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You should already have a pretty good idea of what extra sauce Mad Catz will be bringing to Modern Warfare 2’s November 10 release, but here are some up close and personal snaps of the hardware anyway. Monochromatic camo patterns — all the rage in that war-torn near-future world — are evident throughout and will cost you a cent under $50 for either of the Xbox 360 or PS3 Combat Controllers, the Combat Keyboard or Sniper Mouse, or a cool hundred for the Elite Keyboard with a blood-red backlight. And if you want to spruce up your current hardware, gamepad faceplates and Xbox 360 Skinz will be available for $15 and $30, respectively. Feeling like a badass comes as a free extra.

[Via Joystiq]

Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals

Mad Catz Modern Warfare 2 peripherals break cover, reveal pricing originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hey, remember last year when Lenovo’s UltraNav keyboard made a (re)appearance on Flickr because the company was soliciting feedback on how to make it better? Well check it — there’s a new version in town, and it incorporates all those user suggestions. Lenovo says people mostly wanted the exact same feel as their ThinkPad laptop keyboards in the desktop unit (no surprise there), but almost no one wanted wireless, a number pad or a trackpad — so the new model pictured above is more or less a faithful wired replica of the T400s board, right down to those liquid drainage holes. What’s more, cutting the numeric keypad and trackpad allowed the company to reduce the price by $40, so this little slice of hotness is now just $60. Not bad, but we’ll be honest — we’d still throw down for a wireless version of the old UltraNav in a heartbeart.

[Thanks, Tian]

Read – Lenovo DesignMatters blog post on the keyboard design process
Read – ThinkPad Keyboard at the Lenovo online store

Filed under: Peripherals

New ThinkPad keyboard features crowdsourced design, lower price originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The ASUS Eee Keyboard has been delayed a couple times since it first made our hearts race at CES, but it looks like those rumors of an October launch might actually come true: the new-age C64 has just arrived at the FCC for a little government work. Interestingly, the test reports indicate the presence of a UWB radio in addition WiFi and Bluetooth, so it looks like we’ll see the planned wireless HDMI model even after the spec pretty much hit the skids earlier this summer. We’ll see how it goes — and if we get that interesting Moblin version alongside the Windows edition when this thing eventually ships. Fingers crossed!

Filed under: Desktops

Eee Keyboard tantalizingly within reach at the FCC originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Adesso rolls out compact WKB-4000UB wireless keyboard originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Adesso keyboard, at first glance, looks like it has a lot going on for it, from its 2.4 Ghz RF wireless connectivity to the built-in optical mouse. But after further inspection of this compact keyboard, the basic functions are lacking.

From the start it seemed like this keyboard and I were going to get along swimmingly. I plugged in the wireless USB adapter, flipped the switch on the Adesso keyboard, and we were off to a great start. There was no disk to install and no problems connecting. I was even surprised to find I could go half way across the room and the darned thing still worked, living up to its 30 feet range promise.