What Happens When a Keypad Has Unprotected Sex with an Optical Mouse

It's late at night, after the wild Christmas party at the office. The hot, but rather tipsy keypad approaches the company's hunky optical mouse and with a soft whisper, asks: "Come on, you hunk of a peripheral, won't you push my buttons?". A steamy, Titanic-like scene follows, and 9 months later....the Adesso 19 Key USB Numeric Keypad and Optical Mouse comes into this world.

I do believe that the two main functions carried out by this hybrid device are pretty straightforward, but we'll go through them one more time. Thus, first of all, this cross-gadget incorporates an 1000-dpi optical mouse, fitted with a big scrolling wheel, which can prove to be quite useful when it comes to surfing the Internet and scrolling down web pages.

The device also incorporates a keypad with 19 keys, which is "hidden" in plain sight under a flip top transparent cover, thus providing efficient and convenient access to the numeric keys. Furthermore, the hybrid's non-synchronization keys allow the owner to use the keypad and the normal keyboard as separate units (although I'm not exactly sure who would need two keypads).

The Adesso 19 Key USB Numeric Keypad and Optical Mouse is designed to be used especially on the road, and this is the reason why it's not particularly bulky, measuring just around 12.07 cm x 5.71 cm x 3.81 cm, at a weight of around 226 grams (actually, this is the package weight, so you'll probably have to subtract a few grams or ounces in order to obtain the device's actually weight).

The device connects to a host computer via an USB 2.0 interface (1.5-meter cable), works with the Windows Vista/XP/2000/ME/98 operating system and retails for around 25 US dollars, which isn't that bad a price for this result of an unholy union.

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