The gamers of you out there will know that Cyborg make some pretty neat gaming peripherals and their gaming mice make a great impression to whichever gaming championships you take them to. The new R.A.T 7 by Cyborg seems to carry on this tradition offering deadly looks that’s enough to put off any potential competitor before you’ve booted your rig. The feature list for the R.A.T 7 is immense but check below for a few features that really stand out. …
Here’s a review of Adesso’s new Bluetooth mini-scroll mouse, the S100.
It’s portable, so perfect for road warriors, without sacrificing any accuracy. Syncing via Bluetooth to my WinXP laptop was a snap and I was up and running in less than 30 seconds.
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Looking for a more practical version of your favorite toy/comic book model? Then how about a Transformer bot that is also a USB drive? Sounds good right? No? Transformer mouse then?
Takara Tomy has made 2 USB drive models – Tigatron and Jaguar, and 2 laser pointer mice – Trypticon and Grimlock.
The USB drive models are 2GB large and the mice are 3-button 800dpi laser mice with scroll wheels.
Price: $42.99 – $59.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
Product #9 from Quirky is the Scratch-n-Scroll, a pressure-sensitive mousepad that you can write on using your finger or the accompanying stylus pen. So no more scrambling for a pen and notepad. Your mousepad is always there, unless you’ve found a way to completely voice-control your computer!
Clearning the pad of writing is as simple as lifting up the sheet and putting it back down again, a la many of those kid-drawing toys. The Scratch-n-Scroll can be used as a standard mousepad for optical or ball-based mouse.
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Price: $14.99
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One of the new, notable items that Apple released this week is the Magic Mouse, the first multi-touch mouse. The Magic Mouse will come standard with new iMacs, but you can get one for your existing Mac for $69.
The multi-touch surface covers the whole Magic Mouse, just one smooth surface that can sense things like swipes, scrolls, etc from your fingers. The entire mouse is a button. It can also tell when your hand is just resting on the mouse.
The included software lets you re-assign gestures, and assign handedness. Magic Mouse is wireless Bluetooth and has a 33ft range.
You can see a video of the Magic Mouse in action at Apple’s website.
Microsoft have announced their latest addition to the portable mouse market – the Arc™ Mouse; a mouse which can fold away to 60% of its size to be carried and can be unfolded to make a comfortable pointing device for your laptop. The mouse utilizes laser technology for extra precision over optical, broadcasts over 2.4Ghz, allowing it to control your laptop from 30ft. away (should you ever need to have your mouse so far away from your laptop!) and features 4 customizable buttons with another button for switching between windows.
Originally designed with the ever-increasing notebook market in mind, the Arc Mouse would make a great addition to any computer or game console where space is an issue, but style is demanded – it comes in black or red to suit your personality.
Price: $49.95
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The Bluetooth-connected Lazy Pad lets you control your laptop or notebook with this all-in-one keyboard & trackpad. It even includes a numeric keypad. Weighing in at just over 3oz and just over 4″ at its widest and very thin, it’s pretty easy to hold in one palm while you control it with the other.
You can also use it as an adjunct number pad; the accountant in you will like that. It has a number of key combinations that let you perform functions that typically only a full-scale keyboard would do.
Apple’s Mighty Mouse may match my keyboard and 24″ iMac in the context of design, but the Mighty Mouse simply does not match the quality of the iMac. After a year and a half, I have finally decided to drop the Mighty Mouse from my desk (literally) and switch to another mouse.
The Mighty Mouse has a design flaw, even though it was “Designed by Apple in California” where the mouse ball gets dirty. Instead of the mouse ball touching the surface of the desk, the ball rotates under your finger. When the mouse gets dirty, the best you can do is disconnect the mouse from the wireless Bluetooth link and clean in one of two ways. First you can follow Apple’s official KB article or you can turn the mouse upside down and rub really hard in all directions and hope the dirt comes out. The official way never worked for me and the second way use to work at least for a couple of weeks. I finally gave up and could no longer scroll side to side or up and down until I was sufficiently angry enough to purchase a new mouse.
In comes the Logitech V470 Cordless Laser Mouse. I decided to try this mouse because it’s a cool blue color, uses Bluetooth, ability to scroll up and down as well as sideways and uses laser technology. This is meant to be a notebook mouse, but even with my huge hands (you heard that right ladies… huge hands!) I decided to give the mouse a try. If I like the mouse enough, I’ll use it with the laptop too.
When I first got the mouse I thought the mouse was indeed blue and a bit small. Since I’ve been using it I haven’t noticed that the mouse is blue or small, just that I again have the ability to scroll horizontally and vertically! My hand fits nicely over the mouse, the buttons are easy to use and the scroll wheel works perfectly fine.
To scroll horizontally, you simply push the scroll wheel left or right until the wheel clicks. While horizontal scrolling is not as elegant as the Mighty Mouse, it works. I find that I typically use the keyboard and key shortcuts to get around the computer, except for scrolling… this fact makes the Logitech V470 Bluetooth Cordless Laser Mouse MUCH better for me to use than the Mighty Mouse. I definitely recommend the mouse for whatever computer you have provided you have Bluetooth. You’d be amazed at the clutter than disappears when you move to a cordless mouse and the accuracy you’ll gain moving from a mouse ball or optical mouse to laser technology.
Buy now!
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Price: $40.94
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge
at the time of posting)
