An Interesting USB Device
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Gnomie William Bokunic writes:
You asked us to send you interesting or unique USB devices, and I think I have one. (FYI - This won’t sound interesting until after a few sentences.)
Over the past few months I’ve been having mouse issues with the Apple Mighty Mouse (primarily the scroll ball not working). So I came across a little gem of a mouse that meets my needs. It’s the Kensington Ci75m Wireless Mouse for Notebooks.
This mouse, while being wireless (up to 10′, which isn’t far but good enough if you use a laptop or Apple keyboard like myself), is in fact smaller than the Mighty Mouse and looks just as nice. That was important to me. But the really unique thing that I liked about it is that it has a little USB extension on the inside that can be plugged into the back of the wireless stick, allowing for you to use the mouse if it runs out of battery power (like a normal cabled mouse). Now for me this is pretty awesome. I’ve never seen a wireless mouse do that. Perhaps I just wasn’t looking properly, but I thought I’d mention it nonetheless. This mouse is perfect for laptops, in my opinion.

2 Comments
John Rose
January 4th, 2008
at 2:41am
Chris / William,
Does this mouse work OK under Ubuntu Gutsy?
Regard,
John
William Bokunic
March 2nd, 2008
at 9:36am
Wow, didn’t know that Chris put this in a blog.
@John - I am not sure. Later today I’ll pop in a 7.10 live cd and see if the mouse will run on it. I’m fairly certain that it will, as the mouse come with not drivers for Windows or Mac OS X, but you never know.