Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Apple's Mighty Mouse

The Mighty Mouse

In the beginning, there was one button. Then there were two. Then there were clickable scroll wheels and programmable toggles and solid-state slides. But nobody made a mouse as easy to use as your Mac. Until now. Mighty Mouse combines the capability of a multibutton mouse with Apple’s signature top-shell design for the best of both form and function. Use it any way you work: Stick with single-button simplicity or click with multibutton efficiency.

Borrowing from Xerox, Apple was probably the most influential company in bringing the common mouse to the desktop. Years later they are still innovating, or at least trying to do such with style. The so-called "Mighty Mouse" is an OS X and Windows compatible device, and therefore of course includes multi-button functionality.

What's that in the center? It isn't quite a scrollwheel and isn't quite a trackball. It's a 360-degree scrollball that is designed to let you scroll in any direction. I'm not too much of a fan of Apple hardware, but this sure does look sleek.

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