Apple releases a wireless version of its Mighty Mouse, multi-button scroll-wheel mouse.

Apple release wireless multi-button mouse

Last year Apple finally released their very own multi-button mouse, entitled the Might Mouse.

The Mighty Mouse was no mere two-button mouse with a simple scroll wheel. Being Apple, that was clearly far too simple a solution.

Using a combination of area sensitive finger control and a scroll ball, rather than a scroll wheel, Apple completely revolutionised computer mouse design.

The main advantage is that designers who prefer to work with the ergonomic single button approach, can still do so. Whilst, on the fly, they can change to using a right click command to bring up a contextual menu.

The other advantage is that, using the scroll ball, the Mighty Mouse offers 360-degree scrolling capability.

Apple also claims that the wireless Mighty Mouse’s tracking engine allows more accuracy and responsiveness on a greater variety of surfaces than ordinary optical tracking. Indeed, Apple claim that the laser technology, 'delivers 20 times the performance of standard optical tracking'.

Now Apple have taken it a logical step further and released a wireless version of the Mighty Mouse. The wireless Mighty Mouse connects using Bluetooth wireless technology to pair with a Mac and keyboard and can operate using either one or two AA batteries. The lack of wires will surely provide an incentive to designers who are fed up with even more wires cluttering up their desktop.

The Mighty Mouse comes in at a, not insignificant, cost of US$69, as opposed to the US$49 for the wired version. Both are available from Apple.

25 July 2006

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