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Cooler Master’s first gaming mouse prototype looks to be well on the way to epic. The 8-button mouse for right-handers features seven-color lighting effects from the top- and front-sides, an OLED display where you can independently dial-in your preferred X-and Y-axis DPI (5,000 max), a twin-laser sensor, and up to five user-programmable profiles. The CM Storm Sentinel Advanced gaming mouse will be on display at Computex next week before making its way to retail later this year. Check the video overview after the break.

Continue reading Video: Cooler Master’s Storm Sentinel 5,000 DPI gaming mouse with OLED display

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Video: Cooler Master’s Storm Sentinel 5,000 DPI gaming mouse with OLED display originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 May 2009 05:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Microsoft’s standing by its BlueTrack technology with two new wireless numbers, the Wireless Mobile Mouse 6000 and the Wireless Mouse 5000. The Mobile Mouse 6000 includes Microsoft’s first “nano” transceiver, which sticks a mere 0.8 centimeters out from its USB port for continual ensconcement, but can also be stashed away under the mouse for safe keeping in the sake of a peripheral plugging emergency. The full-sized Wireless Mouse 5000 also features a snap-in transceiver, and like its mobile brother is ambidextrous in design. In June it’ll be available in a Wireless Desktop 3000 package along with the Wireless Keyboard 3000 for $70, and both will be available separately for $40, with the Mobile Mouse 6000 bringing in the “high end” at $50. Microsoft is also announcing the LifeCam VX-2000, a $30 VGA webcam for all five of you who haven’t bought a computer within the last five years with one built-in. You are loved.

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Microsoft expands BlueTrack line with two new wireless mice, is fully prepared to track more blue originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 19 May 2009 18:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If your digital camera has a little bird inside that chisels the picture on a slate, you might be a cheap geek. But you’re probably a Flintstone.

1. Slip this little beauty in your pocket, and you’ll have great pictures wherever you go. Best Buy is selling an 8MP Kodak EasyShare digital camera for $89.99, which is so low they must be insane! The camera offers 3x optical zoom, a 3-inch LCD, face detection, and image stabilization. It would make a good Mother’s Day gift, too, I’m thinking, since it looks like it costs more than $90.

2. Get a little music going in your garden so you can enjoy some songs while grilling or entertaining guests. Buy.com is selling Audio Unlimited 900MHz wireless indoor/outdoor speakers for $77.81 (plus $12.20 for shipping). I’d recommend hiding them behind the shrubbery, because they’re pink and they’re not the slightest bit attractive. Still, it’s a good deal and they’ll make your yard a little more fun.

3. Microsoft makes great mice, and this Notebook Optical Mouse 4000 is a beauty. It includes a receiver that snaps onto the bottom of the mouse when not in use. It works with both Windows and Macintosh laptops. Amazon has it for $19.99.

Bonus Deal: Order a select movie from Best Buy and get a coupon for a free Domino’s medium pizza.

Contest Announcement: Panasonic is giving away an HD product every day in May.

You know when you flip over your optical mouse and trigger the beam a few times just for kicks, sending your cursor skittering across the screen? Thanko turned that into a thing. The company’s newest wireless mouse includes media controls and so forth on the flip side of the mouse, allowing it to act as a remote of sorts, but it also presents you with the optics of the mouse for mid-air operation with your thumb. Sure, maybe it works great — but we somehow doubt it. If you’re hanging out in Japan at the moment, it’ll run you 4,980 yen (about $50 US) to find out.

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Thanko’s new wireless mouse can be operated without a desk, but only in the worst way originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 May 2009 20:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As a perfect complement to Shenzhen’s scattered keyboard keys we spotted the other day, tipster Riley G. spotted this charging herd of giant mice statues in Xiamen, China. Two whole tactile, usable buttons? How quaint! Another shot is after the break.

[Thanks, Riley G.]

Continue reading Herd of oversized concrete computer mice seen rushing for the shore — do they know something we don’t?

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Herd of oversized concrete computer mice seen rushing for the shore — do they know something we don’t? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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