Thursday, 17 July 2014
It hasn't been easy to pick just a few favourites from amongst the thousands of new products we saw at Computex this year, but we've done just that. Most of these gadgets, accessories, demos and concepts should make it to the market this year, but we still wish we could have bought all of them there and then. Some, like the 3D printers, point to an exciting new future while others, such as tablets and smartphones, aren't completely new but are definitely improved.
Asus always makes a splash, and this year's showstopper was the Transformer Book V, a mashup of the company's existing Padfone and Transformer Book products. The company is no stranger to hybrid combination products, but this seems like taking the concept to a whole new extreme - we've got a phone which is also a tablet which is also a laptop. It's unclear what the benefits of this device are over three independent ones, but you'll definitely turn heads when you snap the various parts of it together.
A company called XYZprinting was showing off various 3D printers with prices starting as low as $499. That's a mere fraction of what similar devices cost, and could lead to an explosion of 3D printing amongst hobbyists, students and designers. In addition to just the printers,
