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Bluetooth Mouse That Stores And Charges In PC Slot
Road Warrior writes "The road warrior will appreciate the Mogo MouseBT. The Bluetooth-enabled mouse is a business-card sized mouse that stores and recharges inside your laptop's PC card slot. It will recharge in less than an hour and it will sell for $69.99. It will be interesting to see how the ergonomic of the mouse feels. The product will be introduced at CES."
From TFA:
Interesting...I wonder just how long those 'minute' batteries last before a recharge is necessary...let's check TFA.
From TFA: No word whatsoever on how long these batteries will last. That's not promising.
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If this is meant as a mouse for a laptop I am curious to know how bluetooth usage will affect both the battery life of the mouse itself AND the battery life of the laptop. While this is definitely "cool," I don't think the form factor is very functional and then there's the battery issue.
I am big on ergonomic design because when programming for a living, I don't want a lousy keyboard or mouse combo to cause me pain and misery.
Most notebook mice comprimise on ergonomics for style, and I can see this one having this problem. If your debating if this mouse will work well for you, take a box of cards and rest your hand on it and move it around for a few hours. I think most people's issues from using mice is that they grip them too hard or pound on the buttons, perhaps a slim design like this one will get people used to the idea of simply resting their hand on a mouse and tapping the buttons rather then putting the mouse in a death grip.
I guess for short stints this product would work well and its nice to finally find a use for that PC Slot. Anything is better then those touch pads or track sticks in the long run.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
Otherwise, it's a great idea since most newer laptops have unused PC slots because the BT/Wireless/Firewire is all integrated.
If my boss actually used his laptop, I'd get him one. Since he has a 17" PowerBook for the "Me too" factor I got him a cheap BT mouse just in case he gets a wild hair up his ass to use it since he hates track pads.
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While this story is a legitimate cue for a rant about charger proliferation, I don't think "not another charging option" is really a legitimate criticism of this product. For those who have bluetooth-enabled laptops and an empty PC card slot, this gives you charging and convenient storage of the mouse in one hit.
If you don't have those things, it's probably not for you, but if you do, it's not requiring you to carry an extra charger, it's definitely more compact and convenient than regular external mouse of any sort. I want one.
Oh no... it's the future.
Ok, so your complaint is a mouse for use in a portable system, in this case a laptop, has a different charging mechanism? This thing charges in the PC-Card slot; it is not like you are having to carry around a whole new charger. Actually this is probably a good idea since a great majority of people nowadays do not even need the PC-Card slot for anything. Most every drive accessory you might need can be swapped with drive bays now, and there is not much need for the expansion, unless you happen to get a laptop without firewire and you really need the connection or maybe some card reader.
I think your post is sorely off topic. Did you even bother to rtfa? I mean besides the fact I would probably crush this thing it is actually somewhat useful, and more so then that ridiculously tiny travel mouse that is the size of my thumb.
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Something I've never understood about having the ability charge portable devices on the road. I can somewhat understand using the last hour of juice on your laptop to charge up your ipod but what would you do with a burnt out computer and a fully charged bt mouse. If you're a true "road warrior" wouldn't you use your trackpad in lue of wasting precious minutes of battery that could be used to check your myspace messages one more time? And if you're at home with a an ac adapter, is it that much trouble to put your bt mouse back on the charging dock once every few days?
You're contradicting yourself in one post. You say you're tired of carrying around tons of different plugs and chargers and converters but then you bash this device. Your gripe is exactly one of those solved by this mouse. You need no batteries and no cables to use this mouse. What could be better? A majority of laptops have PC card slots but they're hardly used anymore.
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