There’s been a lot going on here at Futurelooks lately. Much of which isn’t actually on the site itself. So, starting this week, we’ll be introducing a new feature that’ll give you a quick snapshot of what you missed out on the week before from the whole “Futurelooks Universe”. From what we’ve done this week on our social media channels, to what we’ve been planning in the community and abroad, this weekly communication will give you the first hand intel on all that and more. We’ll also be giving you folks a sneak peek at what we’ve got planned for the coming week. Enjoy the first of many editions!

Just in Case You Missed It: Tons and Tons of CES 2011 Coverage!

We simply can’t believe that CES 2011 only happened a couple weeks ago! The Futurelooks Team was down in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, better known as CES 2011!  In case you missed our coverage, we’ve got a whole bunch of the written tidbits in the CES Category. Here’s the quick rundown of the articles from the show:

• CES 2011 – Futurelooks Press Day Round Up
• CES 2011 – Smarter Homes with Samsung and LG
• CES 2011 – Checking In with nVidia, Intel, MSI, Kingston, ZALMAN, and VIA
• CES 2011 – Everything You Wanted To Know About Tablets, Notebooks, and Netbooks
• CES 2011 – Checking In With CyberPower, Patriot Memory, Thermaltake, Silverstone, and CoolerMaster

While these are some great round ups of some of the show’s biggest announcements, this is only scraping the tip of the iceberg. We’ve actually gone completely NUTS with video on our YouTube Channel. In fact, for CES 2011, we put up over TWENTY ONE CES 2011 videos. This was our BIGGEST cache of video content yet!

If you haven’t been following us on Facebook or Twitter,  you may have missed out on our quick announcement about how our humble little channel finally made “YouTube Partner”. This means that we’re getting tons of people checking out both that channel and coming to Futurelooks for more! Make sure you take a look at our YouTube Channel which you can also access on the Futurelooks Video Page on the site for more new stuff every week!

Speaking of YouTube… New Futurelooks Videos from Last Week

Here are the new videos that were uploaded last week on our channel…

Our PC Hardware Editor, Eric Garay, unboxes MSI’s new GTX 560 Ti Twin Frozr II Edition video card.

Resident gadget and mobile expert, Michael Kwan, takes the ioSafe SoloPRO Disaster Proof External hard drive for a quick torture test…in his oven!

New Article – NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 560 Ti – Hitting An Even Sweeter Sweet Spot for Gamers!

Futurelooks takes on NVIDIA’s latest and greatest mainstream gaming card, the GTX 560 Ti. If you thought the GTX 460 was great, then wait till you see it in action as PC Hardware Editor, Eric Garay, takes it on a benchmarking extravaganza. Check out the article right here.

New Review – ioSafe SoloPRO USB 3.0 1TB Disaster Proof External Hard Drive Review

As eluded to in our new videos above, our gadget and mobile expert, Michael Kwan, does some pretty unorthodox things to this disaster proof external hard drive. But this product is definitely more than the sum of its hardware so make sure you check out the review right here.

The Futurelooks Social Media Sphere

As many of you may or may not know, Futurelooks has been spending a lot of time on Twitter and Facebook. In fact, our Twitter account has over 10,000 followers and our Facebook account is at 929 Likes. To find out what we’ve got going on in pretty much real-time, make sure that you point your Twitter over to ours and give us a Follow. And don’t forget to give our Facebook page a “Like” as well. It let’s us give you the heads up on what’s coming up rather than flooding your email box all the time. Plus, having the massive follower base definitely makes it easier for us to demand prizes for contests!

Coming Up This Week on Futurelooks…

You’ll want to keep an eye on our YouTube Channel this week as we’ve got unboxings of some of the latest INTEL Sandy Bridge boards from MSI, ASUS and GIGABYTE and more. Plus, we’ll be throwing the gauntlet down in a round up with some of these boards so stick around for that. We’re not quite sure what else we’ve got planned for this week, but definitely follow us on Twitter and Facebook if you want to know in almost real-time what the plan is. We’ll try to get better at predicting the future as we get going with a few more editions. Definitely leave a comment below if you’re not on Facebook or Twitter as we’ll try to answer any questions that are posed to us.