Jan 30 2008Mold Your Mouse Into Any Shape You Want
Is your mouse not ergonomic enough? If you answered yes then here's the mouse for you. The Lite-On Technology Moldable Mouse is made from lightweight moldable clay covered by a nylon and polyurethane fabric. You mold it into the shape you want, slap on the buttons and scroll pad (which communicate with the device via radio) and you're good to go. The design was even good enough to win a Red Dot Design Award. I know I really need one -- I think I'm getting crappy tunnel from my non-ergonomic mouse. This would be great for people like me or anyone that was born with a lobster claw instead of an arm. And if you were born with a lobster claw instead of an arm I want to eat it.
Lite-On Technology Mouldable Mouse Offers Advanced Innovative Ergonomics [tfts]
Thanks to Melissa, who was born with angel wings, for the tip
Reader Comments
1. BlightedArt - January 30, 2008 2:50 PM
I really want one of those, nice idea. =)
2. Retro Hog - January 30, 2008 6:01 PM
Really cool. Except yet again, it's not a real product and will never be. It's a design concept. How does this even qualify as a gadget? It's a drawing.
3. Andrew - January 30, 2008 8:22 PM
With respect, its design concepts that become tomorrow’s products (gadgets or otherwise) and so offer us an insight as to where we may be in the future. Everything you use (including the keyboard you typed your comment on) was once a 'mere' concept.
Also to label a concept work as ‘a drawing’ would surely get many a designer very hot under the collar. Concepts are not just drawings, in the same way drawings are not concepts. The amount of work that goes into concepts is staggering (feasibility studies, researching use of new technologies, the list goes on).
And how do you know, with such apparent certainty, that this will never be a real product? Have you seen the future? (If so, can I have tomorrow's lotto numbers?).
4. guate6 - January 31, 2008 12:11 PM
Neat...a mouse that doubles as a stress ball! So if you want to really create art, just throw it against something and it should maintain its shape, yes? Cool!