Fresh from this year’s Outdoor Retailer expo comes SteriPEN’s new Sidewinder portable water purifier. You can leave the batteries at home on your next trip, as the Sidewinder only needs a good cranking to power its germ-killing UV bulb.
Let’s get a rather important fact out of the way first: it’s just a concept. Little boys reading this should cross it off their list to Father Christmas now, before their hopes rise even higher.
Microsoft’s SideWinder gaming mice get more homogenised every release: The $US40 X3 looks normal, almost boring, more Clone Wars than Darth Vader. It’s got 2000DPI, on-the-fly switching and a single thumb button (WTF). [Microsoft]
Gamers have avoided wireless mice like girls with cooties, fearing the grim fate of death and teabagging induced by milliseconds of lag. Razer’s Mamba and Microsoft SideWinder X8 promise total wireless freedom, sans teabagging.
A wireless mouse is blasphemy for most gamers–Logitech’s got the G7, but Razer won’t go near wireless–so naturally, that’s exactly what Microsoft’s revived, genre-busting SideWinder is doing with the X8. Not only is it wireless–using a 2.4GHz connection, like the G7–it escalates the silly DPI arms race, taking it up to 4000dpi to match the current champ, Razer’s Lachesis, though it uses Microsoft’s new BlueTrack laser tech that’ll let you mouse on a Jedi master’s bald head.
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. galleryPost('x6lightning', 3, '');
