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New Dell Keyboard and Mouse Are Destined for Millions of Cubicles Across the Globe

When we’re talking office PC accessories today, there’s boring, and then there’s Dell boring. Regular boring gets you a quick trip to irrelevancy. Dell boring, on the other hand, gets your product onto the desktops of a million cubicle drones the world over. And that’s probably where we’ll see these pre-release products from Dell. The…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Lightning Review: Microsoft SideWinder X6 Gaming Keyboard

The Gadget: Microsoft’s SideWinder X6, their first ever bona fide SideWinder gaming keyboard, designed especially for Sith Lords with red adjustable backlighting, a pisston of macros and a hot swappable number/macro keypad. The Price: $80 The Verdict: A really fabulous effort. Since coming back from the dead, Microsoft’s SideWinder has been making some bold, unique…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

Typewriter Monster Mask, Grrrr! (Arg)

After artist Jeremy Mayer created this series of typewriter masks, he said, “I’m not going for whimsy. So I will probably never do a set again.” That’s a shame. Wired has a full profile of the artist along with a complete gallery of his intricate human-sized typewriter cyborg sculptures. There are worse ways to spend…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Microsoft Patents Page Up and Page Down

Just so everyone knows, Microsoft has been awarded a patent for Page Up/Page Down. Yup, it’s theirs now. They called it. You can’t touch it. And if anyone takes issue with the clear fact that Microsoft invented hitting a button to skip to the next page of text, you’ll have to take it up with…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Logitech’s Illuminated Keyboard Is Its Skinniest Yet

Logitech’s last keyboard offering was the wireless touchpad diNovo Edge,Mac Edition, and though this new keyboard is neither wireless nor touchpad-enabled, it’s got two things going for it: it’s got back-lit keys for night typing, and it’s just 0.37-inches deep. That’s skinny, though not quite Apple keyboard aluminum skinny. Due in October in the US…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Question of the Day: How Fast Can You Type? (Test Yourself)

With all of that time spent on the computer, I would imagine that most of you can type at a pretty good clip. Back in elementary school I managed a personal best of 88 WPM (Not that great, but I still had to cheat by working over the same paragraph for an hour or so…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Crayola EZ Type Keyboard: When Normal Keyboards Are Just Too Confusing

There are only four acceptable reasons I can think of for buying this $30 dollar Crayola EZ Type keyboard: 1) You’re a little slow. 2) You’re under the age of five (and still maybe a little slow). 3) You have a kid under the age of five (and you’re both a little slow). 4) You…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Gaming on the Death Star: Microsoft SideWinder X6 Keyboard With Switchable Keypad and X5 Mouse

I don’t know who’s designing Microsoft’s gaming hardware after their brief hiatus from the market, but they’re insane, in the best possible way-they’ve actually got some inspired, unique form factors, besides a huge Vader hard-on. The first SideWinder keyboard ever, the X6, has a macro/numberpad that’ll dock on either side and takes the number of…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Logitech MX 1100 Mouse Makes Cordless Wave Desktop Reach Pro Level

Logitech is updating one of its most popular mouse and keyboard sets, the Wave Cordless Desktop with a slightly touched up Wave wireless keyboard-new paint and a longer, ridiculous three-year battery life-and a whole new mouse, the MX1100, which is a mutant hybrid of the oooold MX1000 and the more recent Revolution mice. It lets…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Lightning Review: Logitech DiNovo Edge Keyboard Mac Edition

The Gadget: The Mac edition of Logitech’s Bluetooth wireless DiNovo Edge keyboard, which has been around in its Windows state since 2006. The Mac version has Mac-customized keys like Expose and Spotlight, as well as media playback keys and an on-board trackpad. https://gizmodo.com/logitech-makes-wireless-dinovo-edge-keyboard-for-macs-t-5033687 The Price: $159 The Verdict: High quality for a semi-premium price. The…

Reviews Jason Chen

The First US Optimus Store Is a Kiosk in NY

Optimus’ first offline retail location in the US has just been opened in New York, but unlike their gigantic Optimus Maximus keyboards, their meatspace location is tiny. Locals can run down to the RCS Computer Experience on 575 Madison Ave. and E 56th Street to try out an Optimus Maximus for themselves, or to check…

Tech News Jason Chen

Optimus Maximus Keyboard Gets Coffee Bath, Apparently Survives

It was only a matter of time. This image popped up on an Optimus Live Journal group, showing the sad results of a clumsy morning with a steaming mug and a $1,600 Optimus Maximus keyboard, which is one place we didn’t take our review-yet. Not much info on what happened or whether this was a…

