Posted 08/13/09 at 05:00:52 PM by Will Smith

There’s really nothing worse than an otherwise wonderful product with one fatal flaw that brings its whole score down. The Razer Mamba is a wonderful wireless gaming mouse, with an absolutely devastating power problem.

For the Mamba, Razer tweaked the kick-ass shape of the now-classic DeathAdder design—perfect for palm-grip mousers—to sneak in a pair of sensitivity adjustment buttons. The changes paid off: The Mamba is eminently comfortable for long-term gaming sessions, and the sensitivity buttons fix our only complaint with the DeathAdder, which offered imprecise on-the-fly sensitivity adjustments using the mouse wheel.

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Posted 01/21/09 at 02:30:24 PM by Paul Lilly

We wouldn't advise strapping a brick of Black Cat fireworks to a perfectly good computer mouse, but if you have an old rodent laying around just taking up space in your PC parts bin, you now have an excuse to put it to sleep in the most inhumane manner you can think of. That's because gaming peripheral maker Razer is asking users to submit a YouTube video of "how you trashed your old mouse to stand a chance to win the Razer Mamba," which is Razer's new hybrid gaming mouse.

Razer showed off the Mamba at this year's CES, which features a hybrid wired/wireless design in a shell that looks very similar to the company's DeathAdder. The new mouse is set to go on sale in February with an MSRP of $130. The deadline to enter the contest is January 30, with winners to be announced on February 17, 2009.

Razer hasn't said how many winners it will select or what the criteria will be, but this isn't the first time the gaming peripheral company has tasked users with destroying hardware for a chance at trading up. Razer ran a similar contest with its Tarantula keyboard, in which 5 winners were selected.

Don't plan on entering but still have a cool idea on how to destroy a mouse? Hit the jump and share!

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Posted 01/08/09 at 12:49:24 PM by Paul Lilly

One could argue that Razer has pioneered the competitive gaming peripheral market (Logitech might object) starting with the original Boomslang mouse, and the company has been churning out serpent-inspired mice ever since. The latest reptilian namesake to find a place in Razer's lineup is the new Mamba gaming mouse, announced today at CES.

Similar in design to the DeathAdder, Razer's Mamba eschews the ambidextrous ergonomics inherent in the company's earlier products and targets right handed gamers. But the most interesting evolutionary aspect of this new rodent is its hybrid DNA, which has given birth to both wired and wireless functionality in a single unit.

"With dual mode wired/wireless functionality, the Razer Mamba lets users immediately and seamlessly switch from wired to wireless play," Razer says. "With first in class polling rates at 1ms as compared to traditional wireless mice that poll at 8ms, players will have virtually lag free game play."

Razer claims lag free operation when operating in the 2.4GHz wireless mode, saying the Mamba offers "the fastest mouse both on and off the cord." Helping the company make that claim is a 1ms polling rate combined with a 5600DPI 3.5G laser sensor. The company says you can expect 72 hours of battery life under normal gaming usage, or 14 hours of continuous play.

Look for the Mamba to be available in February 2009 with an MSRP set at $130.

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