The Best Mouse Ever ; Logitech's new MX Air takes the computer mouse to a hitherto unthinkable height.
Business Today, December, 2007 by Kushan Mitra
The Best Mouse Ever
Logitech's new MX Air takes the computer mouse to a hitherto unthinkable height.
The history of the computer mouse, and the Graphical User- Interface (GUI) is surprisingly short. The very first mouse was invented as late as 1970 and the mechanical track-ball mouse was developed by Xerox in 1972. Optical mice came in the early 1980s and by 1998, the first laser mouse had hit the market.
Incidentally, the first commercial laser mouse, the mx1000, was developed by Swiss peripherals company Logitech, and it is this company's latest twist on the mouse--the MX Air--that has us stunned. At the outset, this looks like a very fancy wireless mouse, which it is, and, therefore, suffers from the biggest downside of wireless mice--the need to have a USB...
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