Set Logitech mouse laser on stun

The MX610 Laser Cordless Mouse feels a little dangerous in a normal office environment. It's supposed to sit there, harmless, on your mouse pad and be used for all that pedestrian pointing and clicking that office drones do for a living. It's got a nifty two-tone black and silver design, and for the old one-two buttons it has a modesly innovative approach -- what we like to call binary silver side flaps.

And yet -- there's something about the way the risky little thing fits into your hand that makes you want to pick it up and point it at people like the savage high-tech weapon it clearly wants to be. It's not just that it's dripping with dangerous add-on functions, like a mute button, volume control and hot keys that you can set to jump to your email or your Instant Messenger client. There's a laser in there and you can't help rubbing it low against the side of your thigh, like a space marine fingering the safety on his low-slung automatic light pistol, and slowly moving the cursor on screen, as if by magic...

It worked first time when we plugged it into our PC, but we loaded the Logitech software so we could customise some of the smart buttons and it was all pretty easy -- although for some reason it insisted that we load Microsoft's Media Player even when we tried everything we could to uncheck the relevant box. But that's okay. If we see the offending software, we're pretty sure we know how to deal with it. We'll just shoot it with our MX610 Laser Cordless mouse. Now all we need is a cool silver holster. -MP