Check out the Guitar Grip for your Nintendo DS.
The Guitar Grip has four buttons an is designed to be used with the ‘Guitar Hero on Tour’ which will be released on the Nintendo DS this Summer.
The game is played with one hand on the Guitar Grip and you hold your DS sideways and the strumming is done with a pick on the touchscreen.
Head on over to Guitar Hero on Tour for more details.
via Engadget and Videogames Zone
The guys over at Colorware have added the Nintendo DS Lite to their lineup of gadgets that get their multi coloured treatment.
As usual you have the choice to send your DS Lite in to Colorware or you can buy one from them full customised.
Prices start at $99 for custom painting your own up to $300 for a brand new custom painted Nintendo DS Lite with all parts painted.
Check out this new pro gaming keyboard and mouse from BTC.
The Cheetah Gaming Keyboard features 17 individual keys specifically for gaming input commands. The unique gaming keys are ergonomically designed and laid out on a gaming wheel for adjustable gaming positions. The keyboard features two sets of user customized commands configured in A and B memory modes, and can be setup for different games, or within the same game for different character controls.
The Cheetah Gaming Keyboard use patented multicolored backlight technology that can be enabled at the press of a hotkey. If the speed of key presses increase during intense gaming, the color of the backlight will gradually turn red. When the keyboard is left idle mode, the backlight of the keyboard will glow blue.
This Laser Gaming Mouse reigns supreme with a true 2000dpi Laser sensor, which enables movement speeds of 2 times that of a standard 800dpi optical sensor. In the meanwhile, 2000 dpi Gamer – Grade Laser Engine for enhanced tracking on a wider range of surfaces.
Gamers may now use 3 DPI Shift to speed up or slow down the pace of the mouse at their fingertips. Click to quickly shift from 800,1300 to 2000 DPI as the scroll wheel changes color -800(green) / 1300(blue) / 2000(red) dpi resolution between shifts.
It also provides two programmable gaming buttons – Virtual-Run button and Wave Action button. In game play this powerful and useful Wave Action button, fires forever with just one click, and holding Virtual-run button, let you instant 180 degree turnaround to easily defeat your opponent.
Like a Cheetah attacking its prey this gaming keyboard and mouse kit will enable you to play games with breathtaking speed and ultimate precision ! Join the gaming elite using the 9051H Cheetah Professional Gaming Keyboard and Mouse Kit — your competition doesn’t stand a chance.
No word on pricing or availability as yet.
Check out this new one handed Xbox 360 controlled from moder Ben Heck.
This is a revised version of Ben’s original one handed Xbox 360 controller, which now features a more ergonomic grip.
It features a swivelling trigger are, and it even has a PlayStation D-pad integrated into the controller.
This is just a prototype at the moment, so no word on whether it will go into production.
Head on over to BenHeck.com for more details and pictures.
Fancy adding some excitement to your gaming, but don’t fancy getting electrocuted by the Mindwire V5, then check out the 3rd Space FPS Vest.
So how does it work? Well, eight, count ‘em, eight, pneumatic cells are embedded in various spots around the vest. As the vest communicates with compatible games (via the included software), a special compressor fires air into the cells using appropriate levels of force to accurately simulate the on-screen action. So a direct hit from a rifle will elicit a sharp thud whilst a girly punch will summon an appropriately feeble ‘wumph’. Get blasted by some alien shotgun and your entire upper body will receive an almighty whack from all eight cells. Ouch! The jacket won’t bruise you but you’ll certainly know you’ve been tagged. And if you get shot from behind or slapped on the back, the vest responds accordingly. Yow!
Yes, you will look pretty daft sitting in front of your computer wearing a flak jacket but who cares about that when you’re reeling from three direct hits to the chest and a rata-tat-tat of machine gun fire from behind. It’s just like the real thing minus all that pain and dying business.
The 3rd Space FPS Vest comes bundled with its own game disc, 3rd Space Incursion, plus a copy of Activision’s Call of Duty 2, but it’s also compatible with stacks of other games including Quake 4 and Medal of Honour Airborne.
The 3rd Space FPS Vest comes in either black or camouflage and is available to buy online for $300 from Firebox.
Check out this cool synthesizer app for the Nintendo DS, the Korg DS-10 Synth.
The Korg DS-10 has two patchable virtual synths with two oscillators each, a drum machine, a sequencer, and a full range of effects.
You will also be able to link up with other your friends Nintendo DS wirelessly, check out the video of this cool app in action.
The Korg DS-10 will go on sale in Japan soon for around $50, no word on when it will be arriving in the US and Europe.
via Engadget
If you don’t get enough excitement from your gaming, then maybe you should try out the MidwireV5.
The MindwireV5 works by giving you tiny electric shocks through the five self adhesive pads that connect to your arms, legs and stomach, you then experience the sensory feedback that mirrors the game action.
It works ‘out of the box’ with most current PS2, XBOX and Gamecube games, PC games which support force feedback, and next generation consoles in certain configurations.The Mindwire-V5 uses similar technology to existing TENS machines and Muscle Toning devices. The device is battery driven only, and incorporates layers of safety features from its conceptual design through to its hardware and software, to provide a safe user experience, as well as conforming to all applicable European safety standards.
The MindwireV5 gaming system is available to by online for $99.99 (About $200) from Mindwire-v5.com.
via Pocket Lint and Cheap Laptops
Some clever guy called Lars Pontoppidan has come up with a version of Tetris on an Oscilloscope.
The game is just Tetris marathon with a gradually increasing speed, and the score is simply the number of lines removed. The speed, however, is not related to number of lines removed, but to the number of line removing rounds – each time dropping a brick causes lines to be removed. So, to get a high score, one must zap a great number of lines each time, and of course be able to control a high speed.
Check out this video of it in action.
If you own a Wii and miss your NES light gun, then this mod might be for you.
The guys over at AcidMods have hacked together a Wiimote and an NES Light gun to make this cool controller for your Wii.
The Nintendo Gun provided a better point and shoot mechanism than the add on modules that are available for the Wiimote. This hack allows you to adapt one of the original Nintendo Guns to work with the Wiimote. Since the Wiimote uses an IR camera to look at the sensor bar that sensor needs to be removed and installed in the tip of the gun.
Check out this video of it in action.
AcidMods via HackaWii and Hacked Gadgets
Check out this fun PC Darts Game, from Epoch.
It comes with a dart board, that plugs into your PC via USB.
There is also software which keeps score. The guys over at Akihabara News have made a video of it in action, check it out.
Epoch PC Dart – Test by Akihabaranews
Uploaded by AkihabaraNews
The Epoch PC Darts Game is available in Japan for around $175.
via Akihabara News
Not happy with the battery life of your PSP? well Sony has a new battery pack which will give you up to 11 hours of continuous gaming.
This new battery pack has almost double the capacity of the standard one than comes with the PSP, and it will give from between 7 to 11 hours of continuous gaming.
This new battery pack will only work with the new PSP (PSP-2000), and will go on sale in Japan in March for around $50.
via New Launches
Check out this amazing Xbox 360 Elite mod, from Ben Heck.
This portable Xbox 360 Elite features a Hlo 3 Theme, and is built from the internals of the Xbox Elite.
There is a 120GB hard drive, the new 65nm CPU and a special DMI to DVI connection.
It also features a built in Xbox Live camera and Wi-Fi, check out this video of it in action.
I have to say this is one of the most amazing mods I have seen.
via Technabob
