Michael Cooney
Senior Editor

Apple rolls out ‘Mighty Mouse’

Opinion
Aug 3, 20051 min

Apple has rolled out a new mouse, which is big doin’s for the Fruit Faithful.

The $49 “Mighty Mouse” looks frighteningly similar to the traditional Apple mouse, yet sports a scroll bar, four sensors and a button. How Apple cleared copyright infringement on the name we don’t know. They should have just named it “Vista.”

Apple says the Scroll Ball allows “360-degree scrolling capability” and “Touch-sensitive technology under Mighty Mouse’s seamless top shell detect where you’re clicking, transforming your sleek, one-button mouse into a two-button wonder. But the innovation doesn’t end there. Apple engineers added force-sensing buttons on either side of Mighty Mouse that let you squeeze the mouse between your thumb and finger, activating Mac OS X Tiger Dashboard, Expos