I attend a community college and I always use the computers. Every time I touch the mouse I feel all dirty inside, it's not a pleasent experience at all. As soon as I get home I immediatly wash the heck outta my hands. (You should see how black the water is after I'm done washing.) I might buy this mouse just for this reason.

...perfect for getting your money! Something tells me we'll see this on late night infomercials with graphs that say things like "Thanks to space age technology and modern SCIENCE this mouse can keep you healthy and CURE DISEASE!" side-by-side with pictures of giggling babies. Then they'll show you a logitech wireless mouse and the doom-and-gloom music will start, thunder will rumble in the background, and they'll say "OTHER mice can harbor disease and infection causing GERMS that make you sick and can harm you and your family!" "nanocoating?" "nanoparticles?" "prevent or DEACTIVATE bacteria?" with "99 percent efficiency?" Oh for crying out loud, come on.

Jack Bauer, what kind of community college do you go to that after you wash your hands from using the public computer, the water is black? Maybe you need to move on outta Rodeo college and into a real college.

Phoenix, its always good to question. This claim is not necessarily phoney. "Nanoparticles" is a fancy word for "extremely fine powder". There is no controversy about silver's ability to kill or suppress microbial replication. The problem is to make silver practical -- to work in very small quantities so the original product looks/feels the same, etc. Technology that attempts to do this is sold by a company north of Boston, MA. Some 3rd party testing is favorable. How well it works in particular cases, including this mouse, can only be determined by experiment. Regarding titanium dioxide, it can act as a catalyst in the presence of ultraviolet light. (The light does not seem to be mentioned in the story; they may be assuming fluorescent room lights would be prevalent.)

Great idea, but... Places where computers are frequently used by many people need WIRED mice, not wireless to prevent stealing. Making this mouse wireless kind of defeats the point.

AWESOME STUFFF???!!!!! I dont know if i can post a link to the website here so i won't. Just browse to the official product website and check out the disclaimer. ITS AMONG THE MOST HILARIOUS THINGS TO READ EVER!!!!!!!

It brings you to the page with the disclaimer; that is rather amusing!

Come on... "inhibit a wide range of antibodies, viruses and algae". You have got to be kidding me. What on earth do they think antibodies are, and why do they think they are hanging out on our mice in need of destruction. And algae... ALGAE! Are we using the mouse underwater? Seriously, this sounds like meaningless marketing drivel run through a bad chinglish translation. And for those of you freaked out about germs on your mouse, try looking up how many microorganisms live on your skin and how dangerous the ones in your nose are -- that should REALLY freak you out.

Since I support a hospital's IT needs, and have to use them everywhere, especially the ER rooms, I can see the point. Butdon't think they would work longer than 30 minutes. I figure that it takes a day for a standard mouse to disappear. Someting trick won't last as long.

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Sorry, anti-bacterial wipes are a lot cheaper and can go with you everywhere, even to the library.

Re: Anti-bacterial wipes. True, they're cheaper, but you look more freakish carrying around the little packets with wipes than a mouse. Re: Needs to be wired and not wireless. Carry your own mouser, just don't leave it behind! Hell, I thought I was bad about being freaked out about bacteria, but I guess this mouse goes to show there's always a bigger freak out there. Still, I guess that the company is selling peace of mind to those of us in the "way-out-there" department.

If you are monkish thats the ticket, less disinfectant to spray ( stuff is flamable anyway !) also other people get really paranoid. maybe I should print this and sen it to the boss, we might sell em like hotcakes. cha ching !

I hope that is a different version than the Motorola(Nextel) I870 phone I have. It too has this fancy coating. Reading the manual says this protects the phone and not the user? Since when does a phone care about a virus? Ohh..second thought forget the user, lets worry about the phone.

This is great for all immunosuppressed people such as transplant recipients. I would buy one (or two)!

NOTHING is germ free. Germs/bacteria don't live in our world, we live in theirs. The idea of achieving a germ-free environment is and always will be flawed. It is exposure to germs/bacteria that improve our immune system. The more you live in a germ-free environment the more vulnerable you make yourself to germs. So let's put the sanitizer away, leave this mouse in it's package on the shelf, wash our hands and move on.

I attend a community college and I always use the computers. Every time I touch the mouse I feel all dirty inside, it's not a pleasent experience at all. As soon as I get home I immediatly wash the heck outta my hands. (You should see how black the water is after I'm done washing.) I might buy this mouse just for this reason.

You know with 2.5 percent of americans having OCD, I am sure that many of them would love to have a mouse they can take with them if they have to use a public computer, or if they just want a mouse they know will be clean (that is supposing they have a compulsion or task associated with dirty/bacteria/wtfever things)