By Sterling “Chip” Camden
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
Holy rodents on steroids, Batman! A mouse with 18 buttons? How could you possibly know which one you’re pressing without looking at it? Someone will have to invent home-row mousing!
Warmouse announced the OpenOfficeMouse yesterday (November 6), a mouse specifically designed for use in conjunction with OpenOffice, but also handy for any mouse-centric applications like AutoDesk AutoCAD, the GIMP, or World of Warcraft. This mouse comes pre-loaded with profiles for the OpenOffice applications based on 662 million datapoints of usage tracking data from OpenOffice 3.1.
Just reading through the features makes me dizzy:
For a total of 36 different single-key operations, I presume. Sounds more like a keyboard to me.
I guess that means sending a “key down”, a “key down/up” sequence, or a series of mouse operations, but I’m not clear on that.
In case the mouse wasn’t enough, it has a joystick, too!
Uh, I would have been a little surprised if they’d left that out.
What about those folks who’ll need 640K?
Never mind trying to remember 18 buttons – try remembering 63 different profiles for what they do!
Send a KB at the click of a button.
This is starting to sound even more complicated. At least it’s open source.
So you can have the same profiles in each of your eighteen mice?
“Now assuming identity SpreadsheetÜbermaus.”
PDF? Really? I guess that’s so you can print it out to paste on the wall so you can remember how to save so much time with all these button assignments.
For when you need your mouse to be able to detect your heartbeat through your fingertips.
This isn’t a mouse, it’s the Rat King.
Okay, I know I’m biased. I’m not a big fan of mice in general – I find the keyboard to be a much more precise and expressive device for all but the most graphically-oriented tasks. What say you, readers of the GUI persuasion? Would you rush out and buy this mouse? At least it isn’t terribly expensive – retail $74.99 USD.
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