It’s time to give away a MoGo Mouse- who wants it?
The folks at Newton replaced my defective MoGo Mouse but since I already had bought an HP branded one the replacement is sitting in its brand new box. We want to give it away to a lucky jkOnTheRun reader so listen up to what you need to do. Think long and hard about how having a flat wireless mouse will affect your life and tell us in a comment. Be creative and whimsical and eloquent in your comment and try and move us to sling the MoGo in your direction. We’ll keep the contest open for two days after which we’ll close the comment thread and Kevin and I will select the entrant that we feel is the best. Not one of those "randomly selected" winners, no we will blatantly select the one we feel is the coolest entry that moves us. The MoGo is a $60 mouse so it’s worth a little bit of work so pull out your old creative writing textbook(s) and get cracking. Get your MoGo on and may the best writer win. Our decision will be final no matter how much grousing you do or how much you disagree with us. It’s our site after all. Note this contest is not open to employees of jkOnTheRun nor their families.
CONTEST IS CLOSED- WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY.
You should give me the Mogo mouse because I work for a mobile software company!
I’m a ‘product associate’ for Ilium Software (makers of eWallet, ListPro, Keep Track, NewsBreak, DockWare Pro) and I do both technical support and software testing. As part of that, I use a laptop for much testing, and I get completely sick of using the trackpad. It even stops working some of the time, I think as the laptop heats up… moving your finger across it will make the pointer move only one direction, or it wobbles around. There’s nothing more frustrating than needing to try something while on the phone with a customer and finding that your mouse pointer is wibbling around instead of going where you want.
Dearest James and Kevin
I feel that I should be the recipient of this mouse marvel. The reasons for this are many and varied but in summary I have a problem with my nipples that could be resolved by having this mouse. Basically my nipple causes phantom movements which I cannot control and this mouse would help resolve this problem.
I think I prefer the term trackpoint…
I require this MoGo mouse to feed to a rather large, flat cat that I recently inherited. If you’d be kind enough to send it to me it would make my wife very happy, because it would give her a break from flattening herrings with a rolling pin.
MoGo, OQO.
Need I say more? . . . Yeah, probably.
While the MoGo has one major failing when it comes to being my OQO’s mistress (it’s not glossy black), still it’s slim figure needs to be mated to a buff UMPC. None of these behemoths with their seven inch girth. But, on the other hand, setting her up with a wimpy MID or smart phone would be doing her a disservice. She needs her perfect mate, my OQO.
First Brangelina, now MOQO.
The MoGo would add some “techmojo” when I’m pbOnTheGo.
My girlfriend’s chest is flat. This mouse will remind me of her all day long!
I’m happy without a mouse, but would like the winner to write a brief review after two or three months of use. MOQO has a nice marketing appeal.
My pcmcia slot is empty and door broken and is collecting dust…I need to put something in to keep the dirt away.
wow this would be a great solution in addition for a mouse that small enough for my small hand, all my wrist and finger sore will go away, 2-in-1 for me!
My Logitech Bluetooth mouse causes an unsightly bulge in my pants pocket when I wander around with my P1610. Also, the little Tablet (name of Tattoo) would feel lonely without a little buddy nestled in its PC Card pouch. Wait, you’re giving away the PC Card version, right, not the Express Card ???
My submission, with humble apologies to Mr. Robert Frost, a poetic genius and American treasure. I call it “Stopping by JK on the Run on a Snowy Morning”
Who’s mouse this is i already know,
but now he seeks to let it go.
I’ll toss my hat into the ring
and try to win his new MoGo.
And if I win, I’m gonna freak,
I’ll have a mouse that’s thin and sleek
I’ll be the envy of my pals
and earn the rank of “uber-Geek”.
My wife and kids will shout “Good Lord”,
“You have a mouse without a cord!”,
“if you keep it in the PC card slot”,
“you’ll never lose it, rest assured!”
And if I win, don’t be contrite,
I’ll cherish it, both day and night,
and do my best to plug your site,
and do my best to plug your site.
A flat mouse might make me look thinner. Or was it the other way around?
I promise I won’t get it thrown away in a pile of newspapers and magazines.
I plan on relocating to a two-dimensional plane, and this would work well where I’m going.
Lastly, this would go well with the PCMCIA-to-PCI adapter for my desktop, though my wife would probably be screaming at me asking why I’m hiding the mouse in the back of the computer.
There’s no need to worry that I will break it, since I broke so many portable mouses before cause of my textbooks and other stuff. The MoGo mouse is so flat, I wouldn’t have those kind of problems. In fact, it is so thin I can even hide it in my cleavage and carry with me all around.
