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Sony PS3 Move not Arc – Motion Controlling Wand gets Named and Shown off

by Jay Garrett on March 11, 2010

Sony has been showing off its Nintendo Wii baiting motion controller. They’ve also officially named it: PlayStation Move.

Sony created a bit of a stir at the PlayStation presentation held at the Games Developer Conference in San Francisco.

The naming of the Move may have lost a number of people money if they’d been betting on Sony naming the motion controller Arc.

The PlayStation Move requires the use of a wand-like device a bit like a rounded Wiimote, with Sony’s Eye camera used as the sensor to track your movements – Sony are bragging that it’s the ‘most precise’ and ultra-sensory device of its kind.

The good thing is that the Move can be integrated into more established PS3 titles – games of choice for underling this was big-hitters SOCOM 4: US Navy Seals and Little Big Planet. LBP was shown using The Move Subcontroller (see gallery) as well as the main Move.

At the presentation Sony broke out a number of Move games which by all accounts looked pretty Wii-ey with the likes of ‘Sports Champions’ a sports compilation pack which includes such mini-games as archery, tablet tennis, and Gladiator Arena (duel fighting).

The PS3 Move will come in three bundles; the first packing the PS3 Move control for those who already own the Eye cam, or you can buy the Move with the Eye cam and a PS3 console. I reckon that the most popular will probably be the third option: The Move motion control with the camera and a game which Sony is saying will cost under $100 (£66).

No news regarding an official UK price but there is a rumbling that the August 2010 launch will be a global affair.

Have a gawp at the PlayStation Move and the PlayStation Move support controller in action below :)

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Misa Digital Guitar – Future Rock!

by Jay Garrett on February 2, 2010

If you’ve been brought up with playing Rock Band and Guitar Hero then you may be surprised to discover most guitars have strings.

Most……?

Well this bad boy uses a large touchscreen to get you shredding.

The Misa Digital Guitar is the work of Sydney-based designer Michael.

It has 24 frets and a large multifunctional touchscreen which hooks-up to the appropriate software on your pc.

It is an advanced type of MIDI controller that is powered by a 500MHz AMD Geode CPU and runs Linux under the hood – you don’t need Linux to use the guitar though.

The Linux firmware code is open source, which allows programmers to modify it to their liking.

While MIDI controllers and guitar-emulating synthesizers are nothing new to the music world you have to admit that the Misa does look rather more special than a short keyboard with dials and knobs.

I am obsessed with digital guitar. But I also love electric guitar, and I have learned what it’s good at and what it’s capable of. Some of its most important qualities and characteristics stem from the very fact that the electric guitar is made out of wood and strings. A guitar string is “beautiful” – because the sound generated comes from the very vibration of the string, interfering with a magnetic flux and inducing an electric voltage, which is then amplified. Why would you want to emulate that? It is perfection. It is pure nature. It is in the analog domain. I did not intend the Misa digital guitar to replicate a traditional guitar.

Watch and listen to the clip below:

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Sony’s New PlayStation 3 Motion Controller Called ‘Gem’ – Perhaps Definitely / Maybe

December 12, 2009 Click to read more →
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EA’s CEO,John Riccitiello, accidentally let slip that Sony has been referring to the motion-sensing accessory as the “Gem” at a media conference in New York. Ooopsy!
During his speech Riccitiello said: “Natal [Microsoft's motion sensing game solution] and Gem, these are likely to bring new consumers into the marketplace”.
Sony Computer Entertainment of America director of [...]

CRISTAL – The largest Universal Remote Could Replace Your Coffee Table

August 16, 2009 Click to read more →
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Your Universal Remote may be useful but it’s not as big, funky or sociable as this: The CRISTAL
CRISTAL is a research project that moves the uni-mote to a Microsoft Surface-type table with incredibly intuitive gestures.
Feel like watching a film?  Just drag the DVD cover to your TV!  Simples!  :)
You could even track a path for [...]

Apogee Gio Stomp Box Brings Garage Band, Logic Studio and MainStage Controls to Your Feet

July 26, 2009 Click to read more →
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Apogee’s GiO is a pretty cool looking instrument controller is aimed at you Mac users that are looking to get a little bit more out of GarageBand 09 – it will also play nice with Logic Studio 9 and MainStage 2.
The Gio is designed to give you full hands-free recording – the stomp box is [...]

Give the iPhone a Bone – Chew This One Over [Gamebone Pro]

June 23, 2009 Click to read more →
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So – it sounds like the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch will be getting “third party game accessories”.
If you didn’t believe what heard then you’re probably not going to believe what you’re seeing.
Yup - it’s the GameBone Pro controller, which aims to bring six buttons and an 8-way direction pad to your Apple handset and it’s thanks to Aussie [...]

Hillcrest Lab’s Loop Freespace Mouse is Also Fashionable Geek Chic Must Have

June 15, 2009 Click to read more →
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Hillcrest Labs has released what at first glance appears to be some funky geek jewellery but is infact the Loop controller.
The Loop controller is a Freespace mouse which is apparently aimed at those with some sort of Home Theatre PC (HTPC) setup.
The bangle is stylishly displaying four buttons and a scroll wheel and sports [...]

