18-Button OpenOffice Mouse is Now WarMouse Meta
18-Button OpenOffice Mouse is Now WarMouse Meta
Posted 12/15/2009 at 5:06am
| by Paul Lilly
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Remember the OpenOffice mouse with an insane amount of buttons? The funky peripheral was designed with the help of WarMouse, a UK company who today announced the "18-button freak" will now be known as the WarMouse Meta.
"We were frankly shocked by the overwhelming response to our original announcement of the mouse," said Theodore Beale, Lead Designer at WarMouse, "We sent out three emails and ended up getting three million hits on our website that weekend; no one seemed to believe an 18-button mouse with a joystick could be anything but a joke. But it's real, it's brutal, and it's going to fundamentally change what people expect of their input devices."
The freakish rodent has apparently also been upgraded with a 5600 CPI (counts per inch) laser sensor. It also looks a little different and now sports a black color scheme with gray buttons instead of the white on light-white design previously depicted.
But is it just too much? Beale doesn't think so, who acknowledged that some feel that the Meta is "insane," but says "there are many gamers and power users who want to be able to do more than storke their mouse with two fingers."
The Meta is compatible with Windows, Linux, and Mac OS, and will retail for $75 in the first quarter of 2010.
Image Credit: WarMouse via Engadget
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mesiah
December 15, 2009 at 9:14pm
Where has this company been for the last 10 years? Do they not understand the concept of an ergonomic mouse? That is the cheapest most uncomfortable thing I have ever seen. Now, if you want a mouse with way too many buttons that is down right sexy, take a look at this 17 button mouse from sandio. I've been looking forever for a mouse with an analog thumb stick built in, this one has 3 analog sticks! O.O
http://sandiotech.com/sandio_product.php
johnny3144
December 15, 2009 at 1:14pm
Wasn't there a mouse with such number of buttons for WoW a while ago? I wonder how did that go. atleast that mouse took some consideration into the button placement, this one look like the designer just slap it together in a day or so.
I doubt i will ever remember which button is for what. Control+key works much better in my opinion.
MeTo
December 15, 2009 at 7:32am
It's easy to fat finger a full size key board there is way to many buttons on this mouse.
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