WarMouse Meta: "The King of All Computer Mice" Ships And It Isn't Just for Games.

Online, July 8, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Oxford, England, July 28, 2010 - WarMouse today announced that its much-anticipated multi-button laser joystick mouse is now shipping. With a patented design featuring 18 buttons, an analog joystick, and a 5600-CPI laser sensor, the Meta has been well received by gamers and commercial software developers alike. Containing twice as much memory as the original Macintosh, the WarMouse® Meta holds 3,072 commands in 64 mouse modes, allowing the mouse to completely change its functionality on the fly according to the active application.

Hands-on reviews of the mouse from various technology sites have been uniformly positive:

"WarMouse has given the concept of the mouse a whole new meaning."
- Techzine
"There's no doubt that the $79.99 Meta with its 512K of memory is the most advanced mouse we've ever seen - each of its 18 buttons along with their double-click functions can be configured for different applications, and its analog joystick can be customized to perform eight different commands.... The WarMouse Meta goes where no mouse has gone before."
- Engadget
"The King of All Computer Mice.... If there is one mouse that beats them all, then it sure is the WarMouse Meta."
- Trends Updates
"Mouse technology has reached a peak with the Warmouse Meta."
- Trendhunter

The Meta is one of the first computer mice to incorporate a digital/analog joystick into its design and is the first mouse to permit the use of the joystick as a keyboard interface. In the three digital joystick settings, the user can assign up to sixteen different key functions to the joystick in each of the 64 mouse modes. In the analog joystick settings, the use can select between having up to seven joystick buttons available or using all 18 buttons as keyboard and/or mouse commands instead. In addition to providing an easy means of creating and customizing mouse modes, the Meta Modeware software records the user's button clicks and stores the statistics by application, allowing players to perform postgame analysis of their multiplayer matches and more efficiently arrange their button assignments.

"The WarMouse Meta isn't just an awesome mouse for gamers, but for game designers too," said Chris Taylor, the designer of Total Annihilation, the Strategy Game of the Decade, and CEO of Gas Powered Games. "Being able to data mine game actions through the Meta takes gaming mouse technology to a whole new level."

Unlike most gaming mice, the multi-button utility of the WarMouse Meta is not limited to games despite its high-end specifications.. The award-winning science fiction writer John Scalzi, known for his mad photo-imaging skills as well as his predilection for slaughtering the digital undead, declared the Meta is "Equally at home fine-tuning pictures in Photoshop or fighting the slavering zombie hordes. Because I do both. Although usually not at the same time." Dr. Murray Reicher, M.D., the CEO of DR Systems, was one of the first adopters of the new mouse interface and said: "This new input device has great potential in healthcare, particularly in the field of medical imaging. I'm looking forward to introducing it to our physician and technologist customers."
The features of the WarMouse Meta include:

* 18 programmable mouse buttons with double-click functionality.
* High-resolution laser sensor with adjustable resolution ranging from 100 to 5,600 DPI/CPI.
* Six assignable button modes: Key, Keypress, Macro, Mouse, Special, and Mouse-Key Combo.
* Analog Xbox 360-style joystick with six analog and digital joystick modes.
* Clickable and command-assignable scroll wheel.
* 512k of flash memory holding up to 3,072 application commands in 64 modes.
* 1.85 meter USB cable and coated rubber top.
* Meta Modeware for the creation, management, and customization of game and application modes.
* Import and export of custom modes in XML format.
* Taskbar notification of active application mode and audio notification with custom wave files.
* PDF export of application modes.
* Graphical pop-up map of current button assignments.
* Statistical tracking of all mouse button clicks and application command clicks by application.
* 64 default modes for popular games and applications, including Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel, OpenOffice.org Writer, Calc, and Impress, 3D Studio Max, Autodesk AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Reader, the Gnu Image Manipulation Program, World of Warcraft, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

THE WARMOUSE META
Because WarMouse is a supporter of Open Source Software, the Meta Modeware software has been released under the Lesser Gnu Public License version 3. For more detailed information about the WarMouse Meta, visit http://www.warmouse.com. The WarMouse Meta is now available for $79.99 / €69.99 / £59.99 for Windows-based operating systems. Full Linux and OSX support is expected in Q3 2010.

Contact:
Theodore Beale
Lead Designer
theo@warmouse.com
UK/EU: +44 1865 600 979
USA: ( 415) 513-0979