Whenever there's a hiccup in my Metro flow, I have to rack up around a foot (30cm) of total mouse movement to get my cursor over to the Metro panel and put things back on track.

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An optical mouse uses a beam of light and an optical sensor to detect movement over a surface -- there are no moving parts.

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Full mouse support: left and right clicks, dragging, scrolling, precision pointer movement.

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There's no denying that it's pretty odd at first -- we don't know about you, but we've never dreamt of titling our mouse all over the place, and even if we did we probably would have envisioned the movement to actually impact the navigating experience in some shape or form.

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Together with his Siberian Mouse and Egyptian Lizard, the fancifully-named insect was a life-size automaton with perfectly realistic movement.

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