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Microsoft presents BlueTrack
Microsoft presents BlueTrack
If you are one of the older readers, you may remember cleaning your mouse. The procedure of opening it, taking the ball out and cleaning the wheels. Then came a time where this was obsolete, because Microsoft presented a new technology which scanned the surface with a LED. And now the times are a-changin' again, because Microsoft have a new technology up their sleeves, ready to present it to the public.
The trailer on the official website doesn't tell you much, but a lot of information was leaked in an online-shop, which is now offline again.
The new mouse still uses optical ways to measure the movement, but the light is blue, which allows a higher resolution (as with Blu Ray). Behind the LED is a lens which disperses the light instead of focusing it, which is how it's usually done at the moment. With these changes, the mouse is able to scan almost every surface, even cloth and carpets are not a problem anymore. The USB-device clipped into the mouse is the remote receiver, which can be used in every normal USB port, so it doesn't need a big receiver station anymore.
If this new technology is able to replace the mouse on a gamers desk will be seen after the official release on September 9.
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Could be interesting if this technology will be more accurate and would consume less power, but I would assume that this technology will in fact eat up more power, which lowers the time you have until you need to recharge. And I can't see a slot to insert a second rechargeable battery (which would mean that you need a second mouse for the times when the Blue Track is recharging). Yes it happens, not everybody steps away from the computer after a couple of hours :-)
I think that panel below the USB-thing is a good place for batteries?
I don't like mice with batteries anyway, they are too heavy and therefore inert.
I admit it's a bit of a tradeoff, but I'm telling you, once you've worked with a cordless mouse, you never wanne go back. I just weighted my mouse for you, it is about 100g and the battery (pic) adds about 10 or 15g. But I know what you mean, the first cordless mice you had to put 2 double A's in it, so they had the weight of a brick.
I have some old Logitech Cordless Desktop lying around, and I didn't like it that much. It was really like a brick, it had 2 AA Batteries. Didn't know they managed to supply the cordless mice with one battery.
Take a look at the picture I linked previously, there you can see the battery block.
I had a noname cordless once, but I didn't mind going back at all. Changing the batteries was always such a hassle, and I always forgot that there were batteries getting weaker by the second - consequently, I always thought my mouse was dying on me. ;)
You can see the battery in the picture I linked, it's also very important to know that Logitech also supplies you with a spare one, so while you're using one, the other one is being recharged in the receiver station, so you never run out.
You had another picture linked already? sorry, didn't see that.
Just the one
So having had to clean a mouse makes me an "older" reader? I suppose having used DOS as a primary OS puts me close to the grave, then.^^
I did that as well (at the age of 8)
cd civ
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civ
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:)
Ha.As if it was so easy.
Remember the times when DOTT and/or Full-Throttle where released, when you actually had to invest tons of time in configuring your HI-MEM via autoexec.bat and config.sys juggling, to get that last 2kb of free memory to run the games :D
aaahhh the good old times.
P.S: Curse the MEMMAKER!!!!
May I add to this that if you also had to squeeze an IRQ triggered screen capture program into that upper memory, as game journalists had to do, you were scratching at the door of Lunacy?
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