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Review Follow-up: The Logitech M570, Four Months Later

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

There is a tendency to confuse familiarity with superiority. It’s been almost 4 months since I posted my hands-on review of the Logitech M570 trackball mouse. It was a highly favorable review with a couple minor complaints. Since then, the M570 has become my mouse of choice, and with the benefit of hindsight I’d like [...]

Trackballs and Thumbsticks Go Head-to-Head in Study

Friday, January 14th, 2011

The “pro trackball” anecdotes of mine and other zealots are hardly convincing to those who haven’t had any time using a trackball controller. Wouldn’t it be great if there was some kind of study that tested whether people found trackballs more intuitive and capable than the right-hand thumbstick? Enter Daniel Natapov, a graduate from York [...]

Hands-on Review: The Trackball Controller for Xbox 360

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

Two weeks ago, I had the surprise pleasure of announcing Jay Garcia’s Trackball Controller for the Xbox 360 and, last week, I posted a few first impressions. Some of you know that this blog has been promoting the idea of a trackball controller for years, and I couldn’t be happier to provide the first full, [...]

Xbox 360 Trackball Controller: First Impressions

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

*UPDATE* The full review is up! —– It was very pleasant surprise to see an Xbox 360 Trackball Controller arrive in the mail, Monday. If you’ve followed this blog in the past, you realize how long I’ve been waiting to see someone put out a functioning trackball controller for any console. Thanks to Jay Garcia [...]

A Trackball Controller for the XBox 360 Has Arrived

Friday, December 10th, 2010

I was thrilled to get a heads up from Jay Garcia (inventor/Designer of the first Mouse/Keyboard adapter Smartjoy FRAG)  earlier this week, announcing a fully operational trackball controller mod for the Xbox 360! I was skeptical until I saw this: I’m excited to have one of these controllers coming my way next week, and I’ll [...]