SteelSeries yesterday announced a new professional gaming mousepad, the SteelSeries SX is adecent sized chunk of polished aluminum with an anodized oxide surface treatment, as you can imagine it's not exactly cheap but those looking for the smoothest gliding surface might want to try one.

"With the SteelSeries SX we tried to reach new limits and I can honestly say we reached them. It was our goal to make a pad that would offer smoothness and be very durable and not lose it over time. We knew from experience that aluminum was a perfect material to achieve this goal." says Jonas 'Johnny R’ Bollack, SteelSeries Development Team. "Several months, and after countless tests by professional gamers, later we can finally present the result. An anodized aluminum surface that does the job perfectly and both we and our testers agreed: This is as good as it (aluminum) gets. :-)"