Mouse. It’s a mini-mouse! I forget the actual marketing name, but it’s a smaller mouse, possibly supposed to be ergonomically friendly.

Obsolescence factor: In one sense, anything tethered to a cable has this status.  Also, it’s broken.

There’s a dash of Canadian history woven into the history of the mouse I was pleased to discover. The trackball, invented in 1952 (un-patented because it was a military hush hush thing)  used a standard Canadian five-pin bowling ball.  Nine years later, Douglas Englebart and his assistant independently came up with the first mouse prototype and christened the device a mouse.  Mr. Englebart is now 87 years old.

From the Mousesite Gallery > http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/gallery/index.html

Status: Open up for parts to sea monster, who dammit, is getting impatient.

Kill-ratio: 16:2 / 8:1

Alt-title: Untitled Object No. 277 For Navigating New Territory.