Magic mouse - The world's first Multi-Touch Mouse

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Today Apple unveiled its first multi-touch mouse - The Magic Mouse.

The Multi-Touch area covers the top surface of Magic Mouse, and the mouse itself is the button. Scroll in any direction with one finger, swipe through web pages and photos with two, and click and double-click anywhere. Inside Magic Mouse is a chip that tells it exactly what you want to do. Which means Magic Mouse won’t confuse a scroll with a swipe. It even knows when you’re just resting your hand on it.

Apple claims the following features:

1) You can click and double-click anywhere on the mouse's Multi-Touch surface.
2) Works as a standard two buttoned mouse when you enable Secondary click in system preferences.
3) Scrolls in any direction and pans to a full 360 degrees with a brush of a single finger along the Multi-Touch surface.
4) Using two fingers, swipe left and right along the Multi-Touch surface to advance through pages in Safari or browse photos in iPhoto.

More than its features it certainly looks sleek, elegant and beautiful.