The device, which converts any standard USB HID keyboard and mouse into a turbo charged controller for the PlayStation 3, is available for immediate purchase on the company’s web site as well as Amazon and other select retailers.

The Eagle-Eye converters allows first-person shooter games such as BioShock or Killzone 3 to be played with greater dexterity via its customized key mapping feature for all PS3 controller buttons and 1 to 1 translation from the PS3 right analog stick to the mouse movement. Mouse sensitivity can be adjusted through the game’s option menu. The Eagle Eye is equipped with a high-capacity CPU, making the mouse movement fluid with no delay and no "dead-zone".

For more information or to purchase the converter, visit www.PenguinUnited.com.

Penguin United–a maker of high quality gaming accessories–sent Blast magazine a sample of their premium and standard component cables for the Nintendo Wii. To test them out, we connected them to three different televisions: one that doesn’t support HD, one that was 64” and one that was about 32″.

We flipped back and forth between the cables on the TVs to see the differences between the original cables, the standard component cables from Penguin Computing, and the Premium Component cables.

Both component cables showed a sharper image and better colors. We couldn’t tell much of a difference between the premium and the standard, though. There may be a slight difference between them if you set up two televisions next to each other and compare the two, but it wasn’t enough to catch our attention.

On the older style television without High Definition support, the cables produced better, brighter colors. On the two High Definition televisions, though, and when switched to 480P mode, they made the images sharper. We found that in many Wii games, however, the images were more blocky.

When using the standard cables, the edges of characters were blurred from the transport, but with the High Definition, the characters had rough edges; it looked more like an N64 or a Playstation game. This may not be desirable to some people.

Another benefit to some of the component cables is that many of them are gold-plated. The gold plating will mostly benefit people who keep their systems for a long time. Copper–though a better conductor than Gold–will corrode over time, as will the signal’s clarity. Gold will not rust or corrode though, so you’ll get the same signal quality ten years from now as you have today. Most of the cables from Penguin Computing are gold-plated, so you can shop from there and expect their cables to last.

Overall, it depends on the personal preference of gamers, since the cables will make some games look blockier, but will give other better colors and higher resolutions. On the Blast magazine tech scoreboard, these component cables a seven out of ten.

Blast Magazine staff reporter David Yue contributed to this report.

Penguin United produces a battery pack for the Wii. It consists of a battery and a new cover to fit in the Wii Remote. The new Cover has connectors for the battery on the inside and the charger on the outside. The design is simple; the Wii Remote is just stuck into the charger and it charges.

The charger is a simple dock that plugs into one of the USB ports on the back of the Wii. The Charger has a light on the front that is steady green when charging, then starts blinking green when it is finished.

Penguin United claims the battery pack will last for up to thirty eight hours. The Wii makes it easy to find out how long the battery lasts. It keeps track of how long people play games on the Wii.

So to test this battery, and the claim that goes with it, out, the battery was entirely charged on a Friday, and then played until the battery died. I then added up all the time playing the Wii. This added up to sixteen hours. This was less than they claimed, but part of it can be credited to battery loss when the Wii Remote wasn’t actually being used or on standby.

Sixteen hours is plenty of time for a Wii Remote since the charger can charge the batteries overnight. I found that from my tests if you put the Wii Remote onto the charger every night that the battery pack will never run out on the user. Penguin United is also now selling packages with multiple batteries this way the charger can be shared between both remotes, and again as long as the Wii isn’t used for more than 16 hours in a row it shouldn’t be a problem.

Unfortunately though, it is not compatible with any of the third party Wii Remote covers. It would be nice if there was a way to still plug the Wii Remote into the charger with a case on it.