Multi-Button OpenOfficeMouse At OOoCon 2009

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday November 6, 2009 @09:05AM 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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Is this a joke? by halfdan+the+black · 2009-11-06 11:07 · Score: 0, Troll

Last time I checked, it's Nov, not Apr 1?
Jeeez, this thing is UGLY, and freaking cheap looking. Looks like they found the absolute cheapest POS mouse they could get a hold of, the kind where the wheel binds, nothing really fits right, the $5 WalMart special, and bunch of really ugly button on it.
Why not just use the keyboard??? If you are going to have this many keys, at least the keyboard keys have letters on them to remember what they do (Ctrl-C copy, Ctrl-P, print, etc...).
The new Apple mighty mouse may be a bit expensive, but at least it has some really really cool functionality, but this thing???