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Wireless Mouse with no Batteries
GI Joe writes "Hardcoreware.net have posted a review of a mouse with no batteries; it receives its charge through induction from the USB powered mousepad. Of course this means you must use the mouse on this mousepad, taking away some of the big advantages of a wireless mouse. However, they said that the mouse is otherwise very accurate, and has no lag at all since it uses RFID."
..if you already "invent" a wireless mouse, why not get the power from the movement the human being makes? I guess I'd notice a slight strenghtening of the movement!
I'm going back to a wired mouse because they're lighter. No need to further punish my wrists with the weight of a dynamo and the friction of one or more geared balls.
The ball still needs cleaning as it is used over time, gunk accumulates and the movement of the mouse over the mousepad's surface is not smooth.
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The mice that use a docking station for recharging have it right, this one does not have buttons, it looks like, but it has a scroll wheel. And it has to be used on the included mousepad which is in fact a radio emmiter. I don't know, I use a touch pad most often (on my laptop, so no extra batteries anyway,) but when I use a mouse I like to be able to move it anywhere without having to move the mousepad with it. Now, make that radio emmiter recharge a battery inside the mouse, add a couple of buttons, and now it's useful to me.
You can't handle the truth.
Ball doesn't move = no induction.
Ball moves slower than necessary = not enough induction.
It would need cleaning. Also, I doubt you could actually get enough power that way.
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A mouse pad with an induction coil eh? sounds like a great diskette/ZIP/hard-disk eraser to me...
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I remember these were being touted a couple of years ago by Splashpower: link
My guess is these just take too long to charge your phone... or is there another reason these never caught on?
is if the whole desk was one big "power pad" that your laptop, printer, mouse etc could all be powered by. I could eliminate the last must-have cables running all over my desk. This is pretty much useless.
You know how battery-less watches work?
There's a very eccentric cam inside the watch, attached to a very small generator.
Any movement of the watch would move the cam slightly, generating a small amount of current in the generator.
An efficient power circuit captures that spike and stores it in a capacitor.
The same method could be used in a cordless mouse.
Power requirements are little bit higher, but not much.
Also, there could be a small generator attached to the scroll wheel.
What I don't get is what makes this 'MOUSE' any different than a digitizer pad (most come with mouse-like pointing devices along with the pen style interface). Seems like it's a lot of bother over something that's been available for a dozen or more years.
Kinetic stupidity has a new brand leader: Allen Zadr.
Of course as I said in a different post it seems pretty pointless when you can get wireless mice with rechargable batteries and a docking station.
I will also add to that...
Modern day (as in released this year) cordless, rechargable, optical mice with docking stations are not only more sensitive, but also have low battery indicators that give really good warning about a low battery.
I have to put my Logitech MX700 on the charger about once every few days or the light will start to flash by the fourth. The flashing light is a good reminder that it needs to be done soon, but seeing the light doesn't mean the batteries are critical yet, so I can get by with using it for a while even then.
Only a few times have I pressed my luck to the point of complete battery drain, and even in those cases I was able to put the mouse on the charger, go use the restroom and make Tea and I was back in the game when I returned.
So nearly every complaint I could have is gone with my most recent cordless mouse (and I've had several).
The only remaining complaint now is that the mouse isn't ambidextrous. This is only a minor complaint to me since I am right handed, but other people might find this to be a major turn off.
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What I want to know is how this is any better than the usual graphics tablets that come with wireless batteryless mice already. Mice that are tracked by the tablet, not the mouse, so the mouse is small and light. And some of them even have crosshairs attached to the top side for precision movements.
Do not operate on any metal surfaced table
I presume this thing will function like an inductive heater if any large piece of metal comes in contact with this. Might be good for cooking some noodles though.
Divide by zero hurts my brain.
I'm amazed at the number of people who point to battery-changing as a drawback of wireless mice. You can get them with chargers now.
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