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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 to date technology and our trusted networking partner guys were hands-on with project shield this is Nvidia's new handheld gaming system based on android based on the tiger processing technology and we are to showcase what i think on the internets right now is the biggest buzz about this particular little gaming console because we've all got phones at this point that we carry around and complete games on a touchscreen but where do you get the integrated the integrated controller and where do you get the ability to stream from a geforce graphics card powered pc so sorry what was your name again James it's going to show us how this technology works with a live demo this is a you know as a side already pretty much unprecedented use case the ones done this before we all have really powerful pieces at our homes nars PC gamers anyway and we want to be able to play that more than just sitting on our desk so here you'll be able to connect through this and the picture will be rendered on your pc and then beamed over as h.264 video onto the Nvidia shield and helmet so the interface is actually very simple you can see you just press the mid button here and now you can which pcs you compared to here we have Jensen's PC our CEOs thank you for donating that Jensen and we just connect to it and it says connected now you have this very very simple interface where you can select all of your favorite pc games imagine playing battlefield 3 and then stay on the couch instead of tied to your computer desk so we can launch for example need for speed most wanted so can I get you to explain something really quick this cable coming out of the back of the unit that is not anything to do with the gaming experience you're having here on the screen is that correct CS a lot of Wi-Fi noise so we make sure we have good good reception we're just going with ethernet right okay but we can do this wirelessly at home that's the intended use case at home you're going to be using a Wi-Fi connection and so long as you have a pretty good router and pretty up-to-date graphics card you know the latency is going to be very good so in terms of ergonomics it's certainly I would consider it to be sort of a good fit between being able to put your ring fingers right up under the handle here so that you can easily manage it with smaller hands I think the intended use is not just the traditional audience of the hardcore gamers that Nvidia's cater to but i would expect kids to be using something like this this will be so much more powerful that I mean especially someone like I mean I've got a young kid I'd much rather get him something like this where he can leverage the power pcs PC that I already have in my house I already bought it why am i buying a game console that's not going to take advantage of it right so you know what you can use it like that but you look at how long these handles are your hands are actually significantly bigger than my own so I'd like you to just hold it there and show them how you can adjust your hand backwards on it so that you can easily reach the controls regardless of the size of your hands the button layout is pretty simple so for those of you who like the SNES controller you're going to be able to use it just like that for those of you who like a more modern controller you can use it with the dual analog sticks there's a to shoulder buttons up on each side so you've got a trigger as well as a regular shoulder button and a headphone jack up here we've got it plugged in using anything that adapter and it looks like that is is that a power connector as well so this is running off batteries that make sure that fracas ok got it exists oh okay there's an SD card slot micro HDMI so don't worry guys it's a lot more elegant than that these plates on the top are actually interchangeable so I haven't I have not whoa can I budget every I'm probably going the wrong way at this point so the screen is running a web resolution 720p so this is an HD gaming experience and in that makes it pretty much close to something like a retina bespoke size retina density speakers are awesome in fact I can even feel the vibration of the unit itself in my hands and vibration is that just the speakers just the sound that's very very cool so starting back fighting are integrated here in this course it is a full touchscreen as well viewing angles I want to get you guys to look at that because you can see looking at the yellow of the car itself right there and it's going to turn the volume down gift us oh there we go turn them that's pretty intuitive actually see I didn't know how to do this I want you to see the yellow of the car as I tilt it away from you so if you have a friend sitting next to you they want to look over your shoulder as is bound to happen with these kinds of really cool gadgets that other people want to check out there going to be able to see it so have I have we missed anything critical no I think you've covered it tell me about the battery life battery life we're looking about 5 to 10 hours of battery life playing a android based game but if you're playing with streaming pc that's going to last even longer because all you're doing is decoding video on the device all the heavy-lifting has been done on the pc and i think I can speak for everyone when I say this is incredibly exciting but I'm actually even more excited for something like a gentoo gen 3 gen 5 product where we're going to be looking at 1080p or even greater display resolutions we're going to be looking at the ability to do I mean this is this is incredible this is the beginning of a wonderful friendship alright well thank you very much and a big thanks to Nvidia for allowing us to get in here and get hands on with project shield don't forget to subscribe to line his tech 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