Hasta La Gadget!

Got a game with a lot of commands, but are sick of supporting the Big Keyboard industry? Meet your rebel input replacement, the Peregrine. Demonstrated to us at E3, the Peregrine is basically an elastic glove with some wires sewn into it at various points. Connecting one of those points to conductive patches on the palm and thumb creates an electrical circuit, which the glove’s brain converts to a keypress. It’s like a glove but with power — a sort of power glove, if you will. The main application is MMOs, where you could touch your thumb and forefinger together to cast a spell in a role-playing game or touch your middle finger to your palm to heal yourself. Or your character, anyway. More impressions and some spec-ops intrigue after the break.

Continue reading Peregrine wires you into a keyboard, we go hands-in

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Peregrine wires you into a keyboard, we go hands-in originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Flies don’t last long in my household, thanks to two feline residents who enjoy catching a bit of extra protein now and then. But for those of you left to your own devices when it comes to summertime fly-swatting, Worldwide Fred’s Delete Fly Swatter offers a cheeky way to get rid of the annoying little buggers.

Besides, how can you pass up product with such a punny tagline? Fred, you had me at “No ESC for flies.”

The Delete Fly Swatter is made of molded plastic, comes in two different colors (ivory and charcoal), and can be had for $9 at Greener Grass Design.

For no particular reason — let’s just blame blatant capitalism in the face of uncertain times — Dell’s online store has a 30 day exclusive on Logitech’s new G19 gaming keyboard, and just started selling the thing at $180 a pop, or $260 when bundled with the G9 laser gaming mouse. Sure, that might sound like a lot of money, but just remember the next time you reach a weathered, calloused index finger across your keyboard to toss your last grenade at a grim virtual enemy: you could’ve paid $180 to do the exact same thing while listening to Korn.

[Thanks, Brian]

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Logitech’s totally rad G19 gaming keyboard now on sale originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 May 2009 11:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The first half of this video belongs over at our sister blog, Autopia. After the two-minute mark, though, things return to Gadget Lab: UK presenter Rory Reid climbs into a £1 million (about $1 gazillion) rally car and, while being hurled around the track by driver and European Rallycross champion Kenneth Hansen, tries to type a simple sentence on both an iPhone and an Asus EeePC:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Which do you think will win? The cramped keyboard of the Eee as it bounces around on Rory’s lap, or the iPhone which can be held securely with two hands as its predictive text-correction goes to work? As a further clue, here’s the text from the Eee after hurtling around the track:

THISn QUICC BDE4 FROCCDX HJUNOE OV4E3DR TTHJREV N V DOGTG

It looks like Rory might be pretty good at entering registration codes into Adobe products.

The iPhone?

The quick fox jumps over the lazy dog it so

It looks like Rory was getting excited. He missed out a word and then started to get cocky at the end. We expect that he was trying to say “it’s so easy.”

Also: Would it kill them to put some carpets in that car? £1 million and they can’t afford a carpet?

Video: iPhone vs netbook in extreme rally car typing challenge [Crave UK via ★]

If half your wardrobe is promotional t-shirts you’ve gotten at trade shows, you might be a cheap geek.

1. Finding excellent digital cameras at around $100 is what this column is all about, and today Office Max is offering a great one. You can grab a Nikon Coolpix P60 for $99.99, which is half the list price. This baby has 8.1 megapixels, a 5x optical zoom, red-eye reduction, and face priority technology. Sounds like a great bring-along for that summer vacation you’re planning.

2. Logitech makes some of the best peripherals around, so if you’re in need of a new keyboard take advantage of this deal from Office Depot. It’s selling the Logitech Deluxe 250 keyboard for $7.95. This is a black keyboard and it connects with a USB cable.

3. iPhone owners know how slippery their favorite phone can be. If you don’t want a hard fall or a cracked screen ruining your iPhone, get OtterBox’s iPhone Defender case from Amazon. While it originally sold for $76.29, Amazon has this handsome black and yellow case for $19.25.