Did You Know: There Is Now a Computer Mouse With a 3.1-Inch Touchscreen Under Your Palm, and You Can Swipe-Type on It

NEW YORK - Did you know there is now a computer mouse with a touchscreen where the back of the shell should be, and that you can type on it by swiping your finger across a tiny keyboard? The Super Mouse, from a company called Arctic Fox Technologies, puts a 3.1-inch color LCD with 720 by 720 pixels directly under your palm. It went up on Kickstarter on Oct. 27, and by Wednesday morning it had drawn $22,629 from 104 backers against a $5,000 goal.

Most attempts to add a screen to a mouse have treated it as a side panel. The Verge points to Turtle Beach’s Command Series MC7, which has a narrow 2.25-inch display along one flank. Arctic Fox went the other way. The front of the Super Mouse looks ordinary, with left and right buttons, a scroll wheel and two small programmable buttons the company calls Hyper Keys. Behind them, where your palm would normally rest, sits the screen.

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What that glass shows depends on what you are doing. In its default Control Panel view it holds up to 16 shortcuts, macros or app launchers, and the layout changes with the program in front of you. Open Adobe Premiere and the screen fills with editing and playback controls, The Verge reports. Switch the surface into trackpad mode and it handles multi-touch gestures. Switch it again and it becomes a small keyboard with swipe typing, the same way many people already type on their phones. Notebookcheck adds that the screen gives haptic feedback when you press it, and that it also carries a clipboard, a calculator and sliders for volume and screen brightness.

The screen is not the only unusual part. The Super Mouse has microphones for dictation, and The Verge reports that the speech-to-text is processed on the mouse itself rather than sent to a cloud service. It has a gyroscope, so tilting or rotating it can advance a slideshow, scrub through video or move around a large spreadsheet. It can show Google Calendar events and reminders, and Arctic Fox’s product page says the calendar connects through Google’s standard sign-in and that events are not stored on the company’s servers. All of it is set up through a companion program called Flow, for Windows and macOS.

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Here is the catch most buyers will notice first. There is no battery inside, so there is no wireless mode. The mouse runs entirely off a USB-C cable to your computer. Arctic Fox’s spec sheet gives it a power rating of 5 volts at 2 amps, which works out to 10 watts. That is the same figure printed on many basic phone chargers, and four times the 500 milliamps the USB 2.0 standard lets a device draw from an ordinary port. Arctic Fox has not said how much power the mouse actually uses in daily work.

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The body is boxy rather than sculpted. Arctic Fox lists it at 109 by 91 by 29 millimeters, and the company’s own pages disagree slightly on the weight, giving 95 grams in one place and 103 grams in another. It comes in three colors, Divine Yellow, Cloud White and Drone Gray, and carries the model number AFSM2601.

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Backers can pledge $199 for one unit, against a planned retail price of $249, with delivery estimated for February 2027. The campaign is all or nothing and runs until Dec. 8. Arctic Fox told PetaPixel that it has been testing prototypes for more than a year. As with any crowdfunded gadget, a pledge is a bet on a product that does not ship yet, and that date can slip. What has already been settled is the demand question: plenty of people, it turns out, want to touch the part of the mouse they have only ever rested on.