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Microsoft unveils 12-button wireless gaming mouse

T_F   on 25 February 2009 - 19:46 · 9 comments & 4104 views

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You can play for up to 30 hours straight of active gaming on a single charge or use the play-and-charge cable for non-stop gaming action - especially handy for those over 48 hour gaming events we all love so much to attend. Got twelve fingers? Well, this mouse has twelve buttons for you and seven are programmable. You can customize the five programmable main buttons plus left/right title wheel, great for setting up different weapons or functions in a game to each button.

News source: Tech Fragments

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(2 replies) #1 wickerdude on 25 Feb 2009 - 23:36
Yes...but will it do my taxes?
#1.1 MightyJordan on 26 Feb 2009 - 01:03
wickerdude said,
Yes...but will it do my taxes?

Umm, what???
#1.2 Owenw on 26 Feb 2009 - 21:07
MightyJordan said,
Umm, what???

lol
#2 MightyJordan on 26 Feb 2009 - 01:04
Doesn't look too bad compared with the rest of the Sidewinder range. The price is pretty good as well (I think! )
#3 Digix on 26 Feb 2009 - 09:07
12 buttons is just too much :\

I find it pain with my new 5 key programmable mouse :\
#4 Atlonite on 27 Feb 2009 - 07:23
In new news Microsoft are planing on a gene therapy to help people grow 12 fingers
#5 Lord Zog on 27 Feb 2009 - 22:31
You mean your not supposed to have 12?? Oh oh..
#6 Atlonite on 01 Mar 2009 - 04:03
Depends where your from chernoble then yes maybe
#7 Jugalator on 05 Mar 2009 - 00:45
Wouldn't it be ergonomically smarter to just keep five buttons (due to the human five finger limit :p), and instead improve the driver software to allow one button work as a "modifier" to other buttons if depressed simultaneously? Like the Shift, Alt, or Ctrl key. So you'd get your first set of five functions, then with the chosen modifier button pressed, you'd get four more.

That's nine buttons without moving a single finger.

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