Tech News John Mahoney

Thanko’s Cooling Fan Keyboard Cools Your Over-Heated Wrists

Bless those guys at Thanko—they’ve been wondering what else to apply fan-cooling tech to, and have come up with this keyboard that cools something you never thought needed it: your wrists. The gizmo has three fans built into the wrist-rest area of a standard USB keyboard, ready to puff sweet air at your sweaty wrists…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Optimus Pultius is a Leaner, Meaner, 15-key LED Pad

Fresh from the Optimus blog is the Optimus Pultius which shrinks the Optimus Maximus down to 15 keys, and is meant as an add-on to your existing keyboard setup. It’s expected to be available at the end of 2008 or early 2009. No word on pricing, but hopefully a 30 year mortgage won’t be a…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Microsoft Releasing SideWinder Keyboard in September?

Is Microsoft continuing their SideWinder brand revival—started with a mouse—with the release of a keyboard later this year? Perhaps, but this SideWinder X6 seems to be a pretty interesting keyboard in any case. It’s got red (perhaps glowing?) keys, a detatchable num-pad, programmable buttons and TWO gigantic knobs on the right. We’re thinking those knobs…

Tech News Jason Chen

DIY Clove 2 Glove Allows You To Type One-Handed, Sans Keyboard

Oh, how I love complicated DIY projects that impress your geeky friends but make simple tasks more difficult! Case in point, this Clove 2 glove that allows users to type without a keyboard using a convoluted set of hand gestures. The glove communicates with your computer using Bluetooth and custom software that translates your finger…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Keyboard Haptics Mod Turns Shrill PC Speaker Into Soothing Vibration

Modder and frequent terminal user Matt was getting mighty tired of his piercing PC speaker going off with every typo, so he rigged up a nifty DIY haptics setup using a Microsoft keyboard and an old cellphone vibrator triggered by the scroll lock LED. Unless you’re playing Oregon Trail in your elementary school’s computer lab…

Tech News John Mahoney

Logic 3 Wireless Wii Keyboard Activates Couch Typing Mode

Why be tethered to your Wii when the rest of your controllers are free to swing about and fly around your living room? Logic 3’s 32-key wireless keyboard lets you enter in names, messages and Wii Friend Codes like an expert, not a spastic ten-year-old swatting at invisible flies. It’s £13.99 ($27) when it’s released…

Tech News Jason Chen

Numeric Keypad Chairs Provide Computational Comfort

These numeric keypad chairs are pretty amazing in a nerd chic sort of way. If you tried cramming these into your 700-square-foot bachelor pad, you’d look like the biggest tool alive. But in a place with a million square feet and that white, minimalist vibe, they’d be pretty amazing. These appear to be concepts, but…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Question of the Day: What Type of Keyboard Is the Best to Use?

After reading some of your comments in my review of the Das Keyboard Professional, it got me thinking about the countless keyboard variations out there and the differences between the QWERTY and Dvorak layouts. So the question today is simple-what type of keyboard is the best to use? https://gizmodo.com/lightning-review-the-clicky-das-keyboard-professiona-5016763 Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if…

Tech News Sean Fallon

New Dell Keyboard and Mouse Are Destined for Millions of Cubicles Across the Globe

Lightning Review: Microsoft SideWinder X6 Gaming Keyboard

Typewriter Monster Mask, Grrrr! (Arg)

Microsoft Patents Page Up and Page Down

Logitech’s Illuminated Keyboard Is Its Skinniest Yet

Question of the Day: How Fast Can You Type? (Test Yourself)

Crayola EZ Type Keyboard: When Normal Keyboards Are Just Too Confusing

Gaming on the Death Star: Microsoft SideWinder X6 Keyboard With Switchable Keypad and X5 Mouse

Logitech MX 1100 Mouse Makes Cordless Wave Desktop Reach Pro Level

Lightning Review: Logitech DiNovo Edge Keyboard Mac Edition

The First US Optimus Store Is a Kiosk in NY

Optimus Maximus Keyboard Gets Coffee Bath, Apparently Survives

Thanko’s Cooling Fan Keyboard Cools Your Over-Heated Wrists

Optimus Pultius is a Leaner, Meaner, 15-key LED Pad

Microsoft Releasing SideWinder Keyboard in September?

DIY Clove 2 Glove Allows You To Type One-Handed, Sans Keyboard

Keyboard Haptics Mod Turns Shrill PC Speaker Into Soothing Vibration

Logic 3 Wireless Wii Keyboard Activates Couch Typing Mode

Numeric Keypad Chairs Provide Computational Comfort

Question of the Day: What Type of Keyboard Is the Best to Use?

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