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The Game Gripper is one of the smartest accessories we've seen in a long time, a cheap and squishy little controller that clips on over your phone's keyboard and enables proper gaming glory. But what if your phone doesn't have a keyboard? The iControlpad is finally shipping, but soon there'll be another option: a Bluetooth Game Gripper approaches. It acts just like a Bluetooth keyboard so should offer easy compatibility and, with its spring-loaded clamp, should hang on to just about any slab you stick in there. The only problem? You can't buy one yet. The device is going the Kickstarter route and is looking for a whopping $30,000 in funding before things get going. But, it is at least only a $47 pledge to get yourself one of the first Bluetooth Game Grippers that roll off the presses -- or stamps or molds or whatever it is these things roll from.

Continue reading Game Gripper going Bluetooth, just needs a little funding (video)

Game Gripper going Bluetooth, just needs a little funding (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Game Gripper is one of the smartest accessories we've seen in a long time, a cheap and squishy little controller that clips on over your phone's keyboard and enables proper gaming glory. But what if your phone doesn't have a keyboard? The iControlpad is finally shipping, but soon there'll be another option: a Bluetooth Game Gripper approaches. It acts just like a Bluetooth keyboard so should offer easy compatibility and, with its spring-loaded clamp, should hang on to just about any slab you stick in there. The only problem? You can't buy one yet. The device is going the Kickstarter route and is looking for a whopping $30,000 in funding before things get going. But, it is at least only a $47 pledge to get yourself one of the first Bluetooth Game Grippers that roll off the presses -- or stamps or molds or whatever it is these things roll from.

Continue reading Game Gripper going Bluetooth, just needs a little funding (video)

Game Gripper going Bluetooth, just needs a little funding (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Continue reading Marvel Versus Fighting Pad features micro-switch thumb pad, art direction courtesy of a 12 year old boy

Marvel Versus Fighting Pad features micro-switch thumb pad, art direction courtesy of a 12 year old boy originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Continue reading Marvel Versus Fighting Pad features micro-switch thumb pad, art direction courtesy of a 12 year old boy

Marvel Versus Fighting Pad features micro-switch thumb pad, art direction courtesy of a 12 year old boy originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Peanut butter and jelly. Gin and tonic. Peaches and cream. Some strange combinations make perfect sense paired, but how about the mouse and the PC gamepad? Those two items are what a Hong Kong peripheral manufacturer decided to combine, and the result was the Shogun Bros. Chameleon X-1 -- a gaming mouse you can flip to find twelve buttons and two miniature analog sticks on the bottom. It works as a gamepad, sure enough, and functions as a one-handed multimedia remote too. But is it any good? We've used it as our primary peripheral for over a week, and after the break, we'll tell you.

Continue reading Shogun Bros. Chameleon X-1 review: the mouse that's a gamepad, too

Shogun Bros. Chameleon X-1 review: the mouse that's a gamepad, too originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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