The Nintendo Switch is a great console and seems like it might bring the company back into the golden era of the late 90’s. And while the Switch is promoted as a great portable console, and for single player games it is great, it’s not nearly as playable for multiplayer games outside of having it plugged into a TV. That’s where the OJO wants to make a change.

Made by YesOJO, the OJO Projector is a Nintendo Switch Dock which projects your game to create a 30-120 inch image across a wall in ‘high quality’. The projector is also said to have an HDMI input for plugging in other devices and a 4-hour battery for truly portable gaming. It also has a 3.5mm port for hooking up speakers since there don’t seem to be any on the projector itself, and you probably won’t want to use the Switch’s built in speakers.

The OJO could be a great accessory for anyone for anyone wanting more portability out of their Switch, but like with all Indiegogo campaigns, there’s always a risk of it flat-out sucking (or never being made at all). Instead, wait until it launches next year to try and pick one up.

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While smartphones have basically killed compact cameras, there’s still a market for compact cameras that can take your selfie game higher to the next level. Casio knows this is especially true in Asia, and has been selling a $900 camera specifically made for selfies. The reason for this is as the social network Weibo is rapidly growing in China, women are essentially competing to make the most attractive profiles.

Well, now they’re expanding their line with the $500 TR Mini, a smaller version of their TR80 camera. The TR Mini is shaped like a pocket mirror and has a ring of 8 LEDs for taking well-lit selfies anywhere. The sensor is 12-Megapixels, but is cut to 8-Megapixels because they know people want to share those square shots. The camera also includes low-energy Bluetooth transfer to your phone, because every second your selfie isn’t online, is one less person envious of how pretty you are.

The cameras are unlikely to be ever be sold here. Which is a little sad considering its fans love them so much they refer to them as a “selfie God device”. Though to be fair, every selfie I take is already god-like.

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These awesome looking light switch covers let you turn on (or off) your lights with a touch of that classic arcade look. You’ll feel like you’ve just beaten Donkey Kong and saved Paulina everytime you turn on your humidifier. Okay, obviously I’m joking, but you all know what an oldschool arcade button feels like and they’re super satisfying to press.

They come in a bunch of different color combinations, I’m partial to the red/blue buttons for that arcade look, and the pink/purple buttons that match the buttons of an SNES controller, but there are other colors for those picky types. They’re super simple to install, but the cover only works with the rocker style of light switches, so you might have to pick one of those up.

They’re available for $8 for one, or $13 for a 2-pack and have great reviews.

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In a brilliant move, IKEA, the meatball store that also sells furniture, is producing a line of furniture specifically made for cats and dogs. The line, named the Lurvig, (it’s even got its own Swedish name) includes a little dog/cat sofa and a dog bed frame. It’s just so little and cute.

The best of the lot has to be the ‘cat house on legs with pad’. It is without a doubt, the most post-modern piece of cat furniture you can put in your house, like it crawled out of the 60’s. Overall, the set actually looks really nice, and should fit with just about any home décor. But what do I know, I’m a tech writer not a home decorator.

This seems like a great move by Ikea, but if you really loved your dog, you’d just let him sleep on the couch.

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Razer, the company behind some of gaming’s best peripherals, has released a teaser image for their upcoming event on November 1^st. In the image you can see a person (probably a gamer) holding a small phone sized device.

There’s almost no real information on what a Razer smartphone might do or look like, but given the event’s mantra of ‘Watch, Listen, Play’ Razer’s phone could focus around display and sound quality.

Now, while this device will probably end up being a phone, it could also end up being a sort of portable gaming unit like what we’ve seen with the Nvidia Shield. Razer’s never made a purely gaming unit like that, but seeing as the Shield wasn’t much of a success, I’d certainly lean more towards the device being a Android smartphone.

Would you ever buy (or want) a Razer Smartphone? Even hardcore gamers would need some killer gaming features to have this compete with Android phones like the Note 8 or Pixel 2.

[ Razer ] VIA [ Engadget ]

Back when I had a Note 4 I also bought the Gear VR, and it was one of the most amazing experiences ever. It felt amazing to be up close to whales and sharks, or to explore the cosmos with planets rotating right in front of me. I knew what I was seeing was fake, but it’s difficult to explain how almost-real it felt. Later, I moved onto iPhones and like many others, I haven’t been willing to shell out $500+ to experience VR once again, but I think that’s about to change.

Earlier today, Oculus had their Connect presentation in San Jose and Mark Zuckerberg was on stage to announce the Oculus Go, a standalone VR headset that (finally) comes in at a reasonable $199. Its specs seem most equivalent to using a Gear VR, utilizing ‘fast-switching’ WQHD LCD screens and spatial audio, including a small controller that similar to what ships with the current Gear VR, as well as being compatible with all Gear VR software.

There’s no word on battery, and there’s little in the way of specifications, such as screen resolution or refresh rate. Both of which are very important in the virtual reality experience.

They will go sale sometime early next year, and I’ll definitely be buying one. And if you’ve never experienced VR, the Oculus Go looks like it’ll be a good place to start.

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With Star Wars mania picking up again with the upcoming release of The Last Jedi, Samsung has announced a self-piloting vacuum (I call them all Roombas), in the style of Darth Vader and Stormtroopers.

The Limited Edition POWERBot, works like any other auto-piloting vacuum and has countless sensors to detect furniture and walls. It even has an app that lets you control the droids and are compatible with Google Assistant and Alexa. But of course, being a limited edition Star Wars version you expect it to do something neat. Both models can play music from the iconic series, and will make sounds according to their model. So the Vader vacuum will breath like the Sith Lord.

It’s available for pre-order now and the Vader one is $799, while the stormtrooper is $699 as it doesn’t include wi-fi.

I’m more a movie poster on my wall kind of guy, but If you want to clean your house with a Vader vacuum, then grab a beer out of your carbonite Han Solo refrigerator and open it with your Lightsaber bottle opener after eating waffles made in your Death Star waffle iron, than hey, by all means, it’s your money.

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