Rosenberg claims that users of their prototype "FEELit" mouse experience an 88% speed increase over a stock mouse on a standard productivity test.

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It works like this: After downloading a tiny bit of software, users mouse over any word on any Web page, within any e-mail, within any document, hit the "Alt" key and automatically get an Answers.com page with information described above.

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That means it supports Windows 7 Jump Lists (for quick access to your music controls and playlists from the Taskbar), Previews letting you glimpse and control media by hovering your mouse over the Zune button on the Taskbar, and Aero Snap auto-resizing of the Zune software window.

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Users can move their mouse over the image and click on the phone's buttons.

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When we flicked the mouse on it was easy enough to spot it over Bluetooth on our regular Mac, but it only worked with tracking and single click -- none of this capacitive nonsense without a software update, naturally.

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While holding the Smart Scan button on the left side of the mouse, the user simply swipes the mouse over the material to be scanned.

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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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Like we said, we got really used to it and found it to be more comfortable than a number of mice we've used over the past few months just because we are able to just tilt our hand to rest on the mouse.

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