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.
(Via Boing Boing Gadgets.)
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