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Microsoft's portable Arc Mouse folds down to half its size for travel. But that semicircle shape can't be as comfortable as it looks. Then again, who needs to point and click and work when you can flip and drool? It comes in red or black for US$60 and will be out later this year. [MaxPC, thanks Norm]
If your old iPod is suddenly about to become useless when you acquire an iPhone 3G, why not repurpose it as something else? One enterprising modder took an iPod that had been accidentally run over by a car (yeah, I hate it when that happens) and turned it into a fully-functioning mouse, with the buttons on the trackwheel all functioning as mouse buttons. Unfortunately, due to the car smashing the crap out of the screen, it just has a piece of paper that looks like an iPod screen in its place.
This cute 800 DPI optical mouse with a built-in speaker slides out like a mobile phone to reveal a keypad for VoIP calls. It has an LCD display for Caller ID and switches between mouse and phone functions automatically. It also looks much cooler than other combos we've seen. No word on price or availability. [Product page via Red Ferret]
The SlimBlade presenter mouse is a Bluetooth device with a very smart feature—when your computer goes to sleep, the SlimBlade saves power by going to sleep too. It also does double duty, flipping between laser mouse and handheld presenter with a double-click. It runs for three months on two AAs, costs US$60 and is out now, press release below. [Kensington]
Forget DSLRs: Canon has a new gizmo for us. The "industry's first" mouse with a calculator and numeric keypad is a 1000dpi optical USB mouse that flips open to a full keypad and 10-digit LCD screen. And yes, you read that correctly: the LS-100TKM is from Canon, not Brando. Strange... but if you're an accounting type who needs a calculator and keypad for your notebook, this might be the ticket. Available in Japan at first for around US$32, in early July. [Impress]
You're a pretty good dad, I guess, but are you the #1 dad? Are you better than all the other dads in the world? If so, this notebook mouse is designed with you and you alone in mind. If not, get back to ruining your kid's future with your shoddy parenting. There's nothing for you here. [Product Page via i4u]
I was surprised to learn that the CIA has had a long though not always fruitful relationship with the animal kingdom. In Spycraft, the authors describe many clever animal-assisted devices, from the dead-rat dead-drop pouch to the "acoustic kitty," a cat with a remote listening system embedded in its body. And what's this about the 1 million bats the CIA's precursor, the OSS, were gonna use to firebomb Tokyo during WWII?
The Gadget: The GZ PC-Sport Power Stepper from Gamercize claims to give desktop and laptop users a workout by hijacking their keyboard or mouse when they slack off on their workouts.
The Price: US$199 for the GZ PC-Sport + Power Stepper / around US$140 for the GZ PC-Sport alone.
In one of the odder stories we've spotted in some time, an installation called "Victimless Leather" was on display at NY's MoMA. The piece was actually a living jacket crafted from mouse embryonic stem cells, fed nutrients through tubes. But after five weeks, it grew too large for its containment flask and had to be killed.
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The Gadget: Razer's DeathAdder, an 1800dpi right-handed gaming mouse for 
