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An innovation in mouse technology... we really needed?
Posted by:
Registered Voter
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Date: September 06, 2009 01:27PM
Logitech's latest trick: a mouse that works on glass
http://dvice.com/archives/2009/08/logitech-perfor.php
http://dvice.com/archives/2009/08/logitech-perfor.php
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You love your glass desk. Being able to see your shiny shoes while you work is a major plus, and wood is so overrated. One problem: You need to use an archaic throwback of technology — a mousepad — since your computer mouse won't work on glass. Life really is a burden, isn't it?
Well not anymore, my exquisitely modern friend. Logitech has just the mouse for you: Its Performance MX mouse is so sophisticated, it will work on that sexy glass desk of yours. Thanks to the company's newly developed and scarily named Darkfield Laser Tracking technology, transparent surfaces work just as well as opaque ones. Magic? Not quite — Darkfield tracking works by reflecting the mouse's laser off imperfections in the glass; it just needs to be at least 4 millimeters thick. The mouse also has Logitech's new Unifying receiver tech, which controls your mouse and keyboard from the same wireless dongle.
The Performance Mouse MX sells for $100. Its little brother, the more portable Anywhere Mouse MX, does the same glass trick for $80. Both will be available this month.
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Re: An innovation in mouse technology... we really needed?
Posted by:
Gravis
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Date: September 06, 2009 02:45PM
who the hell uses a glass desk?
"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."
"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."
Re: An innovation in mouse technology... we really needed?
Posted by:
Thurston Moore
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Date: September 07, 2009 01:04AM
I have a glass-topped desk, but I really don't mind using a mouse pad.
What was logitech thinking? Spend millions of dollars developing a solution to the problem of having to buy a $3 mouse pad? Hell, most of my mouse pads were free, picked up at shows and conventions or given to me by vendors.
However, I really like these two keyboards ...
A Virtual laser keyboard (would be great for tight spaces, like on airplanes or just because you can throw it in your laptop bag):
and this OLED keyboard. Each key is a small video screen:
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The function of conservatives is not to meet every liberal program or scheme with a denunciation or a destructive counterscheme, but rather to weigh its advantages and defects, supporting the first and challenging the second. A declaration of ideological warfare against liberalism is by its nature profoundly unconservative. It meets perceived radicalism with a counterradicalism of its own.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/07/2009 01:13AM by Thurston Moore.
What was logitech thinking? Spend millions of dollars developing a solution to the problem of having to buy a $3 mouse pad? Hell, most of my mouse pads were free, picked up at shows and conventions or given to me by vendors.
However, I really like these two keyboards ...
A Virtual laser keyboard (would be great for tight spaces, like on airplanes or just because you can throw it in your laptop bag):
and this OLED keyboard. Each key is a small video screen:
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The function of conservatives is not to meet every liberal program or scheme with a denunciation or a destructive counterscheme, but rather to weigh its advantages and defects, supporting the first and challenging the second. A declaration of ideological warfare against liberalism is by its nature profoundly unconservative. It meets perceived radicalism with a counterradicalism of its own.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/07/2009 01:13AM by Thurston Moore.