Today, computers are a lot more advanced than the were ten or even five years ago. One of the simplest but most convenient developments has been that of the wireless laptop mouse. This form of mouse embodies the direction that personal computing has gone in the past few years.

Early computers had no mouse at all, but were completely controlled via keyboard commands. In these times, computers were something that only researchers, scientists, and government agencies (such as NASA) used.

But since then, they have become widely available for public use, and now, almost every hoe in the United States has a computer (or several!) for family members to use. Whether for games, email and communication, or any number of other activity, computers are now hugely reliant on the mouse for commands.

The next big shift was the advent of laptops. Computers went from being in the home to being even more personal when people began carrying them around wherever they went. Laptops let us work in coffee shops, airplanes, and on trains with ease.

And here is where the wireless laptop mouse comes in. Most laptops are controlled via keyboard commands, or by a built in “track pad,” which lets users control the cursor by sliding their finger across a touch-sensitive surface. But users used to the speed and agility of the mouse (not to mention the easy clicking of mouse buttons, located right under their fingers at all times) often find the track pad slow, awkward, and difficult to control with any precision.

The wireless laptop mouse gives laptop users the agility and precision of a standard mouse. But by being wireless, it’s extra keyboard friendly. Technically, you could carry around a USB mouse everywhere you take your laptop, but they take up so much space, and the extra wire is cumbersome and difficult to store in the laptop.

But by contrast, the wireless laptop mouse, and the similar mini-mouse, give all the control that the track pad doesn’t, in a way that easily communicates with your laptop. So whether you rest this mouse on a book, or even the seat next to you, it gives you all the function of your home computer, but all the mobility that a laptop is intended to provide.