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MX700 Cordless Optical Mouse w/Charger
dkgamez writes ""To make a long story
short, here I am, with my dream - a cordless-optical-rechargeable mouse. You can't imagine how good I feel right now.""
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I'm sure HP have been selling something very similar for a very long time....
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Slashdotted with 3 comments posted. Apparently the webserver is wireless and runs on batteries, too
At least Dexxa and HP have similar products.
What was stopping people from recharging the batteries before?
How about a cordless mouse that charges up with movements, like a wristwatch?
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
When you dream about cordless optical rechargable mice, you really need to go down to the pub and meet some girls!
But I quess you mean the GyroMouse by Gyration, or maybe something else. Anyway, there seems to be atleast a dozen devices to fullfill your dreams - lucky you ;))
Why, does it vibrate as well?
At here.
From the article:
"the fact that it was cordless and had a built-in optical sensor deeply attracted me. I immediately decided to buy it and that may have been the biggest mistake I had ever made. "
I can relate. Yes, I too understand being deeply attracted, and later realizing it was a huge mistake. My biggest ever mistakes, didn't usually involve mice, but maybe I get out more..
it took me a lot of practice to get used to the trackball. Believe it or not, learning how to use the TrackMan FX is actually harder than learning to drive a car.
You actually have to leave the house to drive a car..
It does sound cool though, and one nice detail which would have been nice to include in the article would have been the price.
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I mean, these are not new - we have had one sat on our receptionists desk for ages - months at least. I fail to see anything here that is
a) news.
b) stuff that matters.
Bizzare.
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Is there any other kind?
Anyway, reading the article, which starts out 'I guess you may call me a "mouse freak", and I suppose that I am one indeed' and continues through such moisty-gushy phrases as 'I still wasn't satisfied' 'My "mouse dream" has been finally fulfilled' and 'You can't imagine how good I feel right now' - it's hard NOT to draw the obvious conclusion. It looks like the gerbils now have competition, as a new breed of rodent fetishist comes out of the closet.
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When Optical mice came out me and my friends referd to them as female mice. ...no ball(s)
...tail was cut off..
With cordless mice we called them Neutered Mice.
Now we have neutered female mice ya gotta recharge thier batteries before ya can play with them. We do not have anything to call them.
Anyone have a susgestion?
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When it comes to a mouse, I want something that I can get attached to and keep for a very long time. Unfortunately, mouse manufacturers are a lot like cordless phone manufacturers: models are constantly discontinued and new ones come out. I have two Logitech TrackMan Marble FX trackballs, one at home and one at work, that I love.
Unfortunately, Logitech stopped making them a while ago and, while they do have trackballs still, I don't like any of them as much as my current one. I'd be afraid that one day my rechargable battery would stop holding a good charge and, due to engineering idiocy on the part of the manufacturer, they would not allow you to replace the battery (in the hopes of getting you to buy another one).
A lot of products use non-replacable rechargable batteries. If this mouse uses them, I'd probably not buy one. Of course, since I can't read the article, I don't know if the article even addresses this point. If Logitech does allow replacement, then good for them (and us!).
Get it?.... Such devices are common, I have owned one for a year. A processor is understandable... but I guess free advert for mice is a bit off the head.
Reminds me of slashdot omellete... I certainly dont like mice in my omeletteMy Aurora : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o91ZsGwJYyg
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If you want to go one better, try this, a gyro mouse (Gyration UltraPro). You control the mouse in the air. Not only do you get rid of the cable, you get rid of the desk as well! I've used the non-optical version, and it's very intuitive - it automatically switches back to desk-mode when you put it down again. It's ideal for armchair or presentation use. It's just the price tag that may let it down a bit.
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I welded a chain to my cordless mouse, so I can find it back between the mess on my desk. I was wondering whether Logitech or Microsoft would want to pay me royalties for this invention.
...that sells for about $30-$35 on CompUSA. I got one and it is a piece of crap (DOA, Mickey Mouse buttons, terrible cradle design...). The wife later bought herself a MS wireless optical blue which was a lot better (read: did not die after 2 days) than the Maxell. Later she got a MS Office keyboard bundle at Costco (it was so cheap that the mouse was literally free) that came with a MS Wireless optical Explorer, which is what I use now. Great mouse and it does not eat up batteries.
