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Genius launches world's first battery-free wireless mouse

We've all heard of wireless mice and all of them use large batteries, which means a number of things.

January 19, 2012 / 12:05 IST
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We've all heard of wireless mice and all of them use large batteries, which means a number  of things.The battery is heavy and they need to be charged pretty often. If you’re using older mice, then you need to plug in AAA batteries into the mouse every couple of months. Now, Genius has launched something slightly unconventional - a battery-less mouse. No, it doesn’t use some kind of wireless power transfer to charge the mouse, but it does have a capacitor in place of a battery. Capacitors can hold some charge and Genius has one, that can stay charged through a day of use. Genius claims that their new DX-ECO mouse can stay charged for a day’s use after which the mouse’s capacitor could do with some charging, which takes no more than 3 minutes. Click here for full story

first published: Jan 19, 2012 11:57 am

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