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on Thursday September 01 2016, @05:55AM
from the Silence-is-Golden,-but-this-Mouse-isn't dept.
from the Silence-is-Golden,-but-this-Mouse-isn't dept.
Since many people are claiming that small noises are a pain, Logitech set out to design mices which are about 10dB less clicky than the usual ones.
At around 25dB, the M220 Silent/M330 Silent Plus are probably near the noise floor of most office spaces, and surprisingly not a premium product (under US$30).
That doesn't sound like a bad thing for people with small places and light-sleeping partners either. Are Soylentils really bothered by Joe-the-spreadsheet-clicker, or do you believe in counter-offensive?
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A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse
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(Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @06:00AM
A mouse should be a laser on the bottom and a multitouch screen on the top. No clicks. Build it, assholes.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @06:28AM
Touchscreen, WTF? I want feedback of button pushes. Does not have to be noise though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @06:51AM
Oh it's you. You're the reason I can't get a touchscreen mouse with no moving parts.
See, I have a touch mouse. I bought it because I assumed with the entire top surface being touch-sensitive for touch gestures, it would have zero buttons. Not so. The button is on the bottom instead of the top. Which means it still has a clicker, and over time, the clicker wears out. Sometimes the clicker clicks twice when I want it to click once. Sometimes the clicker doesn't click at all. Basically, the touch mouse is crap if it fails in exactly the same way as a regular mouse.
So you see, there is demand for a touchscreen mouse with zero buttons. I demand it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @07:20AM
Until I can get a clickless mouse, I use a mouse with one hand and a touchpad with the other hand. I point with the mouse and tap with the touchpad. To reduce wear on the mouse button, I only right-click with the mouse. It's a convoluted arrangement, but it works.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @09:38AM
it's just a fucking microswitch. pull out the soldering iron and fix it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @09:56AM
Oh really, and when was the last time you needed to clean your mouseball? Never, that's when, because optical mice don't have any mouseballs.
The microswitch is an unnecessary component of a touch mouse. If it were designed properly, it wouldn't have a microswitch that needed fixing.
(Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Thursday September 01 2016, @12:40PM
three ballless mice, three ballless mice
see how they cursor, see how they cursor,
they all ran after the nerd's wife,
who cut off their USB tails with a carving knife,
did you ever see such a sight in your life as
three ballless mice
(Score: 3, Funny) by Aiwendil on Thursday September 01 2016, @05:00PM
Actually..
With ball-mice I cleaned them once a year (as with my keyboards) but with optical I need to de-hair the slit near the led/receptor pair roughly every second month.
I can only imagine what it must be like for people with cats
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday September 01 2016, @05:12PM
> I need to de-hair the slit near the led/receptor pair roughly every second month.
The jokes write themselves...
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Thursday September 01 2016, @05:19PM
Draft one did not say "ball-mice"... ;)
(Score: 2) by jimshatt on Thursday September 01 2016, @10:33AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @05:09PM
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Thursday September 01 2016, @07:56PM
You could read total area acuated, and just indicate that an increase of 10% or so (fingers flatten when you press harder) is a click. Of course that would require timers, and also to create a pattern for "taps"..
Or you could use a porous thin non-conductive layer between two thin conductive layers (akin to how the normal keyboard is made), by reading the signal strength this could be set to allow for software-defined hardness requored for a click (or the normal el-cheapo at a fixed threshold)
The latter would be easier to mass-produce, the former easier to hack with COTS..
(Score: 2) by ragequit on Thursday September 01 2016, @07:23PM
Like the Apple magic mouse?
The above views are fabricated for your reading pleasure.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @12:53AM
Microsoft and Apple did. No one bought it.