Up until now, only Mac-users have been able to sacrifice their carpal-tunnels at the beautiful white-glass altar of RSI that is the multi-touch mouse. It has been possible to hack Apple’s Bootcamp drivers for Windows to get the Magic Mouse working, but now there is a “magic” alternative.
The Speedlink Cue is a wireless 1000dpi optical mouse with a multi-touch top and a tiny USB nano-receiver like the ones that ship with Logitech mice. Mouse clicks are registered by touching the top section where left and right buttons would normally live, and other gestures can be configured with the supplied software.
Given that the only magic thing about Apple’s Magic Mouse is how it can manage to suck so hard whilst it looks so darned good, it’s no surprise that the Cue fails to beat it on beauty: the mouse comes in white, red, black and silver flavors, all of which are horribly boxy and have a logo emblazoned across the bottom that makes them look cheap. Appropriate, I suppose, as compared to Apple’s awful offering, it is cheap, and will ship in November for 40 ($56, but sure to be less in the US).
Our advice? If you want multi-touch that will work on both Mac and PC, buy Wacom’s Bamboo Touch. Amazon will sell you the finger-tablet for just $36. Better, grab the version with the pen and kiss RSI goodbye forever.
Cue Wireless Multitouch Mouse [Speedlink via Oh Gizmo]
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This post was written by Journalist on October 22, 2010