I really could use this mouse. I can’t use a track pad for more than 5 minutes without hand pain. Therefore I always need to carry a usb mouse. The MoGo will be easier to carry and can fit in my card slot. I don’t have any humorous comments, I could just use it.
Twas a dark and stormy night. Lightning flashed, crashed. The tablet’s screen glowed. New posts from Houston, Philly. “Free mini-flat-mouse !”. It was hope! It was the final device. At last, the mobile outpost could be complete. We could forge out on missions with full gear. Clicking anywhere, anytime. Impressing people at the local Buzz4Less. But no. Akkkkkk! I’ve checked every nook and cranny, every manual. This otherwisewonderfulthooutdated Tosh R15 HAS NO BLUETOOTH! Perhaps I could just use it anyway, faking mouse clicks, impressing fellow coffeeslurpers with the utter coolness of my “flatmouse”. No. It wouldn’t be right. Dang.
It hides the mouse
PCMCIA conceals it on the sides
Mogo is in the house
Send it my way, i can’t do bribes
if you decide so
only if you want to
the mogo will no longer be lonely
MoGo Mouse is for the go person.
A go person is either too busy to always carry around a smallish mouse or too lazy enough to even remember to carry one along with his/her laptop.
The weight of a mouse is not a big deal, but the size does matter for a go person.
Even an inch of bulk inside the laptop bag is a big annoyance in their own perspective, and this includes me in this “silly” group. ;-D
So with MoGo Mouse which simply plugged in at laptop’s expansion slot, will not only charged it while not in use; but also prepares it to be always ready whenever I grab the laptop and go.
from Hoo-Chuan Tan
to mogo@jkontherun.com
date Mar 12, 2007 2:00 PM
subject MoGo Mouse
Dear James and Kevin,
It has been brought to our attention that you have acquired evidence that could help us prove theories put forward by The Flat Mouse Society.
For several years now, we at The Flat Mouse Society have been trying to convince people that mice are flat, not round. Large manufacturing companies like Microsoft and Logitech would have you believe that mice are indeed round, but this is all a part of a greater corporate conspiracy. After all, round mice would require round mousepads and round hands. Those companies are using their lobbying powers to convince the governments of the world to supress the growing body of evidence that mice are indeed flat.
The truth must come out eventually, and we think that with artifacts like those in your posession, the Flat Mouse Society may be able to help convince people that round mice are a fallacy and that flat mice on flat mousepads (all the way down) are the only way to work with computers.
Sincerely,
Hoo-Chuan Tan
Flat Mouse Society
A mouse is a mouse is a mouse,
unless that mouse is a MoGo mouse,….
hmmmmm…..
well, that’s about as far as I’m willing to go with that,
more creative people will surely have more to say in that direction.
I thought it was too bad when the first one you got was giving you problems; but I guess it will turn out good for one of your readers.
Thanks for sharing your toys!
I’m stuck home for 6 weeks after back surgery. I’m allowed to use my laptop … but must remain sedentary.
This mouse will allow me to use it on the couch, or any other surface I’m sitting next to.
FYI, I’m a Hardware Validation Engineer and this would be useful to test with various motherboards.
Oh .. and JKOnTheRun ROCKS!
I need someone to help me,
(I fear it’s really so,)
I carry too much stuff
To be a mobile pro.
My Tablet , she is Bluetooth,
I’m pleased to say it’s true,
But my mouse’s days together
With her are far and few.
Where, oh where,
Is my mouse today?
Did I leave you home alone?
Or did the cat take you to play?
I searched my bag over
And still haven’t found you,
When trackpads don’t like me,
What’s a girl to do?
Now I’ve looked high
And I’ve looked low,
Inside and outside,
Over every rainbow.
In every pocket,
Each nook and small cranny,
Did I leave it at Starbucks?
Or was it at Granny’s?
I hang my head to visit
All the mobile blogs,
Not to have this technology,
It’s just so very wrong.
James and Kevin are so helpful,
Thanks so very much!
(‘Specially to replace my mouse,
So I don’t spend a bunch!)
But where, oh where,
Is my mouse today?
Did I leave you home alone?
Or did I sell you on EBay?
I searched my bag over,
And joyously found you,
But your battery is empty,
So, pfffft, on you!
Darn t I’m now a Waterfield bag owner thanks to this blog, just picked up a wonderful tablet PC, but thankfully by posting this might not have to buy a Mogo mouse and might get it free!
I think the MoGo mouse would be the perfect companion for my Toshiba Libretto U105. Not only does it have a PCMCIA slot to keep it warm and safe, but it has Bluetooth to communicate to it and reassure its flat mouse-hood. Besides Toshiba only gave me one replacement “nub” for the nipple controller and it is soon to be rubbed away like the first one.