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Well, yes. It's self-evident. Very useful if you're a web programmer but absolutely useless if you're just some punter who want's to look at the site.
IMHO, it's a sign of a badly-programmed site front-end, hence my comment ....
Alison
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
You can't imagine how good I feel now.
I know what you mean:
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If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
From the article:
Okay, here we go again. I think I just found another good "dream thought" - blue LED!
This is either quite brilliantly subtle satire, or the most pathetic article I have ever seen linked from
... ah, well
yes, we have no bananas
Every Thursday is 'Hardware day' where they try to flog all manner of weird stuff. People queue outside when an interesting product comes up & when the doors open a feeding frenzy ensues.
(OBGeek: they did a run of DMMs recently for 5 each! Yow!)
Alison
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
I like the optical mice. I like the idea of cordless devices, especially rechargeable ones. However, I'm the first to admit that my Palm m505 is dead a couple times a month because I forget to charge it. I'm willing to live with that because its default location is my wallet, not my desk.
Frankly, I'm going to get sick of that occurring with a computer mouse, whose immediate and successful operation is considered [bold]absolutely necessary[/bold] when compared to my PDA. The blame for a dead battery is immaterial.
The trade-off for a cordless device that never strays more than 6" from its primary location is one I rank as extremely unappealing.
There's something very odd about this article.
/. front page. Still, beats stuff about Lego and/or Lord of the Rings.
Possibly the author has some obsessive/compulsive mouse fetish combined with a charmingly naive enthusiasm. Possibly it's is a piece of satire just marginally too subtle for my Itchy and Scratchy addled brain to grasp.
Either way, it's a strange thing to find on the
I have to agree with the article author. For ages, I've been wanting a new mouse with *lots* of buttons to bind to interesting window manager functions (for example, I have my current fourth button bound to drag windows, which is a bit timesaver...I can also use it to bring windows to the front without "passing through" the click to the application...but I don't have to disable passthrough clicks, so I can still work when I'm copying and pasting from one window to another). The problem is that Logitech firmly refused to put out any new mice...just these little awful rounded four button mice. I loved their original "wedge" shapes, and I refused to buy an MS mouse (plus, the MS mouse button layout is really annoying...if you've used one, you know what I mean).
Then they come out with this thing. If I want a wireless optical many button mouse, I can get one. If I *don't* want the wireless bit (I, like some other people, am not a huge fan of wireless devices.), I can drop one model down and get the same mouse sans wireless bit.
These mice are *rechargeable* with a cradle, and no batteries, so if you're a fan of wireless mice, you can't get much better.
May we never see th
"Update: the scrolling lag is caused by the MouseWare. Until a newer version of MouseWare comes out, you can temporarily use the mouse without the MouseWare or with Microsoft IntelliPoint, which works perfectly with the MX700; the only drawback is that you will not be able to use the app switch button. "
Don't count on it. This scrollwheel bug has been in mousewhare forever, I've even sent them a detailed bug report, all I got was a standard letter back telling me to "use the newest MouseWare software version". They are never going to fix this bug.
I guess they are using a weird floating point algorithm to keep track of the scrollwheel, this ofcourse leads to rounding errors and this makes the scrollwheel not respond with some clicks, and skip 2 clicks at once with the next.
Which is very irritating if you use your scrollwheel during games. Want to switch to another weapon? Scroll, nothing, scroll, switches 2 weapon spots at the same time, die, D'oh.
The best way to fix the Logitech Scrollwheel bug is to install the MouseWare software, configure it the way you want, then stop the MouseWare process running in the background.
(Ctrl + Alt + Del then stop the EM_EXEC process).
With every reboot and reconfiguration of your mouse, EM_EXEC will be running again. To stop EM_EXEC at every reboot, delete the automatic startup entry in Windows Registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\...\...\...\Run\
Done, have fun playing, laugh at the idiots of Logitech's software departement.
- -- Truth addict for life.
