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Old Apr 1, 2006 | 7:49 am
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Originally Posted by redburgundy
I thought that a wireless mouse uses infra-red, not RF (RF defined to be 9 kHz to 1000 GHz).

Infra-red is line-of-sight or scatter/refelection based - not very effective in this application - I'm not aware of any mice that use IR, they're all RF/bluetooth.

My MS Laptop Mouse automatically turns off when the USB receiver is placed back in its holder on the bottom side of the mouse - saves battery life and makes it hard to lose.
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