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JSCO's noiseless mouse: coming soon to your local library, church and mime convention
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.
Thanko Silent Keyboard EX might sneak up on the unalert
So you've bought your Silent Mouse EX and now want to pair it up with a similarly radical text input device? Thanko is keen to make that choice as easy and obvious as possible, and has now updated its venerable Silent Keyboard with the EX moniker and an extra shot of quiet. The value of cutting 16.5 dB from the sound of a keyboard tap is somewhat lost on us, but Thanko seems to think it is precisely $52.79. Bundle the two sort-of-silent peripherals together for $77 and you might just save enough money to buy a decibel meter, which will be the only thing capable of telling the difference.[Via Akihabara News]
Silent Mouse EX reduces mouse-related noise pollution by 22.5db, no one cares
Oh, Thanko, fine purveyor of hidden cameras and ill-advised input devices, whenever it gives us a peripheral that looks like, well, a peripheral, it feels like a big step in the right direction. And what do we have here? The Silent Mouse EX is a bit of a misnomer. After all, it isn't totally silent -- rather, the manufacturer claims that it generates 35.5db of noise when in operation. Compared to 58db of sound the "average" mouse makes (or so we've heard), that is... well, it's less. Actually, we have a hard time believing anyone cares about this sort of thing, but if you'd like to prove us wrong, you can hit that read link and put ¥3,180 (approx. $33) where your mouth is. Or better still, just use a trackpad.[Via Akihabara]
Thanko's Silent Mouse 2: now with more quiet
If there was ever a device that probably didn't need a sequel, it'd be the silent mouse, but leave it to Thanko to invent a "new and improved" rendition that somehow proves even quieter and more versatile than the original. Of course, there are certainly other ways to nix the clicks in your computing routines, and this here gizmo won't really do you any good unless your PC sounds more like a gentle breeze and less like an impending tornado. Still, the Silent Mouse 2 touts five total buttons, a scroll wheel, an unfortunate tail, and walls of soundproofing material lining the innards. According to some fairly unscientific testing, this unit pounds out just 36.5 decibels compared to the "industry average" of 58 decibels, so if you just can't stand to hear yourself click on any longer, Thanko's latest can be your cure for ¥2,980 ($25).[Via AkihabaraNews]
