Genius Navigator 380, mouse and VOIP phone in one

 It only move that cursor around your screen?! Not anymore. With the Genius Navigator 380, your mouse now works as a VOIP phone, an instant messaging device, not to mention the 1200dpi optical mouse part. All of these are rolled into its sweet clamshell design. Of course, if you have this multi-functional device, its primary use will be the mouse, but when you receive a call from one of your friends, it will either ring or flash a green light (underneath where your hand would be).

The Genius Navigator 380 is a great little peripheral for you business travelers as well. You can save precious room in your laptop case to use for that enormous power adapter they didn’t tell you the laptop required. To top it off, the Genius Navigator 380 can juggle six separate instant messengers (Skype, MSN, Yahoo, GoogleTalk, QQ, and AIM) simultaneously in one window. Another multi-function that will save you space and money.

Genius Navigator 380 can be carried along with a notebook and features a 1,200 dpi optical engine. The LED on the mouse blinks when there is a call through the IMs. And if the PC speaker is on, the ringing will also alert an incoming phone call. The mouse opens like a clamshell mobile phone. The Genius Navigator 380 is available in India for Rs.1,850 (INR).

The Arrival of the Warmouse

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.