In landscape mode they are good HD video viewers and game controllers (room for two thumbs).
But its gaming division enjoyed a 60% revenue pop on the sale of 2.4 million Kinect game controllers.
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Key applications include: TV remote controls, game controllers, mobile phones, and more.
Mad Catz intends to launch a full range of GameSmart products, including game controllers, gaming mice, gaming keyboards, headsets, and other specialty controllers.
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This expansion will inspire NFC adoption in broader consumer electronics devices like game controllers, TVs and remotes, computer keyboards and mice, headsets, printers and more.
It would also open up a great deal of new potential for connecting Apple's computers to other devices, such as mobile phones, PDAs and game controllers.
For remote controls and game controllers, this enables the MotionEngine to run on the controller, on a USB dongle, or directly on a TV or set-top box system-on-a-chip (SoC).
Using an embedded mouse--the Compaq's resembles the joypads on game controllers, while the Vestel's looks like a notebook touchpad--I was soon operating in a custom version of Internet Explorer 4.01.
WildCharge and the licensees of its technology have developed replacement back covers for a number of popular devices, including Motorola's RAZR phones and video-game controllers for the Nintendo Wii and the Sony PlayStation 3.
What's more, the bot has been outfitted with a new hand controller that the company says has been modeled after video game controllers, supposedly reducing the amount of training needed to operate the robot.
Some leading game developers have already embraced the physical controller support that was introduced with ICS rendering their apps compatible with the physical controls of the GamePad or with game controllers plugged into tablets or phones.
There's an Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Pentium III processor and a hard drive, and the game controllers connect to the unit via the Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology that's typical of most PCs.
Most of the changes to Honeycomb are happening under the hood -- better HTML5 support, faster performance, and USB host functionality for connecting peripherals like game controllers and mice -- but there are some improvements that will be a lot more obvious to the user.
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As for the party in question, it's one that is being held concurrently with the 2013 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, which is where we saw the controllers and the game in action.
Another possibility being looked at is to put accelerometers into football helmets (the same nifty little chips that fuel the motion-sensitive controllers in Wii video game consoles).
The company on Monday also highlighted its Wii video game system, which lets players move remote controllers through the air to control games.
Will two controllers be able to be used in a game?
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