Yes, Droid Does classic game emulators, but it doesn’t make playing them easy, with a tough to use physical keyboard whose button layout for gaming is in reverse. Enter the Game Gripper, a little peripheral that clips on to the Droid’s keyboard. There’s nothing too fancy going on here, just a set of buttons that stealthily mash on the keyboard behind the scenes. As you can see in this YouTube video, the GameGripper is perfectly adequate for Super Mario World, and works with any classic game emulator for Android.

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Manly men have probably migrated from the Wii by now, but maybe MoProUSA’s frighteningly realistic Wii pistols will lure them back. Engadget got the scoop on these beasts, which are still in prototype mode, otherwise you’d probably see a big, orange “not a real gun” stripe running across the top or something. MoProUSA hopes to get an investor interested in the utility patent in order to bring these crazy Wii guns to market. So get on that, investors.

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The iPad is already a less-portable version of the iPhone, so it only makes sense to add bulky and superfluous accessories such as the iPad steering wheel. This concept from Michael Greenberg explains itself in the above photo: snap the two halves of he wheel together,with the iPad nestled into the depressed corners. Actually, I dig this design more than CTA’s existing iPhone steering wheel, because it has a slot for your fingers to wrap completely around the wheel. It’d be nice of the wheel could be collapsed to fit into a small laptop bag. What we really need, however, is a way to control these iPad racing games without craning your neck during tight turns. No word on whether the iPad steering wheel will become an actual product, but something like it seems inevitable as gadget makers try to cash in on Apple’s latest creation. [Yanko Design via Pocket Gamer]

Spawn Labs reckons that it’s created the Slingbox equivalent for video game consoles, and now the Spawn HD-720 is ready for you to blow $200 on. It’s supposed to let you play a Playstation 3 or Xbox 360 from remote locations, such as your computer desk or someone else’s house. You feed the audio, video and controller inputs on your Xbox 360 or PS3 into the box. Then, you install Spawn Labs’ software on a PC. Finally, plug a USB game controller into your computer, and you’re able to control a video game console from afar. But does it work?

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Ease your troubled minds, Modern Warfare 2 players, as a fix for the so-called “Javelin Glitch” was scheduled to go live for the Xbox 360 this morning. I’m rocking the Playstation 3 version of the game, which was already fixed, so I can’t check to see if the Xbox 360 version is up and running, but Microsoft’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb said the javelin fix goes live “early Friday morning (PT.),” which is right about now. The Javelin Glitch, named for the way it’s activated with rocket-based weapons, let players automatically drop a grenade upon dying, while still allowing them to knife, sprint or jump. It’s essentially the Martyrdom perk, but without the requirements of a 27 skill level and four deaths in a row.

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Playing Guitar-Hero or Rock Band is more like performing on stage than you think. After all, when you’re set back behind the drum kit, and all the volume’s coming from your TV, you really can’t hear what you’re doing as well as you’d like. Enter Altec Lansing’s Stage-Gig, which looks exactly like the monitors used by professional performers. This baby kicks out 40 watts of sound with a 6.5-inch speaker, and it’s meant to be placed right at your feet. You can even daisy chain a few of these speakers together using the included RCA outputs. The Stage-Gig works with Guitar Hero, DJ Hero and Rock Band, and will cost $100 when it arrives early next month. Look, you’re either that serious about the music, or you’re not. [via CNet]