Affordable Acer smart ring, Asus split keyboard and MSI Claw A8: Our top tech finds from Computex

The Computex tech adjacent successful Taiwan’s superior closes its doors connected Friday aft a week filled pinch weird and awesome merchandise announcements.

Euronews Next spent nan week trawling nan accumulation to find nan astir practical, beautiful, and frankly, nan oddest tech announcements.

Here is what caught our oculus connected nan showfloor. 

Handheld gaming

Gaming is simply a monolithic portion of Computex, truthful arsenic you would expect, location was plentifulness connected display.

One spot of tech generating a batch of buzz was MSI’s upgraded Windows PC handheld device, nan Claw A8 pinch AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme.

It comes successful a assortment of agleam colours and has a built-in front-facing camera and mic, allowing gamers nan state not to person to usage a headset.

It besides has a monolithic 80Wh artillery and has a roomy screen. It besides looks to beryllium nan first handheld to usage nan high-end spot Z2 Extreme, and it boasts plentifulness of RAM.

No merchandise day has been group for its launch, but it comes arsenic nan Nintendo Switch 2 is astir to beryllium released.

A divided keyboard

Though divided keyboards are not precisely new, 1 designed specifically for gamers is.

Asus displayed its ROG Falcata, a wireless keyboard that connects aliases disconnects magnetically, astatine nan show successful Taipei.

The nonstop constituent of nan creation is truthful that gamers tin person much abstraction for nan mouse. The correct broadside of nan keyboard is little absorbing for gamers, arsenic nan keys that are chiefly utilized are W, A, S, and D.

Or, if not utilized for gaming, you tin conscionable detach nan 2 sides for a much ergonomic keyboard.

A merchandise day has been group for nan summer, but nan value is truthful acold unknown.

The affordable smart ring

While smart rings tin beryllium connected nan pricey broadside (think Samsung’s Galaxy ring, which retails astir €449, aliases Ultrahuman’s luxury 18-carat golden ring, astatine astir €2,000), Acer has a much humble offering. 

The institution showed disconnected a titanium smart ring, which has a $199 (€175) value point. It also, dissimilar galore different companies, has nary subscription.

The ringing comes successful achromatic aliases roseate gold, has 4 days of artillery life. It shows wellness information specified arsenic bosom rate, slumber quality, and humor oxygen levels.

It will beryllium disposable for acquisition this summer.

A beautiful laptop lid

Tech elephantine MSI showed disconnected a beautiful laptop lid that looks for illustration it had been hand-painted.

MSI collaborated pinch Japanese creation workplace Okadayo to create a constricted version lacquered people laptop.

The creation tin besides beryllium placed connected a machine mouse.

The first creation is Hokusai’s iconic The Great Wave disconnected Kanagawa. MSI will only nutrient a fewer 100 per period for nan moment, arsenic applying nan creation requires other steps successful manufacturing.

All nan machine cases

One of nan main highlights astatine Computex was nan level of productivity connected show - and nan number of beautiful and unusual PC cases was surely 1 of nan focal points. 

Many of them were colourful and themed; others besides had a brew and vino pat built in. It each comes down to individual preference.