Gyrotransport Air-mouse

List Price: $159.23 Discount Price: $45.95

Features:

• Pointing Device Connectivity Technology: Wireless
• Pointing Device Wireless Technology: Radio Frequency
• Movement Detection: Gyroscopic
• Number of Buttons: 2 x Total
• Interfaces/Ports: 1 x Type A USB (Receiver)

Customer Reviews:

Major Problem never address by repeated emails and calls to support... [Posted on 2007-06-26]
I run a group inside my company supporting presentation that are captured.

We have major problems using the .5gig gyrotransport mouse pointers. All of they Gyrotransport pointers (four) have been purchased from Amazon.com.



We currently have six of the older style media center gyration pointers and wanted to replace them with the simpler designed mouse. Our current media center pointers work 80% of the time, but these have an issue with the pointer trigger button getting "stuck" sometimes. When the gyrotransport came out, this is exactly what I would have spec 5 years ago. The media center pointer works great but it has "too many move parts" for my application of just having a mouse pointer/page turner. BTW, the reason we use this device is so our online captures of presentation also capture the cursor movement pointing a graphs, etc.



Gyrotransport Problems

In general, the pointer works pretty well if one person is using the device and they get it initially working and they are using it constantly.



Problem 1:

If the pointer is set down for a minute or so, the pointer movement can stop responding, even though the left/right mouse buttons continue to operate.



Setting it down and doing a re-calibration on the pointer fixes this problem 50% of the time. (set on table, press pointer twice, wait 10 seconds). Sometime turning from off to one works better. Sometime you have the pull the USB receiver.



Problem 2:

When you go from one presenter to another, it's like the person's individual body capacity make the unit wacky. This happens most of the time. It really makes the unit unusable if you have 2-3 presenters during a 1 hour presentation. It's just too distracting trying to get the device to respond properly. We have given up trying to use it with this scenario.



Problem 3. Gyration should know that most people use PowerPoint. The mouse cursor become invisible after a few seconds automatically unless you go in and set it to be visible all the time, which is a real pain. For whatever reason, when the mouse become invisible, this cause a lot of problem for presenters as the pointer doesn't like to "wake-up" and re-appear. This issue needs to be addressed as it has been a problem for at least 5 years. They should supply an resident memory app the keeps the pointer visible all the time.

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