Microsoft Arc: foldable, space-age travel mouse
At first photoreceptric abrasion, the design for Microsoft Arc Mouse irked me. Ostensibly designed for business users who want a small footprint travel mouse that still has the palm heft of a real rodent, the folding Arc is only minimally useful for saving space in a laptop bag. Instead, it's a design piece: conceptually lovely, molded around its own imbued fascination with the perfect 180 degree sweep of a glossy circle.
But as a mouse? That unfolded hollowness bothered me. An optical illusion, but It made the Arc look too long by half, like a regular sized mouse with an uncomfortably convex plastic wrist guard. Only when I started mentally assuming the vacuum in the product shots was an opalescent plastic did I start grokking the Arc as a mouse made for normal sized hands and not, in fact, designed specifically for futuristic acromegalics.
Now I quite like it. It's got a really pleasant space-age roundness to it. The sort of mouse Dr. Heywood Floyd might use aboard the Pan American Orion III. And when it's released, it'll only be $60, which isn't too dear a price to pay for an attractive, high-quality optical mouse. I think I may have converted myself: from incredulity to intrigue in the space of a single post.
Microsoft Arc Mouse Looks Portable Yet Not Too Small [Crunchgear]
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Would the Logitech VX Nano be too small?
It's around that price point, but trades style for features, not to mention the diminutive receiver.
100 degrees?
Circles have 360 degrees in them.
And the mouse has 180 degrees in it.
You need mroe degrees.
Well, let me know where I can get some mroe.
Typo fixed.
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It looks like it's designed to fit a curved, chitinous claw, which I possess only once every 17 years when the sweet, sweet sound of the cicadas prompts me to drop this disgusting endoskeletal meatbag appearance and go ravening through the countryside, looking for New Beetles to mount. And that period just passed, so not for me, thanks.
I know last time I went looking for a new mouse, I wanted one that I could fold in half.
Thank you, microsoft, for filling this market niche.
I saw this in Redmond. It looks HOT!
I am a sucker for nice-looking tools, even though some of them may be useless to me. I have a Salient V-Mouse that I use for travel. It shapes like a pen and does not take up too much space. I wouldn't mind try this one out.