Apart from consumer electronics, more manufacturers are now releasing products with health relevance, given the current higher need for this. Especially when the Covid-19 pandemic took place and the public paid more attention to cleanliness such as air and space. Acer is trying to participate with new product releases.

Through the title ‘ Next @ Acer 2020’, in addition to releasing a laptop series line with Intel Tiger Lake CPUs, this Taiwan-based company introduced an air purifier called AcerPure Cool . This product is present under the AirPure Inc. business line, business focus is to provide air quality solutions from Acer.

“Since the pandemic, more people have stayed indoors for longer periods of time,” said Andrew Hou, chairman of AcerPure Inc. through a release on the official Acer website. According to him, consumers are becoming more aware of indoor air quality, and need better purification solutions. That’s the backdrop this AcerPure Cool 2-in-1 created.

AcerPure Cool Removes Dust and Viruses

Called to have two features at once, AcerPure Cool not only performs the air purification process, but also helps increase air circulation in the room through its fans, each of which contributes to improving air quality. The cleaner inside the device will filter the dirt from the air, then a circulator will project it to a distance of 16 meters.

From the claims given by Acer, this AcerPure Cool device only takes three minutes to achieve full air circulation, for a room measuring 27 square meters. While the two features mentioned above can be run simultaneously or separately. Operation is also easy and is equipped with a child safety lock feature.

At the bottom of the fan, there is an LED panel that supports touch input, which can also display the air quality in the room. While at the very bottom is a place to store a 3-in-1 HEPA filter, combined with a carbon filter to trap the smallest particles and bacteria up to 0.3 microns. Plus the ‘Ag + Silver Coated’ filter which effectively eradicates H1N1 virus activity.

Integrated with an air sensor, AcerPure Cool can detect indoor air quality in real-time, and operate its fans accordingly. In addition to the fan that can go up and down, this device is also equipped with wheels to run automatically. Can release negative ions while trapping dust to fine hairs from pets flying in the air.

This AcerPure Cool 2-in-1 air purifier will be presented in several countries such as Taiwan, India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, and quite specifically, Indonesia. There is no definite date yet when it will be officially present in the country and the selling price. Hopefully, we can come soon.

Acer has just joined the smart speaker industry by launching the Acer Halo. Yes, Acer Halo was officially introduced as a smart speaker with various interesting features that users can take advantage of, such as smart speakers in general.

Acer itself promises that this speaker can deliver 360 degree sound with high quality. Moreover, these smart speakers are also equipped with DTS audio support so that the audio quality that is presented is of course not kidding.

For its own design, the Acer Halo comes with a rectangular shape with rounded corners and is covered with gray fabric. There is also an RGB light at the bottom of the speaker to make it look more aesthetic.

Then there is also a dot matrix screen that can display various kinds of information ranging from time, weather predictions, emojis, or other images. The dot matrix screen is also one of the advantages possessed by these speakers.

Moreover, this speaker runs the Google Assistant so that users can easily adjust the speaker features from the Google Assistant application on a smartphone, from playing songs to reading out the latest news information.

The plan is that Acer Halo speakers will be sold in the first quarter of 2021 in North America at a price of US $ 109. For availability in other countries including Indonesia, you can monitor the official website of Acer.

DJI has launched its new Pocket 2. The new Pocket 2 features the same compact design from the previous model with a camera mounted on the gimbal for stable images and videos.

However, now the new Pocket 2 is equipped with a larger 1 / 1.7 ” 64MP sensor that can shoot images in the full 16MP or 64MP. You can get 8x zoom in 64MP mode or lose 4x zoom in 16MP mode.

Apart from shooting, autofocus has also been improved on this model. The Pocket 2 can also shoot videos in 4K at 60fps. Videos are saved at 100Mbps for a cleaner, uncompressed image.

The camera also supports shooting in HDR. Video mode also benefits from an improved autofocus system. On the other hand, DJI also improves audio quality, as quoted from GSM Arena, Wednesday (21/10/2020).

The Pocket 2 has four microphones positioned around it for recording stereo sound. The software adjusts the audio automatically based on where the camera is pointing. In order to narrow the sound field when zooming in, the Pocket 2 also supports audio zoom.

The DJI Pocket 2 also comes with additional features, such as pro mode, ActiveTrack 3.0 for tracking subjects and storing them in frames, 8x slow motion at 1080p, timelapse, hyper-lapse and motion lapse, panoramas, live streaming to Facebook, YouTube, or RTMP, and modes. story.