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Fans of the 1982 movie TRON and its upcoming sequel TRON: Legacy will love this: Razer’s new TRON-themed mouse will leave a light trail behind it as it moves across its accompanying TRON-themed mousepad. Razer announced the new line of TRON-themed and branded peripherals back in June, but the new mouse is the first product to make its way to the public, thanks to a post on Razer’s Facebook page. The mouse has blue lines across the top, giving it the ambient glow that matches the movie’s aesthetic, and features a 5600 dpi optical sensor on the underside for accuracy.

Razer didn’t mention when the new TRON-themed mouse would be available, but did say that it would be close to the movie’s release near the end of the year and would retail for $99.99.  That price, while steep, would include the light and pressure-sensitive mousepad that displays an ambient blue trail of light behind the mouse as you move it.

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We’re honestly not certain what it has to do with Intel, but here’s some welcome news for the gaming and home exercise fronts — Razer told the IDF 2010 crowd that the Sixense motion-sensing sticks it showed off at CES will finally arrive sometime “early next year.” What’s more, the company’s been hard at work miniaturizing the one-to-one motion control tech into an exercise band, and while we’ve no word on when that’s due or how much a “personal doctor” might cost, you can find a close-up (of a render, natch) after the break to see what it might look like (and video of the handheld sticks, if you’re game).

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While Razer has been waist deep in the gaming mice arena for years, it’s noticed an area of hardware where gaming hasn’t been a primary concern: keyboards. Gaming keyboards have existed for a long while, but they haven’t been designed beyond the scope of macro keys and back lights. 

“Imagine every single key on the keyboard with the precision of a mouse click–no more pressing of keys without knowing for certain if they have been actuated,” says Krakoff. 

The BlackWidow, available this September, features five additional macro keys as well as on the fly macro recording. The difference between the BlackWidow Ultimate and the standard version? Five levels of key illumination and audio input and output jacks. Hey, we all gotta’ pay for the bling. 

At first glance, you may think you’re eying Razer‘s Carcharias above. And in many ways, the new Orca ($59.99 / €59.99) is exactly like its perceived predecessor, thought two prominent differences set ’em apart. For one, there’s no microphone arm on the Orca, so those who like to chat it up while deathmatching should look elsewhere. Secondly, the Orca is green. Really green. It’s also designed for on-the-go use, with a shorter, standard braided cable accompanied by a two-meter extension cord. Internally, you’ll find 40mm drivers with neodymium magnets, a 15 – 21,000Hz claimed frequency response and a conventional 3.5mm headphone plug. We’d encourage you to look for these later this month, but with a paint job like this, just glancing around aimlessly should do the trick.

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We don’t have the foggiest idea whether Tron: Legacy will serve to reboot Disney’s venerable light cycling franchise, but it’s certainly got peripheral vendors in high gear — you’ll be able to hack the ENCOM Digitizing Molecular Laser with a genuine Tron keyboard and mouse or toss virtual light discs with an Tron-themed Xbox 360, PS3 or Wii controller this holiday season. Gaming favorite Razer crafted this $130 laser-etched keyboard with swappable numpad and programmable macros; it will ship alongside a $100, 5600dpi laser mouse in October, and PDP will provide the console controllers for $50 at an unspecified date. We were bummed to hear that the Xbox 360 and PS3 pads are wired, but in retrospect that might be a good thing — by comparison, Razer’s detachable keypad is just begging to be thrown at an MCP-generated foe. See all the new Tron toys lit up in a video after the break. (Caution: video loads automatically.)

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