Conceptual Corky mouse gets charged through motion, doubles as a wine stopper
By Darren Murph 
posted February 9th 2010 10:02PM
posted February 9th 2010 10:02PM
posted February 9th 2010 10:02PM
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Now this is my kinda news!
@BUNT2 this would get smelly quickly
palm cheese
is...
never
too
late
i want it with 24 buttons...yeah...
@geekyboy
Put a cork in it, geek
haaaaaaaaaaahaha ah.
If only Razer or Logitech to used this charging method in high end mouses. And now we play the waiting game.
@spade
Just use a corded mouse. No batteries.
@(Unverified)
But you'd then have a cord....
I thought piezoelectric elements generated electricity through pressure. Moving the mouse around wouldn't really generate any pressure.
Unless maybe the mouse pad was piezoelectric?
@PENISCRUSHER
I think it's more the mouse clicks than the movement of the mouse around the desktop. I would think that the number of times you click your mouse in an average day of surfing the web or doing work in an office environment would surprise most people, probably in the thousands of clicks, and gamers might even make it to the tens of thousands.
You can change the weight/feel by sticking thumbtacks with bluetack on it. Sweet customizability.
This will give new meaning to "put a cork in it".
Read above, I already bet you to this 6 mins ago.
I mean 6 mins before you posted.
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Does this thing work in water? Might be great for those 'browsing while in the bath' moments ^^
@Middleman
O_o
@Middleman
I didn't read any where in the article, that the cork mouse could be used to plug other orifices.
The trouble with cork is that over a period of time you'd be sticking pins in it, picking at it with your fingernails and ripping bits off it...
It'd be a mess after a year.
@Gregorian
No kidding. Screwcaps would be a much better material.
No.
way
@BUNT2
on
my
mother's
grave
would
@BUNT2
Mountain Dew
ever
come
On her face
because
it's
always
prepackaged
kept
(packaged/kept)
inside
her
I love the idea.
It would go well with my home-made cork mousepad.
Are they all recycled Kensington Ci70LE mice?
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3254765&SRCCODE=CNETFEED&cm_mmc_o=2mHCjC2WHaCjCVqHCjCdwwp
@chicagowiseguy I have the Ci70 desktop set and it looks exactly like this design. Looks like they just shopped it :(
great idea, it could be applied to the keyboard too, right?
Cork? Man that would get dirty pretty quick and be impossible to clean it. So is the thinking you'd throw it out? Cause with how fast it'd get dirty you be adding like 10 times the amount of mice to a land fill
no ergonomic option?
hey, if it means lefties can join the corking fun, then i'm in.
The latest generation laser mice can go almost a year on a pair of double-As, but still, I have to give em props for this and the cork look is pretty neat. :D
"mar Ma Earth"...
/facepalm
/dance
so, now waiting for a Jeansy Mouse