logitech make the "worlds most powerful mouse" - fear its awsome POWER!

[mattnz]

Saw this on a review site tapking about c-net. The "worlds most powerful mouse" looks like a hyped up MX 500

http://napps.nwfusion.com/weblogs/cool/archives/004503.html

How the hell do you make a powerful mouse? Massive honking great LED in the bottom that can blind your opponents from across the room? Supercharged V8?

I smell marketing.

Still, the finish is pretty cool, red in the US and blue in europe and no two are exactly the same (or so they say)

Would prefer the blue myself...

[Power_User]

Looks very cool, I wouldn’t mind one myself, (Blue also, of course)

And I like the statement on "The Company claims that the finish on each mouse is completely unique, making it like a snowflake -- no two are exactly alike".

But it does look kind of slippery.....

[AcurA]

Very nice. I got an MX500 myself and tis xcelent.

on a diff note check this from A4Tech (http://www.a4tech.com/en/product2.asp?CID=1&SCID=8&MNO=SWOP-80#).
That's original...

[mattnz]

LOL

I thought it WAS a loitech MX500 for quite a while before I saw those two little buttons on the front.

Surely there has to be some sort of law againse taking a compiditors product and copying it in every detail?

[Geek4Life]

That A4Tech is as similar to the MX500 as a box of Pam's Nutty Crunch is similar to Kellog's Crunchy Nut.

There should be a law against it.

[MR_60]

Originally posted by Geek4Life
That A4Tech is as similar to the MX500 as a box of Pam's Nutty Crunch is similar to Kellog's Crunchy Nut.

There should be a law against it.

There is, it's called intellectual property law. But it all depends if logitech patented their design.

[ktulu]

It gets a little compiacted too. You can only patent a shape if you can use any other shape to do the job. In this case, a mouse is always going to be (relatively speaking) the same shape as it has to fit into the hand. The buttons are going to be in the same place as that's where the fingers are.
If you take the case of coke patenting the hour-glass shape of their bottles... their argument was, pepsi (et al) can use any shape to put their products in (so the patent was upheld). I'm sure that cokes competitors would have argued that the hour glass shape fits in the hand better... but coke probably had better lobbists and lawyers.

[mird-OC]

and even still, a design only has to differ slightly to be considered unique... and add to the fact, to achieve a worldwide patent for any product costs several million bux, it's just really not worth it for the "protection" it provides (in this instance anyway).

[Blur]

Wow, that fits my windows desktop rather well. . .

Other than that: marketting :rolleyes:

I think they're starting to over-do it with the buttons in one spot - you can only work so many buttons with on finger before the rest get jealous.