Following a teaser yesterday, Apple's Beats brand has now officially announced its latest collaboration, this time with The Pokémon Company International for a special-edition Beats Pill speaker featuring Pikachu and Mimikyu on the speaker's grill. The Pokémon x Beats Pill launches this Thursday, October 15, and it will be available at the same $149.99 price as other Beats Pill variants.


Aside from the Pokémon artwork, the speaker is otherwise a standard Beats Pill with a gray body and grill, although it does also come with bespoke Pokémon charms including a Poke Ball, the Beats "b" logo, and Pikachu's signature lightning bolts.

"Pokémon Trainers are some of the most passionate in the world, and we saw an opportunity to channel that energy into something fun, unexpected, and created especially for fans," said Chris Thorne, Beats CMO. "This collaboration unites two brands rooted in culture, giving fans a new way to express their love of Pokémon through sound."

Like other Beats Pill models, the Pokémon x Beats Pill features up to 24 hours of battery life, IP67 dust and water resistance, and the ability to wirelessly pair two Beats Pills together in Amplify Mode or Stereo Mode, output lossless audio when connected to a source via USB-C, and charge compatible phones from the speaker's USB-C port.


Sales of the Pokémon x Beats Pill will be limited to the United States, United Kingdom, and China, with availability only through Apple's website in all three countries, Target (online and select stores) in the United States, Argos (online and select stores) in the United Kingdom, and Douyin in China.
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Accessory brand Alogic today announced an expansion to its display lineup, adding several new 5K and 6K models offering varying feature sets with availability coming over the next couple of months.


New models in the Aspekt touch-enabled family include a 27-inch 5K model and a 32-inch 6K model with support for 10-point multitouch and MPP 2.0 styluses. Dock capabilities are built into the display, including USB-C with up to 90 watts of upstream charging, HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 2.0, additional USB-C and USB-A ports, Gigabit Ethernet, and USB-A KVM functionality. There's also a 34-inch 5K Ultrawide model, which offers a resolution of up to 5,120 x 2,160 and a 100Hz refresh rate, plus the 10-point multitouch functionality

The 27-inch 5K ($1,899.99) and 32-inch 6K ($2,999.99) models will be available by the end of October, while the 34-inch Ultrawide 5K model will be priced at $2,799.99 and launch by the end of November.


Alogic has also expanded its Clarity family of displays, adding a 12-megapixel webcam to the 27-inch 5K ($1,899.99) and 32-inch 6K ($3,099.99) models, with availability by the end of October. Both displays similarly offer touchscreen support, USB-C, HDMI 2.1, and DisplayPort 1.4 connectivity options, USB-A and audio connections, and up to 90 watts of upstream charging.


There's also a new 34-inch Edge 5K Ultrawide option priced at $1,599.99 launching by mid-November, and finally, on the low end of the display lineup, Alogic is introducing new 24-inch ($199.99) and 27-inch ($299.99) options in its Vision family of business-oriented displays, plus a 34-inch Ultrawide model.


Turning to peripherals, Alogic has announced the FlashDock 5 docking station, a 13-port Thunderbolt 5 dock supporting full bandwidth of up to 80 Gbps in symmetric mode or up to 120 Gbps in asymmetric mode. It supports up to three external displays (depending on capabilities of the host computer), with two HDMI 2.1 ports, two USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 ports, three USB-A ports, a 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet port, SD and microSD card readers, a 3.5mm combo audio port, and an additional downstream Thunderbolt 5 port. There's also an integrated M.2 NVMe SSD slot to allow you to add external storage. It's available now and is priced at $399.99.


And on the input side, Alogic is now shipping several previously announced accessories including the ergonomic multifunction Crux productivity mouse, priced at $79.99. The Hush full-size keyboard ($89.99) with backlit keys and multi-device support is also shipping, as is the Hush mouse ($29.99) with a slim design and multi-device support.

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