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The 'mouse' and its many mutations
Since its inception in the mid-'60s, the "mouse," as it came to be known, has morphed and mutated into a diverse assortment of styles to accommodate efficiency, ergonomics and portability. In this week's Rewind we surf through the history of the device from its humble beginnings to its current futuristic incarnations.
Newton Peripherals' MoGo Mouse uglies up your netbook, hates your trackpad
It's one thing to sacrifice style for battery life via an extended cell, but it's another thing entirely to do this to your poor, innocent netbook. Newton Peripherals is causing all sorts of mixed emotions with its $99 MoGo Mouse, a stick-on mouse that measures in at five millimeters thick (including the holster). Granted, most netbook trackpads aren't worth the curiously textured material they're constructed from, but this just seems like an awfully short-sighted solution. After all, do you honestly think the average eBayer will be into buying a netbook with a mouse-infused lid? Doubtful.
Newton's Mogo Mouse X54 Pro gets seriously professional
Newton, inventive maker of the ultrathin, wireless MoGo Mouse has added a new variation to its game, called the MoGo Mouse X54 Pro. Just like its Bluetooth-utilizing progenitor, the X54, the new model is a credit card-thin optical mouse meant to be stored in your open ExpressCard 54 slot, but the Pro version extends functionality by rocking double-duty as a wireless presentation remote. The mouse has a small laser pointer embedded in its front, and the top panel includes buttons for navigating through your slides, blanking screens, and switching the laser on and off. It also, of course, does mousing tasks. Available in August for £54.99, or around $112.[Via Tech Digest]
Newton Peripherals ultra-thin MoGo Headset to charge via cellphone
Newton Peripherals is no stranger to the world of small and thin. So the miniscule size of their new MoGo Headset -- the "thinnest, lightest headset in the world" -- should come as little surprise. Still, at less than 5-mm thick with 6-hours of talk time and claimed "natural audio" sound, this Bluetooth 2.0 headset does indeed, impress. The headset can be charged in less than an hour via your laptop's PCMCIA or ExpressCard slot -- AC adapter is optional. Uniquely, however, is the tantalizing idea of storing and charging the thin headset via a slot integrated into (or onto) your cellphone (concept pictured above-right). Newton Peripherals is only in "discussions with one of the world's largest manufactures of wireless phones" at this point so who knows when we might see such a solution hit as product. Still, we likey eh Mikey?
Hands-on with the MoGo Mouse and MoGo Dapter
Over at ShowStoppers at CES we spotted MoGo's Mouse and Dapter and snapped a few for your pleasure. The MoGo Mouse's claim to fame is its PC-card slot based design which can fold up and be hidden within ExpressCard 54 and regular old PC card slots. Also on show was the MoGo Dapter which, we can tell you, is one extremely small Bluetooth dongle. Check out our gallery at the link below. Hands-on with the MoGo Mouse and MoGo Dapter
MoGo MouseBT hides in PC card slot
Re-defining the term "portability," Engadget picked up on the MoGo MouseBT, to be unvelied at the January '06 CES they'll be covering. Ergonomics aside, this looks like a slick little Bluetooth mouse that can stow away in a PC card slot - which means 12" PowerBook and iBook owners will still have to resort to a good ol' fashioned bag (or pants) pocket for storage. But how cool would a mouse like this be? Hopefully it'll have better accuracy than other BT mice I've used. Aside from Apple's, I've tried one from Logitech and another from MacMice and neither of them held a candle to the accuracy and response of Apple's Bluetooth mouse, which still didn't match a true blue chorded mouse.Who knows, maybe '06 will be "The Year of the Bluetooth Mouse."
