Wireless controllers for the console or computer are nifty, but the downside to such freedom is the need to recharge its batteries (and pretty often at that considering how long sessions of gaming seem to pass by in a flash of an instant) as well as running the risk of holding a juiced out controller during an intense gaming session. Pelican will be catering to the PS3 crowd with its new Controller Charging Station. This gaming peripheral is definitely a much more sensible solution when it comes to powering up the lithium ion batteries found in the SIXAXIS controller, since you don’t have to plug your controllers in the PS3 whenever you’re using it to do something that doesn’t need to make use of the controller, such as enjoying the latest Blu-ray movie.

The Controller Charging Station looks extremely sexy, and surely beats the option of having an unsightly USB cord hanging off the back of your high tech PS3 console. It boasts a black base that keeps the swept-back spire rising steadily, where the edge of the spire has a couple of clear plastic docking bays complete with mini USB connections jutting out. When you plug in your SIXAXIS controllers, they look as though they are levitating to a degree, floating one above another on the spire itself. A couple of USB ports inset at the base lets you charge up to a quartet of SIXAXIS controllers simultaneously, where half of that number are handled by docking bays while the other two via USB wires.

The recommended retail price for Pelican’s Charging Station for the PS3 stands at $29.99, a small investment for an aesthetically-pleasing and practical peripheral considering how much money you have already dumped into the console itself in the first place. It ought to be available within two to three weeks from now, so might as well keep this in mind for an early Christmas present.

Source: IGN

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