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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. Engadget handles Slashdotting much better... by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Informative

    So here's a better link if you want to see this monstrosity. The guy earlier in this discussion who was joking about putting a mouse wheel on a standard keyboard wasn't far off.

    I'm sure if anyone actually buys this a lot of wrist surgeons will rejoice...

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    #DeleteChrome
  2. RAZER Naga by jgtg32a · · Score: 3, Informative

    There already is a mouse like this and it was actually designed much better. The Naga, it has all the standard buttons and then it has another 12 on the side, its an interesting idea and would be rather useful in some gaming situations. They market it to MMO, I also think it would be rather nice to have in RTS

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826153054

  3. Re:Reinventing the wheel by Guillaume+Castel · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Why the 'F does the page have to reload when I hit the back button"

    Because a lot of web pages (including slashdot) are served with HTTP headers that tell the browser not to cache them, and the browser follows that directive. Yes, it's annoying. I use tabs for that reason too.