Apple’s new “Magic Mouse” features multi-touch technology

Apple on Tuesday introduced the Magic Mouse, a new $69 Bluetooth mouse that Apple bills “the world’s first multi-touch mouse.” It will be available in late October and comes bundled with Apple’s new iMacs.

The Magic Mouse eschews mechanical buttons, a scroll wheel and the scroll ball found on Apple’s Mighty Mouse all together, instead introducing a multi-touch surface that works across the entire top of the device.

magicmousehero This enables users to configure the mouse as a single or multi-button mouse, using finger gestures to scroll through documents, pan across images or move forward and backward through Web pages and other files. Such “multi-touch” gestures have become a defining characteristic of Apple’s laptop trackpads, and are heavily leveraged in the iPhone and iPod touch interfaces.

The Magic Mouse can operate wirelessly up to 10 feet away from a host computer. It runs on two AA batteries (included) and features power management.

The Magic Mouse requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later.

http://tewha.net Steven Fisher

Minor correction to article: “Might Mouse” should be “Mighty Mouse.”

I also note that the Mighty Mouse seems to have been renamed Apple Mouse.
Jim

I am so glad they are dropping the scroll ball.
I have never seen any Mighty Mouse scroll ball work reliabley yet.
I have a logitech mouse simply because I got sick and tired of the scroll ball failing to work and continuously having to clean it.
In other words, hallelujah!
Jim
http://twitter.com/zweigand zwei

Just thinking about how easy that will be to clean makes me smile. I may actually keep this mouse when I get my next machine. (using a Razer Pro|Click on all my machines at the moment)
http://www.facebook.com/people/Kel-Stewart/681907527 Kel Stewart

I’ll be picking one of these up tomorrow. Thank god they got rid of the awful scroll ball.

I also have been using a Logitech mouse and also a microsoft mouse both of which had the conventional scroll wheel, the touch features sound intriguing but after a brief chat with Jim on twitter i’ll grab one.
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