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Smart Mouse with E-Mail and IM Alerts
lilrock writes "CoolTechZone.com takes a look at the world's first smart mouse from Logitech, the MX610, that has e-mail and IM alert buttons. It also has auto turn on/off functionality as well. According to the article, 'All these standard features aside, what has us impressed are the e-mail and IM notification buttons. Though the idea behind them is simple, it's interesting how Logitech comes up with such exclusive features. Basically, you will have to configure the indicators to alert you when you receive an e-mail and/or an IM message from the person of your choice. The buttons will alert you by lighting up, and lead you directly to the message once you press them.' " Because I for one am constantly staring at my mouse when I have a gigantic monitor right in front of me. Cough.
It now features a vibration instead of a light altert.
In other news, female use of computers up 500%.
Now that would be innovative.
are some volume buttons and a treo style keyboard on the top of the mouse, and we can ditch the traditional keyboard altogether.
Jerry
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I bet this is just the hardware engineers at Logitech going: - Hmm... Jake, we got two I/O pins free on our MCU. - You don't say... - Maybe we could hook something up to them? - No? Why? - Aw, come on! A pair of flashing LEDs. - Ooooh, LEDs... *drool*
Hey, Logitech! I'm a big guy with big paws. How about making a wired optical mouse with two buttons and one wheel that's about 50% larger than every mouse you currently make?
Why don't you just amputate your hands and get prosthetics? Sheeesh. People always expect companies to do all the work for them. People should get out of their chair and do something themself for once. Hell, I'm going to head over to your place right now and chop off your hands myself.
> Some people are more important then games.
Do you have links to support this?
If they did that, I know people who'd like to get IM'd all the time! A whole new facet of netsex.
Now if we could only program the mouse to play Transiberian Orchestra's "Wizards in Winter"
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My mouse just failed so I went out and bought a Hyper Super Tech X40d2mfgv2 Extra III. It's the most amazing mouse ever. It has 104 programmable keys and three fantastic lights.
Am I the only one that thinks mice are becoming a little over complicated? Three buttons and a scroll wheel should be enough to anyone :o)
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number of females deleting their spam filters increased with 1000%.
The previous two post had to do with genetics/biology, so I guess I was a bit pre-conditioned ...
... cool, they've genetically engineered a mouse to able to use email and IM ... neat trick, I get the IM, but the email asynchronous communication does require fairly high abstract thinking ability ... oh, wait.
Smart mouse with e-mail and IM alerts
Seriously, for a moment I was alright with a mouse messaging with other mouses and reseachers.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers - Pablo Picasso
I can see the IM conversations now.
It's only pathetic if you talk to the toasters and they ignore you.
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