Tuesday, September 18, 2007
New Mice and Cameras from Microsoft
Posted by Chris Gohlke in "HARDWARE" @ 01:00 AM
"There's new evidence Microsoft's hardware group has been working hard, since the company has just taken the wraps off three new notebook mice—all wireless and one with 1 GB of built-in flash memory—and two new LifCams designed to enable video sharing capabilities."
Certainly evolutionary, but nothing revolutionary here. The cameras might be popular with the video blogging crowd since they offer one-touch blogging to Windows Live Spaces. The only product that leaves me a little puzzled is the mouse with integrated flash memory. I don't see individuals carrying their personal mouse around to other computers, so this is just a really bulky thumb drive. Better would be a USB input on the mouse itself or even a recessed, removable thumb drive that docks into the mouse.
Certainly evolutionary, but nothing revolutionary here. The cameras might be popular with the video blogging crowd since they offer one-touch blogging to Windows Live Spaces. The only product that leaves me a little puzzled is the mouse with integrated flash memory. I don't see individuals carrying their personal mouse around to other computers, so this is just a really bulky thumb drive. Better would be a USB input on the mouse itself or even a recessed, removable thumb drive that docks into the mouse.
