Air Mouse

A while back Justin Keenen sent me information about an "Air Mouse," à la Nintendo's Wii controller that's taken the gaming world by storm.

I was all excited until I read the fine print which said PC only.

This morning he sent news of one that works with both PC and Mac.

Very exciting.

From the website:
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USB Wireless Space Mouse EZ

"USB Wireless Space Mouse EZ" is an revolutionary mouse that can be use in the air! It is quite simple to use. Reverse the mouse and hold it. Position your finger on the red light part and move the finger. Then you will see the cursor moves on the screen as you move your finger. Since the red light part functions as a button for clicking, any operation of mouse including single/double click is possible. You are completely free to take any position off the computer to use it! Excellent tool for presentation etc.! Use with our "Easy Desk" for more freedom!

Needless to say, it can also be used as a normal optical mouse, on your desk or mouse pad. There is no tangling cable thanks to wireless system. No installation of driver is necessary!

New compact dongle type USB transceiver makes it simple and easy to connect to PC/Mac, in smaller setting space. Also battery can be charged even while in use.

• Easy Use in the Air!

Aerial operation of the mouse is easy ! Hold the mouse in reverse, and move your finger on the red light part. If you move your finger up then the cursor moves up. You can locate the cursor anywhere as it follows according to your finger movement.

Clicking the red light part functions as normal mouse click. Normal mouse operation, such as wheel operation, single-click, double click is possible in the air. Also regular click button also work while using in the air !

• High Performance! Rechargeable!

It works as a normal mouse on the table or on the mouse pad.

The mouse has high performance of 800 dpi resolution and has wide wireless operation range of 7 to 8 meters from the dongle, and uses rechargeable battery system.

The "USB Wireless Space Mouse EZ" has enough features as high performance mouse.

The rechargeable battery that can be charged by USB power is incorporated in the mouse!

• Auto Position sensor!

When used in the air, the mouse should work reversely. The mouse detects the status automatically, and makes it work correctly without any setting.

It designed to be used for either right-handed or left-handed persons in both on the desk or in the air modes.....................

$35.67.

Above, the good news.

The bad news (at least for TechnoDolts™ like me)?

The site only accepts PayPal — no credit cards.

Long, frustrating and annoying story short: After about 30 minutes of fruitless effort to

1) Use my PayPal account, which took forever to get into and required endless answering of online security verification questions, emails and password resetting

2) Add a new credit card since the one listed currently was cancelled [by me] due to fraudulent activity last year

I was unable to buy the device and simply abandoned the purchase effort.

As I will — before I even start — any future attempt to acquire something using PayPal.

Hard to believe eBay paid $1.5 billion for something that's useless.

Turns out I'm not the only one to have PayPal issues.

But hey, what do I know?

Tell you one thing: If Google can figure out the micropayment thing they're gonna eat PayPal's breakfast, lunch, dinner and midnight snack.