Many people doubt it’s real, especially as the images of it are renderings, but along with the protestations on the blog, there is other circumstantial proof that, even if it doesn’t end up as a shipping product, there seems to be an actual prototype.

The press release talks about a launch at the OpenOffice conference. There was indeed a session about the mouse, and if you suspect that even the conference was faked, there are (a very few) pictures. Then there’s the discussion of the mouse on the OpenOffice.org mailing lists. Perhaps this is enough to convince the true sceptic, but for me, it’s enough: someone really wants to ship this.

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