The New 18 Button Mouse

[RoyGBiv]

I have no words ... well, "what the hell?" seems suitable, but I'm not sure it's strong enough.

Oddly, I find myself wanting one, just to have ...



http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/11/18-button-open-office-mouse-makes-a-keyboard-look-minimal/

[ProdigalJunkMail]

1. based on all the functions...it might as well be a keyboard!

with all the programmable buttons/features you might not NEED a keyboard! but i agree...there is something strangely 'calling' about this...i might need one!

sP

[RC]

2. Remember those lead balloons they were selling on the Titanic...

These will go over just as well.

[RoyGBiv]

3. Not even OpenOffice likes it ...

Well, the OpenOfficeMouse rightly caused a bit of skepticism when it was officially announced earlier this week, and it turns out it is something of a fraud after all -- just not the way you might think. Yes, the multi-buttoned mouse is still all too real (in prototype form, at least), and supposedly set for a release... sometime, but it seems that mouse's creator got a bit ahead of himself in slapping the OpenOffice name on it. As it happens, the mouse was apparently officially presented at the recent OOoConference in Italy to judge the reaction from the OpenOffice community, but the relationship ended there, and the mouse's creator was never given permission to market the mouse with the OpenOffice name (probably a wise move). Not one to be deterred, WarMouse now seems to simply be referring to the mouse as the OOMouse -- don't worry though, you can still call it "ugly."

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/

[madokie]

4. I can see all kinds of uses for that with AutoCad

I could program each key. I'm a trackball user and would like to have a trackball with that many buttons.

[SKKY]

5. I want one!! Although, I'm not too stoked about the colors...

[canetoad]

6. That's for people with hands like this

I'd give it about a week before half the buttons didn't work.

[RoyGBiv]

7. Ummm ...

I'm gonna have nightmares now, you know. :)

[canetoad]

8. Lol. Sweet Dreams

Roy :evilgrin:

[Stinky The Clown]

9. I wish my five button mouse had five more

I'd buy that in a heartbeat if it works on Mac. It would save a ton of time.

[CrispyQ]

10. If it were cordless I'd try it. --nt

[charlie]

11. It'll sell great

...to accordionists, anyway.

It might be an unwitting glimpse of the future. It looks unnervingly like a TV remote, which we'll all need when the Universal-Sony-Disneyfication of the Web is complete.

[canetoad]

12. Can't remember where

but recently read a story on the universal user-unfriendliness of most remote controls. Anyone without slim, pointy fingers, perfect eyesight and inbuilt cryptographic services still needs to get up to change the channel.