“Weeeeeeee!!!” You hear me squeal from the other room. What could I possibly be doing that’s so fun? I’m whimsically whizzing up and down web pages with my Logitech Anywhere Mouse MX, of course. Give its weighted, freely-spinning scroll wheel a hearty flick and you can watch with giddy excitement (or somber appreciation, if you prefer) as you slickly slide down the page. One second, five seconds, ten seconds—it keeps spinning!
You no longer have to scooch up and down pages like an absolute loser, although you still can if you want to—give the scroll wheel a hard click and you’re in ratcheting mode. Click it again and, you guessed it, back to free-spinning mode. “But hey,” the more observant of you might say, “doesn’t that mean I can’t scroll-click links in Firefox to have them open in a new tab?” Yes, and that’s probably the mouse’s most offensive weak point. Thankfully, there’s a button just behind the scroll wheel you can configure (at least on a Mac) to serve as the middle button. It’s probably possible on Windows, too, but I don’t care to find out how.
“Okay, that’s great and all, but I’m a window-washer and I do a lot of my computing on the outside of skyscrapers. Can it really track on glass?” you ask. You bet it can. I tried this thing on my bedroom window, a wine glass, my computer screen, my favorite pair of glass pants, my uncle Harold’s eye—there’s practically nothing it can’t track on. And with its rubbery sides, you probably won’t drop it the 800 feet to the sidewalk below.
With its wizardly wirelessness, ergonomic excellence and the amazing ability to gleefully glide across copious quantities of content, I heartily suggest that you stop criticizing my alliterations and buy an Anywhere Mouse MX today.