Wired Magic Mouse?
Posted: 05 Feb 2014, 02:10
I've currently got Apple's "magic" mouse (http://www.apple.com/au/magicmouse/ ) and it works great... but it's wireless.
I have good rechargeable batteries and a good charger but it still means every now and then the mouse dies. Sometimes the batteries last two days, sometimes they last two weeks (I haven't worked out why...). It's stupid.
The multitouch surface is miles better than a wheel, I can scroll a single pixel at a time slowly or flick through several pages at a time. It also supports horizontal scrolling in addition to vertical, and OS X has been setup to require a good horizontally scrolling mouse.
Finally, the multi-touch surface is good enough to accurately detect the position of four finger tips in real-time — there are various gestures built in and third party software can add a ton more... which is very handy.
Does anybody know of a good touch-surface mouse with a proper USB cable?
Or... perhaps someone with more mod-fu than me has some advice how to replace the batteries with USB power? Leave it using bluetooth, but have a USB cable providing 3V to the battery contacts. I suspect the hardest part would be routing the wire out the front... I've got a dead magic mouse (got rained on) that I could disassemble as a prototype.
I have good rechargeable batteries and a good charger but it still means every now and then the mouse dies. Sometimes the batteries last two days, sometimes they last two weeks (I haven't worked out why...). It's stupid.
The multitouch surface is miles better than a wheel, I can scroll a single pixel at a time slowly or flick through several pages at a time. It also supports horizontal scrolling in addition to vertical, and OS X has been setup to require a good horizontally scrolling mouse.
Finally, the multi-touch surface is good enough to accurately detect the position of four finger tips in real-time — there are various gestures built in and third party software can add a ton more... which is very handy.
Does anybody know of a good touch-surface mouse with a proper USB cable?
Or... perhaps someone with more mod-fu than me has some advice how to replace the batteries with USB power? Leave it using bluetooth, but have a USB cable providing 3V to the battery contacts. I suspect the hardest part would be routing the wire out the front... I've got a dead magic mouse (got rained on) that I could disassemble as a prototype.
