucker. Heres a clue: It aint cheap!

January 16, 2013, El Dorado Hills, CA -- Kidz Gear www.GearForKidz.com, the award-winning Grown-up Performance, Built for Kids! brand, announced today that KidzControl™ Volume Limited Headphones for Kids has won the 2013 Learning Magazine’s  Teachers’ Choice Award  for Excellence in Classroom Products.

The last bit of CES news is trickling through and I must say I am a little disappointed. We will still get to read reviews from around the web, but the flow of new information from a plethora of different companies will not be the same. I honestly think I could type whatever I want here and no one would be the wiser. No one cares about what I have to say, all they want is the news!

Fairfax, VA- January 15, 2013 -ThinkGeek (NASDAQ: GKNT) was recently approached by Science Corps International (SCI), the elite superhero team, to reveal their existence to the world through a series of t-shirts depicting the elusive team’s members. It is also believed that the shirts will serve as alternative or lounge-wear uniforms for SCI’s members.

Austin, TX -- Jan 15, 2013) -- Mushkin, Inc., an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance and mission-critical computer products, today announces the U.S. availability of the 480GB Atlas mSATA solid-state drive.

Stockholm, Sweden - January 14, 2013  - Donya Labs, creators of Simplygon(TM) and the leading provider of automatic 3D-optimization solutions for the video-game industry, today announced a new licensing agreement with British developer Ninja Theory and game publisher Capcom for the upcoming game title DmC Devil May Cry(TM).

Las Vegas -- Jan 10, 2013 -- Share files from your phone or tablet with any device with a USB port. The mobostick AP is a wireless flash drive without internal storage. Your Android device is its storage. Mobostick allows devices to read it like a flash drive but the files contained in it are shared virtually from your phone or tablet.

Some of you may not know it, because they are a little less known in the US, but Adata is the second largest manufacture of ram in the world. Because of that, when I went to visit their suite I was really curious what they had up their sleeves. As a manufacture of SSD’s Memory, and other flash products I wasn’t sure if they would be showing off new variations of the same old thing, or something new altogether. It ended up being something new altogether.

Amidst the craze of Pepcom Digital Experience, we managed to catch up with Zak Wood from Trendnet, exhibiting the company’s latest offerings. With 2013 the projected approval date for the 802.11ac standard, Trendnet is already taking advantage of the technology to dip into a higher threshold of wireless speed.

Tablets, mini-PC’s, and All-in-One’s have been at many of the suites we visited this week, especially those who produce components to go within. There is no doubt this is a rising market, and it’s overlaps into the desktop realm as well, where small form factor builds are becoming more popular. Our tour began in a neighboring suite of the Venetian with Gigabyte’s offerings in the tablet realm.

Not everyone is so easily excited about new technologies as we are. To assume an attendee of the show is going to give every new external hard drive solution a chance is unfortunately unrealistic. Companies deploy many tactics to attract visitors to their booths, but when walking a convention center featuring more than 1,2000 exhibitors, choosing someone other than an exhausted engineer to show off your product can be the key to catching eyes. A little skin never hurt, either. 

CES is officially winding down and so is the news coming out. It certainly has been a busy week and I hope everyone has enjoyed reading all the different articles as much as I have. Next week will likely be back to lots of hardware reviews, hopefully some of those will be some of the stuff we saw at CES. I know I personally cant wait to see more about the NVIDIA Shield or the Razer Edge.

LAS VEGAS – Jan. 11, 2013 – Emerging technology company Qubeey, Inc., continues to receive recognition from throughout the industry. This week, at International CES 2013 in Las Vegas, Black Enterprise magazine presented Qubeey with the CES Best in Show award for Most Promising New Media/Digital Media Technology.

Taipei, Taiwan, January 10, 2013 – QNAP^® Systems, Inc. today announced that its recently released Turbo NAS TS-x69L series, available in 2, 4, 5, 6, 8-drive configurations, can now utilize its built-in HDMI port and new HD Station feature, turning the Turbo NAS into a comprehensive media player, allowing users to enjoy high-definition videos, pictures, music, and more right on the big screen TV in the comfort of home.