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In the ASUS booth, they have booth suite, whatever you want to call it,
they have the Cube. This is a Google TV
ready device that has a lot of very, very cool stuff. So, I'm going to show
you the cube first. This is an ARM processor. It's got 4 gigs of onboard
storage. It's got a USB drive. It's got 1 gig of RAM. It's got Ethernet. It's
got HDMI in and HDMI out. And that's cool. We're going to show you why
actually. Well, it's kind of behind me already anyway, but no big deal. Uh IR
out so you can synchronize it with uh with an IR blaster and make sure that it
sort of acts as a hub for passing signals through to whatever else you
need. Power in and it basically looks like well a cube. So that's
appropriately named. More important than that is the remote. So, it's fully
Netflix ready. Okay. It's got a touchpad
and buttons so you can decide how exactly you want to use that there
device. So, the home button takes Oh, yeah. It's got a full keyboard on the
back. Did I mention that already? I'm pretty sure that I did not. It's got all
of your main buttons that you're going to need. Your back, your uh your microphone. There's another microphone
button here that is for controlling the device with Google Voice. Volume up,
down, channel scroll. And now let's take
it over to the working model that hopefully I haven't ruined. So it's
running Android Honeycomb and they have done a custom UI here that is very
visual. So here should I move over sort of this way. So I want you guys to look
at this. Basically you navigate it with the remote. So you can see all of your
uh frequently used
if I'm not doing I might be doing this wrong somehow.
We'll be back in a moment. I figured it out. I'm in touchpad mode.
See, I changed it to touchpad mode when I was tinkering with it. So, let's go
ahead and switch that out of touchpad mode. So, now we can click the buttons.
We can navigate. We go Netflix prime time. So, prime time is Google's way of
aggregating all of your content, whether it's web content or whether it's uh the
actual your your TV service providers content. You can browse all that stuff.
IMDb is on there. We're going to flip it around here. So, you got your movies,
your games. This also is motion sensitive, so you can play motion
control games. I actually clicked the microphone button, so I'm using Google
Voice right now. We'll see what it comes up with here,
guys. I was talking for a while there, but it'll do its best. Go Google. You
know, you know, we love you. Click the microphone. So, I'm using Google Voice
right now. See, look at that. It's like bang on. So, now I just have to go back
so that we're not looking at that anymore. There we go. So, games, social,
and life. So, you've got a full web browser. Chrome is on here. You can set
things up exactly the way you want. So, TV. There we go. If I go to Here we go.
There's the app store. I guess it's called Google Play now, not App Store.
That's totally the wrong thing to call it at all. And now, oh, I see. So, I was
in the education hub. So, ah, it's contextual. Very cool. On the side, it's
totally different stuff depending on There you go. what you're looking at.
So, let's have a look at the uh at the prime time UI.
Okay. And last but not least, I want to show
you guys the live TV button. So, this not only allows you to just switch to
and watch your live TV, but also you click it. So, you go to your live TV.
Now, you go to the home screen and it'll actually still play in the background
while you're doing whatever it is you want to do. So, very cool stuff. And
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