Arc mouse accomplished this 10 years ago.

They seem to imply Air the first “full size”.

The design looks bad, the usability worse. But wtf is that name?

congrats on making a worthless product nobody wanted or needed

I don’t know I get tired of my mouse taking up a lot of space to and from the office, or out and about, seems like if executed well this would be nice to have

It looks kinda sketchy, but we won't know just how good it is without trying. Although, if it is good, this is a game changer for many people that don't want to carry around a bulky mouse in their backpack. We'll just have to see what this thing can offer.

Finally someone solved the problem no one actually had

I travel via airports often and i always carry a laptop case filled with notebooks/papers. This could work for me if it's semi-tolerant to being squished with other papers.

That being said i don't know if it'll be tough enough...

probably more engineering and mathematics in folding paper (or high tech material) than most people realize.

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I quite like the idea. You'd need to play with one to see how practical it really is, though. Turning on and connecting just by folding it into mouse mode is quite well done though.

Especially considering I'm sure you could just get a really small, external touchpad if you really needed something as small form-factor as possible. I guess it's a cool display thing though if someone's into origami.

Why would you not just use the built in touchpad the ?

Arc mouse is 14.22 mm thick and weighs 82 g, and uses AAA batteries, and is a two button mouse that lacks a scroll function.

This thing is 4.5 mm thick over most of its surface, with a 10 mm bump where the sensor lives. It has a scroll pad and weighs 40 g. These things are in different universes in terms of size and thickness.

You can say, "the Arc Mouse is only three times as thick and twice as heavy, but it also changes shape, and I see no reason for a better solution." you can say that, but thinking the arc mouse does the same thing as this device is hard to square with the basic dimensions of each mouse in question.

Not everything has a touchpad built in..?

This seems weird to be explaining to anyone in 2022, but there's lots of interface use cases where the trackpad isn't a very good solution. Thinks like graphic design/layout work, spreadsheets, filling out forms where the UI is tight. There's also the matter of a physical mouse being MUCH, MUCH, MUCH better for people with loss of hand dexterity.

All that said use cases for this device are pretty rare because they mainly focus on people who need to travel between locations to work frequently, but also require a mouse. This seems great if you are traveling with a small laptop or tablet in a small sleeve. Fitting this into that package would work great, and a mouse is like carrying a stone of about that size (basically requires a different kind of bag). I work on a full-sized laptop, so carrying a mouse around isn't that big a deal.

yeah... I guess if that matters...

My arc mouse had a scroll function btw, it was a first gen, unless they removed it on a later version.

you realize that a laptop has a literal flat mouse preinstalled, right?

It is no where near as efficient, for me at least, than to have a traditional mouse. Simple web browsing, sure, the touch pad works but working huge excel sheets though? I need a mouse that i can manipulate with my full hand

Or, as they pronounce it, "oragami."

Touchpads suck at just about everything. There's no way I would ever use that for any work functions.

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and you think an origami mouse with no scroll wheel will do it for you?

No scroll wheel can be a deal breaker for sure as I can only page up/page down on the keyboard for so long. I can appreciate the concept of an origami mouse but there is a potential hardware restriction. Maybe it comes with a paper disk that you can remove haha

This one has a scroll pad, so it could work well.

This would be amazing for doing some 3d modeling, compared to the trackpad of a pc.

Have you ever tried to pack a full size mouse into a slim laptop bag?

I bought a puck mouse because it's the only thing that fits, but it's really small and uncomfortable.