tech: Blue Track - say goodbye to lasers
Microsoft recently released a teaser page on its very own hardware site, pushing the date of ‘9.9.08′ and the slogan ‘Say Goodbye to Laser’. Rumours are rife (as always with a large company), but it looks like MS is all set to bring out a revolutionary new type of mouse technology.
High-end mice have pretty much solely been using laser technology since 2004, when Logitech introduced the MX 1000 - but how many times have you sat down at a coffee table and plugged in the mouse, only to find it won’t move?
For me, it happens frequently, leaving me with the good old trackpad to use instead. However, this new ‘Blue Track’ technology from Microsoft supposedly allows the mouse to work on many more surfaces than the current laser and optical mice.
This ‘Blue Track’ mouse uses a blue LED in combination with a wide-angle lens which is said to offer “excellent performance and accuracy on most surfaces allowing you to control your computer from anywhere you want… This mouse is ideal for notebooks due to its small size”.
Could this new technology see the end of the laser mouse? As the Godfather of optical technology, way back with the introduction of the Intellimouse Explorer, it seems likely that if anyone can do it, Microsoft can.
-Robert Day
This happens to me all time thanks for letting me no about this mouse. I am defiently going to get it even though it is microsoft.