Logitech planning MX Air gyration mouse?

A friendly tipster pointed us to this shot of the unreleased Logitech MX Air mouse. Not a lot of info on it, but apparently it does the cursor thing with a combination of an in-air gyration mouse and traditional desktop laser mouse tech. No Bluetooth for this one, Logitech is sticking with its RF dongle method, and purportedly plans to release it this summer. Our Wiimote isn't so sure it's ready to fork over the friendly skies so soon.

[Thanks, Anonymous]

[TheGuy @ Jun 8th 2007 7:19PM]

Looks like the Wiimote has some competition lol.

[Adoniteking @ Jun 8th 2007 7:40PM]

my first thought when i saw this pic "those it double up as a shaver!?!?"

[Adoniteking @ Jun 8th 2007 7:42PM]

does*..lol

[Chucula @ Jun 8th 2007 9:01PM]

hopefully it will be better than the gyration mouse. I tried using it for games but it didn't work well at all...you had to keep your hand perfectly straight. Otherwise, you would start turning instead of looking up, etc.

[Constable Odo @ Jun 8th 2007 11:12PM]

Is that an air gyration mouse in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? Is this sort of mouse really necessary or am I missing the whole point of it. Why do you need it to gyrate?

[Chucula @ Jun 9th 2007 3:08PM]

Constable Odo-
Gyration refers to the gyroscopes in the mouse that are used to detect motion.

[Constable Odo @ Jun 10th 2007 11:28AM]

Thanks. I guess I need to do some research on this technology. Is it something like a Wii controller? You'd need to wave it in the air to control things onscreen. Somehow it doesn't seem all that practical.

[engadget.com @ Jun 21st 2007 2:13PM]

It's used mostly for presentation. Gryation (http://www.gyration.com/en-US/Products.html) makes a series of these products. One can set it down and use it like a cordless optical, or if one picks it up with the thumb on the back, the left and right click are duplicated for easy thumb reach and there's a trigger underneath to control the gryo-motion.

That is, if you depress the trigger, you can tilt your hand up and down and rotate left and right to move the cursor. Let go of the button and the mouse stops moving. These things are great for use with PowerPoint or using with Media Center PCs.

[Gary Johnson @ Jun 9th 2007 7:03AM]

Still waiting for them to build this into a Harmony remote and market it to the HTPC crowd. I would kill for that.

[Revrant2394 @ Jun 9th 2007 9:49AM]

It's so...long...and...thick....Oh Dear.