Wednesday, December 30, 2009

"Weight" of Magic Mouse


I tried Apple's Magic Mouse. My first impression is thin and sticky. I consider that we have to grab the mouse in order to use it, therefore I pay attention to the thinness of Magic Mouse. According to Twitter, however, many people don't care it or get used to the thinness of it. Gizmode says that "Compared to ergonomic mice, the Magic Mouse is really low and aerodynamic, which means it doesn't contour to your hand and doesn't give the sensation that the mouse is a part of your hand". In my personal view, I not 'grab' the Magic Mouse but put my hand on it when I use it. Put my hand on it and move my fingers on its surface. So, I think that the surface of Magic Mouse it very important because my fingers can freely move on it. The glossy plastic is looks so smooth that I expect it is nice for my fingers. However, it is stickier for my fingers than MacBook's glass trackpad. This stickiness more bothers me than the thinness of Magic Mouse. As I already wrote, I consider that it is important for the multi-touch gesture to be smooth on the surface for freely finger movement. The smoothness is that our fingers which touch not information but an object don't feel some holds because information doesn't have weight and physical friction. We feel good due to let our fingers freely move on the smooth physical surface at the same time that the image on the display, information moves with our fingers like sticking each other. Although I mentioned this good feeling as 'Smooth and sticky,' we feel that there my be no weight. If our finger sweat, we feel some frictions between the fingers and the plastic surface. This frictions make something strange for us. Moreover, we already know the new standard for the smoothness of glass trackpad, so we feel that the plastic surface is sticker than the glass. This stickiness makes us feel "weight". This "weight" may be not physical but the tension of our muscle. It is like standing ready for controlling the image on the display, in other words, information. This is just my first impression for Magic Mouse, the first multi-touch gesture mouse. Therefore, I have to use it for a long time and gather many user's comments to it in order to consider about the meaning of Magic Mouse and the multi-touch gesture mouse.

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