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welcome to Linus tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is powered by Corsair maker of quality PC components and peripherals our trusted storage partner is seagate technology and our trusted networking partner is linksys in the a sous booth they had booth sweet 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 four gigs of on-board storage it's got a USB Drive it's got one gig of ram it's got Ethernet it's got hdmi in an HDMI out and that's cool we're going to show you why actually what's kind of behind me already anyway but no big deal I are out so you can synchronize it with with an IR blaster and make sure that it sort of acts as a hub for passing signal street or 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 their 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 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 care 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 frequently used nope 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 touch pad mode see i changed it to touch pad mode when I was tinkering with it so let's go ahead and switch that out of touch pad mode so now we can click the buttons we can navigate me go netflix primetime so primetime is google's way of aggregating all of your content whether it's web content or whether it's 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've 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 your 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 so you 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 game social in 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 here'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 all I see so I was in the education hub so I 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 at the prime time you I ok 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 don't forget to subscribe so you can check out all of the CES 2013 coverage from Linus tech tips thanks for watching linus tech tips at CES 2013 powered by corsair seagate technology and linksys