JSCO's noiseless mouse: coming soon to your local library, church and mime convention
By Darren Murph 
posted April 14th 2010 2:49PM
posted April 14th 2010 2:49PM
For years now, Thanko has had the silent mouse market on lock-down. You need a silent mouse? You buy Thanko. End. Of. Story. At long last, a formidable opponent has entered the fray, with JSCO recently showcasing its new Noiseless Mouse. Purportedly, the left / right click buttons provide the same travel and "click" feedback, but without all the extra racket. If the video beyond the break is to be believed, this thing really does operate silently (to human ears, anyway), and best of all, there's a variety of designs to choose from at around £9 ($14) a pop. Huzzah! Oops... we mean, huzzah. 
What an odd concept.
Mimes prefer WACOM.
@c w j
wouldn't a mime just go through the motion of using a mouse instead of physically using one?
Hard to believe this works but seems simple enough
who actually needs a noiseless mouse... like for what purpose...?
@hdawggy If you play games and someone sleeps near is really annoying. :)
@hdawggy I share the room with my sister and i always sleep after her. I always wanted a noiseless mouse but i don't have one (yet)...
@elvinu
Spoken like a WOW players wife.
@hdawggy Koreans who play starcraft... if you didnt know they average about 100 actions/min which is about half a click a second. -_____-
@Skwidwerd
"100 actions/min which is about half a click a second"
Obviously you're not Korean.
What no squeak?!
If the sound of mouse clicking bothers you, there are probably other issues at play.
@Spiraling Shape Lol, you've never played Collapse then!
Can one still feel a click? Or is there absolutely no tactile feedback to confirm the user's actions?
I can imagine that would drive me crazy.
@mmoffitt
That was exactly what I was thinking, a click-less mouse would absolutely drive me insane. I used to have a mouse with a broken button, the thing still worked perfectly but there was no click, and no tactile feedback anymore. And it was horrible, I still wake up at night bathing in sweat, having a bad dream about a clickless mouse :-(
@mmoffitt The article said you get travel/ click with no sound
@drange
I actually like having a mouse with a broken button. Sure the lack of tactile feedback was annoying for a few days, but I got used to it before the end of the weekend and decided to just keep it. When I got a new mouse I even intentionally broke the left button. :P
That's good... But if you do not want to listen people clicking, typing, and talking, go get some earbuds plugged-in and pump up the volume!
oh man I can see this mouse driving me crazy. I LOVE the sound and tactile feedback of my mice. The louder the better!
does it help the impatient a**hole that pounds their finger on the right or left button? Lady in the cubicle next to me might get an early berfday present if so. Grrrr.
Do you think it says something about us readers, when the writers have to include phrases like: "(to human ears anyway)"
Just sayin'...
It really depends on what you're doing. If you're playing a first person shooter game, then it probably doesn't bother you at all.
If someone else is in the room and they are trying to study and the rest of the room is completely silent ... then clicking over and over again shooting alien zombies might bother the other person. Especially if you live in a dorm room.
"I click with purpose."
That clicking sound does get annoying after a while... especially in a room full of people using computers.
I could see this being useful for some... and at least they aren't trying to rape you on the price. If MS or Logitech introduce a noise-less feature, they'll try charging you $50+ for it.
@Hazdaz
$50? Logitech charged me about $60 for Bluetooth...they'd charge you well over $80 for something like this. Logitech sucks, I've gone with Razer. It's not cheaper, but for the same amount of money you get a MUCH MUCH MUCH better product.
Back in the old days (circa 1980), lazy office managers would simply stick their heads out of their office doors and listen for the clickitty-clack of the old IBM keyboards as an indication of how "busy" their subordinates were. Some managers restricted the use of silent keyboards because they couldn't know who was "working" and who wasn't. Now days, I walk by my manager's office and see my desktop on his second display, obviously monitoring everything I'm doing.
@gwhiz
that suuuuucccckkkks
@gwhiz
Find a better job if you can.
@gwhiz Did you scare him with BME Pain Olympics?
I like my loud mouse, only, I wish they'd release a silencer for it, you know, for those times when I need to be more stealthy.
Finally, ninja style pornbrowsing.
@Neosubu
With this and Incognito browsing in Chrome, now anyone can become a porn ninja.
@NaJaKwa lol what a horrible name, firefox's "private browsing" is much prettier
@JackBauer If by private you are secretly shopping for hedge clippers then yes of course lol.
@Tito sure, im looking foward to buy one, so i can give my girlfriend a real dildo made with my genitalia
I didn't realize mouse noise was a problem
just bought noiseless A4 OP-200Q.
I wonder if the scroll-wheel is noiseless as well? nothing worse than zipping around on a really clacky scroll wheel to shatter the silence.
This reminds me of the Twin Peaks log lady and her noiseless curtains :-)
AAAAAAAAAH!! Make the clicking stop!
...Oh, thank you.
@BigD145 Why am I not seeing any iteration of these mice for under $40 US?
I actually like noiseless mice and no you don't need to have any mental issues to like them...would love one from microsoft or logitech. My current Microsoft blue track or whatever technology makes a sound but is not that loud at least. I think the cheaper the mouse the louder.
In the video I can still hear the clicking, so I think "Noiseless" is a misleading name. But it is a lot quieter than the other mouse they showed (but they don't say what the other mouse was; they might've picked a crappy really loud one).
"Noiseless mouse noise level test
(Pls turn your volume up)"
Someone should take that video, extend it by a few seconds, and right at the end, have one of those ghoul faces come up screaming. And link it to all their friends.
Home recording studios have this problem. I've recorded many a singer with mouse clicks in the background as I adjust stuff like open/close a track panel, drag an EQ box over to another monitor.
There's also the problem of my chair squeaking, my breathing, the computer keyboard noise if I press something, the fan, the paper rustling as she sings her lines, her clothing making erm noises, and loud cars driving by outside.................
............... but a noiseless mouse would be great! Just one less thing to worry about when recording lol.
@buoy You fwap on the job?
@Tito of course... but i am very quiet.
Exactly.
These are also great for television broadcasting or for on film sets.
Noises like mouse clicks are surprising loud in the quiet of a studio.
My next deal ... and I can't understand why it took so long to consider this obvious need. Dedicated to those how once have used their numpad keys to emulate clics.
Apple has a noiseless mouse also!
Got one of them from Gadget Show Live in the UK, they are really silent as the video show. I agree that the use if the silent function is a bit specific but still, love it!