Chinese company Powkiddy has been selling inexpensive handhelds for retro gaming for several years. But the company’s new Powkiddy Y6 GameStick is something a little different. Instead of a handheld game system, the PowKiddy Y6 is a stick that plugs into the HDMI port on your TV, allowing you to play games on a big screen. […]
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Windows-compatible HDMI TV stick with an Intel Bay Trail CPU
For the past few years Chinese companies have been cranking out tiny sticks that you can plug into a TV to run Android apps. They look sort of like USB flash drives, but they have an HDMI connector where you’d normally find the USB connector, and they’re a bit chunky for a flash drive. Under […]
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$50 Roku Streaming Stick now shipping
Roku’s new Streaming Stick is now shipping from Amazon, Best Buy, Roku, and other online stores. It’ll be available from bricks and mortar retail stores starting in April. The Roku Streaming Stick costs $50, plugs right into the HDMI port on your TV, and lets you access content from more than 1200 internet channels using […]
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PLAiR $99 HDMI dongle lets you stream internet video to your TV
Like the idea of a stick that you can plug into your TV to watch internet video on the big screen, but want something a little simpler to use than an Android TV stick? Earlier this year pre-orders for something called a PLAiR opened up, with the promise of delivering a $99 stick that lets […]
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ARM, FXI want HDMI sticks to replace cable boxes (with browser-based software)
There are dozens of inexpensive HDMI sticks which you can plug into a TV to surf the web, stream internet video, or play games on your TV. But most of those sticks run Android software and come from companies you haven’t heard of. But chip designerARM is working on a software platform that could mean […]