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Your weekly gear: 17/6/16 edition

By Team HardwareZone - 17 Jun 2016

Your weekly gear: 17/6/16

Image source: By Sheilalau at Wikipedia

Did you know that if you gaze long into a baby panda’s eyes, the baby panda gazes also into your soul, and melts the crust around your rocklike, cynical heart? It’s true.

Now that your soul has been bared, check out the cool gear we have for you this week:

 

North Face Access Pack

The North Face Access Pack is every disorganized geek’s dream. It will hold all your bits and bobbles, with convenient compartments for all your devices to help you get your life in order. There’s also space for up to a 15-inch laptop, and even a bunch of ejector tabs to allow you to access your stuff more easily. Finally, the pack is water-resistant, so you can rest assured that your precious gear will remain dry (relatively).

 

Nativ Vita

No, it's not a picture frame. The Nativ Vita is a music player with a 11.6" touch screen that streams high fidelity music wirelessly. It supports Apple Airplay, Spotify Connect, Google Cast and Bluetooth aptX. It’s designed for High-Resolution Audio, with support for DSD playback in up to 11.2896 MHz (Quad-DSD), as well as DXD and PCM files up to 32-bit/384 kHz.

 

ViewSonic VX2457 gaming monitor

When it comes to games like Counter-Strike, every millisecond counts. ViewSonic clearly agrees, because its new 24-inch 1,920 x 1,080-pixel VX2457 gaming monitor has been expressly designed to offer minimal input lag and speedy 1ms response times. The fast pixel response times also help reduce motion blur and ghosting. What’s more, it supports AMD FreeSync, which means smooth and fluid gameplay with AMD cards.

 

Les Paul Standard 2016 HP

What's a Les Paul doing here? For the incredible, high-tech auto tuning system. Dubbed the Gibson G Force, the system allows you to set a custom tuning just by turning the system on and strumming. By measuring the vibrations created, the controller is able to detect each string's frequency. Servo motors are then used to wind or unwind the strings to reach the exact pitch required.

 

Karas Kustoms Aluminum Bolt Pen

Here's a full metal jacket that's full of ink. The Bolt is a machined, bolt-action pen made from 6061-T6 aluminium. Not only is this a solid piece of hardware, The Bolt uses any Parker ballpoint compatible refill, so it should work with you for generations.

 

#ICYMI

Did you know Microsoft bought LinkedIn this week? It was a big surprise and a big deal, with a hefty US$26.2 billion price tag. Microsoft also announced two new XBoxes, the One S and Project Scorpio. If panda cub hadn’t melted our crabby hearts, we’d suspect the news was timed to take the spotlight off Apple’s WWDC event, which also happened this week (have an iPhone? check out the key iOS 10 updates you can look forward to).

Have a good weekend everybody!

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