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Apple’s Magic Mouse now shipping: seeks mighty revenge

Apple’s Mighty Mouse was one of the most loved and loathed rodents of all time. When it worked, it was a magnificent productivity booster for Mac users. Unfortunately, over time, even after hours and hours of vigorous rubbing, the top-mounted trackball would become so ensnared in hand-jam that owners were left with two options: delicately splay the mouse for a bit of X-acto home surgery… or smash it with a vengeance hammer until justice is served. So maybe now you can understand all the hopeful fuss made over its successor: the Magic Mouse. It’s now shipping to those of you who ordered it separately from its iMac bundle. Snow Leopard users can even download the software update now so that all those multi-touch and gestural features will be enabled once the bluetooth mouse arrives. Then we’ll see if this is the mouse that rights all those wrongs.

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Apple’s Magic Mouse now shipping: seeks mighty revenge originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple’s Magic Mouse: one button, multitouch gestures, Bluetooth, four-month battery life

Ready for some more Apple news? Good. Say goodbye to the Mighty Mouse (for reasons beyond those legal entanglements) — the Magic Mouse has arrived. Hate buttons or moving parts? So does Apple, and nothing exemplifies the company’s march towards a buttonless future more than this “two button” laser mouse, which has one button and no scroll wheel — just a multitouch surface (a hard acrylic) across the top. With the Magic Mouse you’re able to do familiar gestures from the Mac trackpad playbook such as two-finger swipes, but you can also do single-finger horizontal and vertical scrolling, complete with a software-based inertia. Sorry kids, no pinch zoom. The wireless device boasts a four-month battery life, and will be available today for $69. Full press release is after the break.

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Filed under: Peripherals

Apple’s Magic Mouse: one button, multitouch gestures, Bluetooth, four-month battery life originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple Store down for updates, new iMac and more on the way?

And here we go: the Apple Store is down, presumably to update it with all the new gear we’re expecting today. New iMacs, plastic MacBooks, multitouch input peripherals, maybe a new Airport Express — we could get everything, we could get nothing. You’ll know as soon as we do.

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Peripherals, Software

Apple Store down for updates, new iMac and more on the way? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple to introduce host of new machines, new multitouch input devices tomorrow?

We’re not sure why John Gruber and Dan Lyons are having some sort of megalomaniacal Apple super-pundit standoff, but we’ll sit here and take the spoils: Gruber’s just one-upped Lyons’s earlier vague tease of new Apple gear tomorrow with a pretty specific list of things he’s apparently heard we’ll see, including new iMacs and plastic MacBooks, revved Mac Minis (including one that runs OS X Server), a new multitouch “Magic Mouse” (ha!) and some sort of multitouch desktop trackpad accessory. That pretty much covers every rumor and vague whisper we’ve heard over the past few months, so it’s actually a fairly conservative set of predictions, outside of that trackpad — which itself may or may not be related to this multitouch input device patent from a couple weeks ago. We’ll see what happens tomorrow morning — at this point we’re half expecting a tablet, a pony, and some sort of multitouch waffle maker as well.

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Apple to introduce host of new machines, new multitouch input devices tomorrow? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Beating Apple, Start-Up Wins ‘Mighty Mouse’ Trademark

A small start-up has conquered Apple in a battle over the “Mighty Mouse” trademark.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office earlier this week granted Man & Machine, a computer-peripheral company, the trademark for “Mighty Mouse,” the name of the start-up’s waterproof mouse.

Apple also sells a mouse called the Mighty Mouse, a white mouse with a roller ball in the upper-middle. In light of Man & Machine winning the mark, Apple will have to use a new name for its next mouse. Conveniently, a recent rumor suggests that Apple is planning to ship a new multitouch mouse with upgraded iMacs very soon.

Perhaps Man & Machine’s victory sheds a glimmer of hope on the story of Daniel Kokin, who is battling Apple over the “Pod” trademark. Kokin is hoping to sell a video projector called Video Pod, and recently the USPTO denied Apple’s motion for summary judgment, meaning the two parties must finish this battle in court in front of a judge.

As for Apple’s mouse, we’re going to make a random guess that the next one will be called iMouse. The iPhone delivered multitouch technology to the mainstream, and we think people would see the connection with “iMouse” if the rumored mouse is indeed multitouch capable.

USPTO Mighty Mouse Trademark Certificate [pdf]

See Also:

• Rumor: Apple to Ship Multitouch Mice With New iMacs Soon
• Apple Mighty Mouse – Wired Magazine
• iSuck: Apple’s Five Worst Products, Ever

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