With a nifty LCD readout on the front showing temperatures and fan speeds, the Titanium, from MGE's ione division offers more subdued styling than the typical gamer case. At about $110 through web stores, you get a lot of case for the money. Lots of slots, drive bays, and ports in a sturdy steel (alas, there's no Titanium) case. Five speed-controllable fans allow overclockers to go nuts with speed or home theater devotees to quiet the thing down.

Click here for the full review of the MGE ione Titanium, along with a slideshow.

This gaming keyboard from PD Scientific features an extra circular section to make gaming snappier. Specific WASD keys and a bunch of programmable keys for things like weapons make gameplay far more natural than standard keyboards can. At $50 for a wired input device, it costs more than standard keyboards too, but for gamers who want that extra edge, that's chicken feed!

Click here for the complete review, a video demo, and slideshow on the Wolf Claw.

Sirius Satellite Radio announced its holiday lineup of products today, the star of which is the Sirius S50, the company's first portable player. The iPod-sized device will store as much as 50 hours of Sirius radio programming and can also be used to play your own MP3 and WMA files.

The S50 ($359.99 direct) will gather and refresh content from your three favorite Sirius channels, but you can also opt to save any song or program while you are listening to it. "Any time you are listening to a song, you can record it at the touch of a button," said Todd Goodnight, senior director of product management at Sirius.

XM beat Sirius to the portable market with the release of the Delphi MyFi XM2Go ($299.99 direct), earlier this year. Since then Pioneer has followed-up with Pioneer's Airware XM2Go ($299.99 direct), which can both receive XM radio channels and store as much as 5 hours of radio on its 128MB of internal memory. (Stay tuned for our upcoming review of the Pioneer Airware XM2Go.) Both of these units weigh about 7 ounces.

It wll be interesting to see whether the S50 fares better than its XM predecessors, which have been criticized for poor signal reception.

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The Toshiba Satellite R15-S822 ($1,549 direct) is not your typical tablet PC. Convertible tablets usually have 12-inch screens and small, lightweight frames. Not so with the R15-S822. This convertible has a 14-inch screen and weighs 6.1 pounds. It's meant to be someone's primary notebook first, and a tablet second—and there's nothing wrong with that.

The Satellite R15 looks a lot like the Toshiba Portégé M205-S809 convertible tablet—only bigger. The swivel screen has a 1,024-by-768 resolution and is large enough to handle spreadsheets comfortably. The screen is bright, making for an enjoyable movie-watching experience. The IBM ThinkPad X41 Tablet ($1,899), PC Magazine's Editors' Choice for tablets, is 3.5 pounds and a pleasure to carry. The R15-S822, at 6.1 pounds, is more likely to be on your lap or on your desk than in your arms.

In tablet mode, the writing experience is pretty good, and we appreciated the added screen space when writing longhand. Using OneNote 2003 and surfing the Web with the digitizer pen was also a breeze. Another advantage of having the larger screen and, in turn, a larger frame is better heat distribution. Heat is always a concern with tablets, but we hardly felt any warmth under the base.

Discover more features of the Toshiba Tablet PC in PC Magazine's Review.

Digit Wireless has created a mobile device keypad approach that adds a full alphabet's worth of buttons to a standard numeric layout. The company claims FasTap, which it is showcasing at the Intel Developer Forum this week, is no larger than a typical mobile phone keypad.

The FasTap keypad layout has 26 round alphabetical buttons and 18 rectangular numeric and function buttons arranged in a grid-like array, with the alphabetic buttons situated at the corners of the numeric and function buttons.

Users need not be as careful as when using standard, 12-key keypads that require multiple taps to select a number or letter. Instead, with the FasTap approach, the user taps just once to indicate each desired letter or number.

Accidental letter-taps are ignored, via a software alrogithm that assumes users are much more likely to accidentally hit letters keys -- which are raised relative to the number keys -- than number keys. By ignoring letter taps that occur essentially simultaneously with number taps, virtually all input errors are eliminated, according to Digit Wireless founder and CTO David Levy.

According to Levy, Telus Mobility, a major wireless phone carrier in Canada, already has begun supplying a FasTap-enabled LG phone to its customers, with promising results.

(From LinuxDevices.com)