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The world’ first truely deformable mouse, providing an unprecedented experience
About this project
Tmouse is first truly deformable mouse in the world that offers you two kinds of grip method by the means of deforming. You can stretch your palm to use the mouse as usual, or roll your palm like clenching your fist in a natural way to use it, which will make you feel more comfortable, interesting and beautiful. Tmouse will change your clicking style, absolutely a new experience for the mouse users.
How Tmouse transfor
Moving the slider forward and backward, we can convert two grip methods easily
Is it a TRANSFORMER? Of course not...it is a deformable mouse that provide you two methods of griping.
Why Tmouse
You may feel tired every day. Keeping the same posture or doing the same action for a long time will make people get fatigued, noting that even if this pose made you feel very comfortable at that time, like you sit for a long time or you want to stand up for a while, the same problem will occur to us all when we use the mouse. When you use some mouses designed with the ergonomic concept, at the beginning you will feel very comfortable while holding it in your hand, however, you will become tired over time, even have the feelings that a kind of fatigue replace another one, which means you are never free from the real fatigue. In other words we still need to change postures constantly to relieve fatigue.
A suitable mouse should make you comfortable when you hold it in your hand, which is convenient to control when you move fast. Also, this well-positioned mouse will not exhaust your energy after operated for a long time. That will be greater if it is good-looking and interesting.
We are trying our best to ease Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
How people talk about Tmouse
We invited 4 passers to have their simple experience on Tmouse, they are individually a student from Thailand, an office lady from Mongolia, a beat maker from Hongkong and a professional gamer from Singapore. Let's check what they think of Tmouse.
One mouse with two grip methods: Practice, comfortable and interesting
Before transformation
After transformation
The mouse we designed has two kinds of grip methods. One is an ordinary grip method, it is very widespread, practice and efficient. However, it is not the one with most natural posture, because the index, middle and ring finger are not patulous at that time, and the muscles of hand are always in a tense state (see figures below)
The other grip method is to roll your hand, which is a very natural posture, and it will make you feel indefatigability after a long time. Once you adapt this grip method, your efficiency will be improved. Shifting two kinds of postures will greatly lessen your fatigue when you use the mouse, you can have one more choice to avoid becoming mouse hand (see figure below):
If you are using mouse now, you can rotate your mouse to 90 degrees and then clasp it, or you can hold something like tubes, soon you will feel how comfortable this grip method is shown as below:
Unprecedented experience in shooting games
Our mouse offers you an operation posture like pulling the trigger. If you are a fan of video games, we are very pleased that you can experience it personally. Of course it is an unprecedented experience for you, that is awesome. Ordinary mouse keys usually are clicked down hard, you can't experience the gun-play intensively. For ensuring your game quality, we will select the popular photoelectricity sensor used by mainstream game mouse.
Convenient touch bar
We put the touch bar in the front of middle finger, so we can easily slide our middle fingers forward and backward, thus it is unnecessary for us to raise our fingers like we use the ordinary mouses do and rotate the wheel in an unnatural posture. If you want to surf on the Internet, the wheel sometimes is used more frequent than the left mouse button.
Ergonomic side buttons
We design two side buttons on the left side of mouse. We have not put them together, but we set aside some distance between them so as to avoid your wrong operation.
Positioning accurately
Of course, this is a very important thing, especially when you make engineering drawing or play video games. In order to pursue better hand feeling, people usually make the mouse very big, these big mouses in standstill state will make you feel very comfortable. However, big mouse let your hand lie on the mouse rather than put it in your hand. However, the faster you move, the worse the accurate positioning. Putting the mouse in your hand will be easier to control than letting your hand lie on the mouse. Tmouse's design will make you grip the mouse in all sides, which will ensure that you position accurately, thereby lessening your fatigue.
Tmouse development
In order to prove our idea and achieve the expected effect, we try a lot of tentative test and come up with many solutions. During the process, we constantly improve the mouse, the following pictures just display the part of protopyping, 3d figure and mock-up.
(prototyping)
（updated 3D models）
(MOCK-UP)
（PCBA of the Tmouse）
(Final Tmouse)
Our team
Timeline
Why kickstarter
To make our idea come true and let thousands mouse users have one more choice, we spend many months to develop this mouse, making the shape of mouse more beautiful and fitful to the ergonomics, improving the product's reliability, also, we have made the engineering sample. In the following several months, we hope to achieve mass production, thus we need mould develop, order production tooling and coordinate with electronic components suppliers so as to guarantee the smooth advance of the project. We have to raise money, need your support and your feedback will help us to improve the product continuously.
Choose your style.
- 2.4Ghz Wireless----Rechargeable，suitable for office work and surfing the Internet.
- Wired---Specially designed for the game, the function of the mouse button can set by yourself through software
Wireless Tmouse with Bluetooth 4.0
Specifications
Dimensions of the prototype
- Li-Ion Rechargeable batteries built in (Model 14500: 3.6v 1000 mAh) - charged by USB（ the type of 2.4Ghz Wireless）
- Teflon feet on the bottom
- DPI 2.4Ghz Wireless:up to 2400,
Wired:up to 3200
- Application: Desktop,Laptop, Tablet etc.
Disclaimer: Final product specifications are subject to changes during production optimization.
Rewards
We provide $64 special reward to personalize your own Tmouse style, like the picture below.
Stretch Goal is Right Here!
After the many messages we received about adding more colors we did our research and we agree.. it would be pretty cool! This being the case, we added a Step-by-step Stretch Goal for Tmouse which makes it so much easier to accommodate the laptop or desktop computers, place with Macbook, surface pro etc.
The colors will be maintained in mystery, each color will be unlocked in different levels funding amount. As always, we are here to hear your advises of stretch goal, please let us know what colors you like, we may add your favorite ones to the stretch goal.
Shipping to the globe
Risks and challenges
Tmouse, from the concept, design, standard figure to the final prototype completed is a constant improving development process. We own experienced designers and engineers, and it is enough to deal with the various problems in the product design develop process.
But in the mass production, we meet some unpredictable problems like mould manufacture and suppliers' cooperation. And we know the most important part in this process is to fulfill our commitments, we will work hard to assure that you can share the extraordinary experience Tmouse brings to you on time rather than postpone it, your support will let us have enough confidence to accomplish it
Learn about accountability on KickstarterFAQ
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The maximum USB polling rate should be 500HZ for the wired one, and 250HZ fixed for the wireless. You can change your mouse setting on the computer setting by yourself for the wired one.
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We have to say sorry to the left-handed mouse users, it's too high of cost for us to explore or design another left-handed mouse at the moment. But we didn't forget to market to people with disabilities as well, we know there are a lot of medical reasons for people to get severely tightened fingers that can't be stretched out, we should consider left-handed Tmouse in our second campaign.