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Microsoft Unveils A Designer Mouse
jeckil writes "Today Microsoft unveiled the new Starck mouse; a new shiny mouse designed to take the 'cool' from other mice such as Logitech or Apple. Microsoft is calling it the 'first museum-quality mouse.' Looks shiny enough to be on a museum display along with other succesful Microsoft products."
Who knew Microsoft would turn into Apple?
and that word is......pretentious.
Looks Like a Space Ship... ZOOOOOM
Looks distubingly like a vibrator to me. But maybe that's just me. Back to my one handed surfing...
"An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program."
Wow! That slit down the middle makes me think it's just a vagina. I can't get a better view, but I also imagine the scroll button placement helps to further that logic.
"S+ARCK designed this mouse with a unique, curving hemisphere, which makes it feel natural and puts left and right clicking in the palm of your hand."
;)
Because we all know how some things unnatural feel in the palm of your hand.
Only the maker of antequated operating systems would make a "museum quality" mouse.
A remote control for the iBrator!
-- n
Your posting on Slashdot, how do you know what a vagina looks like?
Isn't he the guy famous for making stuff which is considered artistic and pretty (like go to and art gallery and admire) but functionally useless? Is it supposed to be a foreshadowing of Longhorn?
But the cord is what makes them cute, and allows them to be called "mouse". I think of a cordless mouse as a "roach". ;-)
I don't think I've ever seen a really pretty mouse, though.
I've always thought that Minnie Mouse was kind of hot.
Oh shit, this isn't the furry forum! *NO CARRIER*
is really what it should be called. Perhaps someone at Microsoft thinks that geeks need practice at something...?
The idea, my humor impaired friend, is that most people don't announce new products and suggest that they are fit to be placed next to dinosaur bones.
..that Apple has the software to go with the shiny, modern design.
CAN'T... LEAVE.. THIS.. ONE.. ALONE... ARRRrRRGGgghh!
Sorry. I had to.Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
Hardware has guided the evolution of the mouse from its origins as a simple, utilitarian tool to its modern incarnation: a statement of individual style.
I think they say it all right there: primary purpose of this mouse is to be a fashion statement.
It falls right into the same bucket as cell phone covers, some of other MS mice as well as some other more useless items.
On a side note, did anyone notice that this mouse does not match ANY other MS-driven hardware?
Translated from marketese, this means that it works equally poorly for both hands. Sorry, I think I'll keep my old asymmetric logictech mouse for a while longer; it might just look like a lump of beige plastic, but its shape fits my hand.
Disclaimer: I work for a company, but I don't speak for them.
I want to know why they don't make the spin wheel spit sparks! I mean hey! When I was a kid we had these neat little guns that shot sparks out when you pulled the trigger - why not make the wheel spit sparks! Scare someone half to death thinking their computer is about to blow or something! :)
Someone put a black hole in my pocket and now I'm broke.
"Putting the slash back into slashdot"
Need Mercedes parts ?
Now check out the language used to hype it:
I'm afraid of what that dangling chord is supposed to be. Good thing it's not in the pictures.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Bah. Cordless mice are too laggy and they don't have good sample rates. Not like a standard USB mouse.
My favourite problem with a mouse so far happened last week.
"My mouse isn't working, it keeps jumping in the wrong direction" she said.
The culprit? Optical mouse with promotional hologram mousepad.
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
You realize you'll have thousands of /.'ers clicking now, to finally see what a vagina looks like.
I could not justify my existence if I were a turkey farmer. Would I terminate myself? Undoubtably, yes.
Good lord, a one-button mouse is difficult to use? Where you born without hands or something??>
My recent logitech does NOT have said cable collar (http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/detail s/GB/EN,CRID=3,CONTENTID=4996)
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Actually, human hands are. My left hand is mirror-symmetric (within certain tolerances) to my right hand. Being ambidexterous, I like being able to use my mouse in either hand.
The MS mouse looks decent enough. I prefer my Apple Pro mouse, but MS mice were always good products, and this one is a good deal cheaper than my Apple mouse. I'd be tempted to pick one up (a scroll-wheel mouse) for some purposes, but I have one I use with my iBook, and so am not shopping for one right now. (The 5 button gamer mouse would be overkill for me; but then, I said I'm a Mac user, so obviously I'm not a big gamer).
Oh god... a new mouse?!? Whatever shall we do... will it improve my Counter-Strike record? No? Well... then what's the use of it?
Who is this s+arck guy?! I want a mouse designed by H R Giger dammnit!
I'd overclock *my* mouse, but the nitrogen cooling apparatus makes pointing and clicking rather... unwieldy.
Remember kids: that scroll wheel is VERY important!
anyway, I have seen and own a pretty mouse - the MAPP mouse by elecom is gorgeous
If by "gorgeous" you mean "resembles a Klingon torture device", then yes, it's gorgeous.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
Anyone unfortunate enough to have been bamboozled by his very expensive lemon squeezer that did the rounds of the likes of John Lewis a few years ago will know what I mean.
It is actually terrible at squeezing lemons, and singularly fails to fulfil its basic function at all well, and costs over 40 GBP!! Here's what's wrong with it:
you need a separate container to catch the juice (not included!)
the gap between the legs does not permit the average bowl or cup to fit below it to catch the juice.
its centre of gravity is so high that it easily topples over when any sort of pressure (like actually trying to squeeze a lemon) is applied.
that's assuming you can get the legs on a flat surface around the juice catcher - if not you're totally fscked.
it doesn't catch the pips, so they end up in the juice.
its shape means that the juice runs off awkwardly, often running down the legs onto the surface instead of into the catcher.
Frankly, it's a travesty. I have a plastic lemon squeezer I bought in the local supermarket for 99p that does the job perfectly - it has its own container, it catches the pips, and it is strong enough to take as much force as the lemon will. If this mouse is anything like the squeezer, it'll cost a fortune, won't function well, and will probably just end up in the back of a cupboard somewhere. But there will probably still be some pretentious tossers who'll go for it.