cologne | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:03:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png cologne | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Aerocool showcase RGB Gaming Desks and Concept PC Desk https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/andrzej/aerocool-showcase-rgb-gaming-desks-and-concept-pc-desk/ https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/andrzej/aerocool-showcase-rgb-gaming-desks-and-concept-pc-desk/#respond Wed, 17 Jan 2018 09:57:48 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=360712 With over a dozen halls full of mainstream furniture, the big Aerocool/ThunderX3 stand in hall 3 of the IMM show in Cologne really grabs your attention. Alongside the brand new RGB chairs, the products that stood out the most was a new range of gaming desks.  The market for desks is clearly huge. The market …

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With over a dozen halls full of mainstream furniture, the big Aerocool/ThunderX3 stand in hall 3 of the IMM show in Cologne really grabs your attention. Alongside the brand new RGB chairs, the products that stood out the most was a new range of gaming desks. 

The market for desks is clearly huge. The market for specialised gaming desks is largely unexplored. If you're employed in an office, then you'll be spending an average of 55% of your working day at your desk. Gamers even more so. Given how much time we spend sitting at them, maybe the addition of a  little RGB bling could be a good thing.

The design process for desks is a little behind that for gaming chairs over at Aerocool, but they are still expecting to have high-street-ready versions by Computex in June.  There were 3 models on show at the IMM furniture event in Cologne and we got up close and personal with all the models.

P7-GD120 RGB Gaming Desk
The ‘120’ in the name indicates that it is 1.2 metres long. It also has a gas lift system that lets you control the height of the desk – from 75cm to 117cm. There is no confirmed pricing at this stage, but you’d expect it to be in the £500 to £600 range –  it’s an etchable acrylic surface.

P7-GD160 RGB Gaming Desk
Same table/technology, but 1.6 metres long and a little more expensive. You can remove this temporary cover and have the whole desk illuminated, but Aerocool are likely to supply a special surface that works with a wide range of gaming peripherals.

PC Concept Desk
This is a modular product with tempered glass surface and enough space inside to allow for the building of a full gaming PC – with a motherboard up to E-ATX size. While we were shooting the desk, Aerocool gaming furniture guru, Jürgen Urbantat decided to demonstrate the ‘Business Class, lay flat' function of the Aerocool chairs (to the crowd's delight and the customer's surprise). For a more detailed look at the desk and its features – check the video!

All 3 come with a remote control – just like the new Aerocool RGB chairs. Unlike the chairs, it seems that the desks will be mains powered. The main reason for the difference is that chairs need to move around and a cable would be very limiting.

KitGuru says: if you've used a table with a full width gaming surface, you'll know the kind of freedom can offer. If the ventilation is taken care of and the street price competitive, the PC Concept Desk certainly seems appealing for professionals as well as gamers.

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Just how big is GamesCom 2012? https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/carl/just-how-big-is-gamescom-2012/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/carl/just-how-big-is-gamescom-2012/#respond Sat, 18 Aug 2012 08:22:54 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=104639 While experts on CNBC spent much of last Wednesday night discussing how likely it was that America would slip into a disastrous 2nd recession in 2013, after the presidential elections, Cologne was gearing up for the first public day of GamesCom 2012. KitGuru operatives sent back some cool shots that give you an idea of …

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While experts on CNBC spent much of last Wednesday night discussing how likely it was that America would slip into a disastrous 2nd recession in 2013, after the presidential elections, Cologne was gearing up for the first public day of GamesCom 2012. KitGuru operatives sent back some cool shots that give you an idea of the enormity of the event.

Estimates for how many people will attend GamesCom this year vary, but they are all close to 300,000. The show is not free, with an average entrance cost, per person, of almost £15 per day. If we say that the basic financials for the visitors is 300,000 x £15 = £4.5 million, then we're probably not far wrong.

On 'build up day', Sapphire's Bill Donnelly takes a moment out from preparations to take a quiet call. Once the doors open (right) there is no peace - unless you count the army of huge, motionless, security guards

Then we have the stands themselves.

Because every company attending is big/serious/loaded, there's very little available in the way of ‘discounts for bigger stand space'. Companies are paying close to £150 for a metre and it's easy to round that up to £200 a metre if you include electricity, Internet access, tickets for staff (yep, no freebies here), food during the day and some accommodation costs for team members based outside Cologne.

Thousands of cherry-picked staff work at GamesCom and you need them when you have stands as huge as the one for the Intel Extreme Masters gaming tournament. Intel's tournament barely fills one end of one hall!

With 11 halls in full effect, the organisers told us that the total area of the Koln Messe (German name for the location) was 120,000 square metres. We'd estimate that around 70,000 square metres of space has been sold – which would give the organisers more than £10 million for the show itself.

These calculations are very rough, but the organisers could be looking at £15 million for one event in a regular German city, in the middle of a boiling hot summer (temperatures nuzzled 30 degrees Cologne yesterday). And we haven't even touched the schnitzel, ice cream , pokie-pola or beer money.

Not bad going. Not bad at all.

These figures (and enormous crowds of German gamers) beg the question, “What recession?”

Apologies, but our operative's 24mm lens could not capture the left & right edge of ONE of these Call of Duty buildings. That's right. There are TWO of these monsters next to each other - 100% full for 4 days.

Remember, if you're based in the UK and want a much more civilised event on a sensible scale, but with equally great access to the new games, then you'd be well advised to make a trip to Multiplay i46 at the Telford International Centre over the Bank Holiday weekend.

It's like someone took the biggest out-of-town supermarket you ever saw, made copies, and arranged 11 of them along the outside of a single corridor - for the sole reason of making hardcore gamers happy.

KitGuru says: We hope you enjoy these shots of an extremely busy first day at GamesCom 2012. Next year, we'll send the chaps to Germany with MUCH wider lenses.

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