I wish I had this during my EverQuest days! The Pertelian External LCD Display allows you to check your instant messengers and emails, control your media players, check the weather (what for? you’re probably too hardcore a gamer to go outside anyway) or even check stock informations - All without having to interrupt your gaming sessions!
Detailed features:
- POP email checking
- Supports ICQ, AIM and YAHOO! Messenger (what?! no MSN?! no Skype?!)
- Supports Windows Media Player, Winamp and iTunes for song search, volume adjust, and the typical player controls
- Real-time stock ticker
- Real-time sports scores
- Real-time network bandwidth usage
- System information (CPU/Memory/IP/Disk drive usage/Processes and threads/Uptime)
- Local weather information and 5-day forcast
- Quick Memo to jot notes
- Customizable hotkeys
- RSS feed aggregate
Specifications:
- Hitachi HD44780 compatible LCD character display
- USB interface
- 20 columns by 4 lines text display with font size 5×7 dots
- Black text on yellow/green background
- “Always Scrolling ” feature continuously scrolls a message across the display
- Electroluminescent backlight
Order one from ThinkGeek at $79.99, or risk getting fragged/trained while chatting up your girl friends.
[via Engadget]
April 7th, 2006 at 12:39 am
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=2166,CONTENTID=10717
Way ahead of you on the LCD display since it’s built into the keyboard itself. The macro keys can be programmed WITHOUT alt tabbing. PRE BUILT MACROS for most games are already built in, all you have to do is assign a key. (Warcraft III macros for every move, skill, and attack, OF EVERY RACE)
The new beta version of ventrilo supports this keyboard and I can see the ventrilo:
Typed chat
Users in channel
Who is currently talking
My ping
The G15 is so much more Godly than just a lously seperate LCD