Looking Back On How Far Technology Has Come. (The Computer Mouse)

I finally upgraded my older wired Logitech optical mouse for a new wireless Logitech M510 laser mouse, and looking at it. I realized how much things have changed.

My first computer was a old 350Mhz machine, but at the time it was blazing fast. The mouse that came with the computer. Now that I look back was this clunky mouse that had a clunky physical ball in it that had to be cleaned at a regular basis because when it got dirty. The mouse would work very poorly! I used this mouse for many years.

Things changed and so did the mouse. Computer manufacture started to replace the physical balls in their mice with much improved optical device with no moving parts to get gunked up with dirt. These new optical mice did get dirty, but one would only need is take a Q-Tip to clean the optical mouse lens.

Also when the switch from physical ball to optical, there is no going back.

Just recently at my work the computer that was over there for some reason had an old mouse with a physical ball, and it was terrible to use. The mouse never went where I wanted on the computer, and other fellow associate felt the frustration of using it and asked why in the world did we have this old mouse when we could have had a better cheap optical mouse. Eventually it was replaced with a better optical mouse, and this is when I realized that there was no going back.

Anyway, I eventually got a gaming computer and with it came that wired Logitech optical mouse that until quite recently was using with out much of a complaint.

The one thing about older optical mice was that it wouldn't work well on some surfaces, such as glossy wood finished surface or white surfaces and my wired Logitech did suffer from this being an older optical mouse.

I then upgraded to a gaming laptop just recently, and my wired optical mouse wire was getting in the way. For a little while I kind of lived with it since it is still a good working mouse, but eventually felt that the wire was really getting in the way when gaming with friends.

I then finally went out and got a wireless Logitech M510 laser mouse and noticed how much compact and smaller it has become, and how much technology they fit in it. Even the receiver that fits in the USB port is very tiny, and it can multitask with multiple wireless devices.

I just couldn't help to think back of how much thing changed even for a simple computer mouse. I can't wait to see what the future holds for this simple but much needed computer device.

(Optical mouse and laser mouse are both technically optical mouses. Both have optical sensors to detect movement, but an optical mouse uses a red LED light while a laser mouse uses infrared laser.) That's the technical gist of it with out writing an entire blog of the working of optical mouse. The easy way to find out if one has an optical mouse is that there will be a red glow of the red LED light on the button of the mouse while the infrared laser is beyond the physical spectrum of the human eye and one would see nothing.