Tag: MICE

Apple gadgets have definitely been racking up the awards and accolades as the Aughts tick down. The company has been producing devices for over 30 years, though, and not every design has experienced the raging success of the iPod. One of those poorly-received items has unquestionably been the Apple mouse. Even though Apple may have helped introduce the mouse to the personal computer, its ...

Intelligent Design Titanium Mouse (Style-o-Phile, under $2,500) What do you get for the computer fiend who has everything? A diamond-encrusted motherboard, or a gilded monitor bezel? There's no need to be so flashy, but that doesn't mean you have to settle for generic crap, either. The Titanium Mouse by Intelligent Design (€800, or about $1,200) positively oozes class and minimalist ...

Yesterday, six mice boarded the International Space Station to boldly participate in an Italian Space Agency-sponsored study of bone degeneration, Space.com reports. These six will be the first rodents to spend an extended period of time on the space station, where they will be housed and studied until November. Three of those space varmints bear a gene that, scientists believe, fights ...

Movies have long had an obsession with erasing memories. 'Total Recall,' 'Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind,' and 'Men in Black' all feature the intentional manipulation of memory as a central plot point. Until now, the concept of selectively erasing memories has dwelt in the realm of science fiction, but scientists believe they have made a major step towards making such a procedure a reality. ...

Watches that monitor your heart rate may be commonplace these days (because, you know, they're actually useful), but a mouse that keep watch on your ticker -- well, that's something you don't see everyday. ASUS seems to think that's a shame, however, and it's set out to rectify things somewhat with its new heart-monitoring Vito W1 wireless mouse. Apart from an apparently really simple ...

As you may have noticed, we're not ones to put much stock in analysts' predictions, especially when they involve the demise of something as entrenched as the mouse in as little as five years. Still, that's the limb Gartner analyst Steve Prentice has walked out on, sort of. While he first qualifies things a bit by saying that the mouse "works fine in the desktop environment but for home ...

Scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio have developed a breed of "super mice." These new mice are able to run 20 yards a minutes, for five hours, without stopping. They even have a metabolism that we're sure is the envy of all the chubby mice out there. They'll eat 60 percent more food than the average mouse, but weigh about half as much. They're ...