guys we're here in the BenQ booth at CES now we're seeing a couple things we've
seen from BenQ before there's some projectors some monitors but this is
something that's a little different now Ben Q has had interactive projectors for
over a year now they you know you can sell that kind of thing to a school or
business where they want to make presentations they want to be able to to
gesture at the screen or you know write on it or whatever else this is an
interactive TV it uses a very sophisticated system involving two
cameras and an infrared sensor technology to make the touchcreen
incredibly accurate now both slick and I were playing around with it before we
shot the video and both of us noticed how easy it is to hit the correct action
on the screen even when you're off at an angle which can be a problem on TVs
because of the thickness of the glass and the fact that the LCD panel is
actually behind the glass so even while I'm off to the side I'm not going to
miss that black box when I try to write on it you can also see there's almost oh
there made one mistake there's almost no delay as I write on it and it is very
very accurate so part of the problem right there is I'm mushing on it really
really hard so if I sort of touch it more in the way that I would normally
touch a touchcreen there you go we can get quite smooth lines so this is meant
for more like the same kind of audience as the
interactive projector maybe a classroom or something like that but where they
don't necessarily have the room to mount the projector or they don't want to
worry about being standing in front of the light beam and it causing the the uh
the actual screen itself to go black as a shadow behind them now this is
something we've seen from BenQ before beastly projectors so they're saying
their customers are demanding higher brightness projector so for something
like a boardroom where you don't you're not really able to dim the lights
properly this guy right here here has all kinds of sweet awesome inputs
including dual HDMI they're also adding 3D to their business class projectors
which is I suppose entirely necessary because you never know when you're going
to want to give a presentation in a board meeting in 3D but the main thing
about this guy is the 4,000 lumens brightness now okay so that's not a
general consumer skew but BenQ does have General consumer SKS as well they have
also introduced this new merchandising scheme they wanted us to show it off at
CES so rather than relying on the sales rep in your local Big Box store who
you're going to ask them a question which one's 3D which one's got the best
brightness and they're going to kind of look at you like uh and they're going to like look
at the at the label under the product and see if they can see it on there
because they don't know so the idea is to put everything about the projector on
an easy to read format on the top of it as a sticker you just remove it when you
get it home and that's going to roll out to all the projectors not just that
particular model we're looking at now BenQ already has the MLG official PC
gaming monitor under their belt now they're adding the
rl2455 HM this is oriented more towards
the console Gamers now you still have those features that were available on
the PC version that is to say you have the FPS mode the RTS mode black
equalizer which is designed to take details that are hidden in Shadows or
hidden in dark areas of a map and make them pop out a little bit more not
something that would be ideal for photo editing for example guys but if you're
looking for every Competitive Edge that's there it has a 1 millisecond gray
to Gray response time which is about as fast as it gets and to appeal more to
the console guys maybe you don't have a lot of space maybe you are a PC and a
console guy it has dual HDMI inputs so you can either have a PC on the right of
it and a console on the left or if you don't you have a laptop you don't have a
PC you can have your PS3 and your Xbox 360 hooked up to it at the same time
without ever having to swap any cables so this is now their second official
gaming monitor of Major League Gaming and I think they're very very proud of
it and that's why they have it here at the show today now I've talked about the
w1070 already but this is a short throw
version of it basically the only things that have changed are the Optics so it
now is able to project a 100in image which is over there in a less than a 6
feet throw distance this is the first short throw 1080p 3D projector on the
market and it's going to be available sometime in February so just to make the
point of how here I'm just going to take this with me just to make the point of
how short the distance we're throwing here is we can go sort of here let's
let's go by Linus ARM length so that's one two three and a half Linus ARM
lengths and the actual throw distance
that we have from the projector to the TV is just over one Linus body length in
fact about 5' 6 in according to uh what
what I think it it converts into a regular sort of measurement so this is
really awkward and we're going to move on to the next thing now kiss design you
probably haven't heard of it before that's because it's new to North America
this is a wholly owned subsidiary of BenQ so they're getting into house
lighting now I'm going to start with how much these things cost this is
$2,000 this is $11,000 and this one right here on the
table is $600 so guys this is not meant
to replace light bulbs this is more of a fashion statement it's intended for a
luxury home where you're you're it's not I mean it doesn't even throw that much
light it's more of an art artistic piece you're expected to actually already have
Lighting in the room so what's cool about this one and all of them is they're LED lighting I'm going to move
over here so that slick can sort of survive over there you can actually
change which ones are on and which ones are off just by flipping the switch
around so the bottom is metal the top are sort of these uh op uh
semi-translucent plastic panels and you
can put it in sort of a pattern it looks kind of like a piano so that's why it's
called the piano LED floor benue tried really hard to have this all perfect so
now I've done gone and messed it up for them so I'm sorry guys this right here
is the seagull so at $1,000 each you can
control how much light on the front knob it emits just like that and you can
actually control the positioning of the wings so I told them I probably need an entire flock of these for my kitchen and
uh I was offered sort of a very compelling discount of I think it was
$73.99 each so uh so there you go if
it's the kind of thing where you want to make a statement with the lighting in your home not necessarily a bad idea
personally I don't spend much time in high-end lighting stores but my understanding is these prices actually
aren't that crazy once you get into that kind of a product this guy right here's
the coral LED table this one's to me actually the most appealing out of them
because unlike the others which seem like they they're bright enough to
actually throw light this really is just kind of a stand you'd never use this to
read by it's just kind of unique looking it's available in a variety of colors
and we have one more thing Ben Q wanted me to mention this they have
one and him a CES design and Engineering
showcase Award presented to Ben Q for
this monitor right here this is the VW
2430 it's a white monitor it is optimized for Apple users so that is to
say you buy your MacBook you buy your your Apple desktop it has a built-in
profile where it's an apple mode that tries to simulate the way that the
colors appear on the display of your Apple computer so basically they're just
trying to make it so that you have a more uniform experience this isn't
anything that you couldn't do on your own with a color calibrator or by
eyeballing it for long enough but out of the box it is intended to appeal to an
Apple user it also has a built-in business card holder you can't miss this
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