Fly Mouse takes to the air with QWERTY keyboard, gyro, USB wireless
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted May 3rd 2010 3:42PM
posted May 3rd 2010 3:42PM
You know that when we saw this ad we had to take a second look. The Fly Mouse (or, if you prefer Google Translate's version, "Air Flying Squirrel Lazy Mouse," is a wireless keyboard / mouse for HTPCs and the like. With its QWERTY keyboard, arrow keys, and a built in gyro, you'll be Googleing and YouTubeing up a storm, via the 2.4GHz wireless signal. Available for about $50, get a closer look after the break. And while you're at it, maybe you can explain the guy in the cowboy hat?
Bow-chica-bow-wow.
@Processing
Brokebackspace Keyboard
@Processing
Hey look, it's just like Boxee's Remote. Only with more 'suck'.
@Blackstar
"more" would imply the Boxee remote had any....
take it back.
@NHAnimator
A cowgirl would have made this ad so much more bearable!
@Processing
Ugh, gyroscope mice are not efficient compared to other input methods. The laptop-style touch pad is cumbersome and is hard to do one-handed. The classic trackball is awesome except for when the oils and dead skin from your hands turn into this nasty finger jizz and makes the trackball stick.
I would take that trackball over the touch pad any day but what I think would be perfect is the Blackberry "track pad" a combo of the touch pad and trackball. I don't know why this type of remote has been so hard for people to get right.
@JCA Whaaaat?
Gyromotes are HEAVEN for HTPCs provided you get one thats accurate (the gyration one is and has come down in price a lot).
Touchpads and pointsticks suck ass by comparison. The only advantage is that they're cheap as dirt.
@JCA
I disagree. The tap click on the little track pad keyboard I use with my HTPC is fine one handed. It's how I use it most of the time actually..
From personal experience. Put it on my knee, or beside me on the couch, and I can steer the cursor around and tap twice to double click. one finger does the job just fine.
Like to see a pic of it in human hands.
@Flaystus
This.
@Flaystus
If this gets brought over here, it will easily be sold for like $150-$200...just cause.
If only there were a portal to get to China....
@Flaystus
That's what she said.
@Flaystus
Heres a video of someone using it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP7RksZsKos&feature=player_embedded
@seanbob91
Thats pretty freaking sweet if you ask me.
I think their marketing team need a lesson on how Cowboys dont exist anymore...
I think their marketing team needs a lecture on how cowboys dont exist anymore...
Durr
@SamTatr Who says cowboys don't exist.
@SamTatr Maybe somebody should tell their marketing department that CRT monitors hardly exist anymore.
@KAL326
Not true in China - have you seen all the gold-farming sweatshops? All CRT baby!
Save a horse ride a mouse? He seems to be having a lot of fun.
Yee-Haw!
I thought it was "surfing the web"
Not "riding the web like a mechanical bull, if the web were a strange wireless keyboard and mouse combo and you were a cowboy in a suit"
@kapryt the web could be compared to a mechanical bull though, when you get that virus your computer is the one thrown off
@manofchao5
I thought you were going to compare it to a mechanical bull by saying
"getting fucked"
maybe thats just me...
Umm...
That ad is pure gold.
LOL that's gotta be the best ad ever. If that ad was on the box, I'd want to buy an Air Flying Squirrel Lazy Mouse just to put the box on display. Imagine all the looks of WTF if you had that in your office.
It doesn't matter how cheap this thing is, because they stupidly put it on 2.4 gHz where it'll interfere with your network.
@47MasoN47 Yes! That is the best ad I've ever seen too. I like how it's a cowboy in a business suit too.
@chekhonte
Obviously, you've never been to Texas, or the sight of a guy in a business suit with a cowboy hat would not seem so unusual to you. Now, a guy in a business suit and a cowboy hat riding a mouse/keyboard mash up shaped like a feminine napkin...that's something.
I'd stay with my cheaper ps3 logitech bluetooth keyboard+trackpad
@htd Where can you get it for < $60? Its $68 shipped on newegg.
Seriously who manages the advertisement for this company -_-
@MoonWalkerCTE
Modernista?
It's an obvious Dr Strangelove ref
@joelaf Needs more Slim Pickens.
*actual size
Why is Clint Black riding a remote?
Cool, but for only $1.99 you can but the Mobile Air Mouse app for the iPhone/iPod/iPad. Much cheaper and better IMHO. mobilemouse.com
@coolerkid9999
Cheaper? You're assuming you already paid $199+ for an iPod touch or iPhone. That's like saying buying Scrabble on iPad is a deal compared to the real physical board game.
This is a crapgadget-worthy device with an equally crappy price, it can't really be compared to a more versatile tool like an iPod/iPhone.
Maybe he likes the rubbing against his inner thigh, who wouldnt?
That guy needs some friends..
Gotta love those google translations.
This baby has the shelf :)
@engadgetcomexcludeengadget
Chinese is typically typed using a standard QWERTY keyboard via various romanization methods (Pinyin IME) or wubi (5 stroke) combinations. They don't require special keyboards like Korean or Kana Japanese.
@NapkinDoodle Why did my comment get deleted? It wasn't inappropriate at all.
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Not a bad idea! I'll take one minus the cowyuppie.
Google Translate's version, "Air Flying Squirrel Lazy Mouse" means that they think that Americans hence the cowboy biz man in a Chinese ad are lazy and need this mouse and is being marketed as such. They are pretty much saying you too can be lazy like the American couch potatoes by using this piece of crap.
This has gotten really good reviews:
http://www.multicom.no/PartDetail.aspx?q=p:10586813
I bought it myself and I really like it :)