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Apple have done it again. Not content with reinventing the computer, music players, mobile phones and the 12″, they have gone and reinvented the humble mouse. That’s right, the device they made popular in the first place (with one button).

Long after conceeding ground to Microsoft and their “two buttons HAS to be better than one” thinking, Apple have come with something ingenious. No, not THREE buttons – NONE. That’s right. Seems like buttons are a thing of the past as anyone using one of their slick new keyboards might tell you. Clive Sinclair eat your heart out.

Fairly soon, Apple will be responsible for a gesture based keyboard, then that will evolve into a lazy wave of the hand to indicate, y’know, just go away and do my work for me willya.

The video looks slick. Very slick. Why go to all that trouble of rolling a finger on a moving wheel when you can just slide your finger down a glossy piece of plastic?

It does, in all fairness, perform really well as a mouse and does away with all the miniscule side buttons that seem to be following Microsoft’s philosophy. And of course, it looks great. like an iPhone fell face down in a bath of milk.

But what’s really clever about the “magic mouse” is that Apple have created the solution to a problem nobody knew existed.

I don’t think this can be said often enough: leaving a problem can often be the best route to solving it.

My train journeys to and from work can often be my most productive. Last night I solved a coding issue I’d been wrestling with all day whilst walking to the station. Half of me wanted to rush back to the office and try out my new routine, vividly coded in my mind. The other half patted me on the back and allowed for a calmer walk knowing that tomorrow would see everything come together. Read more…