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Multi-Button OpenOfficeMouse At OOoCon 2009

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the flying-in-the-face-of-simple-design dept.

An anonymous reader writes "WarMouse has announced their new multi-button OpenOfficeMouse for OpenOffice.org at the 2009 OOoCon in Orvieto, Italy. The mouse, which features 18 buttons, a scroll wheel, and an analog joystick, has double-click functionality on every button and stores up to 63 application and game profiles in its 512k of flash memory. The OpenOfficeMouse runs on Windows, Linux, and OS X; its customization software will be released as free and open source software." We couldn't decide if this was a protest against Apple's new magic mouse, an elaborate practical joke, or just plain insanity run amok. In any case, it is hard to imagine a world in which so many tiny buttons on a mouse make sense.

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  1. Reinventing the wheel by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just put a mouse-roller on the damned keyboard instead.

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    1. Re:Reinventing the wheel by clone53421 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Grandparent meant the bottom of the keyboard.

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  2. A modest proposal ... by rrhal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps we could just mount a mouse ball on the bottom of a key board. You just move the whole keyboard around when you want to scroll. The 105 button mouse.

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    1. Re:A modest proposal ... by networkzombie · · Score: 5, Funny

      Why stop there? Mount a small LCD to it, throw in a small HDD, and call it a mouseputer. If you attach a chair to it it would be a SOMO (Small Office/Mouse Office).

    2. Re:A modest proposal ... by CopaceticOpus · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's nothing. I keep my mouse stationary, and rotate Earth to scroll.

    3. Re:A modest proposal ... by zapakh · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's nothing. I keep my mouse stationary, and rotate Earth to scroll.

      You rotate Earth to scroll? I have a teamouse. It scrolls by Brownian motion and then I simply destroy the Universe when the cursor moves in a way I didn

  3. OS/X by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    WTF is OS/X? Bastard child of OS/2 and Mac OS X?

  4. I call Shenanigans by Wannabe+Code+Monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    The features of the OpenOfficeMouse include:

    • ...
    • Clickable scroll wheel
    • ...

    It truly is the world of tomorrow... Today!

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  5. Double the buttons by geekoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    and you could start considering it for Emacs.

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  6. Fuck it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're doing 19 buttons