Logitech MediaPlay Cordless Mouse
By Brooks Talley |
November 2nd, 2004
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Logitech has introduced the MediaPlay Cordless Mouse, a modern ergonomic mouse with a bunch of additional buttons designed to control a media player (Logitech includes MediaLite, but the mouse works with most media player applications).
The MediaPlay offers play/pause, volume control, mute, and a couple of other buttons that aren’t clear, but are probably programmable to do any other functions you’d want. It also sports a spiffy new design direction from Logitech (always a design leader), with a flashy blue racing stripe and a somewhat more aero look.
As a convert to the DiNovo Media Desktop, I can vouch for how natural it is to move media control off of the virtual desktop and onto the physical desktop. It’s especially useful at times like when I’m hacking away at a bunch of code, blasting the tunes, and someone walks into my office. Whereas I used to have to mouse around the desktop looking for WinAmp, pluck it to the foregroud, and then hit “mute,” I now just hit the big silver mute button on my keyboard. I’m sure that using the MediaPlay is similar; the extra features just become second nature after a while.
One interesting thing — I won’t say shortcoming, but I am thinking it — is that the MediaPlay appears to just be a plain old RF wireless mouse, not a Bluetooth device like the DiNovo. I’m not sure of Logitech’s reasoning here, but it seems like a curious choice to make at a time when more and more peripherals are going Bluetooth rather than proprietary RF interfaces.
Via: Gizmodo
Filed in: Peripherals