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Oh Microsoft, you’re learning the seductive secrets of the special edition. The company unveiled the gracefully curved Arc keyboard in black, modeled after the gracefully curved Arc mouse, earlier this year. Now it’s giving the keyboard a fresh look with a white top and a lime underside. That lime color is visible through the keys.

You won’t find this special edition just anywhere, thought; you can only get it at Amazon. Just knowing that it’s an exclusive special edition makes me want it all the more. Also, the new colors perfectly match the lightweight keyboard’s elegance. It uses a 2.4-GHz wireless signal and comes with a stowable Nano transceiver.

Are you ready to get one? Well, you can’t have it yet. It won’t be available until June. That’s another seductive ploy–and it’s working. Pre-order one at Amazon for $59.95.

Don’t act like you haven’t thought about it, every slate device is just begging for the perfect keyboard accessory that can also function as a hard case. Some industrious souls have gotten on the case of building just such a contraption for the iPad, titled it the LapDock, and given it no lesser a goal than to completely obviate the need for laptops. Shh, no need to ruin their halcyonic existence with talk of the added connectivity, functionality, and versatility of laptops, just let it slide. As to the current state of affairs, well, the LapDock looks like a nicely carved wooden case with room for your iPad and Apple Bluetooth keyboard and that’s about it. Not the highest of high-tech implementations, but it’s still at the, ahem, prototype stage. Go after the break to see if it catches your fancy.

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Just in time for launch day, iLuv announced a number of iPad cases, sleeves, and screen protectors last week in various shapes, sizes, and colors, designed to give new iPad owners an array of choices when it comes to protecting their precious new tablet.

Among the iLuv releases are a leather case that allows you to use your iPad while keeping it protected, a stylish buckle-top sleeve that will keep your iPad between layers of soft fabric while you carry it around, a series of clear and patterned polycarbonate cases and docks, and a series of clear and glare-free screen protectors that let you use your iPad freely without worrying about damaging the display.

Time for some more salacious prognostications about the future, courtesy of the wily folks over at vg247. The team there claims to have obtained internal documents from UK video game retailer GAME that lists the release dates for forthcoming Xbox 360 titles. The listing is headlined by new iterations of Crysis, Call of Duty and Metal Gear Solid, but the highlight for us gadget junkies is at the very end: Yoga Natal, scheduled for an October release. Now, even if this doc comes straight from the horse’s mouth, game release dates are notoriously prone to fluctuation, so let’s not read too much into that October date. What’s intriguing is that Microsoft does indeed seem intent on creating specialist games for its Natal experience, and it may be that they’ll all include Natal in their titles to make compatibility abundantly clear. Or this may be just a big bad April 1-related hoax, we’ll live either way.

[Thanks, Matt R.]

Update: We’ve now also discovered a pulled Amazon listing for Yoga Natal, and we’ve stashed a screenshot of its Google Cache version just after the break [Thanks, Ian].

Continue reading Yoga Natal game appears on GAME retailer’s Xbox 360 release schedule (update: Amazon UK too!)

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It wasn’t too long ago that we were berating Nintendo for its seemingly silly patent application relating to a football-shaped soft appendage for the Wii Remote controllers. As it turns out, we may have underestimated the consumer interest in just such a product. While Ninty’s application is still under review, CTA Digital has taken the opportunity to introduce its own “soft, realistic accessory” for the ballers that just can’t get their Madden on without the feel of a rubbery pigskin substitute. It’s ambidextrous, it comes with a wrist strap, and it has absolutely no right to exist in a society of right-thinking Homo sapiens. But it does. At least price and availability aren’t yet public, so hopefully you’ll have forgotten about this abomination by the time of release.

Wii football controller brought to life by CTA Digital originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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