The OpenOfficeMouse Gets Official [Multi-Button Mouse Available Ready to Handle OpenOffice Documents and Not Only]

The product in the picture here is about as real as it gets. It’s a mouse officially unveiled in Italy called the OpenOfficeMouse. Yes, that’s a more than strange name for a mouse but the device is meant to work with OpenOffice.org, that free software solution that helps you manage all sorts of documents.

And apparently a mouse designed specifically for OpenOffice.org requires a lot of unpleasant buttons in order to work properly. The mouse features 18 buttons and an analog joystick which will offer you support for up to 52 key commands. The OpenOfficeMouse is meant to help you deal with OpenOffice programs a lot more efficiently than before.

The OpenOfficeMouse comes with default profiles for five core OpenOffice.org applications which can be customized in order to meet your various needs. Besides support for OpenOffice.org the mouse comes with support for 20 other games and applications. The mouse comes with a memory ready to store 63 profiles which means that you can truly customize it in any way you see fit.

Here’s a full list of specs of the OpenOfficeMouse which could convince you that getting one is not such a bad idea:

• 18 programmable mouse buttons with double-click functionality
• Three different button modes: Key, Keypress, and Macro
• Analog Xbox 360-style joystick with optional 4, 8, and 16-key command modes
• Clickable scroll wheel
• 512k of flash memory
• 63 on-mouse application profiles with hardware, software, and autoswitching capability
• 1024-character macro support.
• Open source support software for creating, managing, and customizing application profiles
• Import and export of custom profiles in XML format
• Optional audio notification of profile switching with customizable wave files
• PDF export of profile button assignments
• Adjustable resolution from 400 to 1,600 CPI
• Default profiles for Writer, Calc, Impress, Base, and Draw based on actual usage statistics compiled for OpenOffice.org 3.1
• 20 default profiles for popular games and applications, including Adobe Photoshop, the Gnu Image Manipulation Program, World of Warcraft, and the Call of Duty series.

What do you say? Are you ready to move past the looks of the OpenOfficeMouse and love its personality? The mouse will come with support for Windows, Linux and Mac and will cost you $74.99.