Gadgetory

hi I'm Scott Stein and with Windows 8 around the corner and a whole bunch of crazy Windows 8 touch devices coming with it you're gonna need accessories right well Microsoft is ready for that and in addition to announcing a new keyboard there's the wedge touch mouse this little tiny thing is a mouse and it's $70 which is not cheap at all and what it is is it's a mouse not much more than that even though it does have the word touch in the name the amount of touch functionality that's in this is not multi-touch even though you may think it by looking at the surface it's single touch and it has four way touch scrolling so it has inertia scrolling if you want to scroll through web pages and also side to side that's cool except there are a lot of other mice out there that do that and for a lot less money what you're getting here is all design this is about 0.14 pounds of the battery inside it feels really lightweight it's super small and it's actually economic or I feel like it is I mean in terms of the fact that it looks like it would not be comfortable at all to use but when you put it down in a table with a thick part facing you and move it around it's pretty comfortable to use although your hand is making a lot of contact with your desk surface and your fingers are at the top the motions are not much different than with a regular Mouse but you will be squeezing these two sides with your fingers and using the other finger to navigate this is strictly for the executive setter those who actually want a mouse I mean I use an iPad and I admit I would like to use a mouse sometimes along with the keyboard to create a perfect computer feel and that's why you would sell a mouse to go with the tablet is to provide a more complete computer field to go along with that multi-touch environment but that's what it is don't expect anything more despite the name and hey Microsoft should get kudos for a really cool design and an interesting pop out battery that comes out the side by 70 dollars too high for most people I think I'm Scott Stein that's a look at the Microsoft wedge touch Mouse that'll be available soon