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hi I'm rich brown so your editor for cnet today we're going to take a look at the Logitech cube mouse so this tiny little mouse is designed to be both a mouse and a presentation device you can use it just like you would any Mouse put it on a table scroll around it works fine in windows you can click left and right and it recognizes that it even has a scroll function based on touch if you drag your finger down and behaves just like you'd expect right on the screen for presenters though as soon as you take the mess up off the table if you come as a click device you hold it upright and click and it will advance to your next page in a presentation turn it upside down and click the bottom side again and it goes back up so it's obviously a wireless mouse but it's also a member of logitech's unified device family now that means is it comes with the USB micro receiver that can receive signals from up to six different logitech unified input devices so if you're using this and you have say keyboard and some other set of logitech gear you can just use a single USB receiver to kind of simplify the connection now it's certainly a welcome feature and we also like that it's rechargeable you can see this little micro USB input here you can connect that are to your system to charge it using it as a mouse is fine and short bursts it works say on an airplane tray but it's not great for precision work so if you're fiddling around with a lot of spreadsheets your gaming may be using some design apps it's really not going to do the job for you for presenters it's a nice little product it's small fits in your hand it's obviously very portable and the advance and backward features work well enough but we wish it had a little bit more functionality say a laser pointer or maybe you can scroll to the right and left something else to sort of justify the price tag of this thing because logitech wants seventy dollars for this cube mouse now it's certainly appealing it's portable it has a nice functionality but i'm not sure seventy dollars is really what i want to pay for something as small as this particularly we can get other presentation mice out there they're fully featured devices and come with laser pointers all that said the masses of course pretty unique looking so i expect logitech will sell some pretty much on the strength of this design now while the cube moss does work well enough i wish there was a little bit more value here to justify its price so i'm rich brown this is the logitech cuteness you