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Hewlett-Packard have done a little more marketing work on their prototype gaming handheld, which we first heard about in April, and which still doesn’t have a name (though as you can see above it has been given a facelift). It’s been given the job of driving HP’s Mscape software technology, which transforms real-world footage into a game via a combination of its own sensors, GPS, and… well, I don’t really understand how it does it. I don’t come from the future, where everyday people carry shit like this around in their back pocket. Sadly the device is very much in the prototype stage, and may not even be put into production… at least not until the year 2019, when people’s minds will be ready for it. Slightly fanciful promo vid is after the jump.
HP Mscape gaming handheld revealed [Sci-Fi, via Gamasutra]
Sorry I didn’t post the specs on the Blackbird with the last post, but the loaner they sent me seems to have a bad hard drive, ironic isn’t it? And the site just went live with the options you can choose for building your own PC.
So far the only specs I could find on their site is for the limited run Dedication Edition of the desktop which comes with:
Rahul Sood, Voodoo PC founder and now the CTO of HP Gaming, said he wanted to completely revolutionise the desktop PC with the Blackbird. I don’t know if it’s a revolution, but I sure as hell like it.
What it seems the Blackbird has done is taken all of the things that are important to high-end gaming rigs, airflow, liquid cooling, wiring, and done them in a way that doesn’t prevent a user from tinkering without a lot of heartache.
I can very easily get up to my elbows in Blackbird guts after only a few minutes of tool-free work. Popping open the completely plastic free chassis (the thing is made entirely from cast and stamped aluminum parts, is like open a car door, a very expensive car door. This side door even has a gasket built in to reduce sound.
The Blackbird 02 is a light-absorbing, monolith of a gaming rig that weighs in at more than 30 kilograms. It also happens to be the first lovechild of HP’s army of deep-pocketed designers and VoodooPC’s boutique gaming PC aesthetic.
The deep space Black aluminium case looks more like something that belongs in a fighting robot than on your desk and the thing sits on a cast-aluminum foot that not only keeps it off the ground but helps provide more ventilation for cooling.
Hit the jump for the details of this customisable gaming rig that runs for $US2,500 to $7,100. In a nutshell, the case is one giant heatsink that can support up to 270 kilograms, the CPU, GPU and the motherboard are all in separate thermal chambers and it includes a full system, maintenance-free liquid cooling system. Oh and it has a pretty spiffy removable side panel and interior and exterior LED lighting.
