It's fair to say that we didn't quite get on with Thrustmaster's T-Wireless Rumble Force gamepad. Designed to be cross-compatible with the PC, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3, it's a small wireless pad that's certainly endowed ...

E-pens Mobile Notes is a handwriting capture and recognition solution to help transcribe written notes quickly and easily into a digital format for use on a computer. Similar to Dane-Elec's Zpen, the package includes a stylus ...

It's been a good four years now since Wacom gave its professional graphics tablet range a spruce up, so it was about time the digital artists' favourite peripheral got a makeover. Those familiar with Wacom's Intuos3 ...

Genius loves messing about with mice and already has an extensive catalogue of models for gamers. The NetScroll G500 is a ‘gaming grade' laser mouse and so enters this market, though its minimalist design paints it ...

There have always been people who prefer trackballs to mice for controlling the screen pointer. Those with little room to swing a mouse, for example and, unaccountably, those controlling nuclear power stations, seem to have had ...

Logitech has recently updated its successful diNovo range with a model for Apple Macs and a slimline number for notebooks. We've had the latter on test to see whether it can truly improve on the usability ...

Think Viewsonic and you rarely think keyboards. Monitors, absolutely, but bargain basement input devices rarely cross your mind. We were thus intrigued by the Viewsonic Viewmate Office keyboard, a low-price unit that proudly sports the Viewsonic ...

Wacom is probably the best-known manufacturer of graphics tablets, and its range extends from A6 up to A3 and larger. The Bamboo Fun tablet is an entry-level device, available in A6 and A5 sizes and aimed ...

Notebooks are pretty handy on the move but, despite trying a range of different methods, designers have never really nailed an affective alternative to a mouse. Most people who can't cope with a touchpad or 'nipple' ...

Some might say that Logic 3's Storm Pad is a thunderingly good peripheral. Others might say that isn't so, and it's all a bit of a Storm in a D-pad. Still others might be shouting at ...

Music-playing mobiles are pretty much ubiquitous nowadays. Unless you are going for the really budget end of the mobile phone world, it is likely that your handset plays tunes and that it comes with its own ...

The Cyborg sounds like it should be half keyboard, half man; a hybrid artificially intelligent creation. Sort of like KITT out of Knight Rider but with no wheels (or turbo boost), it could auto-target enemies in ...

Gaming peripherals, for all their good intentions, tend to get a bit silly sometimes, and certainly from an aesthetics point of view they don't come much sillier than the Cyborg Mouse from Saitek. This rather imposing ...

First impressions of this wireless keyboard and laser mouse set are positive. The mouse is quite funky-looking and the keyboard has an even more stylish appearance, with a smoked grey plastic trim around the outside. A ...

The gaming mouse has been around for a while but is constantly being tweaked and refined to offer that extra competitive edge. Genius has been pretty active in this market. Its latest offering is the Ergo ...

There are a lot of steering wheel peripherals to choose from these days, from the likes of the simulator-grade Logitech G25, which is costly but the sworn companion of many serious virtual drivers, through to cheap ...

Make no mistake about it: manufacturers are increasingly keen to move your computing away from a standard desk and into the domain of media and lounge-based computing. Microsoft's latest keyboard and mouse set, the Entertainment Desktop ...

With the rise and rise of console gaming, there isn't an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 player who doesn't feel at home punching the buttons and triggers on their controller. So when the same gamers wanted ...

The first rule of Sidewinder Mouse? Download software from the Web. With no disc included in the otherwise comprehensive packaging, the bright startup guide is insistent that that's where you start. It's a 14MB download you ...

In contrast to the majority of computer components and peripherals, the humble keyboard has quietly undergone a revolution over the past half-decade or so. Previously the last thing you cared about, and more often than not ...