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Mice get Kensington style
Kensington (the company, not the borough) is best known for those slots that allow notebooks to be shackled to a desk using an eponymous lock. But it offers a broad range of is mobile accessories and has just unveiled a raft of products designed to appeal on style as much as function.
They include some very good looking wireless mice, under the name SlimBlade, which cunningly hide inside them the dongle that plugs into the host machine to create the radio link.
Entry-level, if you can use such a term for a high-end range, is the £39.99 Presenter (pictured), a fairly basic mouse with a scroll wheel. It is very slim, like the rest of the range, so that it can fit easily in a notebook case without bulging.
The £44.99 Media Mouse has two sides to it. You can use it like a normal mouse or flip it over and take advantage of a multi-finction navigation pad. For £5 more you can get a Presenter Media mouse that includes a laser pointer – there a switch to toggle off the mouse function when used in that mode.
The £59.99 Trackball mouse uses Bluetooth and ball control instead of a scroll wheel.
Completing the range is what Kesington calls the SlimBlade™ media notebook set, consisting of a mouse, a keyboard, a keypad and a remote control that can be used individually but slot together magnetically. Looks like one for the executives.
Kensington is also offering a more down-market range of mice and a choice of FM links that plug into a car lighter socket and play the output of an iPod, or any device with a standard audio jack, though your radio.
Posted by Clive Akass on September 24, 2007 | Permalink
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