Sunday, January 9, 2011

Microsoft announced (finally) the Touch Mouse

After all the buzz generated around the Arc Touch Mouse, a mouse that is ultimately not really touch, Microsoft finally announced its first touch-mouse ...

So at CES that Microsoft has decided to announce and to demonstrate its Touch Mouse. A wireless mouse with Blue Track optical sensor technology whose particularity is to have a full touch surface. Exit roulette, exit side buttons. Instead, the body recognizes your mouse movements that can make gestures like the touchpad on a laptop. You guessed it, the Microsoft Touch Mouse is very close to the Apple Magic Mouse.

Microsoft_Touch Mouse

For now, Microsoft demonstrated a prototype is not finalized with a number of gestures. All are not the most intuitive. For example: the zoom a photo is by scrolling two fingers on the mouse and holding down the CTRL key on the PC. Similarly, no shortcuts were designed to rotate a picture. However, there are shortcuts / down and a function to enable the snap-in windows 7 then touched the body of the mouse with three fingers displays a thumbnail of all windows running.

It will be patient to acquire this mouse since it will not be available with the May / June The rate announced by Microsoft is 79 dollars here in the United States. Finally, note that the mouse requires two LR6 to work, Microsoft does not offer any battery.


Microsoft_the Touch Mouse

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