So this what was unveiled in last night's (2011/06/01) neon party, in contrary to the jovial image one would normally associated with a neon party, one very solemn looking Gigabyte Aivia Xenon.
Design concept and functionality were great, however it's still in T1 stage, so it's still steps away from mass production. All three demonstration units shown in the photo above were all expensive, hand-crafted samples.
There were no promotional material given in the party, so from memory, here are some more exceptional features of this mouse:
- Looks like something that would be more suitable to use in living room
- Switchable between mouse and touchpad mode
- four buttons: power, mode switch and two function buttons
- Although claim to be touch control, left and right mouse button were in fact, conventional micro-switches
- great finishing (however, one would wonder if that's going to upheld when it's put to mass production)
- a lot of room to improve in terms of appearance
Continue after break for more descriptions and photos.
Very squarish design. Top-side is mirror-finished, the side marked with 'Aivia' is the rear of the mouse, on right hand side, two function keys
Two more buttons on the other side, the one towards the front is mode switch, follow by power button towards the rear.
In front of mode switch button, there is a LED indicator.
Blue indicates mouse mode, violet if its in touch pad mode, red means low battery
In mouse mode:
- The side marked with 'GIGABYTE' is the right mouse button, the side shown with buttons nearby is the left mouse button.
- Do have a middle button (that is, click in the middle)
- Finger slide left or finger slide right triggers horizontal scrolling
- Finger slide up or slide down to triggers page up or page down
- Mode switch + function key 1 : turn the mouse into scroll wheel mode, under this mode, the movement of the mouse would simulate the scroll wheel movements as in conventional scroll wheel mouse.
- Mode switch + function key 2: turn the mouse into temporary scroll wheel mode, same as scroll wheel mode described above, but revert to normal mouse mode once buttons are released.
In touchpad mode, the top mirror finished panel would act as a multi-touch touchpad, the mouse button still works, and touch gestures are the same as most multi-touch touchpad.
Since there were no press material supplied in the party, so all descriptions made above were purely out from memory, which may not fully describe all functionality of this mouse. And since it is still under development, so functionality and appearance may change when its put into mass production.
Inside, with touchpad removed.