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For some time now, I’ve been looking for a miniature mouse to take with me when I’m on the road and save my aching hands from the pain of trackpad/touchpoint. A former customer of mine has a fantastic IBM optical 3-button travel wheel mouse, but at the time I looked into getting one it was too expensive. Then, yesterday I was in PC World (sorry… it was an emergency) and I saw an optical 2-button mini-mouse which was both inexpensive and “different”. A £9.99 optical mouse coloured like a bee!
My son loves it (even though, at just over one-year old, he doesn’t understand what it is, he was soon holding it correctly and clicking). My wife thinks it is cute. I just like it and find it remarkably easy to use, despite its diminutive proportions.
I like my bee, but I just found the original IBM mouse that I wanted on eBay for $9.33 (£5.47) including shipping!
That IBM mouse is everywhere today! I just found a link to it on Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools site.