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Chording Mouse? November 7, 2009

Posted by Matthew Woolums in Hardware.
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I’d almost think this was a practical joke, except this isn’t April. OpenOffice now has a mouse, the OpenOfficeMouse comes with 18 programmable buttons. I think there is plenty of room for alternative input devices, and the mouse can definitely use some improvements, but I’m not sure 18 buttons is the right idea. It sort of reminded me of the one-handed or ‘chording‘ keyboards, but combined with a mouse. Take a look. Can you, or your students, come up with something better?

OpenOfficeMouse: The Multi-Button Application Mouse for OpenOffice.org

With thanks for the tip from Daring Fireball

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   1. jjwatson - November 9, 2009

I’m going to share this with my students. Personally, I would never want to use a mouse like this. I need simple!

Jennifer


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