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Apple Issues Wireless Keyboard Update 2.0 for Mac OS X

Alongside Mac OS X 10.6.2 and Security Update 2009-006, Wireless Keyboard Update 2.0 can also be spotted over at Apple’s Downloads section. The free update is said to allow users of an Apple 2009 Wireless Keyboard to take advantage of its special features. While Mac OS X 10.5.8 is required before installing thi...

10 November 2009
03:40 GMT

Apple Posts Wireless (Magic) Mouse Software Update

As revealed in the PDF user manual for its new Magic Mouse, a software update is required to take full advantage of the peripheral’s magical features. Available for both Mac OS X 10.5 and Mac OS X 10.6, Wireless Mouse Software Update 1.0 is a free download recommended for happy owners of Apple’s newest mo...

28 October 2009
03:45 GMT

Apple Introduces the ‘Magic Mouse’

Left with no option but to change the name of its “mighty,” point-and-click device, Apple has not only given its mouse a new name (“Magic Mouse” for the new model, “Apple-mouse” for the old, wired model), but also equipped the wireless one with new capabilities. The device boasts a...

21 October 2009
03:26 GMT

Apple Loses Rights for ‘Mighty’ Mouse Dubbing

This week, the US Patent and Trademark Offices awarded Man & Machine with the rights to the name “Mighty Mouse” as a “computer mouse” or “cursor control device,” an Engadget report reveals. Apple, as some of you might know, was not the first to call its point-and-click device Might...

8 October 2009
05:35 GMT

Tony Hawk Ride Full Soundtrack Revealed

Tony Hawk Ride is set to mark a re-invention of the franchise, coming packed with a skating peripheral that will allow a new degree of control of the slides and big air jumps that can be performed in the game.There are significant skateboarding names featuring in the videogame, from Paul Rodriguez to Christian Hosoi....

7 October 2009
16:51 GMT

Nintendo Wants a Real Football on the Wii

It all began with the Wiimote and the Nunchuk, the two controllers that allow the Wii to work its motion-tracking magic and attract towards videogames people who might otherwise be totally put off by the complexity of a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 standard controller. But Nintendo did not stop there.Wii Fit is partly s...

27 August 2009
14:01 GMT

People Need to Be Confident in Nintendo's Vitality Sensor

This year's Electronic Entertainment Expo was really something of a roller coaster in terms of big announcements. While the peaks were registered at Microsoft and Sony's press meetings, a lot of people went home disappointed by the one held by Nintendo. Even though the company revealed quite a few new titl...

6 August 2009
02:22 GMT

Gamers Will Be Amazed by the Wii Vitality Sensor

This year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) was filled with big announcements from almost all of the major companies involved in the gaming industry. But while Nintendo kept its announcements on par, there was one thing that really stood out for almost everyone present at the company's press conference: ...

14 July 2009
02:22 GMT

Wii Vitality Sensor Will Have a Lot of “Unique Elements” at Launch

Nintendo is one of the most innovative companies in the gaming industry thanks to its ever changing attitude towards the industry as a whole. The company has introduced a lot of interesting things over the years, but it culminated with its E3 announcement of the Wii Vitality Sensor. Similar to the devices used in ho...

15 June 2009
02:37 GMT

Apple Quietly Intros New Keyboard

While fresh Apple products are released with a bang, hardware upgrades are generally accompanied by press releases at most. Smaller stuff, however, like the new wired Apple Keyboard, doesn't even need introduction, Apple seems to believe.Several Mac-focused sites have been nosing around Apple's recentl...

4 March 2009
10:27 GMT

Harmonix Says It's Hard to Make Plastic Instruments

The music game genre has really seen a very big ascending trend lately, largely due to the fact that the two major franchises have launched new iterations. Guitar Hero received its World Tour title and Rock Band saw its sequel appear in the middle of September.These music games are well known to almost any type of ga...

25 November 2008
02:15 GMT

Mad Catz Will Produce Rock Band Peripherals for Wii

Rock Band is one of the most popular music games out there largely due to the fact that it has brought a lot of innovations to this very successful genre of games. Things like multi instrument games or weekly DLC (Downloadable Content) packs in the form of tracks you can play in the game would have never found their ...

10 November 2008
13:01 GMT

Special Peripherals Could Be Bundled with Tony Hawk

Activision is letting the Tony Hawk franchise, which single handedly introduced skateboarding into videogaming, rest this year, with big plans to take it out for a spin in 2009. At the moment, the Electronic Arts published Skate is enjoying good sales and publicity so Activision will really need something special to ...

16 October 2008
12:31 GMT

HP Shows VoodooDNA in New Gaming Mouse

In addition to the new HDX16 and HDX18 portable computer systems, and the TouchSmart IQ800-series PC, the leading manufacturer of portable computer systems, HP, has also announced today a couple of computer peripherals which, aside from their good looks, promise quite impressive specs. “HP’s new con...

16 September 2008
04:30 GMT

Say Hello to Microsoft's New Arc Mouse

Just recently, we told you about a new Microsoft mouse that the Redmond, Washington-based software giant was expected to launch later this week. Today, it turns out the initial rumors were accurate, since the company has officially unveiled its new Arc mouse, of which it says that it will deliver a whole new level o...

10 September 2008
03:09 GMT

Pictures of Microsoft Arc Mouse Surface

The Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is expected to release a new mouse, which will feature the most interesting design. With a name that pretty much says it all, the upcoming Microsoft Arc Mouse has already been spotted on the Internet in a number of pictures, confirming that the new product will soon be offi...

