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Xbox Elite Series 3 Controller Specs Leaked Out of Microsoft’s Own Design Lab
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, Microsoft, Rumors, Video Games,
Microsoft has not announced an Xbox Elite Series 3. Its own Design Lab appears to have described one anyway, down to the thumbstick options.
A Reddit user says they got into the backend of Spectrum Customizer, the configuration system that powers Xbox Design Lab, and pulled out configuration records and 3D component models for a controller carried internally under the codename Edessa. Digital Foundry reported the find. The files are no longer reachable, and Microsoft has confirmed none of what follows.
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Razer’s $50 Reclusa X Mini Is the Cheapest Way Into the Keyboard Rabbit Hole
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: PC / Laptop, Peripherals,
Fifty bucks normally buys you a gaming keyboard you put up with. Razer's Reclusa X Mini 65%, announced Tuesday, costs $49.99 and lets you pull the switches out with your fingers and drop different ones in. No soldering iron required.
Hot-swap sockets, which take most standard 3-pin and 5-pin mechanical switches, usually show up on boards costing two or three times this much. Razer put them on its cheapest mechanical keyboard and made it the first product in a new Reclusa line.
Nintendo’s Zelda 40th Anniversary Pro Controller Comes with a Display Stand
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Nintendo built a controller that comes with its own display stand, which tells you exactly what it expects you to do with it.
The Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller: The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition showed up at today's Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct and lands October 29. The right grip is green, the left is black, a gold Triforce runs across the middle of the face, the trigger buttons are gold, and there's a small Hylian crest tucked up top. It launches the same day as the matching Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition Switch 2 console and a carrying case with screen protector, both wearing the same gold Triforce on black (we've got a separate post on the console).
TCL Printed a 28-Inch Tri-Fold OLED Monitor That Folds Down to 16 Inches
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Displays, Peripherals,
Portable monitors have a size problem. The ones big enough to be useful are a pain to carry, and the ones easy to carry are barely worth unpacking. TCL's display arm brought a possible way out to IFA 2026 in Berlin: a 28-inch ultrawide OLED panel that folds twice and shrinks down to roughly a 16-inch package.
You can't buy it. This is a prototype, and CSOT has been hauling it around the trade show circuit since MWC back in March, with no price and no release date attached. What makes it worth a second look is how the screen was made. Instead of the vacuum evaporation process behind nearly every OLED you own, an inkjet printer laid the glowing material down.
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Apple’s Magic Keyboards Finally Match the MacBook’s Keycaps
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Peripherals,
Look at the modifier keys on a MacBook and then at the ones on a desktop Magic Keyboard. The laptop shows symbols. The desktop keyboard spells out the words. Apple has been shipping that mismatch for years, and today it quietly fixed it.
All four Magic Keyboards now use MacBook-style keycaps with symbols instead of words. They went on sale immediately, alongside the new Mac mini and Mac Studio, and the prices did not move.
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Deal of the Day: 33% off Doxie One scanner
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, Hot Deals, PC / Laptop, Peripherals,
Today in the Gear Live Deals Shop we're offering a 33% discount on the Doxie One portable scanner. Computer scanners can be large and cumbersome, so when we saw that the Doxie One portable scanner was on sale, we had to make that our Deal of the Day. What's so cool about the Doxie One? All you need is an SD card (and it even comes with one) to start scanning--no need to connect it to a computer or wireless network and hope it works. Just scan away, then take the SD card and plug it into your Mac or PC. It'll even OCR your documents to make them searchable PDFs if you'd like!
Don’t forget, if you’re looking for other deals, be sure to check out our Newegg Promo Code thread. Oh, and if you're on Twitter, be sure to follow @TechPromos for the latest deals.
iPad mini keyboard review: Belkin FastFit vs. Logitech Ultrathin
Posted by Jason Chen Categories: Accessories, Apple, Features, Peripherals, Product Reviews,
It's 2014 and we're all familiar with iPad keyboard cases by now. They're designed to protect your iPad's screen while giving you the option of a physical keyboard when you need to do some heavy typing. For the iPad Air, these keyboards are more or less interchangeable. But for the iPad mini, because of its reduced size, keyboard markers have a hard decision to make as far as the keyboard layout goes.
The Belkin FastFit Keyboard Case for iPad mini (pictured in black) feels more like a traditional full-sized keyboard, with larger number keys compared to the Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Mini (pictured in white). Both have arrow keys and proper Command, Alt/Option, Function keys that let issue quick commands like changing the volume, pausing playback and activating Siri. Both keyboards have laptop-style keys that feel nice to type on, and both have standard magnets that attach to your iPad mini. We put these two keyboards head-to-head in this iPad mini keyboard review.
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Great deal: Xbox 360 Play & Charge Kit with special edition controller for $20 off
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, Hot Deals, Microsoft, Peripherals, Video Games,
In the need for another Xbox 360 controller, you'll wanna check out this deal on the Play & Charge Special Edition. You get the silver Xbox 360 controller with transforming d-pad in this package, along with the play and charge cable, and a battery. We're big fans of fighting games here at Gear Live, and we think the transforming d-pad controller is the best version of the Xbox 360 peripheral yet. The standard price on this package is $64.99, but this bundle is available for $44.99 with free shipping, saving you 31% in the process.
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Type Cover gives Microsoft Surface a tactile keyboard
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, Handhelds, Microsoft, PC / Laptop, Peripherals,
The Touch Cover is a futuristic multitouch keyboard accessory for the Microsoft Surface tablet that brings a thin profile and a measure of protection, but for those of you who'd prefer a tried and true tactile keyboard with real trackpad buttons, you'll wanna get a look at the Type Cover. Since the Touch Cover is a capacitive touch keyboard without any moving keys, it's the slimmer of the two, measuring in at 3mm thin compared to the Type Cover's 5mm thickness.
AMD Radeon HD 7970 review
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, PC / Laptop, Product Reviews, Video Games,
The perpetual war for supremacy between AMD and Nvidia constantly leaves enthusiasts dodging shrapnel: When you want the best video card you can afford, why buy one now instead of waiting for the better one the competing chipset designer will undoubtedly release in a few months? This leaves reviewers in a tough spot, too, as we're constantly proclaiming that nearly every new card is the fastest ever. But because you can only live in the world you live in, we're obliged to go there. So, here goes once again: The just-released AMD Radeon HD 7970 ($549 list) is the latest fastest and most feature-rich single-GPU card ever, surpassing our previous Editors' Choice winner, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 580.
Though we have little doubt that Nvidia will yank back that title with its next generation of cards, the 7970 is an impressive achievement for the moment. (It's rumored to become widely available by early January of 2012.) The inaugural member of the Southern Islands family, it utilizes a fresh architecture AMD refers to as "Graphics Core Next." Based on a new 28nm process technology and utilizing more than 4.3 billion transistors, Graphics Core Next uses a revised instruction set architecture, gives each compute unit the ability to simultaneously execute instructions from multiple kernels, and delivers an increased number of instructions per clock cycle per square millimeter of GPU space. The result, so AMD claims, is "designed for high utilization, high throughput, and multitasking."
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