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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."
What types of batteries does the MoGo MouseBT require?
MoGo MouseBT comes with a built-in, rechargeable battery, and is recharged when it is docked in your laptop's PC card slot. That's a major advantage over other wireless mice, which require frequent change of batteries.
I have two wireless mice and a wireless keyboard all powered by batteries. I'm not quite sure what they mean by "frequent change of batteries". I routinely get three or more months of frequent use out of my mice and six months or more out of the keyboard (and I'm not even using lithium batteries!)
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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You would only need a bluetooth card in when you are using the mouse. When you put the mouse in the slot, there would be no need for the bluetooth card to be in there.
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I, personally, love slashvertisements. As a nerd on the run, I rarely have time for news that doesn't matter, and that counts DOUBLY for advertisements.
And not only is this an advertisement, but it's an ad for a product that hasn't even been released yet! Fantastic! When my private DC-10 next touches down a year from now after months of writing code and making executive network decisions from the air, I'll be able to pop into some store and pick one up! Maybe!
For the good old fashioned slashvertisements, I sure wish Slashdot would just put a 'Buy it now' button in the story so that I can do as I'm told (BUY BUY BUY) without having to puzzle out confusing websites or being forced to interact with humans on the other end of a telephone call.
That would be... fantastic.
What ever happened to comfort? Those mini-mice you can get are bad enough, but this looks worse then those apple puck mice. Where do you rest your wrist?
It may look cool, but just looking at it is giving me carpel tunnel!
It will be interesting to see how the ergonomic of the mouse feels.
Kind of like a gerbil.
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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.
I personally think the best new mouse is the YapperMouse. It's got a speakerphone for Skype. A speakerphone. In a mouse. You can also pick up the mouse to answer calls. How very Get Smart.
Anybody else have any good 'multi-function' mouse sightings?
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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Hey kids of America. It's machine painted plastic mouse-in-a-slot. Mogo's favorite mouse for over two months. Who needs constant comforting ergonomic stimulation when there's mouse-in-a-slot? You just use the mouse, put it in the slot, pull it out of the slot, use it, and put it in the slot again. The mouse is not on a wire and unattached to the slot, so there's no worry if you don't put the mouse in the slot. And clean up is as easy as putting a mouse, in a slot. So why spend another day not putting a mouse in a slot when you can be using a mouse-in-a-slot?
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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?
Apart from the sales reps who will want this device to try to convince their non-technical customers that they (the sales reps) are the real digital superheros of this information age, only a few executives with big egos and no sense of self worth will find a real use for this device. Why not innovate a little bit beyond the mouse. Were this a PC-card touch-pad that could sit in one hand and be controlled by my thumb, I might be interested. [Note to self: send patent application for PC-card thumb pad device ASAP, or find rich industrialist who will pay me $50 for the idea.] It's just a mouse. I've used nothing but a laptop for four years now, and I have learned to be very efficient with keyboard shortcuts and my stick mouse. For your typical data pusher (I won't insult any gamers or casual surfers by suggesting that a mouse is useless), that's all you really need. The mouse is really only useful when the tab stops are not set well, or when you don't know your shortcut menus. So to me, this is a notch on a manufacturer's belt, or a trophy piece for a gadget freak. Dang, give me a gyroscopic bluetooth wristband that will respond to my hand movements--then you'll be talking innovation. [Second note to self: Stop posting all of your potential money-making ideas through my comments on Slashdot.]
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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.
Slashdotters these days. Yeesh.
I'm sure you're girlfriend is proud.
I picked up something from Radio Shack about a year ago called iGo. little universal charging thing that you can just swap out tips for. Now instead of having 9 chargers, I have one charger and 9 tips that I can't remember what the hell they go to. Shame it doesn't work with my Dell laptop though.
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A small USB cable would have made much more sense to charge the mouse than using the PC slot...
A wireless mouse, that charges via a USB cable during use?
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neither is any of the propietary interfaces for wireless mice! at least many laptops have bluetooth, no laptop has the required intefacte for a logitech or a microsoft wireless mouse. So if you want a wireless mouse BT is better, they should all be BT rather than propietary anyway.
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The road warrior will appreciate the Mogo MouseBT.
Yes. Yes he will. Whether fighting for fuel, or just hangin' out in the Thunderdome, the Road Warrior will certainly love this. If only it came with a sawed-off shotgun option, or a recharge-with-pigshit option, it'd be perfect.
What's that? You're talking about regular people who travel with a laptop?
They aren't fucking road warriors! They don't kill, they don't fight; fuck, they don't even do anything FUCKING INTERESTING! They are generally the most pretentious, most boring people in the fucking world! They are not road warriors! If they wanna call themselves a "road warrior," they can meet me in the Thunderdome. Chainsaws, baby, mono-a-mono.
Any article that refers to assholes with laptops as "road warriors" automatically rates the roundfile.
Jeez.
Now, where's my lithium?
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