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Perihperal Vision: Nyko Charge Base IC Hands-on/Butter Cookie Tutorial
Peripheral Vision is the name of our ongoing sporadic journey into the wonderful, oft-terrifying world of third-party peripherals. Think of it as neither preview or review but rather a ... meditation on the curious object in question. Enjoy. When the holidays roll around, the gamers who buy everything they want throughout the year might find themselves stymied asked for a wish list. Today, we put the Nyko Charge Base IC through its paces, and it looks like a great way to pad your list to Santa. The Wiimote charger uses induction, which not only alleviates the need to plug everything in, but -- as you'll see in the above video -- also looks really slick. Also, to help justify this video's existence, we teach you how to make butter cookies.
Peripheral Vision: Rocketfish Rapid Fire PS3 Controller
Peripheral Vision is the name of our ongoing sporadic journey into the wonderful, oft-terrifying world of third-party peripherals. Think of it as neither preview or review but rather a ... meditation on the curious object in question. Enjoy. We don't do a lot of critiquing of controllers, we know, but as stacks of them continue to pile up at HQ, it occurred to us that you might be as daunted in the store aisle as we are staring at this pile of plastic. So, in the spirit of making you a more informed consumer, here's a look at the Rocketfish Rapid Fire PS3 controller. If you're interested in more snappy peripheral analysis from the experts at Joystiq, let us know in the comments section below.
Peripheral Vision
Happy days iPhone users, more peripherals are seeing the light of day for your lovely handsets and we're doing the gruntwork of bringing some of them to you. This week we see a new case hitting the shelves, a pair of reworked headphones -- odd, but tickle-our-fancy-geeky -- a portable speaker set, and a really odd retro gadget. Have fun and if you have any suggestions for things worth covering, fire them our way.
