CREATIVE MOUSE
Few computer gamers are as successful as pro-gaming champ Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel but now they have the chance to use the same hardware he does.
At Cebit Creative was showing off the mouse designed by Mr Wendel, who regularly makes more than $100,000 a year as a pro-gamer, just for the hard-core fans who want to follow in his mouse steps.
Not for the faint-hearted, the Creative Fatal1ty 2020 mouse has a 6.4 megapixel sensor in its base to pick up the smallest twitch. It can work on any surface and handle up to 20G of acceleration for those intense firefights when it is important to strafe and move.
The mouse also comes with a five different weights so gamers can tune it to get the balance for themselves just right.
The USB connector for the 2020 mouse is gold plated and it has zero-oxygen copper wiring to ensure every pull of the virtual trigger is relayed swiftly back to the PC.
FUTURE PRODUCTSAs well as being a showcase for gadgets that are about to go into the shops, Cebit is also a show that looks to the long-term future.
Japanese hi-tech company NEC used Cebit to show off some conceptual ideas for what products of the future might look like.
Under the umbrella term of Resonantware the products aim to investigate how technology might evolve.
NEC showed an idea it called Sala that integrates a radio tag into an item of jewellery, such as a wedding ring - associated with an important event.
When the ring, earring or brooch is placed near a display device that can read the tag it calls up the images, movies or sounds the owner has associated with it.
It also showed off a concept see-through mobile phone called Flask which is powered by a fuel cell. Like many disposable cigarette lighters, the transparent sides of the phone let users see when they need a refill.
TOSHIBA LAPTOPLaptop veteran Toshiba has become the first computer maker to ship a portable computer with a HD-DVD drive onboard.
Unveiled at Cebit and likely to go on sale in Europe first, the Qosmio G30 is due to be on shop shelves in April and is aimed at consumers with deep pockets, as the price for the machine is likely to be well in excess of £2000.
Under the hood it has a 2GHz dual core processor, two 120 GB hard drives and digital and analogue TV tuner.
It has a 17-inch display that can cope with the high-definition images on HD-DVD discs. The HD-DVD standard is one of two, the other is Blu-Ray, that are aiming to replace DVDs.
To help show high resolution images the Qosmio G30 uses the GeForce 7600 graphics card made by Nvidia.
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