Years passed, PCs evolved and changed, but the mouse remained almost the same, although it became more accurate. Swiftpoint can be considered one of the most original ways to reinvent a mouse, and we saw it at IFA 2015 in Berlin.
Douglas Engelbart is the inventor of the mouse and created this type of peripheral in the early '60s. If Engelbart saw how his wooden block evolved thanks to the Swiftpoint mouse, we're pretty sure he'd be more than happy.
Swiftpoint is a tiny gadget that you do not hold your whole hand, but only two fingers. It scrolls (right side), left click (front), right click (back) and you navigate with it accurately and quickly.
What really makes it special, going beyond the design side, is a sensor implemented on the right side. The moment you tilt Swiftpoint in that direction, the mouse starts behaving like a touchscreen, more precisely interacting with the content as if you had a touch screen, but without touching the screen. This, as you can see in the clip below, allows users to enjoy the many gestures available in Windows 10 or OS X without using the trackpad or touchscreen.
This gives the mouse a very high degree of accuracy. The better part? It connects wirelessly to laptops via a special USB dongle that also works as a charger: hold the mouse on it, hang it for thirty seconds and you can use it for an hour. If you charge it for an hour, you can use it without worrying for four weeks.
Swiftpoint comes with a sticker and a magnetic holder, which allow you to "stick" the laptop mouse when you move from one room to another or from an office to a meeting room.
The price, however, is commensurate with the innovation: $ 149.