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Gyroscopic Mouse

Posted by michael on from the only-a-six-hour-charge dept.

Aron Schatz writes "You've heard of wireless mice, but how about deskless ones? This baby doesn't need a suface of any kind to be used. This one comes direct from Gyration."

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  1. gaming virtues of handheld mice... by zoobaby · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Surprised that the reviewer did not test this with a game or two. It could make for some interesting new games/gameplay, but would suck to have to quit gaming to recharge your mouse during a marathon gaming session.

    I know that there have been previous versions of handheld wireless mice, but they lagged bad, this sounds like it would be better.

    1. Re:gaming virtues of handheld mice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      My experience has been that it craps out frequently and that the mouse resolution makes it difficult to point at a window's [X], much less a moving office-buddy.

  2. mouse by austad · · Score: 4, Interesting

    These have been around for awhile. We have them in some of our conference rooms, and we got them over 2 years ago. They're pretty cool for playing Q3 on the 12 foot screen. :) It's very easy to aim with it as you just hold down the trigger and point it at what you want to shoot, much easier than moving a regular mouse to aim.

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  3. why i stopped using it by lingorob · · Score: 2, Interesting
    i too had a gyropoint about 5 years ago.

    it worked well -- it was nice being able to let my arms rest naturally, and i found it easy to do precise mousing with it

    the reason i stopped using it was that all of the computing i do involves frequent switching back and forth from mouse to keyboard. (& my keyboard was on my desk). for that reason, it is just easier to have the mouse next to the keyboard and not have to keep picking it up and putting it down.

    ymmv, though. i'd like to try it again in combination with a keyboard in an ergo-proper keyboard tray, just leaving it in my lap when i needed to type something