May 24
With Soylent to eat (or I guess drink)
Apr 03
This is wild. Chasing the elusive dream of curing paralysis, a team of scientists used stem cells and optogenetics to circumvent the central motor system of lab mice whose nerves had been cut. This enabled them to blast individual motor neurons with a laser, triggering movement in the legs of the mice.
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Feb 18
Look, rats are a fact of life in NYC. They’re already hanging out in our grocery stores
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Dec 25
Cancel your Christmas photoshoot because nothing is going to beat this video of little tiny mice decorating a little tiny tree with their little tiny mice hands. Your baby niece can’t string lights on a Balsam Fir. Your dog dressed in a holiday bandana has done nothing to fill you with holiday cheer. But these mice? These agile holiday mice? They have made you weep tears of Christmas joy. [Laughing Squid]
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Dec 17
Touchpads? Meh. Touchscreens? Bleh. Powergloves? Oh hell yes. Unfortunately/Obviously no one is in the business of making powerglove pointer devices for your computer right now, but don’t let that stop you from hacking together your own, you wonderful psycho.
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Dec 10
While I like playing the occasional game of chess, I don’t think I’d be able to make it through a round playing with this chess set without throwing up a little bit in the back of my throat.
Yes, what you’re looking at is an entire chess set made from taxidermied mice. It was made by Etsy creator TheCurious13 “to get people’s attention.” Well, mission accomplished, Curious, mission accomplished.
According to its description the set is made from “fur, taxidermy, mouse, mice, foam, cotton, wire, beads, fabric, wood, paint, paper, and glue.” That’s right, there are so many mice, he had to state it twice. Hey, I made a rhyme!
Each mouse has been dressed in appropriate garb, including tiny crowns for Kings and Queens, and these adorably creepy little bishop’s outfits:
Each of the 32 mice in the set was already dead, frozen and bred to be fed to reptiles, so I suppose this is a slightly more pleasant outcome for them. I guess. Unfortunately (or is it fortunately), the set has already been sold, so we don’t have to worry about the cat eating all our pawns any time soon.
[via Dangerous Minds via Geekologie]
Oct 30
The most impressive thing about Josh Bader’s website that documents the history of the Apple Mouse isn’t how comprehensive it is. After all, you can count the number of major hardware revisions Apple’s made to its mouse since 1983 on two hands. No, what makes Bader’s site particularly wonderful is that all the illustrations have been painstaking created using nothing but HTML CSS.
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Sep 21
Does Anyone Else Still Use a Mouse?
Posted in: Today's Chili
With tablets and trackpad-based laptops slowly taking over the world, using an actually old-fashioned mouse seems to be becoming a niche passion for an increasingly small but devoted few. Maybe the mouse should just die already
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Aug 28
Laptop trackpads have gotten considerably more capable over the years, but sometimes a mouse in hand is still the better way to go. And if you’re used to carrying a svelte laptop, Logitech’s betting you’ll want a mouse to match with its new Ultrathin T630/631 Touch Mouse that can keep you working for hours, even if you only have minutes to spare for charging.
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Aug 20
Microsoft is preparing to release their newest Sculpt Comfort Desktop Set. The set consists of a Sculpt Comfort Keyboard and a Sculpt Comfort Mouse. Let’s start with the Sculpt Comfort Keyboard, this ergonomically designed keyboard features a 2.4GHz radio frequency, a comfort curve layout design, 109 keys and a removable palm rest. As for the Sculpt Comfort Mouse, this Windows 8 compatible mouse adopts the BlueTrack technology (works on almost any surface) and features a 1000dpi resolution, a 4-way scroll wheel and a Windows Touch tab to easily switch to the start screen on Windows 8. The Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Desktop Set will be available from September 6th for 7,980 Yen (about $82). [Microsoft]
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