ASUS ROG has a new Xbox controller with a customized OLED screen

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ASUS brings its love for adding small screens on its devices to a new Republic of Gamers controller. The ASUS ROG Raikiri Pro has a 1.3-inch customizable OLED screen that can show info like charging status, microphone mute, and active profile. Or you can go the cosmetic route and show animations, text, and images. This Xbox- and Windows-ready peripheral is the first-licensed Xbox controller to get "tri-mode" connections, meaning you can use Bluetooth, RF, or USB-C. If you want to use it wirelessly, that's only available through the PC. Xbox support is only through USB.

ASUS ROG even amps its audio with an ESS DAC for its 3.5mm headset jack. As for gamepad controls, there's the familiar Xbox layout, four programmable rear buttons, sensitivity toggles, and similar commands. Top buttons let you switch profiles mid-play and trigger locks can limit the amount of travel. The ASUS Armoury Crate PC app lets you remap the buttons, adjust joystick sensitivity, and enable dead zones, vibrations, and other finer points. ASUS hasn't revealed pricing yet, but it's coming in the first quarter of the year.

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Lenovo Yoga Book 9i debuts with a dual-display form factor

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Lenovo brings several new laptops to CES 2023, but one of its more notable releases this year is the new Yoga Book 9i. It features two 13.3-inch OLED displays side-by-side with a 2.8K OLED PureSight display, 100% DCI-P3 colour accuracy, Dolby Vision HDR and a 16:10 aspect ratio. 

This form factor offers different ways you can use the Yoga Book 9i. You can have a super tall laptop with screens extending from the top to the bottom, a double-wide tablet, or a two-page e-reader. Lenovo includes a folio stand attachment and stylus that can turn this device into a monitor with its keyboard detached. While the bottom screen can display a digital keyboard and trackpad, you can place the physical keyboard on top of the bottom screen. You can tell the top screen from the bottom as there's a bit of a lip on one side housing the full HD webcam with a privacy shutter.

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TCL BOOK X12 Go brings a paper-like display to a 2-in-1 Windows machine

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If you like TCL's paper-like display but prefer to have a Windows machine over an Android tablet, TCL also introduced the TCL Book X2 Go. This Surface Book-esque 2-in-1 machine comes with a detachable keyboard and runs on Windows 11. As mentioned, its 12.2-inch screen has TCL's blue light filtering NXTPAPER display. This improved textured screen now gets a backlight while offering 61 percent blue light filtering and an anti-glare coating. It supports TCL's stylus, which you can get as an option when you buy this laptop hybrid.

The TCL BOOK X23 Go runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen2 processor with 4GB or 8GB of RAM, 128GB or 256GB of storage, and a 30wh battery with up to 14 hours of battery life. It also gets a 5-megapixel webcam and an 8-megapixel rear camera. This 2-in-1 device will be available "later this year," but TCL hasn't shared pricing and availability yet.

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ASUS ProArt StudioBook 16 experiments with glasses-free 3D

ASUS is trying its hand at glasses-free 3D on its laptop. It's starting with the new ProArt StudioBook 16 3D OLED. This 16-inch laptop features a 3.2K OLED display that can turn on 3D at a touch of a button. ASUS calls this tech Spatial Vision. It uses eye-tracking and a lenticular lens to deliver two separate images to your eyes. Spatial Vision can let you work on 3D models or watch movies with the same depth as typical 3D screens that need glasses. If you want to use it for gaming, it has a refresh rate of up to 120Hz. We're curious if the 3D effect can extend to this use case.

Of course, this laptop needs powerful specs to run, so ASUS does just that. It runs on Intel's new 13th-gen HX CPUs, NVDIAI's RTX 4000 graphics, up to 64GB of DDR5 RAM, and 8TB PCIe 4.0 SSD storage. It also has two user-replaceable slots for memory and storage. ASUS hasn't revealed pricing yet.

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