With all the excitement surrounding Steam Machines this year, it's easy to forget about the controversal "Steam Box" from last year's CES. As a reminder, in January 2013, Xi3 unveiled its Piston ...

Xi3 Piston, the first device revealed when Valve admitted it was getting into hardware, is not a Steam Machine - because "if you can play it on a computer you should be able to play it on a Piston".

(Nanowerk News) Good ideas sometimes take surprising turns. For years, experts at Empa had been working on an innovative valve control system for combustion engines with electro-hydraulically actuated ...

Hardware Asked about a $500 Steam Machine, Valve apparently wasn't impressed: "The energy in the room wasn't great" PC Gaming Steam Machine vs PS5 vs Xbox Series X/S vs Mac mini: How does Valve's new ...

The Piston may not technically be one of Valve’s new Steam Machines, but the modular computer hardware will run Linux and support Steam (including its Big Picture Mode, an interface optimized for ...

Industrial waste heat is a hidden resource because, despite being produced in vast amounts, it is rarely put to good use. This could change, thanks to a new machine type created by Empa Scientists and ...