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Exciting news: Today at CUE, Electronic Theatre Controls announced a new console: GIO! Gio's goal is to take the way EOS has revolutionized the high-end lighting consoles and do that to the middle niche of consoles. As opposed to, as they joked, showing a lengthy PowerPoint outlining the possibly expected features, ETC offered a new insight to the yet to be released lighting control, they presented not just one console, but three, allowing CUE attendees to get up close and personal with the new consoles throughout the evening's welcoming reception.

The three Gios were wheeled out , screens glowing excitedly to meet the crowds clustering around each of the consoles and their ETC employee experts, eager to answer questions.

Speaking of those screens, Gio has two very thin built-in multi-touch screens. The angle of the screens can be adjusted for many viewing angles. The softkeys have moved down from being a part of the LCD touch screens and down to hard buttons on the console. Taking a CUE (pun intended) from EOS, the four encoder wheels have an LCD screen displaying information, however this is part of the right multi-touch display, and looks to hold quite a few new features with the release of the console and the awaited 2.0 operating system. Aside from the 2 built-in displays, the console supports 3 external displays.

As Gio aims to propel and excel the mid-range console market, she features dual DMX ports as well as ETC Net3. Gio is expected to join the EOS OS family this September.

A few pics below, check out some more at the album.