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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.

13 of 265 comments (clear)

  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. Oh yeah? by avg_joe_01 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Clearly you don't PvP...

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

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

  5. 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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  6. Metaphors by sbeckstead · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This mouse is a good metaphor for Linux and OSS. Too many choices and very confusing interfaces. Good job guys!

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

    and you could start considering it for Emacs.

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

    We're doing 19 buttons

  9. Re:God damnit by jayme0227 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, it wasn't that long ago that the scroll wheel was added. I thought that was pretty cool. Also, the side buttons on my mouse are pretty useful while browsing the internet or gaming.

    But if you're still attached to your same old mechanical ball-style mouse with only two buttons and no scroll wheel, I guess that's your prerogative.

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