Oh yes, you shall be mine. Yes. Mine, mine, mine.

Mmm. Touchy, clicky optikal moose.

* Has a “Scroll Ball”, that seems to basically be a tiny trackball built into the mouse. The scroll ball is clickable.
* The mouse has some touch sensitive areas where you traditionaly find left/right mouse buttons. You still click the entire body, but it knows wether your finger was on the left or right when you clicked.
* Two side buttons
* Optical
* Currently wired only
* It has a speaker inside! The speaker produces “sound effects”
* Mac and Windows compatible (seems you need Tiger for fully functionality on Mac)

Have a Ball

Try reading this web page without scrolling. Every day you navigate through files, email and web pages by scrolling horizontally and vertically. Now you can do it all with your fingertip. Mighty Mouse’s Scroll Ball features miniature sensors that allow you to manipulate what appears on your screen merely by moving your finger. Scroll up and down to read a long web page or document. Scroll back and forth to follow a timeline in iMovie or keep track of a large spreadsheet in Excel.

But getting from point A to point B doesn’t always mean traveling in a straight line. Take a spin on the mouse that’s not afraid of kitty-corner. With Mighty Mouse’s Scroll Ball, you can scroll at a 45-degree angle — even roll in 360-degree sweeps. Pan across a massive digital image in iPhoto or Adobe Photoshop. Take in a whole PDF in Preview. The Scroll Ball moves the content on your screen just as your eyes might move across a printed page. The Scroll Ball acts as an extra mouse button too, offering you one of a few clever clicking options.

Sensors
The Button That Wasn’t

Alas the fate of the one-button mouse in today’s multibutton world. Who has time for intuitive, elegant design when there is so much clicking to do? Thanks to a smooth top shell with touch-sensitive technology beneath, Mighty Mouse allows you to right click without a right button. Capacitive sensors under Mighty Mouse’s seamless top shell detect where your fingers are and predict your clicking intentions, so you don’t need two buttons — just two fingers. Click on the left side to use Mighty Mouse in its simplest, single-button form. Click on the right to access contextual menus within applications and edit, copy, label or download from your mouse. It’s simple sleight of hand.
It Squeezes, Not Squeaks

It wouldn’t be fair to call Mighty Mouse a two-button mouse with one button. Especially when it responds to pressure from your fingers in four different places. Besides the left- and right-click functions, the Scroll Ball clicks down to act as a third mouse button. And force-sensing buttons on either side of Mighty Mouse respond when you press in with your finger and thumb. Perfect for Mac OS X Tiger users, the side buttons are pre-programmed to activate Exposé, so you can view all your windows with a squeeze. Of course, you can also customize Mighty Mouse to open whatever you choose — Spotlight, Dashboard or any application when you have Mac OS X Tiger v10.4.2 or later.

Play Cat and Mouse

Because Apple engineers designed Mighty Mouse to work in perfect harmony with the operating system, you get the full Mac OS X Tiger experience from the comfort of your mouse. Take that Scroll Ball button, for instance. Pre-programmed to launch Dashboard, it gives you access to a world of information in a single click. Mighty Mouse’s side buttons show you all your open windows in Exposé with a squeeze. Of course, you can program both of these buttons — along with Mighty Mouse’s right- and left-click functions — to launch Dashboard, Exposé, Spotlight, Application Switcher or any application you choose. Mac OS X Tiger gives you the capability, thanks to an intuitive System Preference pane. So, if you haven’t already upgraded to Mac OS X Tiger, isn’t Mighty Mouse reason enough?

Well Trained

To program Mighty Mouse, simply open the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane in Mac OS X Tiger System Preferences. There you’ll see drop-down button menus, plus tracking, scrolling and double-clicking controls. Choose your primary and secondary button designation. Reassign which applications you want to open with Mighty Mouse. Customize your scrolling capability. Mighty Mouse’s preferences are as easy to manage and as versatile as Mighty Mouse itself, so your mouse works the way you do — not the other way around.

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