http://www.hltv.org/news/6580-steelseries-air...-this-week

It sounds like a new mouse / range of products that come with customizable shells that you design by uploading images to their site then, this will probably apply to all/many future products aswell considering the way he's put that statement out.

There are a few other companies that offer a similar featureset in the US.. so that would be my guess being the customization of various peripherals has been requested for a long time. I remember QPAD specifically offered a private service for customized mousepad designs on their CT (i designed a few for friends), though they never went public with it.

I'm probably wrong considering noone else has suggested that.

No way you can upload your own shape designs.
Maybe u can choose from some shapes and colors, but i doubt that u can choose the sensor u would like to have.

But man, wouldn't that be cool? A professional frankenmouse service.

:)))))))

me wants!

That would be cool and I actually wouldn't mind paying a bit more than usual if I could get the absolutely perfect (for me) mouse.

people interested in this should try around with 3d printing maybe, its getting really cheap and its ultra precise and easy to design for

Not gonna happen, but if I'm wrong... I'm emptying my backaccount to order some frankenmice (right shape and sensor). Order about 10 of them and never worry again about mice for the rest of my natural life.

What are you on about sensors and shapes? I never mentioned any of that. A shell is the exterior of the mouse, you'd get different customizable designs (e.g. serious cypher deathadder) of that shell.. it's not hard to understand what i'm saying and it's very easy implement an extra step into the manufacturing process for an additional charge to the consumer if the product is designed to accomodate it, and ofcourse if it was deemed feasable. Hell, it would also be possible to implement your incorrect interpretation of what i've said, though that would require some element of standardisation and is almost certainly one step too far, just wouldn't make sense.

Nothing is impossible though. :)

oh that u mean.
well, that would be cool, but actually just a step further in the "design before function" philosophy.

AFAIK steelseries globle website has no stock or normal Xai or Kinzu :?
I thought they will bring back few in stock but from a month they were out of stock.
So they are woking on correcting lots of problem old Xai has and probably they will correct in Kinzu2 too who knows :P

If they keep the (right) sidebuttons and the heavy weight of the Xai I'm not interested.

that's good news.

I wish Steelseries would make a mouse as flawless as their 7G/6G keyboards.

so they should just rebrand a working piece of hardware? good idea ;)

Their first mice were rebranded Microsofts. They had it right the first time, but business is business :(

Rumour is they're just making a Xai2

what is the 6gv2 rebranded from? I've been searching for a NICE ps2 keyboard for some time with no luck outside of the steelseries keyboards

im no hardware guru, but im quite sure i have read it a few times... maybe im confusing it with something else (mice, other kb)
so, i dont know ;)

some Datacomp keyboard

Most other mechanical kbs are rebranded Costars. But the companies can choose to use different switches/caps/pcbs to make them higher or lower quality.

yeah the other nice one's I'd found that ALSO had no keypad on far right *win* were sold out of PS2 and not restocking, and USB doesn't recognize as many simultaneous keystrokes.

Filcos? Those are made by Costar as well. I have a tenkeyless blue cherry Filco (that no numpad you were talking about) that works great. USB is limited to 6kro (can handle 6 simultaneous key presses) which is more than enough; if you really wanted Nkro (can handle any number of key presses), then you would need a ps/2 adapter. Elitekeyboards.com used to sell Filcos, but they replaced them with Leopolds, which are also very nice keyboards. They are nkro (with ps/2) and are tenkeyless too.

If this is a kinzu shape with a solid sensor...I have a feeling this community will be happy.

but what is more probable is that it'll be a 9000dpi 8cd liftoff mouse with 5 side buttons

don't forget interchangeable weights

leds leds leds, shiny piano-glossy sides, genius shapes like the shape of the razer boomslang (I have one of those).

"the unfair advantage"

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