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Fancy turning the classic NES into something different? That's what this guy did with his, the NEStickle which uses an old NES console chassis to hold a Sanwa joystick and its buttons within.

They used to call them joysticks. There was a time when boys and girls played video games with little plastic controllers.

Screaming Bee LLC is pleased to add plug-and-play hardware controller and custom hot-key support to Voice Againa software.

Updated 3:28 p.m.: Looks like there are new reports that Project Natal is set for launch in November 2010 for about $80. Project Natal , the controllerless gaming interface Microsoft is developing for Xbox 360, made TIME magazine's list of the 50 best inventions of 2009.

Initially inspired by the keyboards on the Treo smartphones, the OOMouse was designed by a game designer who was annoyed with the paltry number of buttons available on high-end gaming mice.

Q: What do you get when you give robotic vacuum cleaners to some aerospace engineering Ph.D. candidates with some free time? A: A life-size, mechanical game of Pac-Man. Three University of Colorado students -- with a little time on their hands -- used colorful construction paper to costume the Roomba robotic University of Colorado graduate student ...

Same high quality Mad Catz fighting stick with a slick new look. Impressions and unboxing photos within.

The OpenOfficeMouse from WarMouse is an 18-button mouse complete with analog joystick which supports up to 52 key commands WarMouse is to release an 18-button mouse with an analog joystick which the company says supports up to 52 key commands.

Is complexity an inherit part of open source design? FactoryJoe compares the OpenOfficeMouse and the Apple Magic Mouse- "To me, the OpenOfficeMouse seems like such a typical product from the open source community.

Just when you thought it was time to abandon the mouse altogether and start using only the command line, the OpenSource world has come up with a mouse with one zillion buttons that allows one-handed use of OpenOffice apps and plays World of Warcraft.

No, this is no April fools joke-at least, we don't think so. OpenOffice.org now has its own pointing device thanks to WarMouse, a little-known firm that's announced an 18-button monstrosity geared for the multi-platform productivity suite.

OpenOffice.org plans to ship a multi-button office application mouse by February next year.

WarMouse and OpenOffice have introduced an alternative multi-button pointing device.

If you attended the DC Windows 7 Launch yesterday in Tysona TMs Corner, VA, you may have gotten a chance to see a very cool gadget in action, the Freescale Flexis JM Badge Board.

Photograph: Kris KrA1 4g It is nearly two years since Derek Lomas, then a graduate student on an internship with the communications giant Qualcomm, stumbled across a unexpected find while browsing a Bangalore market stall.

Blog:Digital Joystick: 50948 : Signing off, So long and thanks for all the fish.

Tyler Bradford, Alek Patton and Blake Marvin track down a geocaching clue Tuesday using a GPS unit.

London, November 02 : Fallout 3 has been voted as the best game of the year at top gaming awards 'Golden Joysticks'. Action game series 'Call of Duty' bagged three awards including multiplayer game of the year and Nintendo game of the year for World At War, while Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was given 'one to watch' award.

From humble origins as paddles and single joysticks with one measly fire button , game controllers have dramatically evolved to incorporate track balls, excessive buttons, motion sensors, light guns, and various other crazy features .

Some of the most innovative, interesting, and, well, strange tech has nothing to do with computing monoliths like Google or Microsoft.