OpenPool Lets Fish and Lights Dance and Play with Moving Objects

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OpenPool Lets Fish and Lights Dance and Play with Moving Objects

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Genius Gila Gaming Mouse Hands-On: Comfy Grip, Customizable Lights

Genius’s new Gila mouse, appropriately named after a gila monster, promises the ultimate in gaming comfort and excitement, complete with 12 customizable buttons, 4 customizable lights and a slew of special features. We had a chance to go hands-on with this attractive input device and were simply blown away both by how good it felt in our hand and how many useful features it offers.

The first thing we noticed about the Gila is its attractive stealth-bomber like shape and raven black body that’s accented by metallic red strips on the top, a pair of headlights on the front, a light in the scroll wheel, a light-up “GX” logo (for Genius’s GX gaming series) and two lights on the back. Using the “Scorpion” Gila control panel, we were able to customize the colors of each set of lights (the scroll wheel and logo count as one set). Like the  customizable keyboard backlights and logos on Alienware notebooks, the Gila’s lights support up to 16 million colors.

But the Gila mouse is more than just another pretty face. With its injected rubber sides, this is one of the most grippable mice we’ve held as it felt extremely comfortable when we used it with our right hand. A set of removable weights sits in the base so you can decide whether you’d like the Gila to be heavier or lighter. We prefer the heavy feel, but if you don’t, Genius even provides a storage case for the weights.

We were particularly impressed with some of the options available in the Scorpion software. In addition to controlling the lights, the software lets you store macros with up to 72 key strokes each and assign them to the buttons. It also allows you to adjust the mouse resolution from 1,200 up to 8,200.

As higher DPI means faster mouse movement, users may want to speed up and slow down their movements at different times during a game, like when you’re trying to hit a distant target in a first-person shooter. Fortunately, the Gila has you covered as a special Sniper mode slows down your mouse movements as long as you hold down the button you assign it to. 

Another feature called Angle Snap keeps you from moving up or down too much as you strafe let and right. To demonstrate this feature, a Genius rep opened Windows Paint and moved left and right while drawing a line to show how the line remained relatively straight even as his hand quivered up and down a bit. However, when we tried doing the same stroke, we moved up and down a bit too much and our line did not come out straight.

The Genius Gila should arrive in the U.S. later this month and sell for $99. IWhether you like to play MMOs, first-person shooters or something else, we strongly suggest you check it out.

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Samsung Galaxy Beam Hands-On: Projector Phone Lights The Wall For 3+ Hours

Imagine being able to project a PowerPoint presentation or an HD movie, directly from your smartphone onto whatever wall or screen is in front you. Fortunately, you don’t have to imagine because Samsung has just released the Galaxy Beam, the first-mass market smartphone with a built-in 15 lumen projector. We had a chance to go hands-on with a Galaxy Beam here at Mobile World Congress and were impressed with how easy it was to project any piece of content onto a nearby wall.

The Galaxy Beam has some reather average, mid-range specs, including a 4-inch screen that runs at 800 x 480, a 1-GHz dual-core CPU, a 5-MP camera with a 1.3-MP front facer, and Android 2.3 Gingerbread. What really makes this device stand out is the project which sits on its top-side. By simply hitting the projector button on the right side of the device, the on-screen content is beamed out whether its a movie, a web page, a photo, or a presentation. Because the Beam uses a dedicated button, the projection feature will work on any app.

In our brief hands-on, we were able to project a movie onto a wall in front of us. However, since the room we were in was not dark, the image was a bit hard to see. However, when we visited a dark projection room that Samsung had set up, the projected images were clear and colorful.

Samsung tells us that the Beam can create an image that’s up to 50-inches wide, larger than most TVs. Better still, reps said that, though the projection battery life is not yet rated, the phone should be able to keep beaming for well over 3 hours, long enough to watch a Lord of the Rings movie or sit through a really epic presentation.  

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