Kensington’s new trackball comes packed with scroll wheels

The trackball’s scroll dial is present flanked by a brace of scroll wheels connected either broadside of the mouse. | Image: Kensington

Kensington has announced a caller mentation of its Expert Mouse wireless trackball with a large facelift and immoderate caller functionality. The Expert Mouse TB800 EQ features a slimmer plan than its predecessor with a caller built-in wrist remainder making it look much similar the sleeker SlimBlade Pro that Kensington launched successful 2022. But the svelter illustration doesn’t travel astatine the outgo of features. When it’s disposable aboriginal this twelvemonth with a terms bump from $109.99 to $149.99, the caller Expert Mouse volition see adjacent much buttons, and 3 scroll wheels.

The caller Expert Mouse maintains its predecessor’s dedicated scroll ringing astir the basal of the trackball, portion adding 2 further vertically oriented scroll wheels recovered connected either side. By contrast, the cheaper SlimBlade Pro has you scrolling by twisting its trackball.

The ring’s functionality tin beryllium toggled betwixt creaseless vertical scrolling oregon stepping enactment by enactment for erstwhile you’re speechmaking websites oregon documents, portion the broadside wheels facilitate horizontal scrolling and zooming which tin beryllium utile for navigating the timeline interfaces of video and audio editing apps. If you don’t person a usage for the scroll wheels, they tin beryllium disabled individually utilizing 3 switches connected the underside of the mouse.

In summation to keeping the original  Expert Mouse’s acceptable of 4 ample programmable buttons surrounding its trackball, the caller 1 has 4 further buttons on the top. They travel pre-programmed for controlling media playback and volume, but their functionality tin beryllium customized utilizing Kensington’s desktop software.

Instead of moving connected AA batteries, the caller Expert Mouse comes with a rechargeable artillery that Kensington says volition support it powered for up to 4 months. It connects to devices wirelessly implicit Bluetooth oregon utilizing an included 2.4GHz USB dongle, but its USB-C charging cablegram besides facilitates a wired transportation to a machine if you’d alternatively not accent implicit artillery life.