Posted on Thursday, August 05 2010 @ 21:06 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Microsoft's marketing team is teasing a new hardware device, there are a lot of guesses, but according to
Neowin it's likely to be a multi-touch mouse that can be used as an alternative to costly touch displays. The device is named Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse and it's expected to be released in September for around $70.
Details of the Arc Touch Mouse began surfacing in early July as several European retailers began publishing listings for a "Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse". Company officials registered arctouchmouse.com on Tuesday March 30 this year and according to an insider that spoke to Neowin, the device will launch in September.
The mouse is the result of a Microsoft Research program dubbed "Mouse 2.0". The project detailed different designs for a prototype multi-touch mouse and one of the prototypes looks similar to the current Microsoft Arc Mouse. Microsoft officials published a research PDF paper in October 2009 which contained pictures of a possible multi touch mouse. Microsoft's hardware twitter account tweeted two different pictures over the past week (see below).
