Have you ever wished that your mouse would work on any surface? I know I have. Some tables and desks are just problematic, especially if you don't have a mouse pad. Well, the answer is now here, and it is known as the Explorer.
Microsoft recently changed the way that a mouse works and made it better. Man I love innovation. Most mice function by using a red LED or laser light to take thousands of pictures of the shadows cast by the surface and then analyze the difference between the shots. The down side is that this doesn't work for some surfaces.
What Microsoft has done with their Explorer is use a blue LED, evened out with a diffuser, such that you get a larger spread of light taking pictures and reflecting light off more surfaces allows the mouse to run on just about anything. One classic non working mouse surface is carpet, due to all of the individual fibers, well the Explorer can pick reflect off of those fibers and run perfectly. This is yet another example of the innovation we need.
http://www.popsci.com/node/24533
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