Sandio 3D Gaming Mouse gets productivity driver upgrade
Sandio 3D Gaming Mouse gets productivity driver upgrade
Sandio’s crazy 3D mouse, which augments the standard layout with three analog thumb-joysticks, has new drivers which add support for modeling applications. AutoCAD, Maya and 3DStudio Max now map Cartesian mojo to the mouse’s profusion of hats. “Users of CAD and rendering software; such as AutoDesk’s 3D Studio Max, and Maya can now move along and rotate around X, Y and Z axes in Screen and Camera modes without switching between 3D objects and operation menus.For PC gamers, the Sandio 3D Game O2 is the only mouse of its kind designed for RTS and RPG games. It improves 3D game navigation, makes it possible to effortlessly and intuitively manipulate camera views, and even provides a competitive edge with 16 programmable keys.” I requested a review unit ages ago, but ever since it arrived it’s just sat there on the shelf, looking far too intimidating to actually break out the blisterpack and make a fool of myself with. Product Page [Sandio]…
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Transforming Optimus Prime iPod dock! Squee!
For an 80’s kid like me, Takara Tomy’s transforming Optimus Prime iPod dock can’t be described by words, only by phonemic abstractions meant to convey the most transcendental surges of consumerist joy. Words like SQUEE! and WOOBLEWOOP! But being an 80’s kid, I’ll simply fall back on a term burned into my language banks by a thousand hours of animated half-hour toy commercials. To borrow an expression from the common argot of our youths, this is just totally awesome. $145 bucks, which is crazy, but fuck it, I’m getting one. Transformers iPod Dock [Jlist via DVICE]…
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