The best Windows gadgets of the week for July 5

We're testing the waters with a new series on continued devices and accessories that play nice with your Windows gear. Everything we showcase here will have been made bachelor recently, and should heighten your experience with Microsoft stuff no matter your platform - desktop, tablet, mobile, Xbox - yous name it.

Accessories span the range of new systems, games, controllers, cases, speakers, and annihilation in between. Take a gander at what we've establish and let us know what y'all're digging!

BRAVEN Balance Bluetooth speaker

BRAVEN announced a new waterproof Bluetooth speaker just in time for the tiptop summer season here in the northern hemisphere. You can creepo out a whooping eighteen hours of wireless music and charge your Windows phone with the built-in 4000 mAh battery. In that location's a microphone on there then you lot tin can take calls besides. A multifariousness of brilliant colors offer plenty of way choice to boot. Snag one of these if you figure y'all'll be spending some time on the embankment this summer.

Racing fans who take made the leap to a next-gen console yet will desire to scope out the Forza Motorsport six edition of the Xbox One. First off, it includes a download code for the game itself, and admission to a ten limited edition cars. Second, the one TB console and controller are decked out in a particularly sweet teal pigment job, complete with racing stripes. Information technology's even been rigged upwards to make motor sounds when you ability up and down, or eject a disc. Preorders just kicked off this week, and will exist shipping September 15.

Sound Blaster FRee

Sound Blaster has a new characteristic-packed speaker that tin can handle just about anything yous toss at it. You can stream your tunes to the Sound Blaster Complimentary over i of two simultaneous Bluetooth connections. You'll find an SD card slot on the dorsum to play music locally. There's also USB functionality if you want to play sound directly from your Windows PC, which can exist tweaked and enhanced with a dedicated software suite. Both upright and horizontal orientations ensure it volition fit into whatever your set up-up may be. Between the x hours of playback, extra-loud, 360-degree sound, and h2o resistance, this speaker is congenital to handle life on the motility.

iStabilizer Gimbal

For those that are super-serious about shooting video with their Windows telephone, there'south a new three-axis motorized gimbal system that makes sure your shots are particularly smooth. Phones upward to 3.v inches wide can be mounted with minimal fuss. A handful of shooting modes let the system to follow where y'all're pointing smoothly, or stay locked in orientation. The on-device buttons also permit yous to tweak orientation to make sure your Windows phone is level before shooting. Larger Windows phones will demand to use an included counterbalance, merely on the whole, this looks leagues easier to use than traditional mobile gimbal systems, such as the Smoothee.

BenQ XR3501 curved LCD monitor

BenQ XR3501

BenQ announced a great high-end gaming PC monitor recently. The XR3501 has a curved, extra-wide 35-inch display with a 144 Hz refresh rate. On the back, you'll find inputs for DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, HDMI, and audio passthrough. Though you won't find any of the fancy anti-vehement engineering science from NVIDIA or AMD hither (Acer has one of those monitors coming out soon, and the 2560 x 1080 resolution is a piddling disappointing, the XR3501 has the biggest bend available on a PC screen to date. As for the resolution, upsampling for video games should do the trick for most users. Hardcore gamers volition want to bank check out the BenQ XR3501.

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