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3D game mouse promises upper hand

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Sandio Technology is set to offer gamers the ultimate "cheat": Game O', a 3D game mouse that the company says will give gamers "an unfair advantage."

Game O'
Credit: Sandio Technology

The 2000 dpi laser mouse, which debuted at the E3 game trade show in May, will hit select online retail stores this summer. It's compatible with all 2D and 3D PC games and applications, and more intriguingly, is said to enhance the gaming prowess of users.

Sandio is betting that the Game O', which lets users move objects forward, backward, sideways and up, all without using a keyboard, will set gamers' hearts aflutter. The word is still out on whether that will happen--Ars Technica, for one, is not so sure. The technology also enables game developers to create new characters with "6 degrees of freedom (6DOF)" moves that Sandio says were previously were out of the question.

For $79.99, you can snag one of these off eBay and Amazon.com this summer. But stay tuned for the product's release under a variety of different brand names in the future.