Content and news by Greg King

Each CES for the past 50 years has had an underlining theme.  With CES 2017 only one day away, my money is on this year’s theme being VR.  Already we’ve seen multiple hardware companies offering a VR experience, either within their own ecosystem or within an established one like Vive or Rift. …..

With CES 2017 only days away, if feels like we’re square in the middle of the commotion.  With a flurry of announcements already, it’s a good day for those looking forward to the new products we’ll get to see in 2017.  Patriot, not wanting to be left out, has a long list…..

Office chairs are just not inviting for gaming, or even that comfy for long periods. Sometimes you just want to laze around in the living room in front of a giant TV – maybe with friends. That’s when a giant bean bag from Sumo comes in with its Omni Plus. Plop yourself down and vegetate for hours at a time, in glorious squishy comfort.

It’s an exciting time of year.  As the industry looks to close out the current year, it shifts into over drive in preparation for the next, and with the new year comes CES.  While it’s easy to get lost in the press releases, one that captured our attention and made us listen…..

Looking for a 4-bay NAS for under $300? There are certainly a lot to choose from these days, and one such unit is the Synology DS416j under review today. We take it through our usual battery of tests to see how it handles and what, if any, corners were cut to get there.

While mechanical keyboards have slowly become ubiquitous, not everyone has had a chance to try one out. For this article, we not only test out the latest keyboard from long-time memory company Patriot, with its Viper V760, we take a look at it from a new perspective – the perspective of someone who’s never used a mech before.

As more devices claw for more bandwidth on the home network, you’re going to need a wireless router that can keep up. Under review today is ASUS’ Tri-Band RT-AC3200, capable of support two 5.0GHz AC bands and a 2.4GHz N band. There’s plenty of spectrum on offer for devices to use, so let’s see how it performs!

NVIDIA’s VR Funhouse is a bit special for a couple of reasons. First, it proves to be an amazing tech demo for both VR and game physics, and second, it’s NVIDIA’s first-ever full-fledged game, available right now on Steam. If you love popping balloons and drowning clowns with green ooze, this game is for you.

Since one can never have enough storage, under review today is a 4-bay NAS from ASUSTOR: AS6104T. Fitted with an Intel Braswell SoC, this x86 NAS has an incredible range of capabilities. Kodi and Plex support, coupled with an HDMI port, the ASUSTOR AS6104T could replace your Home Theatre PC while providing heaps of storage for the rest of the home. Let’s take a look!

There are few chassis companies that move as fast as Lian-Li. The Taiwanese company is known for its quality cases and use of high quality aluminum. Announced today, Lian-Li has an entirely new series of chassis and it’s first offering in that series is the attractive PC-J60. With a tidy interior in…..

Virtual Reality is upon us. With both the Oculus Rift and Valve/HTC Vive “shipping”, VR for the masses is already starting to gain momentum (outside of a mobile phone strapped to your face). Rob is currently at NVIDIA’s GTC event in California’s Silicon Valley, and a major theme at the event has…..

Techgage covers a wide gamut of technologies and one of my personal favorites is network attached storage. NAS has played a huge role my own home network, and that in turn has led into a substantial amount of coverage on the site. One company that has continued to impress us over the…..

With the announcement of DiskStation Manager (DSM) 6.0’s general availability, Synology brings multiple new and exciting features to its already robust NAS platform. In beta for a few months, 6.0 is the Taiwanese company’s latest version of its award-winning NAS operating system and ushers in features that align its products with the needs…..

In January, Rob and I both met with MSI at CES 2016, and to say that we left that meeting impressed doesn’t do our impressions justice.  Helping in my opinion was the HTC Vive the company had setup, driven by one of its own NVIDIA GTX 970M equipped notebooks.  Also being shown off were the…..

Having designed some of the highest-quality NASes we’ve come across in recent years, Synology is no stranger to the networked storage market. It’s interesting, then, that with as many NAS appliances that the Taiwanese company has released, it’s only just now released a router. As we find out, it’s quite good, too – ideal for the home and business user. In need of a router? You’ll want to check this one out.

Over the past few years, it seems like the industry is trending more and more to smaller cases. With mITX and mATX motherboard becoming more and more popular, PC builders haven’t needed the additional real estate offered by a full size chassis. However, sometimes your build calls for nice mid tower. For…..

Here’s something.  Those of you pining for a Tesla of your own: your wait might just have gotten a lot shorter.  With the Model S and announced but not-yet-released Model X being out of the price range of many, Elon Musk and team have been working towards a more affordable solution for…..

There’s a new game engine in town and its developer might surprise you.  Amazon Web Services, the monolithic cloud-computing platform, has announced its own game engine, called Lumberyard, and is offering it for free to PC and console developers, and soon, mobile and VR developers.  Based on Crytek’s popular CryEngine, Lumberyard is free to download in beta (with…..

As the mechanical keyboard revolution rages, Logitech has added a new RGB gaming keyboard to its stable of gaming products.  With the G810 Orion Spectrum, Logitech looks to separate itself from the crowd by using its own exclusive Romer-G mechanical switches.  These switches promise 25 percent faster actuation than a standard gaming keyboard.…..

The day is here!  The technology behind the products we have twice consecutively given a “Best of CES” award to, Tobii, is now available baked into the new MSI GT72S G Tobii gaming notebook.  The ease of learning to use the Tobii eye tracking software is exponentially better than remembering the name…..