Mad Catz amBX Gaming Lights Spice up Your Gaming Experience Forever
Today comes word of a new product from those wily engineers who brought us the RAT 7 gaming mouse: the Cyborg Gaming Lights with amBX Technology! Unlike their last line of gaming mice, their latest creation is not an input device at all. In fact, you don't use it to control your system…you use this USB connected peripheral to control your gaming experience! Even the name Gaming Lights with amBX Technology want to make this point extremely clear as amBX stands for ambient experiences and what it is, is a set of lights you plug into a free USB port that help change the ambient lighting around your monitor and gaming environment. More importantly, as your games lighting and "mod" changes, so too will the light these USB lights emit change. We can see the "creep" factor really getting dialled to 11 in survival horror games when using these! The idea of "mood lighting" certainly predates (at the very least) PC gaming, yet this does not mean the idea of ambient lighting that changes based on what you are doing is a bad one. People have been using light to set the mood since the dawn of time and to be blunt, anything that can potentially make your entertainment not only more immersive but also more enjoyable is certainly worth a second look. With that being said, it is going not be right for everyone as these lights obviously require a dark room for full effect. More importantly their biggest weakness we can see with the Cyborg Gaming Lights with amBX Technology is that it requires games to be able to issue commands to the USB attached lights (via amBX script commands sent over the USB connection) so its not even going to work in all scenarios (especially older games) for people who want this extra element added to their games. Expect the Cyborg Gaming lights to start shipping sometime this summer.
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Data Locker DL3 - Professional Grade Secure Drive for Professional Grade Paranoids
While most of us will never store valuable documents, let alone "Top Secret" documents, on an external drive, a lot of people however do use external storage for storing pretty important files! While in the grand scheme of things you personal diary, or favourite "pictures" you have collected off the Internet are not all that life and death important, you still don't want them ending up in the wrong hands. For many people, this means their portable drive needs to be not only robust, secure but also easy to use. We don't want to mess around with complex software or anything more complex than a (at most) combination lock yet want it to be safe from (at the very least) script kiddies. Luckily, Data Locker makes some pretty nifty external drives that fit all three main criteria: easy to use, secure and durable. Their latest model, the Data Locker DL3 not only sports a touch screen with randomised number layout for locking and unlocking the DL3 (so you can not only enter your password directly on the device itself but that thieves cant just dust it for prints and then guess at it) and hardware based encryption/decryption (AES 256-bit XTS built into the device) but also boasts a USB 3.0 interface! This in combination of sizes raging from (SSD) 128GB to 1TB (HDD) should make it very tempting to road warriors and paranoid users alike. With that being said, expect all that power and ease of use to cost as the Data Locker DL3 starting price is $299, making it a tad on the pricey side! Expect to be able to buy one of these high tech bad boys starting in March.
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ScentScape, Movies so Immersing You'll Have to Smell to Believe
While not as visually impressive as all of the 3D releases from CES, ScentSciences wants to appeal to your nose over your eyes. Packed into a system about the size of a loaf of bread, the ScentScape Programmable Aroma Generator wants to immerse you just a little more in your next movie experience. Movies created with their proprietary ScentEditor software can release smells on cue to make your nose believe you are really there, like smelly subtitles. This system could really give your next customer presentation that extra sizzle, literally, by smelling like bacon. The desktop USB version shown at CES featured a scent cartridge, similar to a printer ink cartridge, that can hold up to 20 distinct smells. The packs can be custom ordered or be media specific to accompany a movie or show that integrates this system. The cartridges should last for up to 200 hours of use, which is a lot of movies or product demos. At only $69 for the system and $19 for the editor software, smart sales people will start using these immediately. Tons of studies showing the link between scent and memory should make a very strong argument for giving it a try.
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