First seen a month ago, WarMouse's 18-button wired mouse (OpenOfficeMouse) has now been introduced to the world under the name 'Meta'. This new peripheral features the mentioned 18 buttons, which are programmable and have double-click functionality, boasts an analog joystick on the side, a scroll wheel, a 5600 DPI laser sensor, packs 512KB of flash memory, includes 1024-character macro support and comes with 25 modes for popular games and applications.

"We were frankly shocked by the overwhelming response to our original announcement of the mouse," said Theodore Beale, Lead Designer at WarMouse. "We sent out three emails and ended up getting three million hits on our website that weekend; no one seemed to believe that an 18-button mouse with a joystick could be anything but a joke. But it's real, it's brutal, and it's going to fundamentally change what people expect of their input devices. There are some of the opinion that the Meta is insane, but we believe there are many gamers and power users who want to be able to do more than stroke their mouse with two fingers."

The WarMouse Meta is expected to become available in Q1 2010 priced at $75.

Source: tcmagazine