Designed to give PC gamers an advantage over the competition, the mouse features nine programmable controls, letting you move keyboard commands to buttons that are in easy reach.

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He also got me thinking about a box that has been sitting on my desk for several weeks: A Microsoft Touch Mouse, which features a surface studded with touch sensors, so you can perform gestures on the mouse, the same way you might on a touch pad.

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Under Jobs' leadership, Apple has helped usher in now-common features like the mouse and the 3.5-inch floppy disk.

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Diamond provides a 3-in-1 remote that features a keyboard, mouse and motion control, allowing you to use your television like a computer device or a game console.

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The ZPen also has no mouse mode and the software lacks a few features of the IOGEAR product, most important among these are searching for text in a note (promised as a free download coming soon), and another being the ability to quickly copy pieces of a note to the Clipboard.

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Scientists have created a mouse with Down Syndrome, and claim it has already revealed unknown features of the human version of the disorder.

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We want to keep updating the Razer Naga with the best features, and keep arming gamers with the best MMO gaming mouse in the world.

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The cry was answered partly by a new breed of mouse made specifically for navigating virtual worlds. 3D Connexion's SpaceNavigator, for instance, features a knob you can push in any direction to fly around, with your speed depending on how hard you push.

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