Joystick

Dublin-based startup Joyst Instruments is launching a new MIDI controller called the JV-1 next month on Kickstarter that sports a bunch of gamer-style thumb joysticks up top for creating expressive music. Prepare your DAW for battle!

Flying aircraft or spacecraft is tricky in games. Traditional controllers or joysticks can only provide half the puzzle. Now, a small startup called Sublight Dynamics has unveiled a prototype for a one-handed joystick with six degrees of freedom.

Helicopters and planes are steered by joystick-like controllers, so why aren’t drones? Fluidity Technologies is working on just such a controller, with the FT Aviator now on Kickstarter.

Handlebars seem about as important as wheels in bike design, but Swiss inventor Yvan Forclaz has done away with them in favor of a joystick. The Joystick Bike has been tweaked and refined since we first saw it a few years ago, and now it’s almost ready for tinkerers to get their hands on it.

The Lexip 3D mouse is a bit of a Frankenstein’s monster, cobbling together elements of a mouse, joystick and controller into a device that almost gives an unfair advantage in a fast-paced match.

A new modular gamepad allows you to decouple the two sides of a game controller for more natural and ergonomic play. It can also be paired with a mouse, with eight additional buttons mappable to keyboard commands. And three interchangeable grip sizes help people with big or small hands game better.

Aiming to streamline computer input commands beyond quick wrist movement and keyboard shortcuts, Eric Charlton, a US-based engineer and founder of Solid Art Labs, has designed the King's Assembly, an input device which allows control over a keyboard, mouse and joystick simultaneously.

X-Arcade is launching the Solo version of its Dual arcade joystick with a new and improved button layout.

Honda's AC-X plug-in hybrid concept explores under-car shapeshifting, has an autonomous driving mode which does not require the driver to steer, and a new panoramic 3D GPS display.

The Fling is an analog joystick that can be attached to the screen of an iPad, for better control when gaming.

The JOYSTICK-IT iPad Arcade Stick is a simple accessory that solves the problem of difficult to use onscreen control pads used in tablet-based games by providing a physical joystick that sticks to the tablet’s screen.

It's called the HOTAS WARTHOG and Thrustmaster really has gone the whole hog with it new flagship flight simulation gaming peripheral.