Microsoft Experimenting With 5 Multi-Touch Mouse Prototypes!

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October 28, 2009 ||

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While Apple claimed the “World’s first multi-touch mouse” title with its Magic Mouse this month little did we know Microsoft was working on its own. Not one or two or three but Microsoft is testing five prototypes of multi-touch mouse.

Though I find such technology amusing I think multi-touch mouse is nothing more than a fad. It’s certainly a good start but it is far from being a complete product. Why, you ask?

The kind of gestures Magic Mouse or the prototypes we see in the video (below) are capable of handling are not the only gestures we will use in the time to come.

The fact that our fingers are capable of a lot more, gadgets like multi-touch mouse limits our ability to perform certain actions using our fingers. That’s precisely why multi-touch mouse will eventually fade away after killing our existing mouse technology.

Alright, let’s not get ahead of ourselves and instead use what technology has to offer today. I think Microsoft is onto something with the Orb Mouse that not only recognizes the finger placement and gestures but also reacts to the palms placements.

That said only time will tell what mouse are people most comfortable with.