Seymourpowell Tap Into the Future with Cyborg for Saitek

Designers Seymourpowell have created a new "Cyborg" keyboard and mouse with long-term client Saitek, aimed at the increasingly buoyant PC gaming market.

Both products are designed to be sympathetic to and ergonomically suited to the needs and habits of PC gamers.

They offer many technical features, which both improve the long-term comfort of the user and increase the flexibility and number of controls available.

As well as highly adjustable key backlighting, where even specific keys can be lit separately from the rest of the keyboard, the Cyborg keyboard features fully-progammable Cyborg keys, which can be assigned any function the user wishes via Saitek's smart programming software.

The Cyborg mouse is the world's first servo-driven adjustable mouse, allowing adjustment for different hand sizes and enabling users to change the type of grip they need at various stages of gameplay.

"This project was very much the result of observing real gamers at play", commented Seymourpowell design director Nick Talbot.

"For example, we know a lot of gamers like to play in a darkened environment, so the Cyborg keyboard has different levels of illumination, with a variety of colours and intensities programmable via a capacitance-sensing panel of buttons.

It also has multiple adjustments, including a fully-adjustable palm rest, because we know some gamers like their keyboard to tilt away from them."