Nov 09

Axsotic 3D mouse takes a spherical stab at an age-old problem

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The quixotic quest for the perfect 3D mouse has a long and storied history, but the German-built “Axsotic” 3D-Spheric-Mouse looks like a pretty good attempt. Axsotic tracks a 40mm ball, which can be twisted, pushed, pulled, lifted, and so forth inside its patent pending, sensor-laden cage. Optical tracking watches for rotation in three axis, while magnets track zoom and pan in three axis of their own. The design gives complete camera control in a 3D app to one hand, while your other hand is free to operate a mouse or other pointing device to actually interact with the 3D object in question. Axsotic actually works driver-free on Mac and Windows, and a plugin is available for popular 3D softwares. No word yet on price or availability. Check out some action videos after the break.

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Nov 05

Splitfish FragFX Shark extended hands-on: good for Call of Duty and little else

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Another year, another Splitfish FragFX controller, determined to bring the accuracy of a PC mouse to your frag sessions on PlayStation 3. This one, the FragFX Shark, boasts a thumb wheel to manually set your mouse sensor’s dead zone, improved emulation algorithms and 50 hours of solid gameplay (and 500 hours standby) on a pair of AA batteries. As you might imagine, we weren’t able to test the latter due to a little thing called work, but we spent a good number of hours putting the peripheral through Call of Duty, Dead Space, Killzone 2, The Club and more, and came away fairly disappointed. Find out exactly why after the break, and check out our gallery below.

Update: We’ve added a couple images of the final production units to our gallery below.

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Oct 27

Asus Mouse Copies Best and Worst of Mac

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Steve Jobs recently asked what would happen if “an iPad and a MacBook hooked up.” Apparently hardware hook-ups are all the rage, because Asus has been asking the same thing about the Magic Mouse and the poorly received “puck” that came with the first iMacs.

Touch sensitivity and multitouch controls are among the latest features to make the jump from Apple to Windows, and this isn’t the first capacitive touch mouse we’ve seen. The finger-friendly Speedlink Cue made it’s debut last week, and more are sure to follow.
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Oct 27

ASUS gets in on the touch mouse craze with the puck-shaped WX-DL

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ASUS gets in on the touch mouse craze with the puck-shaped WX-DL

Pity the poor fools who show up to the next LAN party with a mouse that doesn’t have a capacitive top. These days it’s touch-sensitivity or bust, and ASUS is latest in line, launching its WX-DL. This one takes its buttonless inspiration from the Magic Mouse but its design from another Cupertino creation: the puck-shape Apple USB Mouse. That rodent came with the 1998 iMac and was basically hated by everyone who placed a hand on it. It remains to be seen whether the slight tilt of this one (shown after the break) will make it more palatable to the digits of computer users everywhere, but it is at least suitably equipped with a 1200dpi laser sensor, 2.4GHz wireless connection, and a suite of media controls baked with care into the top of this aluminum cookie. Its yours for $80, so who wants to take a bite?

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Oct 22

Speedlink Cue does the multitouch hybrid mouse thing

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Honestly, while Apple’s Magic Mouse is a bit of a pioneer in its application of a multitouch surface on a “regular” tracking mouse, it’s not exactly easy or comfortable to perform multitouch gestures with it. Plus there’s the little problem of no official driver for Windows. Speedlink’s Cue mouse looks to be solving at least one of those problems, maybe even both. The wireless 1000 dpi optical mouse is naturally PC-compatible, with software to allow you to configure your own gestures, and it has a somewhat flatter and more extensive touch surface than the Magic Mouse, which might make gestures a bit more doable. Basically, it’s somewhere in between the Magic Mouse and the Magic Trackpad, minus the hyperbole, and plus clear demarcation of right and left click. It’ll retail for €40 when it ships in November (about $56 USD).

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Oct 22

The New Speedlink Cue is a Magic Mouse for the PC

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Speedlink CueIf you’ve looked at the Apple Magic Mouse with wonder, wishing you could have a multi-touch capable mouse without having to give up a Windows PC in the process, now you can have the best of both worlds. The Speedlink Cue is a 2.4 GHz wireless model that looks a lot like the Magic Mouse and has a touch-sensitive top that responds to multi-touch gestures that you can configure in the mouse’s included software.

