Black Friday Deals: get $100 off a Razer gaming bundle at Walmart

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Calling all hardcore gamers: Black Friday is here for you, too. Walmart is offering the 5-star Razer gaming bundle for $99—that’s $100 off the original price of $199.

If you haven’t yet joined the cult of Razer, you don’t know what you’re missing. In the words of Mashable‘s Ray Wong, the scrappy PC gaming company “conquered PC accessories and even sells some of the sleekest and best gaming laptops ever created.”  Read more…

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Turn almost anything into a gamepad or keyboard with MagicKey

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If you grew up in the ’80s or ’90s, the gifts at the top of your annual Christmas and Hanukkah lists likely included the OG Nintendo Gameboy, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers action figures, a Furby, and — of course — Beanie Babies. Well, meet the gadget that’s about to nab the highest spot on your adult self’s holiday wishlist: SunFounder’s MagicKey 3-in-1 DIY MIDI Gamepad Keyboard.

Based on the Atmel ATmega32U4, a low-power microcontroller, this multifunction, expertly crafted board is able to turn anything conductive into the keys that operate your functional plaything. Got an orange or a couple empty soda cans lying around your house? You can use the MagicKey’s MIDI function to build a compact system that does things like play music or control your favorite video game. With the board’s buttons, the 15 included alligator clips, or the pin headers all available for use as your inputs, you’ve got so many options with which to toy around. Read more…

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iOS glitch makes using the iPhone’s keyboard a nightmare

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Apple Messages is one of the iPhone’s killer apps, streamlining text messages and making the iPhone almost impossible to abandon — but texting is infuriating if all the letters don’t actually work. 

We became privy to a new iPhone keyboard glitch after a few Mashable staffers recently started having issues with their iPhone keyboards, specifically with vowels. The issue started when iOS 11’s predictive text feature began to display an odd character in the place of the letter “I,” offering up “A[?] instead and autocorrecting within the message field. The people were running iOS 11.0.3 and 11.1, using iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus devices.  Read more…

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