To those who say this isn't news: it is. It may not be the first cordless optical mouse that comes with a recharging station, but it is the first from Logitech.
To those who say this is a useless product: beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Don't knock it until you try one of these mice. I don't think there are many people who would doubt the advantage of optical over mechanical mice. The wireless feature, however, is one of those "once you've had cordless, you won't go back" things. The recharging station is a nice feature, because without it, you're guaranteed to get annoyed for a couple of minutes at least once ever month or so when your mouse batteries run down. It also opens the possibility that Logitech has fixed a problem with their earlier versions of this mouse.
This article touches briefly on the sampling rate of this mouse, which was nice. When you go down and compare these optical, cordless mice at the store, you find that none of them have any hard specs about their sampling rates. I have one of the earlier Logitech cordless optical mice, and really liked it. However, it couldn't come close to the accuracy of a corded optical mouse. The optical sampling rate was low enough that the difference in accuracy was very noticable. This reduced sampling is done to improve the battery life. A low sampling rate is an issue that can make you hate your mouse.
With the inclusion of a recharging station, it is possible that Logitech modified the mouse to sample at a higher rate and use more energy, because battery life isn't as much of an issue any longer. The batteries are capable of driving the mouse over several days, even at high consumption rates, so as long as the user puts the mouse in the cradle overnight occasionally, the mouse can be less efficient and perform better. It is one of those myriad little user-friendliness things that can make or break a product's popularity.
Personally, I'm happy to see this mouse. Microsoft makes good ergonomic keyboards and crappy operating systems, but Logitech, IMHO, makes the best mice.
Seriously, why can't I easily find a wireless bluetooth mouse? Why should I have a stupid little dongle hanging off my laptop when it has bluetooth built right in? Isn't this exactly the kind of thing it was designed for? I should just be able to put my laptop down on a table and start using the mouse that's sitting there.
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I was perusing your entry when my mind perceived the magic phrase "MS Wireless Optical Blue". "Sweet Sparc above!" I intoned. "Someone's made a mouse with a blue diode!" So off I sprint to Microsoft's website to get all the juicy details, and I find that it is a blue coloured mouse... ... with a red diode.
I feel so let down.
*breaks down and sobs*
Yeah, Aldi is good for that kinda stuff. I picked up a Medion 15" flat screen for 299 a few months ago. Excellent quality, no complaints.
Alison
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
WTF??
How the hell do you know, Anonymous Troll?? You been following me around while I do my shopping or something? So, I got a cordless, optical mouse w/charger from a popular chainstore & you tell me I'm mistaken?? Get a grip, man!
Alison
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
well, wouldnt it be more practical (and more on the "cordless spirit") to put the mouse on its cradle while the computer power's off?
Same as your palm... you recharge it while you sleep (you do sleep, don't you?)
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If someone wants to patent it, any of the competing mouse manufacturers can point to this discussion as "prior art"
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Maaan! If thats true, you really got to buy a stationary bike or maybe (gasp!) occasionaly take a walk _outside_ in the open air.
Remember the ancient Greek philosophers(*):
Healthy mind in a healthy body
(*) They were also sexist fag pricks, but thats another story...
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ROTFL!!!
I talk on my sleep, and my wife sometimes wakes me up laughing at my sleeping rants about life, the universe, computers, and everything...
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I'll stick to cords for now, thank you.
Murphy was an optimist.
Although, the less you use it, the less you need it. This way, it is only powered up as much as necessary.
I have doubts this would work though - for every little 'tick' of one of the rollers a transmission needs to occur. A 'tick' equates to just a fraction of a turn of one of the rollers - in order for it to work, this fraction of a turn has to generate enough energy to make a transmission, otherwise some other source of energy would be required also.
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Am I missing something? I got a cordless, optical, rechargable mouse at CompUSA over a year ago....For 15 bucks no less....I think I will check MySQL's bug database and see if there is a bug that confuses September 30,2002 with Jan 1, 2001. I thought of /. as a place to see the cutting edge gadgets? Or maybe it is the MySQL bug that confuses Sept 30 with April 1.
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Really? How many hours do the batteries last?
If its less than 12 hours, then this is definetely unusable!
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