Super Mouse Puts A Touchscreen And Shortcuts Under Your Mouse Hand
The mouse has barely changed its basic job in decades: point, click, scroll. Super Mouse wants to change that by turning it into a command center, adding a 3.1-inch touchscreen, programmable keys, gyro controls, and…
The mouse has barely changed its basic job in decades: point, click, scroll. Super Mouse wants to change that by turning it into a command center, adding a 3.1-inch touchscreen, programmable keys, gyro controls, and voice-to-text. That could appeal to people who spend their day bouncing between apps, though the pitch raises a question for gamers: could a mouse built for productivity also earn a spot in a gaming setup?
The hardware weighs 95 grams and connects over wired USB-C. It supports Windows and macOS. Its 720×720 display has five modes: a control panel with up to 16 home-screen shortcuts, a multi-touch trackpad, a digital keyboard, brightness and volume sliders, and Google Calendar. The layout can change automatically with the active app, putting relevant controls close at hand.
Two physical Hyper Keys beside the scroll wheel can trigger shortcuts, macros, or multi-step workflows. The mouse can also use gyro controls to advance slides or scrub through media. Its voice-to-text feature uses onboard microphones and processes audio locally on the mouse and in the Flow desktop app, according to the company.
For streamers and players who already rely on macros, those controls could be useful for managing scenes, launching tools, or triggering routine actions without reaching for the keyboard. But Super Mouse is presented as a productivity device, not a gaming mouse. The announcement does not list a gaming sensor, polling rate, or other performance specs that would help establish how it handles fast play.
A touchscreen on a mouse might sound like a solution in search of a problem, but app-aware shortcuts could be handy for people with crowded workflows. Whether it makes sense for gaming will depend on how well the software and macros fit the games and tools people actually use.
Tags: arctic fox technologies, gaming peripherals, kickstarter, super mouse Written byMitchell Gassner Old enough to have played retro games when they were still cutting edge, Mitch has been a gamer since the 70s. As his game-fu fades (did he ever really have any?), it is replaced with ever-stronger, and stranger, opinions. If that isn't the perfect recipe for a game reviewer, what is?