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apple's Magic Mouse - the start of a mouse revolution and new trend? - PinoyExchange

Magic mouse could start a rodent revolution Apple is pointing the way By Stewart Meagher Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 14:37 MOST OF YOU WON'T REMEMBER the days before the advent of the mouse.

Your friendly pointing clicking rodent scurries about your desk unheralded and unloved, carrying out your every gestural whim, happy to be enveloped in the clammy caress of your uncaring palm. The evolution of the mouse is simple and, to all intents and purposes, without deviation.

It's true that the cable used to poke out of the other end when it first hopped onto the desktop courtesy of the boffins at Stanford University, but you would still recognise the first commercially marketed mouse for what is was if you were to come across a complete Xerox 8010 at your local car boot sale. The mouse is the great white shark of the computing world.

Not that you are likely to have your legs torn off by one while your having a nice paddle at the seaside.

No... it's developmental path has, like a shark, been simple and linear because the people who originally designed it got it right in the first place.

It has been quite happily doing its job for nearly 30 years, and no amount of wirelessness, flashy livery, space age laser light shows and bristling multi-button madness could detract from the fact that it had a simple job to do.

Pointing at stuff and moving stuff about on a screen. It's almost ironic that Apple, the company which championed the commercial birth of the mouse in 1984, has fought a bitter battle with the rest of the world to keep the mouse true to its simplistic origins.

PC users regularly bemoan the fact that Apple rodents are a little deficient in the button department.

One Inq journalist who shall remain nameless (rhymes with **** Barrel) still regularly mocks the Apple Mighty Mouse for having only one button when anyone who has ever actually used one will be aware that, in reality, it has four, plus a three dimenisional scroll wheel. And now along comes the Magic Mouse.

A shining trilobite of swooping retro curves and Apple design loveliness which the Cupertino company hopes will change the way we interface with our computer forever. Imagine if you will a traditional wireless mouse.

Then imagine the giant glass multi-touch surfaces which have become a familiar feature of recent Apple notebooks and the ubiquitous Iphone (and its incommunicative halfwit cousin the Ipod touch).

Now put the two in a cage and poke them with a sharp stick until they breed. The resulting lovechild will hopefully be a buttonless mouse covered with a smooth touch sensitive surface...

Or a Magic Mouse if you will. It's still a mouse to all intents and purposes.

It still slides about on your desktop carrying out traditional pointing and clicking duties using a laser tracking system.

But it's that sensitive shell that makes all the difference.

It not only knows where you fingers are on the surface, and how many fingers you are using, it also knows which direction you are swiping them in and how fast. You can scroll 360 degrees around large documents using a single finger, or flip between pages in a document using sideways swipes.

You can zoom and contract the view using key modifiers or two finger pinching, and all of this is infinitely customisable using a simple system preferences widget. We're sure this is going to take some getting used to and it might not change the world.

It certainly won't change the PC world any time soon because, until such time as Microsoft decides there's a buck to be made and steals the idea, the Mighty Mouse is Mac only (it only works with Snow Leopard at that). But it's an interesting idea and we're intrigued to see if the concept catches on or if, like the track ball, it is restricted to a few die-hard enthusiasts and RSI sufferers.

Watch this space for a fingers-on review as soon as we can prise one from Apple's vicelike grasp.

Using two fingers as swipe gesture on the top surface of the Magic mouse will navigate back and forth through web pages, Cover Flow items, or photos.

Magic Mouse uses the same laser tracking technology claimed to be more responsive and sensitive on more surfaces.

Running on two AA batteries, this wireless mouse supports secured connection up to 33 feet distance. http://www.techtree.com/India/News/A...06970-893.html

Apple has debuted new wireless Magic Mouse with the much deserved update - multi-touch technology for navigation.

Featuring solid acrylic surface, the new Magic Mouse replaces Mighty Mouse with a trackball.

Magic Mouse would be available for Rs.

3,890 in India by the end of this month. Apple's love with multi-touch is fairly known and needs no special mention yet again.

Apple's multi-touch technology is already featured in iPhone, iPod Touch and Trackpads of the MacBooks.

The new wireless Magic Mouse that has no buttons, no trackballs is ambidextrous - usable with both hands.

Apple has also renamed Mighty Mouse to Apple Mouse in order to avoid any confusion with the newly introduced device. Magic Mouse carries a "seamless" multi-touch surface that covers its top area and is touted world's first multi-touch mouse.

No need to worry about cords since Magic Mouse connects to any Bluetooth enabled Mac machine wirelessly.

Acting as an advanced point-and-click mouse, users can click as well as double click by tapping finger once or twice on the top surface.

Also, enabling Secondary Click in System Preferences will make it function as two-button mouse. Multi-touch obsession takes the next step with Magic Mouse that supports finger gestures to navigate on the display.

For instance, scrolling in any direction requires simply using one finger on the mouse's top surface.

Magic mouse also supports "360 degree scrolling" - smooth up/down and left/right scrolling within a window, just like in iPhone and MacBook's trackpads.

Apple boasts of a chip that senses finger gestures and responds accordingly. http://www.techtree.com/India/News/A...06970-893.html

I'm going to get this baby!!

Woahh... cool

Yeah this is arguably the coolest mouse ever in the market today.

Relieves all the pain using the laptop trackpad.

"Yeah this is arguably the coolest mouse ever in the market today.

Relieves all the pain using the laptop trackpad." it's called a usb mouse...

Don't get me wrong, i own a 2009 mac pro but there are lots of bluetooth-enabled mouse devices in the market right now.

I only use logitech.

Why not just buy other cheaper (take note: CHEAPER AND BETTER) wireless mouse devices? just another overpriced and overhyped mac thing.

Oh not to mention completely useless.

A rodent revolution?

Mukha syang e-pass.

A 2-button, scroll-less, wired ball mouse can frag that b*tch in an FPS game lol. and oh, im not gonna use a mouse that looks like a sanitary napkin lol.

I didn't want to buy the Apple Mighty Mouse because of bad reviews.

Was gonna get the Logitech Bluetooth mouse but good thing I waited for this mouse.

It was rumored couple of weeks ago that they'll release a new mouse.

I guess I need to stop by Apple store to check this baby out.

If I like it then I will buy it.

If only it had a tracking technology as good as Logitech's Darkfield laser or even Microsoft's Blue Track .

. .

Hindi pa nga ata 3G Laser Sensor yung magic mouse Edit: LOL.

Its not even 1G.

Parang nakakangawet..

No tactile response, ergonomics thrown out the window, can't tell if you're holding it the right way until you realize you're getting no response from tapping/swiping the wrong end of the mouse No thanks guise, I'll stick to my practical, feature-packed gaming mouse.




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