Mouse pads are a thing. Crystal mouse pads? very other. This, at least, is what I’m assuming based on promotional materials for the Razer Atlas, Razer’s first glass mouse pad. “Absolute functionality and durability,” razer website proclamation. “Experience pure, polished precision,” the press release demands of me.
He $99.99 Atlas tempered glass It has a non-slip rubber base, is available in black or white, and is 0.19 inches (five millimeters) thick. But the main idea behind a glass mouse pad, or so I think, is that you can slide your mouse across it very, very fast.
Not that I have a problem with the speeds offered by whatever piece of foam is currently on my desk. But I keep looking at this thing, and I feel like sliding a mouse across it must be paradise. It might be the closest you can get to sliding a mouse through the air. Maybe it’s like using a mouse on ice, but isn’t ice cold? I’m not sure, but I need to find out as soon as possible.
The main problem I can think of is sweat. Sorry, folks, but I’m going to bring it up. This looks like it could get very gross very quickly if you’re breaking a sweat while punching people in Supervision. (Is that a thing? I don’t really play Supervision.) Even if you’re wearing long sleeves, I suppose the occasional swipe of a wet pinky against the surface of this thing could leave an unseemly constellation of smudges.
Now, my preliminary investigation has revealed that there are gaming specific sleevesthat cover your arm and fingers, which you can buy to combat this problem. I’m not sure I could play one of these for an extended period of time without feeling like a member of the Blue Man Group or something, but to each for their own.
Oh, unless someone wants to buy me this pair of sleeves with what I think is a angry panda in them. I’ll play civilization VI in these all day. With the crystal mouse pad.
