You've seen the films "The Last of the Mohicans" and "The Last Samurai", well this is "The Last Three-Button Mouse" ... not a film, but a soon-to-be extinct pointing device, in fact the last of its kind: a real three button mouse.

For those who think I've gone mad, that mouse you're using right now, that you were told is a three-button mouse ... it isn't, despite what the manufacturers keep saying. It's called a scroll-wheel mouse, where the scroll-wheel also functions as a button. It also functions as a pain in the neck when you're using the middle-button to "jump" in a game, but the scroll-wheel sends you flying off the edge of a cliff instead. It's also a pain in the neck when you're trying to paste text (middle-click to paste is standard in UNIX and Linux, for example), but instead the scroll wheel moves and you end up selecting half the document, thus losing the contents of the clipboard that you were about to paste.

Scroll wheels are an abomination that was forced upon mankind without so much as a do-you-mind, and should be eradicated from planet Earth forever. Did any mouse manufacturer ever actually ask anyone if they really wanted scroll-wheel mice in the first place? Did they ever ask anyone if it'd be OK to make real three button mice extinct? When was that vote taken, exactly?

Anyway, here it is: the last ever proper mouse. It works in modern computers, because it's got a USB connection. And because it's hard-wired it means the battery won't run out - as it doesn't have one, and there's no infrared/bluetooth signal to lose, causing endless frustration as your mouse keeps sticking, because it doesn't have one of those either. It also uses a laser tracker (optical), which means it's smooth and accurate, even on surfaces that "ball" mice tend to stick on, and of course there's no ball to clog up with fluff and need cleaning twenty times a day. It's made by HP, which means it isn't junk. It's black, which means it's cool, because black is the new black (again). And last but definitely not least, it has three buttons ... three REAL buttons, just like a REAL mouse is supposed to have. A middle button that actually works like a middle button is supposed to, and not like a mental torture device.

When they're gone they're gone ... forever, so get yours now, and pray it lasts you the rest of your life.