Tech: World’s Largest Mouse

World largest mouse? Gosh… what a big one, a real fat one. What happen to the editor? Are you kidding? This suppose to be tech and auto blog, what are you doing with the big fat mouse here?

Ops, perhaps I am using the wrong photo? hee hee.. The photo above is what came into my mind when I look at the title, World largest mouse.

But I am going to share with you a creative design by Weston Boege to create an integration between keyboard and mouse in one (keyboard + mouse = KeyMouse??).

It is a glide keyboard with optical sensor mounted below it. The thing you have to do is to glide the keyboard instead of using mouse. This is definitely help the user using the “largest mouse” without having their hands leaving the keyboard.

It sounds like a great and creative design. But to me, it is such an bad design. Why? The design is not ergonomics at all. Imagine you are having you Counter Strike on the play with this giant mouse, you have to move your whole arm to navigate front, back, left and right? and pressing the mouse pad with you elbow then.

I dare not imagine if I am having one at home, or perhaps I would need physio therapy for having one.

If you thought your premium mouse had a lot of buttons, check out the Glide Keyboard from Weston Boege. Resting on low friction pads, the keyboard slides around your desk picking up the movement through an optical sensor mounted underneath. The keyboard also integrates traditional mousing controls into the moulded palm rest that grips your hands as they move. Can’t say it’s a bad idea, although I can see having trouble typing when half the keys are fused together.

Availability: Not a chance

Designer: Weston Boege

- News via YanKo Design -

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