No more red optical or laser mice… say hello to Microsoft’s Blue Track

First it was the ball… then opticals glowing red, now lasers, but the future is blue! At least that is what Microsoft has installed for the future. Blue Track utilizes a blue LED (yes the light) and many optical sensors to give you better mouse movement on all different surfaces including carpet! The translated article from Italian to English is here:

Microsoft is pleased to announce the launch of a new mouse tracking technology is revolutionary than optical that than lasers. Explorer Mini Mouse will change your way of managing the computer. Thanks to technology tracking Microsoft Bluetrack, offers excellent performance and accuracy on most surfaces (raw wood, granite and carpeting included) allowing you to control your computer from anywhere you want. This mouse is ideal for notebooks for its small size. Its elegant design, the blue luminescence and metal finishing side will give an exclusive style. Accurate and fast, is rechargeable through the appropriate base.
Features:
• Microsoft Bluetrack ™ Technology tracking revolutionary: Microsoft Bluetrack ™ : Microsoft BlueTrack ™ is a new technology for tracking revolutionary than optical and laser. The optical sensors Blue Specular, born from a combination of a Blue LED and lens with wide angle, join the power-haul optical precision laser than managing to make more precise and wide the image contrast of the surface. This allows the mouse with technology BlueTrack to function perfectly well on surfaces such as granite, wood raw and the carpet, on which neither mice nor optical lasers can work to the fullest. The radius of tracking mouse BlueTrack capture a larger section of the area being four times larger previous technologies. The mouse BlueTrack are ideal for those who usually gather to manage their PC in the most disparate of the house, train, airport or even on the street, often in places where the areas of support are p

While multiple surfaces and a blue glow are nice features, a multi-touch pad would have been better. Mice are so confined to the area near the computer and surfaces and I’m not sure if this is a step forward or a step horizontally. Either way, it isn’t innovative.

Thanks to Engadget for the story and links