First saw something like this on The Screen Savers . Thier tech wiz Yoshi whipped up a few for the show using plain old MS mice and some vid-card cooling fans. One even had LEDs that blinked with the spinning of the fan. Always wondered when a commercial version would be produced.

Edited by author 07-17-2003 03:27 PM
The motors in axial fans aren't as affected by backpressure, so even if you blocked all the vents with tape the motor wouldn't really have much of a load on it with a stalled fan. You could seal up a box fan with plexiglass and it would run for much of its normal life.

Hand dryers use centrifugal blowers which actually compress the air and would load with a high static pressure, but the mouse fan is axial.

Did you ever cup your hands over the hand drier in the toilets and listen to the motor strain? Leave your hands there too long, and that sucker's going to have a hand drier hernia and pop it's cogs.

I reckon that my palm resting over the vent on this mouse is going to do the same thing eventually.

It isn't a Japanese mouse, it's Korean. And it only works with Windows (which is too bad as I know at least three Mac artists who would like this). Hard to find details on the web as there appears to be a Korean adult animated film produced by the same company. But you can get that for 10,000 units of Korean cash. (I don't understand any asian languages, I just like Babelfish).

I want, almost need, this. My palms and the soles of my feet get unbearably hot. I sleep with a fan pointed directly at my soles. Anyone read Japanese to tell me how much it costs and how to order it?