Yesterday I came across this terrifying ‘fooz’ball table from AirWorks Inflatables:

Terrifying for me because I have enough trouble playing on a standard table but also because I can imagine the havoc created were we to actually get one in our office! Fortunately there is only one of these giant tables in existence at the moment; built for beer promotion during the recent European Champions League finals.in
It also reminds me of another beer advert which suggested ‘You do the football, we’ll do the beer’ - I’ll buy the beer if I need to but please do not make any more of these tables - the guys in my office all went misty eyed at the mere idea of a bigger foozball table, the office would never be the same if they actually got hold of one!

And another thing our office would never be the same with is the jDome - a new invention by John Nilsson, a Swedish gamer who, fed up with waiting for technology to improve his gaming immersion, took his inspiration from an OmnImax cinema. The jDome will give gamers a massive 180-degree field of vision instead of the usual 15 to 20 degrees they get from their monitors and Nilsson believes it will be possible to sell them for around $125-200, keeping prices low by only having the high quality focus right where gamers need it - straight ahead - and a lower quality visibility more like motion detection for peripheral views.

Microsoft has released a special edition Halo 3 Xbox 360 to go along with the spectacularly well selling Halo 3. Will anyone actually buy one I wonder? The original Xbox 360 visually, is a well designed games machine and in my opinion looks a lot better than the Playstation 3 which is rather clunky and tends to look a lot better in pictures than it does sitting under your TV.

The Spartan green and gold Halo 3 special edition 360 is fine and actually looks pretty good. The futuristic detailing sits well with the Master Chief’s military green although I’m less convinced about the controller, which lacks any of the intricate charm of the main console. Will it sit well with your TV? I’m not so sure. The gold (or is it orange?) is unlikely to compliment much in its vicinity and in reality the original styling is still superior. Will owning one make you ‘believe’? Probably not, for that you’ll want the hand painted custom version.

Unfortunately - and this is probably the key factor - spec wise the Halo 3 special edition is only the 20GB Premium version, doesn’t come with the game itself, and at £280 you can get the black Elite for a mere £20 more. Surely even the most hardcore Halo fan will do the math here?

So will people buy it? Probably not, but it certainly beats the all the pink consoles that have been released over the years.