I've had enough of this mouse! So it was born

An office mouse moved back and forth up to 422 miles (about 679 kilometers) before it broke. It is hard to imagine that people working in the computer all over the world are bearing this point, but they have never had any opinion. Yes, you should yell, "I've had enough!" And I must shout right.

Some people now say that with the Flow we invented, we can reduce the distance the mouse moves. What kind of hardware is it? Officially, it is a "customizable and easy-to-use wireless controller" that can improve people's efficiency in using computers.

In Medium's article, Flow's development team explained the difficulties it encountered when using tools on a computer. In terms of PhotoShop, for designers, the usual work is full of fine adjustments of 1 pixel and 2 pixels, and it takes time and effort to adjust with the mouse. If designers find that their work is dealing with these tedious details 80% of the time, rather than really trying to be creative...

The Flow development team feels that there must be a new tool that must have several features:

· It must be able to simulate functions such as "sliding", and it can also control different actions and shortcuts.

It must be able to use all senses and capabilities;

· It must work with our common tools;

It must be portable

· It must be beautiful and cool;

· It must be non-intrusive and not disgusting to us when we are friends;

· It must feel good, so you can use it all the time;

· It must be produced locally;

It must be durable;

It must feel natural.

So, Flow is such a device, the appearance is a cylinder, the surrounding metal casing can be twisted, can sense gestures, connected to other devices through Bluetooth (BLE), in theory, computers, tablets, mobile phones can be. It is a device that is more Mac OS X because it is compatible with Apple Script.

In the official video demonstration, you can see that designers can use it to adjust the color parameters and change the size of the pointer in real time. In this way, designers do not have to repeatedly adjust the size of the pointer, making many repetitions and wasting time. To some extent, if it is used with a computer, you can think of it as a tool for the mouse - such as when you quickly call up the menu and adjust some settings on the fly, you can use Flow to call (help) and then Use the mouse or Flow to adjust.

All in all, the essence of Flow is to reduce repetitive operations.

Another advantage of Flow is that it is compact and lightweight. It has a diameter of 70 mm and a height of 15 mm. It can easily be put in the pocket and the backpack is even better.

The Flow team has great ambitions. They think that smart hardware other than mobile phones, tablets, and desktop computers can also be controlled by Flow. This possibility certainly exists, but it requires a lot of third-party support.