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A Gift Idea for Your Annoying Coworkers: a Logitech ‘Silent’ Mouse

posted by martyb on Thursday September 01 2016, @05:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the Silence-is-Golden,-but-this-Mouse-isn't dept.

bob_super writes:

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @05:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @05:09PM (#396264)
    How would you rest your finger on it without constantly clicking? Just hover the finger in mid-air all the time? Sounds like you'd end up with gorilla finger...

  • (Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Thursday September 01 2016, @07:56PM

    by Aiwendil (531) on Thursday September 01 2016, @07:56PM (#396347) Journal

    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..