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Hear that? That’s the sound of a million new products being introduced here in Vegas… in glistening 7.1 Dolby surround sound, no less. Turtle Beach has just ushered out its new flagship device, the Ear Force PX5. Designed for use with Sony’s PlayStation 3 (but perfectly usable with the Xbox 360 or any other audio source), this here gaming headset is wireless in nature and is the company’s first to incorporate dual radios — one for surround sound, and another for chatting on the PlayStation Network via Bluetooth. This is also the first of its kind to incorporate customizable presets; there’s a DSP chip that lives inside, and the bundled software interface allows you to program voice prompts, custom EQ, compressors, Bass Boost, etc. Then, those settings are saved right on the headset, enabling your CPU to take a breather while the cans themselves handle the math. Moreover, the BT feature can be used to accept mobile phone calls or listen to audio streams, and if you needed any more reason to invest, it also supports voice morphing. You heard right — it can be programmed to disguise a gamer’s voice, which is partially awesome, and partially the worst thing ever to happen to online chat. Hop on past the break for the full feature list, and look for this one to land in the Spring for $249.95.

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The Fling is a stick-on game-controller for the iPad. It comes from Ten One design, the company behind the popular Pogo Stylus that lets you write on your capacitive touch-screen with a pen.

The Fling is made from bendy resin, aluminum and a pair of suction cups. You fire up a game with an on-screen joystick – a first-person shooter or Street Fighter IV, for example – and place the Fling over the top of the touch-controls. Stick it down with the suckers and you’re good to go. The Fling lets you make your moves on a rocking D-pad and transfers them to the screen beneath via the magic of conductivity. And because it’s transparent, you can see the game through its jellyfish-like body.

Here it is in action. Get ready on the mute button, though – there’s loud music.

Neat, huh? And just $25 – not dirt cheap, sure, but certainly no more than buying a decent controller for a regular console. I had moved on to finger-friendly games like Angry Birds and Cut the Rope, but the Fling may make me reconsider my abandonment of SFIV.

Fling product page [Ten One via Kotaku]

See Also:

• iCade: Spoof Arcade Cabinet for iPad
• Stick-On Buttons Turn Smartphones into Game-Pads
• Pogo iPhone Stylus Bounces Back. Again

We’ve been talking a lot about second generation hardware at CES this year, but it’s not just Intel and AMD who are unveiling their next iterative step toward consumers’ pockets. Kodak has disclosed plans to update its Pulse digital photo frame — you know, the one that can receive images via its very own email address — with a new Quick Comments feature plus an activity sensor that switches the display off when no humanoids are moving about in front of it. It doesn’t seem like you’ll be able to author your own comments when responding to the sender of your latest pic, though you will be able to communicate via a selection of gorgeous pre-canned proclamations like the always popular “OMG!” and the ever-versatile “LOL!” The new Pulse will be arriving in the spring, costing $130 for the 7-inch variety or $200 for its 10-inch SKU. Skip past the break for the full press release.

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No more dribs and drabs of information leaking out as Vizio has finally listed its entire 2011 LCD lineup, again featuring LED back & edge lighting across all models. That includes two ultrawidescreen 21:9 Cinema models in its Theater 3D line in 50- and 58-inch sizes, two VIA Plus TVs with Google TV in the XVT3D476SP and XVT3D556SP, and continuation of its existing Yahoo! Widgets based Vizio Internet Apps features including WiFi and Bluetooth QWERTY remote across TVs sized 22-inches and above. Check the press release after the break for all the models and what they offer, perhaps wisely there’s no detailed information about when and for how much they’ll be available just yet, so we’ll still have to speculate about which models will represent the sub-$300 3D portion of the lineup.

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