I use an Intellimouse Trackball and could not recommend it highly enough.

 

You move around using one finger(index) and right/left click with your thumb.

 

It takes a day or 2 to get used to it, but it's much more efficient. You can also still use an ordinary mouse as well after using it for a while.

 

It's a bit like an auto box, only better !!

I have an Inteli Optical Explorer mouse.

I got it when optical first came out.

Cost me £40 but it been going for 3 nearly 4 years and has never give me any trouble. No more dirty rollers

I used to work for a firm called Xerox (the copier company) They have a research centre in the States where they look into all kinds of funky techie stuff (they're currently working on molecular sized robots - nanobots) Back in the late 60's they had a small computer system set-up so all the researchers could communicate easily with each other, the small computers were called PC's, the system they used was called Ethernet and they used a graphical interface to simplify opening programms. They also used optical mouse technology to navigate around the GUI. Being a copier company they didn't know what to do with it, so they asked a couple of bright sparks to see what they could make of it. "Useless....no real world application." they said ---- that was Mr Steve Jobs and Mr Adobe, and the rest is history.

 

I remember thinking when I joined that the antiquated old 'Documentor' system looked like a basic version of Windows, and I had never seen an optical mouse before and it was on a system nearly 30 years old!

 

This technology has been aound for donkey's years.

 

Sorry to drivel on, I'm just killing time till I go home.

 

I've had a field mouse that the cat brought in alive and took an hour to catch on saturday night. The clever git escaped from the cat and sat behind the fire guard we've got for the baby LOL

The cat was well pissed off that the little blighter wouldn't come out.

Gave the cat a good boot up the **** and rescued the mouse! LOL

 

Apart from that the Microsoft Cordless/Optical Intellimouse Explorer is superb but eats batteries every month

 

 

:d

 

Intellimouse explorer, great tool, but im on my third one currently, the wire breaks in them, agter 6 months or so it just goes dead, they send you a new one without question though, quite a good 40 quid spent i reckon.

 

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Warren - why post a picture of your girlfriend ?! (only joking)

 

Mice - my Intellimouse Trackball's (got one at work and home) cost me nowt cos I got them from work and they have never broken down -have to clean them out occasionally just by scraping the crud off the rollers. That optical thing is just for posers I reckon !!

 

I wish the Z logo on this site was not so big and colourful, as I have to keep minimizing the page at work when anyone walks past !!!

why not get the optical trackball (im sure they do one, i might be wrong though lol ). If you reckon the logo is big u must have a very low screen res its only an inch across hee on my 15" screen.

 

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The cable doesn't cause me any problems -so I see no point in getting an optical one.

Logitech cordless

 

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KEEP IT SIDEWAYS!

i use a logitech dual optical as im a pro gamer there u go lads something u didnt know about me yes i play Counter-strike professionally

 

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Originally posted by x-biker:

I used to work for a firm called Xerox (the copier company) They have a research centre in the States where they look into all kinds of funky techie stuff (they're currently working on molecular sized robots - nanobots) Back in the late 60's they had a small computer system set-up so all the researchers could communicate easily with each other, the small computers were called PC's, the system they used was called Ethernet and they used a graphical interface to simplify opening programms. They also used optical mouse technology to navigate around the GUI. Being a copier company they didn't know what to do with it, so they asked a couple of bright sparks to see what they could make of it. "Useless....no real world application." they said ---- that was Mr Steve Jobs and Mr Adobe, and the rest is history.

 

I remember thinking when I joined that the antiquated old 'Documentor' system looked like a basic version of Windows, and I had never seen an optical mouse before and it was on a system nearly 30 years old!

 

This technology has been aound for donkey's years.

 

Sorry to drivel on, I'm just killing time till I go home.

 

Another story like that is about the Lazer.

It was infact invented about 100 years ago, but it had no use at all, now its used for millions of things.

 

I think it was described as the best invention still waiting for a use.

 

Stuart

Originally posted by Nelson MainFella:

Warren - why post a picture of your girlfriend ?! (only joking)

 

t !!!

Lmao thats probably one more than you have had in your lifetime

oh logitech cordless by the way