Mouse pads are one thing. Glass mouse pads? Other. At least that’s what I’m guessing based on promotional material for the Razer Atlas, Razer’s first glass mouse pad. “Absolute functionality and durability,” Razer website proclaim. “Experience pure, polished precision,” the press release demands of me.
THE $99.99 Tempered Glass Atlas 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 as I understand it, is that you can drag a mouse over it very, very quickly.
It’s not like I have a problem with the speeds offered by any piece of foam that’s currently on my desk. But I keep looking at this thing, and I feel like hovering a mouse over it must be heaven. This is perhaps the closest thing to dragging a mouse through the air. It might be like using a mouse on ice, but ice isn’t cold? I’m not sure, but I need to find out as soon as possible.
The main issue I can think of is sweat. Sorry, folks, but I’ll talk about it. It looks like it could get very gross very quickly if you sweat while blowing people up. Surveillance. (Is that a thing? I don’t really play Surveillance.) Even if you’re wearing long sleeves, I suspect the occasional bump of a wet little finger against the surface of this thing could leave an unseemly constellation of smudges.
Now my preliminary research revealed that there is game specific sleevesthat cover your arms and fingers, which you can buy to combat this problem. I’m not sure I could play any of them for an extended period of time without feeling like a member of the Blue Man Group or something, but each to their own.
Oh, unless someone wants to buy me this pair of sleeves with what I think is a rabid panda on them. I will play VI civil in them all day. With the glass mouse pad.
