Asus Continues Fragrant Device Trend With an Aromatic Mouse 34
Asus has introduced the Fragrance Mouse, a hybrid wireless mouse that features a removable container for fragrance oils. Despite not being a gaming mouse, it includes premium features like PTFE pads, low-noise clicks rated for up to 10 million presses, and three fixed DPI settings (1200, 1600, 2400). Tom's Hardware reports: The selling point of the new mouse is its fragrance-producing capabilities. Under the mouse (right behind the AA battery housing) is a small semi-translucent container designed to house oils that give the mouse a pleasing aroma. There's no limit to what scents can be used; the container can be washed and refilled with different scents. Last year, the peripheral maker debuted an aroma-dispensing laptop that featured a fragrance dispenser at the center of the lid.
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Hey fellas, is it gay to smell good?
This sounds less like a product for the young gay guy crowd (which are likely to be "what's a computer?" gen Zers at this point) and more for the Reddit neckbeard demographic, to ineffectively cover up the smell of unwashed laundry, stale pizza, Doritos, old Mountain Dew cans and B.O.
See related article on scents causing air pollutio (Score:4, Insightful)
How long until it gets recalled.. related story (Scented Products Cause Indoor Air Pollution On Par With Car Exhaust)
https://m.slashdot.org/story/4... [slashdot.org]
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Nevermind air pollution, these artificial fragrances they put on everything from trash bags to hand soap cause cancer. They're packed with phthalates and benzophenone...
A mouse that rolls coal? (Score:4, Insightful)
Wasn't there just an article the other day about how all this scented crap results in indoor air quality that's as bad as the exhaust from a car (ICE, obviously)?
I don't need no stinkin' mouses.
as bad as the exhaust from a car (ICE, obviously)? (Score:2)
In TFS it calls it a hybrid, so I guess it runs on electricity and gasoline.
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In TFS it calls it a hybrid, so I guess it runs on electricity and gasoline.
Now that actually sounds handy, sometimes I can never find a spare AA.
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You know what's great about that story? Rich people cars have scent dispensers built into them. Most of them are European, so the scents are probably not all that toxic (they have a long list of chemicals including scents which you're not allowed to use which we permit) but imagine getting one that comes from a country where we have very low standards [ewg.org] for what we will allow in the way of scented products.
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You know what's great about that story? Rich people cars have scent dispensers built into them.
To dispense scents inside or outside of the car? It's not something I'd ever spend money on, but I'd certainly find it hilarious to "fart" on a tailgater.
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Inside, to make the car smell like a vegas bathroom I guess. I haven't smelled any of these things, only seen them in shows.
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A mouse that rolls coal?
That's a common misconception. This is ring of mice connected by single and double bonds.
Just wondering... (Score:5, Funny)
Are you wondering just what is the fragrance of a mouse's butthole? Thanks to Asus you can soon find out.
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Right, so an association like this is not implausible: "fragrant mouse -> musk rat -> musk gland -> butthole"
Like any reasonable person, I googled. Apparently musk is used as a fixative in perfumes--the same role as phthalates. (Note that the phthalate that's predominantly used in scents is not considered a health risk, so stop worrying about it [1].) A fixative is an agent that pulls down the combined vapor pressure of a mixture. Consider how neat ethanol will quickly evaporate--you will smell it
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tldr: Musk is a butthole
The gotcha (Score:5, Funny)
scratch and sniff (Score:2)
You know what this gets you? Cancer. Almost certainly.
They need to stop putting fragrances in... everything.
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Raises hand ... (Score:2)
So... users will then have to deal with diffused "fragrant oils" settling over their desk, keyboard, mouse pad, monitor, etc ... and getting sucked into the PC chassis?
Yuk.
What? (Score:3)
Why?
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Why?
Because it's the mouse your man could smell like!
I foresee new harassment complaints (Score:2)
After a bad breakup, I'm betting people will put this aroma chamber to some interesting uses...
Undercover.... (Score:2)
"The smell of sex
The smell of suicide
All these things I just can't keep inside" [of my mouse!]
But why... (Score:1)
At least if it smelled like little mousey cheese farts it'd be funny. Gross, but funny. Kind of.
That's no mouse (Score:2)
That, sir, is a skunk.
Since when are PTFE pads "premium"? (Score:2)
Seriously, ever mouse I ever had uses them, except one actual "premium" mouse that used glazed ceramics (only works with cloth pads, but has extreme durability).
Opens up a whole new field of retaliation (Score:2)
So clicking on a bad link... (Score:2)
It's not a new thing (Score:2)
For example there was the "Petticoat 5". Which dispensed peppermint air freshener whenever you pressed the S key. That already came out in the 1980s.