TCL’s doing the twist with Playcube, its new “magic cube” projector

• A portable projector for “when you’re away from home”
• Battery power for go-anywhere viewing
• Unusual “magic cube” design twists to adjust angles

One of the downsides of CES is that the huge scale of it means there isn’t time for presenters to talk in detail about every new product. And in the case of TCL’s latest raft of announcements that’s a shame, because I’m intrigued by one of the products the company only mentioned fleetingly.

It’s called the Playcube, and as the name suggests it’s a cube that plays things: video and presumably audio too. It’s a portable projector with an unusual design that TCL calls the “magic cube”: it’s made of two rectangular sections, one of which twists to adjust the direction of your projection.

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