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$70 Cordless Notebook Mouse with No Scroll Wheel

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the interesting-new-design-concepts dept.

superfloungmous writes "CoolTechZone.com has reviewed Logitech's latest V500 Cordless Notebook Mouse that uses 2.4GHz wireless technology to transmit signal and has a scroll panel instead of a scroll wheel. The concept behind a scroll wheel is you simply move your finger in up, down, left and right directions to use the function. The mouse has a whopping $70.00 price tag as well. Could this be the end of scroll wheels? Here's a quote from the review, "One of the unique things about the V500 is its scroll panel, and this is the very first mouse to actually use this concept. Throughout our testing, we are nothing but impressed with Logitech's new idea. It worked perfectly, and it's actually better than a scroll wheel in many instances. It looks like the era of scroll wheels is short-lived if Logitech applies the same design to its desktop equivalent products."

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  1. Pictures? by ebh · · Score: 1, Funny

    Anyone?

    1. Re:Pictures? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      you read the article? you must be new here

  2. 2.4 GHz by bigtallmofo · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Hmm.. That's weird. Every time I move my mouse, I get disconnected from my 802.11g network."

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    1. Re:2.4 GHz by cybersaga · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Hmm.. That's weird. Every time I move my mouse while talking on the phone, the person on the other end sounds like Satan."

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    2. Re:2.4 GHz by magefile · · Score: 3, Funny

      That happens to me a lot, and I'm not even using a wireless mouse! ...

      Oh. SHIT.

    3. Re:2.4 GHz by pixelpusher220 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Something sorta up this alley...

      Back in the day when I was working on a DOS based, flat file database app; one of the new guys discovered that if you moved the mouse, searchs, updates, maintenance processing, ran faster.

      The logical reason was that the interupt checking to see if the user had hit the space bar to cancel, was firing and not waiting that extra milisecond because the mouse was saying 'nope nothing happening here' quicker than just timing out the interupt. So you just balance the mouse on the SHIFT key and boom, faster processing of long reports!

      The Customer Support people in house were like "We are NOT telling that to customers!"


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    4. Re:2.4 GHz by ArsonSmith · · Score: 3, Funny

      Are you on the phone with Microsoft support?

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    5. Re:2.4 GHz by egypt_jimbob · · Score: 2, Funny

      Get out of the house! The support guy is calling from your bedroom!

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  3. User preference differ by RealProgrammer · · Score: 2, Funny

    I like touchpads, but a lot of people don't. Some people like the Thinkpad nipple, but I don't (there's only one in the middle, and I can't get used to that :-).

    I think it would be harder to keep from making mousing mistakes with a scroll pad than a wheel, which requires more effort to engage.

    But still, people who like touchpads will probably like the scroll pad. People who make mistakes with touch pads probably will not like the scroll pad, either.

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  4. What the!!!! by kaje103 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was on google searching for dicks and assholes and I get linked to this stupid /. site!

  5. Re:whooping! by Enigma_Man · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think the word you're looking for is "whopping", unless you have whooping cough, or are getting your ass whooped.

    -Jesse

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  6. Re:Doomsday? by duguk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Could this be the end of rethorical doomsday predictions in /. articles? :D

    Ok, ok, I'm sorry.

    D

  7. Re:small nit to pick by IdleByte · · Score: 1, Funny

    I got the kensington mouse with the touch panel for free from CDW when I puchased something a long time ago. (years) So this definately isn't something new, but it's nice to see it developed a little further. I'll miss that ever so soft click my mouse gives me when I Rub it's Wheel :)

  8. Re:Thinkpads by bogie · · Score: 2, Funny

    "It's glorious...for long web pages"

    "My hands can stay on the keyboard"

    Yea right. ;)

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  9. Re:whooping! by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Christ Almighty on a shingle. The fans in my PC are loud enough already without having my cpu going around and whooping all the time.

    Are water cooled cpu gags going to be the next hot mod?

    KFG

  10. Re:keep reading by soupdevil · · Score: 2, Funny

    Which is why I'm a musician, not a programmer, I guess.

  11. Re:I have one by hikerhat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some people don't have their other hand free when using firefox.

  12. I already have a mouse by StarCharter · · Score: 3, Funny

    What I need is a $70 cordless notebook.

  13. Re:small nit to pick by precize · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think we all know what's next...

    A mouse on top of a mouse.

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  14. Re:small nit to pick by justforaday · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great, just what we need -- more mice...

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  15. Re:sounds like the iPod interface by ArsonSmith · · Score: 3, Funny

    They are both objects. Smaller than a bread box. Not related to a giraffe.

    Actually they are almost exactly the same.

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