The top of the Touch Mouse is composed of a matrix of capacitive touch-sensing electrodes to track the position of the user's fingertips along its surface. Although all the Mouse 2.0 prototypes explored different touch- sensing strategies and form factors, the 'Cap Mouse' was ultimately selected to become the Touch Mouse. study that combined the standard capabilities of a mouse with multitouch sensing and resulted in five prototypes. The Touch Mouse evolved from the Mouse 2.0 project, a Microsoft Corp. Touch Mouse also features BlueTrack Technology so you can track virtually anywhere, anytime.1 Microsoft Touch Mouse is the new multitouch mouse for Windows 7 that will let you click, flick, scroll and swipe so it's easy and fun to interact with your PC.ĭesigned to enhance your Windows 7 usage, the Touch Mouse combines the virtues of a mouse with the rich natural language of gesture to offer a more intuitive way to navigate your PC. We also stole a few of their pictures and put them in the gallery below. The Windows Team Blog has some more information on the gestures. We'd wait for our hands-on impressions before pulling out the plastic, but that's just us. Updated: Microsoft has launched its Touch Mouse landing page and the mouse is up for pre-order now at Amazon. Undoubtedly, it looks pretty sexy, but according to the press release after the break it won't be available until June for $79.95. Like most other 2.4GHz mice out there it has a small USB receiver - sorry, no Bluetooth here. That all is best seen in the video below, but the sleek black mouse also packs Microsoft's BlueTrack technology, so it should work on carpets, wood, etc. Based on Microsoft Research concepts, the device will support a slew of gestures, including flicks, pinch-to-zoom, and panning. Confusing, we know, but this one is more than just a mouse with a touch strip - the entire top of it consists of a 'matrix of capacitive touch-sensing electrodes,' and naturally, it supports different multittouch gestures.

No, that's not Microsoft's Arc Touch mouse, it's just the Touch Mouse.

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