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Super Slim USB Mouse Takes You Back to Basics, Wants Gadget Domination
Posted by Haroon Malik at 7:55 AM on March 24, 2008
Gadget lovers beware; the technology Antichrist is among us, and it is disguised as a USB mouse with only one button and a scroll wheel. The Super Slim USB Mouse does away with everything you could expect in a traditional PC mouse, and instead incorporates the bare minimum in way of functionality.
With a black red colour scheme, it fails miserably to conceal its Lucifer-life roots. Sure, you could pay US$11.32 to own one, but it would probably begin to breed with your high-tech gadgets when you're asleep, morphing them into antiquated, lumps of plastic and metal junk. You have been warned; the Super Slim USB Mouse is nothing short of a gadget devil—steer clear. [GeekAlerts]
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shenanigans
Posted 11:11 AM 24/3/08
My MX Revolution is all I need. It fits my hand like a glove, and I have mapped every action except movement in Call of Duty 4. Plus it looks damn good all at the same time.
shenanigans
allthosemoments
Posted 11:11 AM 24/3/08
Hmm... Only one button and a red & black color scheme. Are we sure this isn't actually the U2 edition of the Mighty Mouse? No, because the mouse isn't overpriced.
allthosemoments
cyborgtroy
Posted 11:11 AM 24/3/08
I have already been duped into buying vibrator-shaped gadgets before - That stupid MP3 player is hopefully the last one I'll buy.
Plus it's designed like some sort of unGodly Apple product that is a mouse with one button and a scroll wheel.
cyborgtroy
jrghoull
Posted 11:11 AM 24/3/08
the question isnt "which women do i know that would buy this" but rather "which guys do i know would buy this thing"
jrghoull
Amiash is a haroon malik fan!
Posted 11:11 AM 24/3/08
@Moonshadow101: It does???
Amiash is a haroon malik fan!
Moonshadow101
Posted 11:11 AM 24/3/08
It looks like a vibrator.
It just does.
Moonshadow101
dfred
Posted 12:48 PM 24/3/08
Are sure that's ergonomic?
dfred
G3ttin-H3r-D0n3
Posted 12:48 PM 24/3/08
I would buy it! jk jk. I think its a piece of junk. Who would want one button? Its pointless. No left click would be tourture for me.
G3ttin-H3r-D0n3
kozimodo
Posted 12:48 PM 24/3/08
It's got more functionality than the typical one-button, no-scroll-wheel, Apple mouse...
kozimodo
NumbersGuy
Posted 2:23 PM 24/3/08
Actually, this would have been great to find about 2 years ago.
My sons would play Thomas the Tank Engine on my computer, but always mess up clicking the wrong button (and I hated disabling the right-click and the re-enabling). I looked into a kids mouse option then and didn't like the price.
Of course, they HAVE figured out the the whole-two button thing by now, so maybe it didn't matter all that much, but $12 would have been easy pay at that time.
NumbersGuy
boomersooner9133
Posted 2:23 PM 24/3/08
@G3ttin-H3r-D0n3:dont you mean no right click?
boomersooner9133
Set to evil
Posted 3:56 PM 24/3/08
@Moonshadow101: yep. vibrator
Set to evil
man_in_gauze
Posted 3:56 PM 24/3/08
@NumbersGuy:
What game is this? You just made one of my childhood dreams come true.
man_in_gauze
chrishw
Posted 5:31 PM 24/3/08
@G3ttin-H3r-D0n3: "pointless" - pun intended?
chrishw
Gary_7vn
Posted 5:31 PM 24/3/08
There are not cables in heaven. Not one.
Gary_7vn
Gary_7vn
Posted 5:31 PM 24/3/08
It has a cable on it. Cables are the work of the devil. It must be destroyed.
Gary_7vn
Serolf Divad
Posted 9:13 PM 24/3/08
I think I saw that thing on some Japanese porn site... and no, it wasn't being used to move a cursor.
Serolf Divad
strider_mt2k
Posted 12:28 AM 25/3/08
I'm so ready for a return of see-through plastic gadgets in varying colors.
The colors children, the colors! Mmhey
strider_mt2k
mtopper
Posted 12:28 AM 25/3/08
this belongs in the "adult" category and (almost) qualifies for NSFW notation
mtopper
flyboy
Posted 12:28 AM 25/3/08
@kozimodo: nope
it doesn't catch fire
flyboy
Hunty
Posted 2:22 AM 25/3/08
Goddammit, Boing Boing, will you PLEASE stop letting Xeni post about vibrators all the... wait, this isn't Boing Boing!!
Hunty
THLinTX
Posted 2:22 AM 25/3/08
I especially appreciate the fact that it appears to be made of the same cheap plastic as the throwaway water-guns from my youth. Instant nostalgia sale!
THLinTX
miguelp
Posted 4:15 AM 25/3/08
I've tried this thing out, and the main button is actually a rocker switch that tilts forward to left-click and back to right-click. So you actually do get right-clicks! That said, it's ridiculously annoying to use.
miguelp
Nikkoli
Posted 6:21 AM 25/3/08
@boomersooner9133: look at the picture again.. it looks like the mouse button is on the right side....
Nikkoli
egyptiansushi
Posted 1:33 AM 26/3/08
@Nikkoli: Nah, that wheel there is the scroll wheel. The button is the thing on the top.
egyptiansushi