About the mouseWarmouse designed the Meta with the goal of creating the best and most useful mouse the digital world has seen to date. Initially inspired by the keyboards on the Treo smartphones, it was created by a game designer who was fed up with the paltry number of buttons available on high-end gaming mice. Because gaming mice have historically been designed primarily for FPS games rather than MMO and RTS games, they do not possess sufficient buttons for the dozens of commands, actions and spells that are utilized in games designed with interfaces that make heavy use of icon bars and pull-down menus. (The SteelSeries WoWmouse and the Razer Naga are two different attempts to solve this very problem.) After discovering that the World of Warcraft mice available at the time were nothing more than regular two-button mice decorated with orcs, dwarves, and Night elves, the concept of the WarMouse was born. It was determined, after much experimentation, that 16 buttons divided into two 8-button halves were the maximum number that could be efficiently used by feel alone. And in the process of design and development, it quickly became apparent that many non-gaming applications would also benefit from having dozens of commands accessible directly from the mouse, especially applications with many functions utilizing nested pull-down menus and hotkey combinations.
Now, what can you do with 18 buttons, 3,072 game and application commands divided into 64 modes, and an analog joystick? The answer is anything you can imagine. The ability to assign application functions to both clicks and double-clicks, combined with the ability to use the joystick as an analog joystick or as the equivalent of between six and ten additional mouse buttons, significantly expands your options beyond the mere addition of more buttons. For example, you can use the joystick as arrow keys to move around the spreadsheet cells in Calc or Excel, then use its analog setting to freely rotate 3D objects in 3D Studio Max. In Writer or other word processing programs, you can click a button once to Copy, double-click the same button to Cut, and click another button to Paste. In Adobe Reader, you can turn the page, switch between views and zoom levels, or search for text with single button clicks. In AutoCAD, you can assign a function that is nested four menus deep to a single button click. In Microsoft Equation Editor, you can reduce a series of 20 arrow keys to one flick of the joystick. In Adobe Photoshop, you can rapidly switch between layers without ever taking your hand off the mouse or moving the pointer away from the pixels that you're painting. Macros can be recorded and assigned to button clicks, double-clicks, joystick movements, or scroll wheel positions. You can even use it as a number pad for fast data entry! The Meta puts 1,500x more functionality at your fingertips than the generic two-button office mouse and 180x more than the most expensive gaming mouse. Specifications
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