Peripheral Reviews
I am geek, hear me Borg. Or, what the hell are those goggles on your face and why is your head wobbling around like your trying to crash a plane? Oh, because you are.
These days, big, heavy CRT monitors are out, the computer monitor standard is now LCD, and the prices on such units continue to fall faster than support for the Iraq war. VisionQuest VQL-22WSHD LCD Monitor is not only nicely priced, but rather fast about it, too.
Generally, it's pretty hard to think of any piece of computer hardware or peripheral as "sexy," but Belkin manages to pull it off with the N1 Vision Wireless Router. Who knew?
New for Xbox 360, the Xbox 360 Messenger Kit includes a headset and an itty bitty QWERTY keyboard that jacks into your Xbox 360 controller so you can tm your thumbs blue. A good question to ask at this juncture: why the hell bother?
A little off the "family friendly" mark, Core Gamer's Wii Blaster for Wii (natch) coddles those chandelier-smashing Wii-motes in the friendly form factor of a shotgun. Now you're duck huntin'...
Sandio Tech's new 3DGame O' mouse is not exactly intuitive out of the box as it forces you to rethink your mouse gestures from scratch, but for gamers looking for an edge via multifarious control, the 3D Game O' mouse is all that and a bag of chips.