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Sick of slow, unresponsive laptop touchpads?

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

First of all, a bit of a confession – I don’t actually own a laptop.  Or a Netbook.  No, I’m one of those dinosaurs who prefers to stick with a desktop rather than going for the lighter, more portable, more aesthetically pleasing option.  And the main reason why is a bit embarrassing to admit – I just don’t like having to use touchpads to navigate across the screen.  Don’t even get me started on those little red dot thingies.

Of course, there’s the option of just carrying a mouse around with you – and now that it’s easy to get a wireless mouse, you don’t even need the faff of plugging it into the USB everytime.  But a normal mouse is a bit bulky to carry about all the time – not to mention, you often don’t have quite enough space to use one on the go, for example when you’re on a train balancing on a flip-down tray, or in bed, or resting the laptop on your lap.

And it seems that I wasn’t the only person with this problem, so SwiftPoint have created a new award-winning mouse which is free of wires, small enough to take wherever you go and more efficient than a touchpad.

SwiftPoint Mouse

The SwiftPoint Mouse is absolutely tiny, but comfortable and intuitive with an easy-to-use pen-like grip.  It has advanced scrolling, paging and zooming functions, letting you navigate around your laptop screen with perfect accuracy, and is more efficient than a touchpage by 30-40%.

Best of all, it’s small enough to use on top of your laptop just alongside the trackpad, meaning that you can use it wherever you are – even if there’s no available surface.  And the increase in accuracy  means that it would be perfect for any requiring detailed movements, such as Photoshop design or gaming.

The SwiftPoint Mouse has won several awards which recognise its intuitive and innovative design, including Winner of Popular Science in the Best of What’s New Awards and an Innovations Award from CES Design and Engineering Program Computer Peripheral 2011.

To charge the mouse up, you just connect it to the equally teeny SwiftPoint dock; a USB dock with super-charge function, which will give you another full hour’s usage from just 30 seconds’ charge.

SwiftPoint Dock

The SwiftPoint Mouse is coming soon from our sister-site Gearzap.com, who also sell an extended range of laptop accessories and iPad accessories.

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Protect your 3G Dongle with a USB Swivel Adapter

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

I’m sure that we’ve all had moments where we’ve been disconnected from our wireless network because we’ve knocked our 3G Dongles. I know I’ve lost information when a memory stick I’ve been transferring data onto gets nudged and loses connection with my laptop.  It’s getting better as dongles and memory sticks are getting smaller, but with most flash pens and USB modems still sticking out of the side of our laptops, accidents are bound to happen

To try and make events like this a thing of the past, Mobile Fun have just released a USB Swivel adapter – a simple little adapter that sits between your Dongle or memory stick and laptop and can be adjusted through 360 degrees so that your dongle doesn’t get in the way.

Mobile Broadband Modem in USB Swivel Adapter

The Swivel adapter is extremely small and can easily be carried around with your laptop or netbook and are ideal if you’re frequently using your laptop where the working area around your laptop/netbook is limited (such as airplane tray tables, small coffee shop tables, etc.)

As well as helping to protect your Broadband dongles and Flash Memory pens agains accidental damage, the USB Swivel adapter can be used to make USB ports easier to access on your Desktop PC and games consoles too.

Head over to the product pages for more information on the USB Swivel Adapter.

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