It has a micro HDMI output, an HDMI cable, optical audio port, Ethernet, and speaker connections; an integrated 25-watt amplifier, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and NFC.

In a demonstration, one user's Google Play library of music and video is displayed on a TV screen. It streams an audio track to a set of speakers in a selected room, in this case the living room. Nexus Q is a "cloud-connected jukebox" - a group of people can add music tracks from their own Google Play library to a shared queue, from which it can stream to the living room speakers. Google Q ships in July, with pre-orders staring today.

in Network World's Anti-malware section.