Mice skitter off in new directions.

The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune NewsService) | August 28, 2003 | Copyright

Byline: Crayton Harrison

The mouse has become mighty.

Once a commonplace little gray nub, essential for computing but utterly interchangeable, the mouse has taken new forms.

Mouse makers figure that if computer users must have the device on their desktops, they might as well use it for more than moving cursors around. So manufacturers are adding new functions to mice _ some improving on the original model and some combining features from other peripherals.

That means shopping for a mouse isn't the simple exercise it used to be. Sure, a ...

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