Corsair sails into gaming headset waters with noise-isolating HS1 cans

These days, Corsair seemed to want a slice of everything, or perhaps to show the world the greatness of their engineers. Started with buying NAND chips and making their own modules, Corsair entered the power supply market while fighting fiercely in the high performance ram market. Soon, they joined the chassis gang and SSD gang, and now they’re ready to join the gaming gadgets crowd.

“We set out to develop a headset with the performance that gamers demand, while also providing the pristine audio reproduction required for multi-channel movies and high bit rate music,” stated Jim Carlton, Vice President of Marketing at Corsair. “The Audio HS1 easily meets both these challenges.”

Their first member of the gaming peripheral lineup is a USB headset offering multichannel audio via 50mm drivers, a noise-isolating closed design, noise-cancelling and articulating mic, and inline volume and microphone mute controls. Aside from the larger than usual drivers, we’re not seeing anything particularly unique here, but that ethereal quality  component is rarely apparent on black and white fact sheets. Availability is said to be immediate, though our quick pricing investigation threw up only a UK pre-order for £84 ($129). So yeah, Corsair’s certainly pricing the HS1 as a premium product. Not sure who ‘oem’ them thought, if you get the joke. But it’s still a great sight to see good products bearing the triple sail logo.

Corsair Gaming Audio Series HS1 Key Features:

• Acoustically-tuned enclosures with oversized 50mm drivers
• Circumaural, closed-back design
• Replaceable memory foam ear pads with soft fabric covers
• USB Connection
• Dolby® Headphone technology provides multi-channel sound and improves audio quality to reduce listening fatigue
• Uni-directional noise-cancelling microphone on adjustable boom
• Extra-large inline volume and microphone controller that’s easy to grab during gameplay
• Control panel software allows you to customize the listening experience

SOURCE via Corsair

Logitech G930 Headset, G700 Mouse and G510 Keyboard all for Wireless Gaming

Logitech has updated their headset products with this new G930. It comes with Logitech’s original 7.1 surround sound gaming headset, but wireless. Logitech says the G930 uses “gaming-grade wireless” tech, whatever that actually means. But what happens if you’re in the middle of a frag session and the batteries die? Whoops!

The charging station basically turns it into a standard USB 7.1 gaming headset, so you can keep playing while it’s charging. Smart, right? Like the preceding G35, it’s got three programmable keys on the side to use for voice morphing, music or chat controls. It even comes with a premium ‘gaming’ grade price tag of $160. *shrugs* But that’s how gaming gears costs these day, leeching those poor and ‘innocent’ lil` gamers.

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CM Storm Inferno Gaming Mouse

CM Storm, part of Cooler Master, introduces the new Inferno gaming mouse built for MMO games, like Logitech’s new G700. The new mouse is equipped with a 4000 DPI twin laser sensor, 128kb of onboard Sentinel-X memory that stores up to three custom game profiles and nine programmable keys.

 The Cooler Master’s Inferno features a lift-off distance of 2mm, 1000Hz polling, 1ms response time and a max speed of 115 inches per second. It includes the Advanced Storm MacroPro key that enables quick and easy set up to your macros, scripts and mouse actions; the Rapid Fire Tactical key that is ideal for getting out of tight corners when you need to lay down a lot of fire power quickly; and the new Storm Tactics Multiplayer key offering access to 32 extra button outputs for macros, scripts, rapid fire and other unique commands.

ORIGIN EON15 Gaming Notebook with optional 3D Vision Kit

ORIGIN offers the EON15 gaming notebook that is fully customizable with choices of CPU and graphics options. The 15.6-inch notebook sports either Core i5 or Core i7 processor and a choice of NVIDIA GeForce GTX285M, GTX280M, FX2800M and ATI Radeon HD5870 graphics (all with 1GB video RAM), and up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM.

The EON15 can be equipped with either up to 750GB 7200RPM hard drive or up to 512GB SSD, and either DVD burner or Blu-ray drive or Blu-ray/DVD combo drive. The laptop comes with a 15.6-inch Full HD 1080p LED-backlit LCD display, a 7-in-1 card reader, a 2 Megapixel webcam, and support for Bluetooth and WiFi. Other features include built-in speaker, ExpressCard54 slot, eSATA port, and HDMI port.

   ORIGIN’s EON15 is now available with a 15.6-inch 1366×768 LCD display and the NVIDIA 3D Vision Kit. The EON15-3D can also be customized like the EON15. The price starts at $1653.

Game with your Xbox any time and any where, with the GAEM Xbox Suitcase.

Previously it would be crazy to bring your Xbox console with you to anywhere you go. You’d have to pack a huge box for your Xbox and the power bricks and the controllers and the… LCD TV perhaps? Quite literally impossible to be a mobile warrior and show off your drifting skills in Forza 3 to your friends. But the gangs at GAEM (Gaming and Entertainment Mobile Systems) are also having the same problem, and successfully though of a splendid solution to be a true mobile warrior, and showoff your skills to anyone, anywhere, with the GAEMS portable Xbox Suitcase. What’s more, it’s fully packed with nearly everything that you’ll need, though short of a few small stuffs.

Here’s a rundown of the mindboggling checklist that they’ve sincerely prepared for us. A 15-inch LCD capable of 720p display sealed in the lid, a set of stereo speakers that’s not gonna blow you away, and of kush, your Xbox 360 console properly tied and protected with a layer of dense polyurethane foam. There’s just some glitch, you see. There’s no place to put your power brick, and you controller. How irony is that? But the good news is that the design is not yet finalized, so the company is still trying to perfect it along with the power reactor and the controller, and is targeting a year end Christmas release. Things would be easier if it’s the new Xbox 360 slim that doesn’t need the nuclear generator.

Well, hopefully the suitcase will be ready by then with a perfect design, as it doesn’t come cheap with $250. But at least you’ll look like an FBI agent or CSI agent, instead of a nerdy road warrior. I wonder if they can bundle it with a matrix sunglass.

Disney TRON Headphones, iPod dock, Mouse, Keyboard and Game Controllers

Disney Consumer Products announced its line of TRON: Legacy inspired electronic
devices including computer peripherals, iPod dock..etc.



First of all we can find TRON headphones and TRON iPod dock from Monster. Monster Tron T1 over-ear headphones feature Advanced Noise Suppression Technology and ControlTalk, which enables easy and clear hands-free calling. It is priced at $349.99. There is also an in-ear headphones with ControlTalk that costs $99.99 and a $299.99 iPod dock inspired by the iconic data disk from TRON: Legacy.



Razer also made TRON: Legacy inspired gaming peripherals, including a gaming mouse with Razer’s 5600dpi 3.5g gaming grade sensor, a gaming keyboard with programmable keys and macro capabilities as well as a detachable keypad, and a mouse mat. The price range from $79-139.



Lastly, there are game controllers from PDP that bring the look and feel of TRON: Legacy directly into the hands of gamers. You can expect controllers for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and a wireless Wii remote control. PDP also offers a line of iPod, iPhone and iPad cases inspired by the world of TRON.