We’re not sure that this will actually help improve your gaming but it probably couldn’t hurt, and it might help keep your wrist from hurting, too. Genius has a new keyboard replacement product out targeting PC gamers called the ErgoMedia 500 Gaming Pad.

The name implies that it should help put your hand in a comfortable position for long durations of gaming, and the design does look like it would be a comfortable and natural position with a soft pad for your wrist. To us this particular image looks like it might be designed for a left-handed player since it might be easier to use that mult-direction button with your thumb. When looking at the product page at Genius they don’t seem to have different models for right or left handed use.

Some of the key features of the ErgoMedia 500 include a back-lit keypad to see your keys in the dark (what respectable PC gamer needs to look), eleven programmable key macros, microphone and speaker jacks and that 4-way directional button that us right-handers will be trying t use with our pinky finger. Genius says that the gaming pad also has 3 different gaming functions, which is most likely “shift” key to switch between different configurations or macros of the keys with the A, B and C modes.

For $43 you can try your hand at this gaming pad (pun intended) and see if your frag rate improves.

Source: EverythingUSB