A mouse is a fairly simple technological animal. It's got a left and right button, allows you to point at specific parts of your screen and click to achieve certain desired effects. But with the advent of the Warmouse, you're going to have more than just two buttons - in fact, try about eighteen.
The Warmouse was designed by an avid game designer fed up with the limited options of the two button mouse, which is best served with first person shooting (FPS) games rather than massively multiplayer online role playing (MMORPG) games or real time strategy games (RTS). Possibly named in part for the popular World of Warcraft series, the Warmouse seeks to address not only gamers' need, but also many other non-gaming applications that would benefit from it.
With the Warmouse, you can assign any application function to any of the mouse buttons and execute them in either clicks or double-clicks, using the Meta Modware. The joystick function allows you to transform 20 commands of a keyboard to one swipe of the mouse, offering better functionality without the need to even take your hand off the mouse.
Here's a list of games and applications now compatible with the Warmouse.
Features of warmouse
- 18 programmable mouse buttons with double-click functionality.
- High-resolution laser sensoraround 100 to 5,600 DPI/CPI.
- 6 assignable button modes
- Analog X-box 360-style joystick.
- Click able and command-assignable scroll wheel.
- 512k of flash memory holding up to 3,072 application commands in 64 modes.
- Three on-the-fly CPI settings per mode. Maximum 192 different on-the-fly CPI settings.
- 1.85 meter USB cable and coated rubber top.
- Meta Modeware for the creation, management, and customization of game and application modes.
- Import and export of custom modes.
- PDF export of application modes.
- Graphical pop-up map of current button assignments.
- Statistical tracking of all mouse button clicks and application command clicks by application.
- 64 default modes for popular games and applications, including Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel, OpenOffice.org Writer, Calc etc.