From another list:

  CUPERTINO, CA, April 1, 2015 -- Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) today
announces the ultimate refinement in pointer technology: the zero-button
mouse. "We found that the button was confusing users," said Sir Jonathan
Ive, Vice President of Design.  The zero-button mouse uses a flexible
antenna, which Apple calls the tail.  In order to left click, the user
grabs the mouse by the tail, and swings it to the left.  Right clicking
is similar, but swinging to the right.  Scrolling is accomplished by
swinging the mouse towards or away from the user.  The zero-button mouse
is available in three collections: Apple Zero Mouse Sport in aluminum,
Apple Zero Mouse in stainless steel, and the Apple Zero Mouse Edition,
18-carat gold.  A white rubber tail is standard, but optional tails are
available in black and red leather, titanium mesh, and carbon fiber.

  Pricing and Availability: All models and tails are available for
purchase starting today, April 1, 2015.  Pricing for the Zero Mouse
Sport is $34.95, the Zero Mouse is $49.95, and the Zero Mouse Edition is
$995.00.
  The leather tails are $14.95 each, the titanium mesh tail $24.95, and
the carbon fiber tail is $799.95.

WATCH for this one!!  With this innovation, the era of button-down mice
seems to be ending (somewhat like shirts?), despite seemingly
regressively replacing the one-button, two-button, and three-button
mouse.

It is rumored that Microsoft is planning a competing voice-operated
no-button mouse, albeit possibly with a built-in optional keyboard for
people with small fingers.  Google is expected to compete with its own
autonomouse, which can move (autonomousely) *without* user control -- or
if a user is particularly gifted, with perceptive mind control -- in
either case, proactively anticipating user intent, and automatically
avoiding collisions and interference with any other user's mouse.  The
potential risks are left as an exercise to the reader.  (PGN)

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I note that one of my irritations with the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 is
that the battery-powered stylus has a tendency to activate items that
are merely pointed to in passing, without actually being touched.  I
rather hope that this is not a taste of Things To Come.

David Gillett

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