Sony VAIO Mouse Talk VOIP Phone
Every major consumer electronics company has a division churning out easy-picking gadgets like mice and keyboards. But Sony even felt the need to innovate your basic desktop accessories. The Sony VAIO Mouse Talk VOIP Phone looked like a well-designed mouse (with questionable ergonomics) that would match a Sony Vaio desktop computer or laptop, but it was hiding a functional surprise.
It could be opened like an old clamshell cell phone revealing an old-school telephone form factor, complete with a speaker on one end and microphone on the other. As you’ve probably guessed, the mouse could be used to make VoIP calls through services like Skype, but with one tragic flaw. Unless you had a trackpad to fall back on, plugged in a second mouse, or were a Jedi when it came to keyboard shortcuts, during your phone call you couldn’t navigate Windows at all, making Mouse Talk problematic for business calls.
