Cideko makes a range of wireless products. Many of them are aimed more at the digital lifestyle and living room but the Cideko Air Keyboard Conqueror is pulling double duty as both a wireless mouse/keyboard combo and a game controller with dual thumbsticks, an 8-way D-pad and all the buttons standard on the Playstation 3 controllers.
The Air Keyboard Conqueror connects through a 2.4Ghz USB dongle, which probably has some of you saying "great, another USB key to keep track of," but I assure you, you won’t be unplugging this one often and if you do, it will be to connect it to your PS3 or PC to use it on the other platform. Two bad it didn’t come with two dongles.
Feature
- User definable hot keys
- Motion sensing air mouse
- LED indicators for battery status
- Ergonomic gamepad with two analog joysticks and digital buttons
- 4 axis 10 fire buttons
- Trusty 8-way D-pad
- Charging via mini USB port
- HTPC supported
If you do want to store it or take it with you, there’s a handy little slot right in the controller itself where you can stow the USB key. I could even see this being awesome for tablet computing if I can get it to work with a tablet (it does not state it would work and I did not have time to test with a tablet but will try later).
To use it as a PS3 controller you only need plug in the USB dongle and turn the controller on and it’s automatically recognized and ready to go.
