We’re hearing that Nintendo’s Wii MotionPlus accessory is beginning to ship from Amazon, with preorder customers receiving emails telling them their Wiimote add-on is on its way. The MotionPlus dongle, which clips onto the base of the Wii’s controller, went up for preorder back at the start of May, priced at $19.99; it brings with it greater motion recognition accuracy.
It may look odd, but this ergonomic keyboard promises to free up your desk from the tyranny of your mouse. Well, from the tyranny of a separate mouse, anyway; the handiwork of an Australian inventor, the Combimouse turns the right-side of the keyboard into the mouse itself, using cleverly placed contacts to figure out when you’re trying to use it to to control your cursor.
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Verbatim have announced two new wireless mice and a keyboard with integrated speakers. The Verbatim TuneBoard keyboard has iTunes control keys, switchable backlighting and bass boost, as well as offering headphone and microphone connections and a built-in microphone.
Connecting up a console to a display should be one of those things that’s ridiculously straightforward, but if you’re having trouble matching up sockets to plugs then Castrade may be able to help. Their CG-USC01HD-PLUS Game Box gobbles up your composite, S-Video and component video sources – such as a PS3, Xbox 360 or Wii – and spits out VGA that’s ideal for your PC monitor.
Verbatim announced their latest mouse offering today with the Color Nano Wireless Notebook Mouse. This mouse works with both Windows and Mac-based systems and uses 2.4GHz RF wireless to connect the device with your computer.
Microsoft have quietly unveiled three new peripherals in its BlueTrack range, two new mice and a wireless keyboard/mouse set. The Microsoft BlueTrack Wireless Mobile Mouse 6000 is intended for mobile use, and pairs a blue-laser mouse with a mini-USB 2.4GHz transceiver; meanwhile the Wireless Mouse 5000 has a larger transceiver and is intended for desktop use.
RIM are preparing a number of new Bluetooth accessories, including a new headset codenamed “Alpha 1″, an in-car handsfree kit and, possibly, a Bluetooth watch and video-capable remote gateway. BlackBerry accessories VP Antoine Boucher sat down with the BGR at WES to discuss his department’s latest wares, and they couldn’t help but notice that he was wearing a Sony Ericsson Bluetooth watch; after some prompting, Boucher admitted that his team had modified the timepiece to display BlackBerry alerts.
These included alerts when new emails, BlackBerry Messenger messages, texts, IMs, tweets and Facebook messages are received. When pressed on whether RIM was developing their own Bluetooth watch, the VP would only say that his team “are exploring many accessories that would surprise people.”
Budget gaming peripheral manufacturer BLAZE have another offering for PS3 owners today, in the shape of their Digital Arcade Stick. Intended for arcade titles such as Street Fighter 4, the stick has eight buttons together with Turbo and macro functionality.
Don’t let the hard-drive and DVD burner fool you: this isn’t an ultraportable laptop, but a netbook cooler with extra talents. Century’s Netbook Stand aims to address two of the more common complaints about budget ultraportables, low storage capacity and no optical drive, by squeezing both things into a compact slice.
BLAZE have announced their latest PS3 accessory, a Wireless Controller Keypad that promises to be a low-cost alternative to the official Sony attachment. Clipping to the PS3 controller without obscuring any of the buttons or sticks, the BLAZE ‘board has full QWERTY together with function keys.
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