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Nvidia has been a company I've trusted for years. I've been a PC gamer since I was a kid, building computers with Nvidia graphics cards . When I picked up my first Android tablet, it was the Tegra 3 equipped Nexus 7. So when Nvidia announced something radical at CES earlier this year, I was enthralled. That something was the Nvidia Shield , a a kind of games-focused Android device, formed of a 5-inch touchscreen mounted above a controller. The controller held the guts of an Android device inside, powered by Nvidia's new Tegra 4 Android chipset. The design makes for an ideal Android-powered gaming platform, with hundreds of titles in the Play store as well as a select few in the Shield-only game store. Just there, I was already tempted - the ideal Android handheld! What sealed the deal was another source of games: my PC! Using some clever streaming technology, I would be able to bring controller-capable PC games from my desk to my couch, my living room or indeed pr

At the CES held at Las Vegas on January11, 2012; Zagg , the company well-know for their InvisibleShield smartphone protection skins demonstrated their new HzO WaterBlock product. HzO is a nano-technology coating that’s applied during the manufacturing process to seal the internal board and components, making devices waterproof from the inside out. Watch this demo video and see for yourself what it can do.