Tom Armitage gave a talk on games controllers at O'Reilly's Emerging Technologies conference a couple of weeks ago, but the reason it's relevant to today is because he'll be giving the same talk to an audience in London's SoHo as part of the InSync series, supported by Creative London and Skillset, the Sector Skills Council for the audio-visual industries. Dave "Need to Know" Green is one of the curators of this evening's panel, which will talk games controllers as well as audio-visuals.
More information on the series is here.