The underside of the Cue features a 1000dpi optical sensor, and the mouse is designed for use with the right or left hand. If glossy white isn’t your style, Speedlink is also making the mouse available in red, black, and silver when it’s released in November. All models will set you back 39.99 EUR list price (just under $56 USD.)

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Oct 21

Exclusive: Mad Catz Cyborg Rat 9 review

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In a world full of the shapely blobs we call computer mice, the Cyborg Rat stands out. It’s skeletal, metallic, and almost completely asymetrical. Though most mice are one-size-fit-few, the Rat lets you transform the hardware itself to fit the shape of your hand. It’s got two scroll wheels and a special button that lowers DPI while it’s held — and this new Rat 9, due out November, is completely wireless as well. Whereas Razer, Microsoft and Logitech all built their premium wireless gaming mice from scratch — and with cord-based charging in mind — the Rat 9 instead integrates a hot-swappable battery pack and a 2.4GHz radio into the same modular design. Is it a half-baked attempt at wireless bliss, or do we have a new king of mice? Find out after the break in our full review.

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Exclusive: Mad Catz Cyborg Rat 9 review originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 14

Steelseries Unveils New Gaming Mouse for World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

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Steelseries WoW Cataclysm Mouse

Steelseries has certainly been busy. The company has been busy rolling out a number of game-themed peripherals, and now that the world knows exactly when the new expansion to the Warcraft franchise, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm will be released (hint: it’s December 7th,) Steelseries has unveiled a new Cataclysm-themed gaming mouse. 
This isn’t the first World of Warcraft mouse from Steelseries: the original one was released back in 2008 and featured a sleek, armor-plated aluminum face with glowing yellow lights peering out from between the plates. The new Cataclysm-themed mouse trades in the sleek brushed aluminum for a darker bronzed look with red lights to match the theme of the game. 
The updates don’t stop with the design: the new Cataclysm mouse has 14 programmable buttons on the sides and on-board memory that can support up to 10 profiles so you can customize the buttons to do different things for different characters. You can change the color of the lights or the brightness, and Steelseries bumped the optical sensor on the underside to 5,040 DPI. The World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Gaming Mouse will be available on December 7th – launch day for the expansion – and set you back $99.99 retail price.
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Oct 14

Keepin’ it real fake: Magic Mouse and iPhone converge into iPhonc

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Do you dream at night? Do you stare at your ceiling pondering questions that no other Earthling could possibly ponder? Contrary to popular belief, you aren’t actually alone in this nightmare, and we too have wondered what would happen to our universe if a Magic Mouse and iPhone collided. Look up. Now down. Now back up again. That greenish, devilish device you see above is the iPhonc, a “KIRF of all KIRFs,” if you will. It’s hard to pinpoint who exactly thought to shove a dumbphone into the body of a Magic Mouse, but in some strange way, they’ve managed to make our souls smile. Best of all? Even the source here admits that it’s meaningless to wonder over the specifications and price, noting that the shell alone should attract sufficient attention. Makes the fading of Meizu a little easier to handle, you know?

Keepin’ it real fake: Magic Mouse and iPhone converge into iPhonc originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 13

Razer debuts wireless Naga MMO mouse, Ironclad mousepad

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While our eye-hand clicking capabilities are usually relegated to “upload image” and “RT” and the occasional “ban commenter,” that doesn’t stop us from dreaming of a world where we’re an elite vid-gamer (that’s “video gamer” to any n00bs out there), an entire virtual world at our beck and call. Razer can help us live that dream with its Naga MMO mouse, which has a wild assortment of numbered buttons on its side to be theoretically assigned to those high-powered abilities we’ve theoretically invested countless hours into obtaining — or theoretically paid a good price to a gold farmer for. Now Razer has a wireless version of the 5600 dpi laser mouse, using the same wired / wireless tech of the Razer Mamba (which is nice for when a theoretical gaming session stretches beyond the 12 hour continuous use mark the mouse is rated for) to let you plug in at will. There’s also a charging dock that conveniently doubles as the 2.4GHz wireless base station. “That’s great, Razer,” you might say, “but what will I put this mouse on top of?” They’re glad you asked. Razer is simultaneously launching a new ultrasmooth mousepad dubbed “Ironclad,” built out of a single piece of aluminum. The pad will retail for $60 this month, with the mouse following for $130 in November.

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