The "Blister in the Sun" Award for best packaging to highlght an innovative product goes to the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 , itself an award-worthy mashup of tilt-wheel notebook mouse, presentation remote and laser pointer.

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If you really want to cut through huge blocks of text, you're still better off using the scroll wheel on your mouse.

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In our hands-on demo, we stared at a world map, and then used the scroll wheel on a mouse to zoom in on that particular country.

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The main control surface is wide enough, in fact, that we could comfortably put three fingers on the top of the mouse, using the middle to control the mouse wheel and DPI sensitivity adjustment rocker (a nice touch in and of itself) without ever moving our index and ring finger from the all-important trigger buttons.

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While the Mobile Mouse has just the Start key and a scroll wheel, though, the bigger Comfort Mouse takes things a step further: the button there doubles as a capacitive surface you can swipe to toggle through open programs in Windows 8.

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Users can easily browse and navigate through the Smart TV ecosystem using LG's four-mode Magic Remote, which acts as an air mouse with point and click, gesture commands, a scroll wheel and voice recognition.

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