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Multi-Button OpenOfficeMouse At OOoCon 2009
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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The most awesome game controller ever was the Logitech Cyberman. On the right side, it had a single puck with 6 full degrees of freedom, not the limited "degrees" often cited by other manufacturers. So, for example, in a FPS game you could use it to look around and move simultaneously.
Then, under the left hand, were 2 buttons each under the thumb and first 3 fingers. 8 buttons in all. All in a very ergonomic design that sat comfortably on a table or in your lap.
It beat the holy crap out of X-Box style controllers. What took both thumbs and a finger or two of each hand on the X-Box (moving around and looking around) could be done very smoothly with one hand on the Cyberman, with a hugely lower learning curve. And then you had 8 more switches on the left for whatever.
The Cyberman was actually used for controlling very expensive equipment on the Space Shuttle.
But they discontinued it. Why? Lack of support from the game companies.
Just the other day, I saw on television someone using a "futurisic" controller very similar to a Cyberman. No doubt a ripoff of Logitech's design. 10 years after Logitech discontinued it.