Microsoft Blue Track Says Goodbye to Laser

Although Microsoft is not breathing a single word in relation to an event it has cooking for September 9, 2008, under the slogan “Say Goodbye to Laser,” leaks from its partners are managing to paint a more complete picture. As it has been speculated, the new technology, which will be unveiled in the second week of the coming month, has been incorporated in a mouse. The Microsoft Blue Track mouse, featured in the adjacent images, reportedly sports a LED in combination with wide angle lenses, instead of a laser diode. In this context, despite the attempt to build anticipation with consumers, the Blue Track mouse is by no means reinventing the wheel.

Online retail outlets Amazon.de and YouGame (via Engadget) acted as sources for the leaked information, but all details for Blue Track have been since then removed from both websites. Microsoft has not commented officially on the info made public, but neither has it provided any additional details about the mouse, technology or the event scheduled for early September. The sole official source, Microsoft Hardware, does provide a few clues as to what’s in stores for consumers via a Flash teaser posted on its official homepage.

“Coming soon. Meet the next big thing… Think about all the places you use your computer today: the airport, your living room, working outside on the deck, your kitchen… Meet the technology that will go anywhere you go. Microsoft brings you the world’s most advanced…,” is the message offered by the company.

Touted as the world’s most advanced mouse, Microsoft Blue Track is a very small, wireless device designed as a notebook accessory. Apparently, the biggest plus of the upcoming product is the fact that the new Blue Track technology will permit it to adapt to a wider area of surfaces than the now traditional optical and laser mice.