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Google announces Nexus Q, streaming-media ball - CNET News

2012-06-27
we're really excited to unveil Nexus Q it's a small android-powered computer that's designed to live in your home it plugs into the best speakers in TV in your house and it's always connected to the cloud Nexus Q tightly integrates with Google Play so you can easily stream music and video you use your android phone or tablet to control it but you're not actually streaming content from your device to it instead Nexus Q pulls your content directly from Google Play here we can see his entire music collection we can see his playlists as he Scrolls around we can also see his artists albums and so on all stored in the cloud now Randall is going to choose a room to start playing music in and he's picking the living room let's see what music he picks and it looks like he picked the need superficial by Odyssey a very good taste random and it's very appropriate because building q has been a bit of an odyssey you know mobile devices have made music more of a personal and sometimes isolating experience but music is often best enjoyed with friends that's why we made Nexus Q the first-ever social streaming device it's a cloud connected jukebox where everyone brings their own music to the party and so matt is going to use his device to add a song to the queue and there it is look so Chris what do you have to add I think I'm going to add this really great new rockabilly guitarist JD mcpherson but i'm not interested in waiting around so i think i'm just going to take right over so so this is a great example so at any time anyone can move songs around the cube and anyone can take control of the listening experience everyone can see the cube in real time on their devices it's pretty cool that my friends can now play their music in my living room so that's music on Nexus Q with multi room playback and social streaming a great amplifier built right in with digital outputs so you can hear music on the best speakers and TV in your home and speaking of TV wouldn't it be cool if you could bring all your movies to a friend's house well with play you're always carrying your entire digital library with you and as a social streaming device Nexus Q lets anyone connect and start playing videos from their phone right away have you guys seen any movies lately what do you guys think about Transformers Dark of the Moon do we have that movie I have it in my library right here I was watching it at home last night i'm going to start it up here and it's going to pick up at the very same spot where i left off when i was playing it at home last night now it's always fun to watch youtube videos with friends and Nexus Q works great with YouTube just like with music you and your friends can play your favorite YouTube videos right on Nexus Q and again the content comes from the cloud there's this cool video of these guys beat boxing on a Google+ hangout on their Galaxy Nexus let's play that cool so that's Nexus Q amazing hardware with an integrated app it streams music movies and TV from google play as well as youtube and what's really cool is that it's the world's first ever social streaming device Nexus Q will sell for two hundred ninety nine dollars it'll be available in the u.s. to start and you'll be able to purchase it right from google play you can place a pre-order starting today and will begin shipping orders in july
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