Gizmodo: pelican

Lug a 24-inch iMac with iMCruzer Case

Mark Wilson — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:01:15 EST

For those who need to lug around a desktop computer, Pelican makes "portable" cases for industrial use. Their newest offering supports 24-inch iMacs. It's water and air tight and promises to be indestructible. So while others might see the iMCruzer as the perfect trade show accessory, we see it as a perfect companion in wilderness excursions or even a simple trip to Starbucks. Just add a few car batteries, and with the $495 iMCruzer case your two-foot iMac is basically a laptop. Live it up, yuppies. [product via crunchgear]

Pelican PS3 Charging Station Stores, Electrifies Two Controllers

Jason Chen — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:22:08 EDT

Keeping our PS3 controller charged is such a pain that we always have to plug it in whenever we're watching Blu-ray movies. Pelican's Charge and Store eliminates lazy charging syndrome by providing both a charger and a stand, so you can keep your gaming area organized at the same time. The retail price is $29, which isn't too bad since it juices two controllers at the same time—and seeing how short the included PS3 charge cable is, it'll save you a number of treks across the living room as well. [Pelican via IGN]

Pelican 7060: Own the Official LAPD Flashlight

Jason Chen — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:30:19 EDT

If you regularly kick down doors and beat people over the head with hard things, you're either part of the LAPD or an action movie star. Either way, you should really be carrying this Pelican 7060 LED flashlight, the official flashlight of the Los Angeles Police Department. If you thought your Mag Light was both tough and bright, then you owe it to yourself (and your victims) to grab one of these. It even has a momentary pulse mode to disorient children. [Pelican]

Pelican's PS2 to PS3 Controller Adapter Hands-On

Jason Chen — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:06:18 EDT

One of the main complaints about PS3's backward compatibility for PS2 games is the inability to use custom PS2 controllers like the DDR dance pads and the Guitar Hero guitars. For $14.99, Pelican gives you a cheap way to get your old controllers to work with your old games on your new system.

On the whole, standard PS2 controllers worked fine for us in games like Final Fantasy and Shadow of the Colossus, but for some reason one of our really old Dualshock controllers was super-sensitive when in the adapter. Using a new controller fixed the problems. The big "but" in this setup? No rumble.

Even with rumble-enabled games and a rumble-enabled controller, there's no rumble to be found. Darn.

Pelican also claims that this works with both Guitar Hero 1 and Guitar Hero 2, but we only own Guitar Hero 1 (the second we have for Xbox 360), so we could only test there. The result? Fantastic. It was just like on the PS2. Hammer-ons and pull-offs worked (yeah, we can actually do these—hold your applause) and so did the whammy. When playing Guitar Hero 2, you have to use convoluted strumming and button presses in order to advance in the menus, plus, hammer-ons and pulloffs don't work. Whammy does work, however.

The adapter itself has two modes, a regular mode for standard controllers and the Guitar Hero 1 guitar, and a Guitar Hero 2 mode for Guitar Hero 2. When playing GH1 on GH2 mode, everything went to hell, but fixed itself when we set it on the correct "normal" mode.

There's even a "PS Home" button on the adapter that you need to press whenever you load up a PS2 game in order to sync the controller. It's already a pain in the ass when you have to do this with the SIXAXIS, but having to walk up to the console and press the button every time you go in and out of a PS2 game is horrible. We blame Sony for this one, since Pelican did the best they could. Luckily, hitting the analog button will bring you the PS Home menu when you're inside a game.

All in all, $14 is a cheap price to pay to get GH1 and Dance Dance Revolution to play on your PS2. But if you're looking for better Guitar Hero 2 support ~~or rumble support~~, you probably want to wait for the next revision. – Jason Chen

Update: Turns out it's actually Sony's restrictions that doesn't allow this to use rumble. Ouch, Sony. Ouch. As for Guitar Hero 2, the adapter does work for the game, but you have to go through a small setup process. We'll try and get a copy to test for ourselves.

Update 2: Hammerons and pulloffs don't work with Guitar Hero 2, but whammy does.

Product Page [Gamestop]

Pelican's PlayStation 3 Cooler

Jason Chen — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:00:29 EDT

Despite the PS3 not having any heating problems (as far as we know), Pelican's getting ready to release a cooler attachment for the PS3. The unit will slip on next to the disc drive, run on its own AC power and supposedly lower temperatures by up to 15 degrees.

Luckily, the cooler's design is just like the PS3's, so you're not going to get a gigantic inconsistency. Hopefully this won't have all the problems Nyko's Xbox 360 cooler did, since this uses a separate AC adapter instead of a pass-through. Speaking of Nyko, their previously announced Intercooler still hasn't shipped yet. – Jason Chen

Pelican Air Flow Cooler for PS3 [IGN]

Pelican Flashlight: Scarier Than a Gun

Mark Wilson — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:15:20 EDT

See that badass guy above holding the gun? Well that's no gun—that's a flashlight. Ok, it's really a gun. But the new Pelican 7060 is still hardcore enough to fool you for a moment, and that's all that matters.

Designed for the LAPD, the Pelican 7060 uses 10,000 hour LED bulbs that run for 90 minutes per optional car charge. Plus, the weight is 50% lighter than standard issue police lights (we're guessing due to smaller batteries and lightweight Xenoy resin body). But the feature that we're most excited about:

First-of-its-kind three-way switch technology gives officers a choice to readily switch from patrol to tactical mode in seconds.

Despite having little clue what this means, we still hope to pick one up when the Pelican 7060 is available to the public this June.

– Mark Wilson

Pelican 7060 [Pelican]

Pelican's Xbox 360 Air Flo Cooler is a Port-a-Holic

Brian Lam — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:33:51 EST

The Xbox 360 runs hot, so all those silly aftermarket fans came in useful after all. But never as useful as this multiport, Xbox cooler. IGN gear's Mohawk'd Gerry Block (He went to Columbia, which had an 8% acceptance rate, but its not a big deal to him) says the Air Flo has composite, s-video, component, and VGA, as well as a 4-port USB hub, and pass throughs for the ethernet jack, and optical and stereo plugs.

What you have here is a way to use standard VGA and component cables with your Xbox, bypassing the expensive official cables, for 29 dollars. –Brian Lam

Pelican Air Flo 360 [IGN]

Pelican NERF PS2 Controller: Sexy Design

Mark Wilson — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 16:47:41 EDT

At Gizmodo, we haven't kept up with NERF much since discovering that "playing doctor" was a much better game. But with videogames coming in at a close second (translation: definite first), NERF's foray into technology has gotten us interested again. Their new PS2 controller is both stylish and NERF-squishy.

But we ask you, is IGN talking about the new NERF controller or playing doctor?

"...the softest, but seem to have some flexible tabs buried inside to provide a bit of rigidity"

"...not too thick or spongy enough to interfere..."

"...progressed to a drop-kick and some light abuse."

"...we can imagine you could damage it if you really nailed one..."

"...it felt much better to hold than the usual hard-plastic..."

We just can't wait for more NERF electronics. Seriously, why is one of the best-looking pieces of tech around a 3rd party PS2 controller? – Mark Wilson

Pelican NERF PS2 Controller [IGN]

Pen, Meet Light

tgrumet — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 13:35:20 EDT

Nothing really thrilling about the new Pelican L41830 LED penlight, but it does come in handy. Using three AAAA batteries, the penlight lasts for 50 hours and promises that it's the brightest of it's kind (with 8 lumens of light). It also weighs about 1.2 ounces.