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Back in September of 2013, we found out that a long lost time capsule that had lots of stuff inside; including Steve Jobs’ mouse had been found. The time capsule … Continue reading

We have DSLRs, compact cameras, smartphone cameras, and even tablet cameras to help take photos with. However there are times when those options might not be readily available, or you might not have a cable to transfer the photos over onto the computer with, so what do you do? You use a camera mouse, of course! Japanese company King Jim is expected to launch a camera mouse in the near future, the 31st of January to be exact, and as the name and the photo above implies, it is a mouse with a camera that you can use to take photos with, but also double up as a regular mouse when not in use.

It seems that this mouse has been designed for users who might need to make quick snapshots of documents and products and send them off to a customer ASAP for reference purposes, although who’s to say that the mouse won’t be used to take selfies for Facebook and Twitter uploads, right? Not to mention given its diminutive size, it can be packed into a laptop bag and taken out in public as well. In any case it’s not the most powerful camera at 2MP but should be good enough to get the job done. With its accompanying software compatible with both Windows 7 and Windows 8, the camera mouse by King Jim will be priced at ¥4,200 (which is about $40 after conversion).

King Jim’s Mouse Comes With A Camera Built Into It original content from Ubergizmo.

CES has always been a hotbed for new technologies to be announced to the masses, so it is far from surprising when we see a slew of new product announcements made in early January at Las Vegas, Nevada. Corsair is one company that does not want to let this opportunity go, which is why they have recently announced the rollout of the Raptor K40 gaming keyboard as well as the M45 optical gaming mouse. Getting both of these puppies would definitely go some way in making sure that your overall gaming experience is enhanced and complemented, so much so it might be rather difficult to give any more excuses about poor and lousy hardware whenever you lose the next online match against a human opponent.

< !-more-->Getting the Raptor K40 gaming keyboard to be part of your gaming peripherals might be a good idea, where it will be able to deliver the extreme lighting customization of 16.8 million colors. After all, your fingers should be able to enjoy a comfortable membrane key feel, as the Raptor K40 will also feature onboard macro storage, 100% anti-ghosting with full-key rollover on USB, and a whopping 16.8 million color customizable backlighting that will be able to create a precision gaming keyboard which can then be customized for specific games, tactics, and playing styles. The keyboard will also come with 6 programmable gaming keys and 18 programmable functions that can be accessed via a trio of separate banks which can be stored in the keyboard’s internal memory. Not only that, you will be able to find dedicated multimedia keys for convenient music and video playback on the Raptor K40 gaming keyboard. Those who are interested in picking the Raptor K40 gaming keyboard will be able to do so for $79.99 a pop.

As for the Raptor M45 gaming mouse, this is no ordinary mouse when you look at it. For starters, it will be a lighter – which makes it a more agile variant of the ergonomic chassis in comparison to Corsair’s award-winning M65 and M60 mice. In a nutshell, this will be a serious high-performance optical mouse that will target those who take their gaming seriously. You will be able to find a powerful gaming-tuned Pixart PMW3310 5000 DPI optical sensor, a fast response time, large PTFE glide pads, high-mass scroll wheel that are all housed within a comfortable right-handed design that has a textured, soft-touch surface. You will have to fork out $59.99 for the Raptor M45 gaming mouse, and it will also be accompanied by a 2 year warranty.

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While users of both the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 will still be using standard controllers for first-person-shooters for the foreseeable future, the creator of XIM is hard at … Continue reading

There are already plug-and-play third-party devices that let you play previous gen consoles or a PC using any of their controllers. For instance, you can use a Wiimote with your PS3 if you want. There’s no equivalent product for the PlayStation 4 just yet, but Marcos Mori de Siqueira of Softfactory is onto something here. He hacked a Dualshock 4 controller to send input from a mouse and keyboard to the PS 4.

I’m not even going to pretend that I fully understood what Marcos pulled off, but from what I grokked he used a microcontroller (plus two digital-to-analog converters for emulating the thumbsticks) to turn signals from his keyboard – in this case a Logitech Gameboard – and mouse into signals that the PS4 understands, sent via the Dualshock 4′s circuit board. All in all it took him about $50 (USD) of materials and a ton of solder to make the mod. Skip to about 1:55 in the video to see the mod in action.

Check out Marcos’ post on Softfactory for more details on his mod. Seeing as FPS and MMOs are still popular, I wonder why Sony and Microsoft don’t just add support for keyboards and mice on their consoles. They can probably earn extra from certifying third party hardware if they did that. It’ll make it way easier to search for content on their online stores too.

[via Hack A Day]