Philips released their amBX peripherals. The cool factor is the lighting, fans, speakers and rumble mats, all designed to further immerse you in your PC gaming. You can use the kit with any PC game - or music for that matter, with the FX-generator plug-in.
In the premium kit you get everything currently available, barring a set of rear satellite lamps. So that's a 'wall washer' for painting light behind your monitor, a powerful 2.1 speaker system with LED arrays built into the top of the two small variable speed fans and a wrist rumbler strip for your keyboard.
The idea stems from Philips' involvement with LED lighting. This is the future - it's environmentally friendly and can produce 14 million colours from an RGB array. The lights are definitely the strongest aspect of this kit. They change colour to reflect on-screen action even in games which aren't programmed to support amBX, and the effect is far from unpleasant - although if you're staring too hard at the screen you may not even notice it.
They can also be programmed to flash when you have a new IM, for example, and if you're using Media Player switch to a discotheque mode.
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