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Seven Color LED Mousepad

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the concentrate-on-the-hypnotic-colors dept.

VL writes "If you're into LED mousepads, but one color isn't enough... how about one that has seven that you can choose from with a press of a button? " Gotta admit, it looks pretty nifty.

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  1. Oh great! by RailGunner · · Score: 5, Funny
    Just what we need - a mouse pad that looks lke Zombo.com.

  2. Mousepads are for pussies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bareback is the only way to go.

  3. Conveniently available at.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thinkgeek for a mere $26.99. Coincidence? *wink wink*

  4. Yawn.... by wpiman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slow newsday at slashdot..... This adds insult to injury when my submissions get denied.

  5. cache by TOGA!+TOGA+TOGA! · · Score: 4, Informative

    slashdotted before the first post. google cache

  6. Mouse Pad? by Numeric · · Score: 5, Insightful

    With optical mice why would anyone need a mouse pad? Back in the day with the old-style mice, I would occasionally move my mouse off the pad thus resulting my Rocket Launcher pointing in some odd direction. Once I switched to an optical mouse, that .99c IKEA mouse pad was thrown out the window.

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  7. small mousing surface? by RevDobbs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The review said it has a small mousing surface, but that 'cons' were easy to get used to. BAH. Who wants to sacrafice usability for blinkenlights?

    If I wanted style of substance I'd buy a k-rad black & grey Compaq. Or Windows XP.

  8. meh..... by Malnathor · · Score: 4, Funny

    7 colors is useless to me! 16 colors, NOW we're talking.

    1. Re:meh..... by Queuetue · · Score: 4, Funny

      All of my mousepads are truecolor. And analog.

  9. They sound nice at first, but... by Tore+S+B · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...I sat next to a guy with that thing at The Gathering... CONSTANTLY PULSATING and annoying the hell out of me, and also achieving amazing amounts of screen glare. The guy lit up the entire isle with lights.

    It gets annoying.

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    1. Re:They sound nice at first, but... by torpor · · Score: 5, Insightful

      what is annoying is that people love this junk. its junk! give you a 'kick' in life for about a month, and then after that it just becomes yet more trash in an already over-trashed lifestyle (computers).

      i know its gonna sound like a flame, but i find it ultra-decadent that anyone gives a shit about their mousepads having 'colors' when there are far, far more important things going on in life, which, with just .0000005% of the attention that goes towards this consumer rubbish, could be improved a great deal ...

      still. you have to give Romans their wine, or they go to war. oh, wait ...

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  10. Re:Slow news day by thedillybar · · Score: 4, Informative

    And the news day just got a little slower now that the site is slashdotted...

  11. If only... by Mateito · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... Slashdot was availble in 7 colours.

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  12. LEDs... by NemosomeN · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Won't blinking LEDs make an optical mouse go crazy? And on a related note, why is the article on a mousepad SO FREAKING LONG.

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  13. forget about chocolate by El_Muerte_TDS · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll trade my password for one of those mouse pads

  14. There is an eight color yet available! by AtariDatacenter · · Score: 5, Funny


    The master walks by and observes the student playing with a blue glowing device. "May I?", asks the master. He takes the device into his hand.

    "This mousepad is interesting. The manufacturer offers seven different selections of colors. Yet there is another color which is inherent in all devices, which is directly available as a color selection."

    "Any what, pray tell, is this mysterious color, Master?"

    The master drops the mouse pad to the floor and smashes it under foot. The student is enlightened.

  15. Control of colours via USB by landoltjp · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Since the pad draws power from a USB connection, it would be cool if the colours could be controlled via the USB port as well.

    With a simple API, it should be easy to change the colours on the fly, going from blue to red (or whatever) depending on different 'threat' conditions.

  16. Unreal Tourny... by adamofgreyskull · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What would be cool would be to computer control it to switch up a notch as you progress through Double Kill, Multi Kill, Monster Kill, GOOOOOODLIKE...etc.

    Green for normal state, progressing through Green/Amber to ultra-bright, pulsating Red. Shit, you could just get so pumped, even without a mod for your headphones to jack up the volume in sync with the light...