Genius Intros Wireless Mouse Without a Battery
Genius announced a new wireless mouse that uses a gold-capacitor instead of a batter to hold an electrical charge.
You still need to charge the mouse, but the design enables the DX-Eco model to be fully charged within three minutes. The downside: you will have to recharge the mouse every day.
For about $40, you get an otherwise common mouse that works via a 2.4 GHz connection and a distance of up to 45 feet between the sender and receiver. The manufacturer says that the DX-Eco works on surfaces such as dusted glass, marble, carpet, sofa, delivers a resolution of 800 or 1600 dpi and integrates seven buttons. The mouse works with Windows XP/Vista/7 as well as Mac OS X 10.4 and higher.
Genius says that the gold-capacitor can be recharged up to 100,000 times.
The global destruction caused by the production of batteries is becoming quite bad. While gold mining can be somewhat as bad, the consequences of batteries over time is significantly worse. 40$ for a mouse isn't a high price for what you are getting out of it and the money you save by not having to use batteries. Your argument against this seems to be that you are too lazy to charge it every day so you dismiss it as being expensive, low quality, and unreliable which i find ridiculous.
Capacitors may suck to have to recharge; sure, you have to put the mouse on its dock at the end of the day- but you do that with a battery-powered mouse anyways!
With a capacitor, 3 minutes gets you, say, 6 hours of use.
With rechargeable batteries, 3 minutes gets you 2 minutes of use (better mice unfortunately use propietary batteries).
Plus, you don't have to buy replacement packs when those rechargeable batteries die, and the mouse pays for itself if you're talking alkaline batteries.
Even if you're too lazy or forget to charge the mouse 3 minutes is about the time it takes for you to put the mouse on the cradle, hit the power switch, and by the time your desktop is useable so is your mouse.
This is a beautiful idea.
How about high quality products with lower energy usage, that'll make me happy. Batteries tend to be the most reliable part of most gadgets these days, sigh. I'd rather have a $40 mouse thats tough with a replaceable battery of the user's choice. When my k800's rech. AAs die I'll just get a new set and enjoy for another few years.
The global destruction caused by the production of batteries is becoming quite bad. While gold mining can be somewhat as bad, the consequences of batteries over time is significantly worse. 40$ for a mouse isn't a high price for what you are getting out of it and the money you save by not having to use batteries. Your argument against this seems to be that you are too lazy to charge it every day so you dismiss it as being expensive, low quality, and unreliable which i find ridiculous.
Capacitors may suck to have to recharge; sure, you have to put the mouse on its dock at the end of the day- but you do that with a battery-powered mouse anyways!
With a capacitor, 3 minutes gets you, say, 6 hours of use.
With rechargeable batteries, 3 minutes gets you 2 minutes of use (better mice unfortunately use propietary batteries).
Plus, you don't have to buy replacement packs when those rechargeable batteries die, and the mouse pays for itself if you're talking alkaline batteries.
Even if you're too lazy or forget to charge the mouse 3 minutes is about the time it takes for you to put the mouse on the cradle, hit the power switch, and by the time your desktop is useable so is your mouse.
This is a beautiful idea.
GET ON IT MIT!!!
In retrospective, the good old trackball mouse could be easily made into a self-charging device by putting charge generators into the internal ball rollers.
This mouse seems perfect for me aswell as others like me, people who want a wireless mouse without the hassle of carrying a desk full of AAA's, or having a backup rechargeable/wired mouse.
Lets say they define a "day" of usage as six hours, that means with the proclaimed charge time of just three minutes one can easily recharge it while they go to the washroom or to get a quick drink/snack.
Whilst it is technically not a gaming mouse, this is a personal preference but I can NOT stand mice with a large amount of hotkey/macro buttons on the sides. I will certainly look into this mouse when it becomes available.
I know its not the topic but for users of disposable batteries:Get a rechargeable ,and get even more power in the same size and save $$ in the long run-win for you win for ecology.
Battery = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_%28electricity%29
Both are in the dictionary so spell check fails...