For all I know the world is flat so why not have a flat mouse.
I always KNEW that ALL PEOPLE are MADE EQUAL.. Were all Mankind were created equally – Fair and Square … All ages of All Sexes…
The MALE MICE – For they have their BALLS…
The FEMAIL MICE – For they have their HOLES – And PERIODs as well (you know the red thing that comes out from the Hole – RED LIGHT SENSOR ehhhehehehe)…
And now the MICE for THIRD SEX…
The MOGO MICE – Their BALLS WERE REMOVED AND FLATTENED.. hehehehe
I need that MOGO MOUSE and will give as gift to my MOGO FRIEND…. hehehehehe
The MoGo will remind me every day of my OmniBook, with its cute, flat, attached mouse…
She will remind me of days gone by, of the subnotebooks and PDAs of yore, of what at the time was a young industry, and a still younger me….
And she will reassure me that though mobile computing and I may change, we will stay the same as well, and there will always be new options and new life for us both.
I want a MoGo mouse so the next time I step on my mouse I don’t hear a horrible crunching noise
I’m surrounded by it. I feel trapped. I have tried everything to be free of it. I can’t let it win but it’s strong. I have strived again and again to picture in my mind’s eye a way of setting myself free and being rid of it, but I have failed. Oh God, why can’t I beat it and reclaim my sense of self worth and my freedom?
Why does it haunt me? I have asked myself that question many times. It’s greedy for me and hungrily feasts on at me. I hate myself. I feel such an intense self loathing that I don’t know how to go on. I must fight it.
I fall to my knees supporting the great weight that entraps my frame and feeds off my life-blood. With my last gust of energy, I scream:
“Make me thin again!”
As I collapse and sink into oblivion, my last thought is:
“Mogo”.
My Kojo needs a MoGo
Without it I can’t GoGo
I’m just too blimin SloSlo
So please give me the MoGo
Or else my life will BloBlo!
I am trying hard to decide which UMPC/Tablet to upgrade to next and since the P1620 is the only one with a PCMCIA slot then if you give me this MoGo I’ll have to get the P1620.
My grandmother passed away recently when she lit up a cig in my home datacenter and inadvertently triggered the Halon release. Unfortunately I was in the middle of setting up my new home automation system, and didn’t have the wireless network configured. So when the alarms went off, the electronic door locks engaged and we had no way to release them from outside of the room. I don’t keep a mouse attached to the server because I’m fine with keyboard navigation, but of course granny’s arthritis makes it hard for her to hit key combinations. I grabbed the mouse from my messenger bag, but unfortunately it was too big to fit through the gap under the door. We lost granny that day.
The MoGo mouse could have saved my grandmother’s life. I only have one grandmother left. It’s your call, but I think you know the right thing to do.
I have no poetry skills, no high paying job that requires this mouse, or a blog with readership dying to hear about the Mogo. I am nothing more but a humble college student.
Being a college student, I have fallen victim to the worst stereotypes which befalls most college students… the fact that we have no spare money. Yes, as much as I would love to go run out to Amazon and purchase the Mogo Mouse, I would much rather eat (at one of the ridiculously overpriced on campus dinning halls.)
The Mogo mouse would be perfect for me because I recently saved up all my money, and purchased a new computer. And by “new”, I mean a 4 year old HP TC1100 Tablet PC. Even with it’s age, the TC1100 is an amazing machine. However, HP did not see fit to install any usable alternate inputs beyond the pen. If I want to use the machine in landscape mode, I’m stuck using the little cursor nipple located between the g, h, and b keys.
This little mouse cursor is driving me crazy, so always having a bluetooth optical mouse with me would be a godsend. Anyways, I hope you consider my entry, thanks for your time.
–Stu
Cancel my entry and give it to Stu.
Ok… I’m curious. Lots of nice entries. Who won?
Give me this mouse and I will SPARE YOUR TECH SAVVY LIVES onces I’ve achieved WORLD DOMINATION. If not, I will curse this device with a SWELLING BATTERY DISEASE, impregnating it with LITHIUM and IONS, and as the embryo of my doings develops, the oh-so-slim mouse will have swollen innards wreaking HAVOC on the expresscard slot it once snugly fit into. With each charge, my army of electrons will MULTIPLY WITHIN, causing intense fever and possibly premature liquidation of ingested energy.
Heed my warning, provide me with the tool I require to achieve mobile domination; or prepare to face the wrath of HE WHO HAS NO MOGO.
This is in no way a death threat but more like a warning from the surgeon general, but is not intended as medical advice and should not be considered so. Failure to comply with this warning may have severe health consequences.