Canon X Mark I Mouse Lite hands-on impressions

It’s a calculator. It’s a wireless mouse. It’s a Bluetooth numeric keypad. It’s… really bizarre. Canon’s X Mark I Mouse Lite takes everyone’s favorite desktop rodent and tries to make it all fancy like, filling that wasted space below the mouse buttons with a calculator — monochrome LCD and all. Except that the unused space below the mouse buttons isn’t wasted at all — it was designed for resting palms, not poking fingertips. The result is a mediocre mouse paired with a mediocre calculator, for $60. Sadly, it’s not nearly as elegant of a solution as it may appear to be, and after a couple days of use, we were ready to switch back to our boring old single-function mouse. So what exactly left us so unimpressed? Jump past the break to find out. Gallery: Canon X Mark I Mouse Lite Continue reading Canon X Mark I Mouse Lite hands-on impressions Canon X Mark I Mouse Lite hands-on impressions originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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