8 September 2008
08:15 GMT

Microsoft Hardware Gets Ready to "Say Goodbye to Laser"

Microsoft is getting ready to "Say Goodbye to Laser" with its hardware division. The Redmond company is gearing up to unveil the items from its latest product lineup on September 9 2008. The software giant has already announced the event under the slogan "Say Goodbye to Laser," but has failed to deliver any sort of a...

27 August 2008
19:59 GMT

Luxeed Color Changing LED Keyboard Available Worldwide

Some of you might remember Art Lebedev's Optimus Maximus keyboard, which uses an OLED technology for all of its 113 keys. This keyboard is accompanied by a configuration software that allows users to setup their keyboard anyway they please. The thing with the Optimus Maximus is that, because of the OLED technolo...

5 August 2008
10:15 GMT

Apple, Do Something About Mighty Mouse!

Apple's Mighty Mouse is probably the best mouse ever made. It has multiple programmable functions that are intuitive, it's easy to get accustomed to, and downright a pleasure to use. There's only one problem that has always been reported regarding the little rascal: its scroll-ball gets clogged up with...

19 July 2008
08:07 GMT

What a USB Port Hub Is

Most of the peripherals currently available on the market connect to the personal computer through USB ports. Up to 14 or more types of electronic devices, each with different functions, can be bought today from just about anywhere, while a typical computer only has two to four standard USB sockets. Thus, if you want...

16 July 2008
08:59 GMT

Apple Is Killing the Mouse, Making Room for Multi-Touch

Word on the web is that one of our favorite peripherals, the mouse, is facing extinction. Invented in 1963 by Silicon Valley engineers Douglas Engelbart and Bill English, the mouse first went mainstream when Apple launched the Macintosh in 1984. Apparently, the company that introduced us to the mouse is now killing i...

26 June 2008
04:28 GMT

Logitech Introduces QuickCam Vision Pro for Mac

Logitech has announced its first Mac-ready webcam today. The Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro webcam for Mac offers detail, clarity and good support for video calling with iChat and Skype, using premium autofocus technology and Carl Zeiss optics.Carl Zeiss optics and autofocus keep images razor-sharp, even in extreme clo...

24 June 2008
17:26 GMT

TactaPad Hopes to Become an Apple Computer Peripheral

While Apple puts the finishing touch on its multi-touch framework for Mac OS X Snow Leopard, why don't you feast your eyes with Tactiva's TactaPad. The device, roughly worth $1,000, is currently not for sale, but the developers are looking for an (Apple) company to license the technology and bring the produ...

24 June 2008
16:06 GMT

Apple Sued for 'Mighty Mouse' Dubbing

Man & Machine Inc. (M&M), an international provider of water-resistant computer accessories for hospitals, has sued Apple Inc. for calling its mouse "Mighty." While Apple's peripheral is indeed mighty (or so we believe), M&M claims it had introduced its own "Mighty Mouse" more than a year before Apple's was...

21 May 2008
14:06 GMT

Ultra-Expensive SteelSeries 7G Gaming Keyboard, Ready to Roll Out

Gaming peripherals manufacturer SteelSeries is widely known for its pretty expensive professional hardware, and the new 7G gaming keyboard is no exception to the rule. The new device is built with 18-karat gold-plated mechanical switches, and is rated for about 50 million key presses.According to the manufacturer, th...

7 May 2008
04:13 GMT

First Gaming Mouse from Razer Specifically Aimed at Mac Users

Razer, one of the biggest manufacturers of gaming peripherals out there, has announced its first gaming mouse developed for the Mac gamer, the Lunar White Razer DeathAdder. The ergonomic right-handed gaming mouse was "specifically built with the needs of Mac OS X gamers in mind," Razer says.The official Razer report ...

5 May 2008
06:29 GMT

Seal Shield's Mouse Can be Washed, Fights Disease

Bacteria paranoids, rejoice, because the nightmare of using some other's mouse is over with the advent of the Sea Shield Washable Scroll Mouse. The gadget is more of a medical appliance rather than a common peripheral and is meant to be used especially on computers shared between users.The Antimicrobial Mouse wi...

26 February 2008
06:03 GMT

PC Guardian: Lock Your PC to the Desktop

PC security solutions provider PC Guardian introduced a new member in the Master Coded Combo lock family. The Master Coded Combo is a patent-pending technology developed by the company and comes in two additional flavors: Duo Combo and Multi Combo. These security systems can fasten multiple computer devices to the s...

9 February 2008
07:51 GMT

Wii Remote to be Replaced by a New Logitech Peripheral?

A recent interview with Logitech's UK and Ireland country manager, Chris Spearing shockingly reveals that the company is prepping to launch a new peripheral for Nintendo's Wii, replacing the console's well-known motion sensitive controller, the Wii Remote. Logitech's manager says they're impr...

4 September 2007
03:31 GMT

Microsoft Hardware from the Word Mouse to Vista-based Surface Computing

The Microsoft Hardware Group was spawned all the way back in 1982, and this year, the division turned 25. Focusing on building not only the software but also computer peripherals, the Redmond company attempted to deliver its vision of a comprehensive digital lifestyle by bridging the gap between software products and...

23 August 2007
03:08 GMT

The USB Ports Spell Trouble

The Universal Serial Bus or USB for short is a very popular port today as there are maybe a million computer hardware parts that connect to the host system using it. Among those parts, or better said peripherals, there are mice, keyboards, external storage devices, webcams flash memory sticks and so on. The USB port ...

18 August 2007
06:33 GMT

Guitar Hero III Will Also Be Available on the DS

Guitar Hero was never designed to surface on portable consoles in the first place, but one should never underestimate Nintendo when it comes to crazy and unexpected ports. A GH III for the DS seemed to be just a rumor, a couple of weeks ago, but now it's been fully confirmed by Charles Huang, co-founder of RedO...

15 August 2007
10:57 GMT


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