Mad Catz Eclipse Wireless Touchmouse [Eclipse Bluetooth Mouse with Gesture Control Trackpad]

What with Mike having already brought you news concerning the Mad Catz Cyborg R.A.T. Mouse we follow up with another distinctive mouse from Mad Catz, known as the Mad Catz Eclipse Wireless Touchmouse, which comes with integrated optical trackpad (instead of the more traditional scroll wheel) that responds to gestures based commands.

Already being compared to Apple’s Magic mouse (much in the same way that any half reasonable touchscreen phone bares inevitable comparison with the iPhone) the Bluetooth Mad Catz Eclipse Wireless Touchmouse aside from allowing you to scroll in any of four directions with a swipe of your finger across the optical trackpad can also purportedly be programmed to recognise a series of user gestures to trigger definable actions (though we have, at this stage, limited knowledge as to the specific capabilities of this particular feature such as the number of commands that can be programmed and the scope of gestures that the mouse can recognise).

Powered by a single AA battery (alas the mouse is not rechargeable in its own right) the Mad Catz Eclipse Wireless Touchmouse, which will happily play ball with Windows 7, Vista and XP, is set to retail for around the $60 price point but we are, at this stage, unable to advise as to a date of availability.

You may also find this posting of interest: Mad Catz Eclipse Wireless Litetouch Keyboard [Eclipse Keyboard with Touchpanel Keypad & Integrated Trackball]