Genius Laser Mouse
April 15th, 2008 | Filed under Technology.Tired of pushing my finger across the trackpad on my Mac laptop I bought a mouse yesterday. It’s a Genius Traveler 525 Laser Mouse. The main feature that made me buy it was the £12.99 price tag and its insanely high 1600dpi resolution - supposedly caused by the laser in the mouse. If there is a laser it’s not a visible light laser since I can’t see anything out the bottom.
The mouse is quite good really. There is a “4D” scroll area on the top that senses the direction my finger is moving, allowing documents to be scrolled horizontally and vertically. There are two special buttons on the top of the mouse that switch applications and do something Internet Explorer specific.
Genius, makers of the Laser Mouse have evidently seen an Apple Mighty Mouse. The top of the Laser Mouse has no left or right buttons. Instead the whole shell tilts either left or right depending on which mouse button is desired. This means you can either click with a finger, as usual, or tilt your entire hand, or use any finger that’s on the correct side.
The mouse isn’t very large, and the cable is quite long and thin, and the blue light on the 4D touch pad is somewhat distracting. However, for £12.99 I can’t really complain.
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