Are Microsoft's New Mobile Mouse 3500 Patterns "Fresh" or Fugly?
Are Microsoft's New Mobile Mouse 3500 Patterns "Fresh" or Fugly?
Posted 05/19/2010 at 12:42pm
| by Paul Lilly
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Taking a cue from Dell's notebook nomenclature, Microsoft today announced the Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500 Studio Series with a fresh new look.
"Our team wanted to take these mice a step beyond color, and offer you a way to really mix it up," Microsoft wrote in a blog post. "A collaborative effort, each graphic began as a series of sketches, which eventually filled the entire hallway outside our design studio. After much debate, the selected favorites were evolved into digital drawings and infused into the surface of each mouse."
Apparently Microsoft found inspiration for its new designs both in nature and from "bold and modern graphic styles [found in] the skate and snowboard industry today." The designs have been dubbed Wave, Folk, and Geode, and other than the aesthetics, the Wireless Mobile 3500 rodents haven't changed.
All three new mice are available exclusively through Best Buy for $30, which also carries an all-pink and all-black model. Thoughts on the new design? Post your opinions in the comments section below.
Image Credit: Microsoft
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violian
May 20, 2010 at 11:05am
HP also does imprints on their mouse, and their imprint designs are way better - it actually looks good because HP imprints the designs really subtely. In Microfsoft's case, I think they need to get more talented artists.
spoonard
May 20, 2010 at 10:30am
My wife would like the middle one in the pic. I, personally find them all to be rather...fugly.
Talcum X
May 20, 2010 at 8:11am
Ya, Fugly. Ya, deffinatley fugly....deffinately fugly. Rates 9.4 on the fugly scale in the past 2 minutes...ya deffinaltely fugly.
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ElderJefferson
May 20, 2010 at 5:35am
...girls in kindergarten or something? My next purchase would be a can of spray paint.
Fefe
May 19, 2010 at 10:23pm
Not really diggin' the colors/patterns...but that's just b/c I'm not into colorful "girlied-out" style things, it looks kind of tacky :-\. I think a kid, or a teenager would like them though.
K0BALT
May 19, 2010 at 8:39pm
More like Fucked
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imagonex
May 19, 2010 at 4:15pm
If you're a princess, you'll approve of these. If you're a man's man, don't get caught dead or alive with one of these. If you're gay, you'll be super-sexy-cool! Girlfriend!
nsk chaos
May 19, 2010 at 4:14pm
aww cmon guys the green isnt too horrible in comparison to the rest =D
Larzs13
May 19, 2010 at 4:08pm
Who put the color scheme on these Flavor Flav
bad bad style O yea "YEAH BOY"
Biceps
May 19, 2010 at 3:31pm
Does the fact that I got a headache looking at these mean they are ugly?
jgrimoldy
May 19, 2010 at 1:33pm
Please make a mark in the FUGLY column.
I'd really like to see what the bottom of the barrel "loser" submissions look like!
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