Monster Home Theatre Remote – Retro Cool and Affordable (Unlike Other Things From Monster)

June 11, 2009 Click to read more →
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Monster unveiled plenty of new kit at the Consumer Electronics Association’s New York showcase including a super-thin cable for HDMI, high-speed cables for HDMI, a tabletop universal remote, and new speed tiers for its PowerNet networking solution.
To be honest it’s the controller from Monster that’s caught my eye purely because of its retro-ness.
I can’t find any [...]

Get Your Retro Nintendo on With The Komodo Adapter

May 22, 2009 Click to read more →
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Yessirreee!
Time to dust off those old Nintendo controllers and prepare to hook them up to your Wii (ma’am)
With Komodo’s Retro gaming adapter you can play those up-to-the-minute games but relive those halcyon days of the NES.
You’ll be able to connect your NES, SNES or N64 controllers to Nintendo’s latest.
Shaped like a small N64 [...]

Activision DJ Hero Controller Leaked on Twitter

May 7, 2009 Click to read more →
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This is apparantly the controller for Activision’s soon-to-be-released DJ Hero game.
Not suprisingly the controller takes the form of a turntable with buttons on it – I was kinda hoping for twin-decks with a mixer, but hey!
Two pics of this beast were tweeted from a Twitter account called “djhero” and, according to Kotaku, the images were later confirmed [...]

Blaze Arcade Stick Released in UK – Just The Thing For Street Fighter

May 5, 2009 Click to read more →
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BLAZE today announced the release of their latest PlayStation 3 accessory, the BLAZE Digital Arcade Stick. This fully featured 8 button arcade stick is perfect for all fighting games such as Street Fighter 4, with Turbo and Macro programmable function buttons, there will be no stopping you with this ultimate controller!
The sleek black design with [...]

Energizer Wiimote Induction Charger For When You Want to Keep it Sheathed

April 30, 2009 Click to read more →
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At last.
Energizer’s Wiimote Induction Charging System is a god-send if, when you play – you play safe
What I mean is; if you’re the type of person that values their friends, pets and the decor and utilise the rubber sleeves and wrist straps on your Wiimote then you know what a pain it is to recharge your [...]

Fingertip Mini Mini – Very Handy

March 26, 2009 Click to read more →
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Fingertip Mini Mini – is it just me that thinks this sounds like an ‘adult toy’?
Hmmmmmmmmm…………. guess so then.
Moving swiftly on………
The Fingertip Mini Mini trackball is in actual fact a nifty little replacement for a mouse when you’re out and about.
The Mini Mini supports all of the normal mouse functions like click, scroll and cursor [...]

Neurosky Mindset – Mind Powered Game Controller

March 26, 2009 Click to read more →
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Fancy controlling your games with the power of your mind?
Neurosky’s Mindset is  ready for PC gaming consumption starting in June according to the press release.
For those of you unaware of the Neurosky Mindset: It’s a gaming controller that monitors brainwaves and uses those readings to carry out specific actions within a game.
The demos include sliding boxes, lifting [...]

New iPod Shuffle Earphone / Headphone Adapter from Scosche

March 15, 2009 Click to read more →

Righty, you’ve probably read the bad news about the iPod Shuffle.
Yup.  Apple, in their wisdom, have moved all of the buttons from the Shuffle itself and put them on the earbuds cable.
So, now there’s plenty of manufacturers out there making their own versions especially for the Shuffle and for ca$h.
Fine.
But, like you no doubt, I [...]

Zeemote Bluetooth Game Controller Comes Alone

February 25, 2009 Click to read more →

Zeemote is now going solo.
The Bluetooth game controller for mobile phone games is finally available as a stand-alone product rather than part of a mobile gaming bundle.
The Zeemote shares a lot with Nintendo’s WiiMote apart from it’s wireless and capable of controlling games without being attached to the end of a motion-sensing remote control.
There’s some pretty sweet mobile games [...]

Wii Funchucks Chucks The Nin Nunchucks

February 5, 2009 Click to read more →

Here’s some rather fun-looking Funchuckage.
They come courtesy of Logic3.
The FunChuks are basically miniature, brightly colored Wii nunchuks.
They’ll cost you $20 a pop and for that you get a pretty standard Wii nunchuk replacement – well, standard apart from the extra “C” button and the skittles-like colour scheme.
The other addition seems to be that each FunChuck [...]

iPhone Gets A Real Control Pad – iControlpad

January 19, 2009 Click to read more →

When I first heard about this iControlPad I though it was just one of those “ideas” that would stay just that – an idea.
But now that there’s a least 1 actual, real-life, working version it kinda points at it being a possibility rather than a dream. 
On the YouTube vid you can see the iControlPad wrapped snuggly around an iPhone [...]

VAX77 – Folding Full-Size Synth

December 24, 2008 Click to read more →

Keyboard players.
Ever since joining my first band in 1989 playing such joys as Van Halen’s Jump, Don’t You Forget About Me by Simple Minds and Incommunicado by Marillion, keyboard players have tended to be the most geeky of the band bunch.
They generally had the money, the latest toys and took up the most power points.
It [...]

Logitech G13 Game Pad and G18 Keyboard – Game On!

December 11, 2008 Click to read more →

Check it out gamers!
Logitech has announced that  its G13 Gameboard should be out in a month or so.
Rockin a trio of game modes, a built-in 160 x 43 pixel LCD for stats and messaging, 25 programmable keys, and a programmable joystick, Logitech confidently states that the G13
“offers up to 87 ways for you to control your game.”
It also [...]

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