Four Pieces of Cutting Edge Tech for January 2023
GoPro’s New HERO11 Black Mini
GoPro has always had a reputation for being small and hardy. Now they’ve gotten even smaller with the Hero11 Black Mini. It’s slimmed down and simplified with a single button control. Getting straight into the specs, we’re looking at Cinematic 5.3K60 (that’s right, 5.3k resolution), 4K120 + 2.7K240 video with 24.7 megapixel stills from video. It captures a wide angle 16:9 shot and is crammed with the best video stabilisation ever found in a HERO camera.HERO11 Black Mini is available now on GoPro.com for $500.00 for GoPro Subscribers and $729.99 RRP for plebs.
Huawei Eyewear
Huawei might have been cockblocked from getting any 5G cell towers up but what if they put a microphone in your glasses? The new range of Huawei Eyewear is your one stop shop for Bluetooth calling and music listening. Pinch the left temple of your frames to automatically connect to two devices simultaneously, for seamless listening.
It has wearing detection, so it will automatically pause the music when you take them off. This gives it all day performance, with enough charge for a four hour phone call or five hours of just straight audioplayback, so some juicing up will be required if you’re using them as your headphones for the day. The open design on the speakers is a great piece of magically seamless design especially since there is no audio leak to bother your coworkers or family. but you’re going to miss out on the bass almost entirely. The highs on it are excellent though.
Unfortunately no word of an NZ release, so you’ll have to hunt online if you want to import them.
consumer.huawei.com/en/wearables/huawei-eyewear/
Side Eyeing
So you’ve got a gigantic new rig. It might be sitting on your desk right now. Why look through that glass at all the neon lighting and expensive internals when you could instead slap a screen right onto it. ASRock has developed the most niche screen ever, designed for attaching to the transparent glass side panel of most ATX, mATX and Mini-ITX chassis. It’s a 16:9 13.3” LCD monitor that connects to an ASRock motherboard via an eDP cable which supplies the transmission as well as the power.
This monitor is such a specific use case, but for someone out there this is going to save some precious desk space.
Right Round Baby
In terms of soundgear, turntables have become bespoke works of art only befitting homes that have both the taste, inclination, and space for them. To celebrate its 60th anniversary Audio Technica has unveiled a limited run of transparent turntables dubbed the AT-LP2022. It’s made of Lucite which is a high-dencity acrylic, which delivers zero compromises in the design. It’s a ballsy move from Audio Technica, as this puts all their design decisions on clear display for all to see and admire. That means that there’s no hiding shonky looking electronics, everything has to bring its A-game. It has a carbon fibre arm and is going back to its roots with a fully manual build with belt driven operations, perfect for 33-⅓ and 45 RPM records. Just because it’s manual doesn’t mean it isn’t packed with tech to maintain accurate speeds, as well as high-isolation, height adjustable feet to keep the turntable stabilised.
Here’s to another 60 years of Audio Technica.
audio-technica.com/en-us/at-lp2022