This gaming mouse has a striking skeletonized design and hot-swap batteries

The AM Infinity Mouse has a skeletonized magnesium-alloy ammunition that weighs conscionable 49 grams, making it 1 of the lightest full-size mice connected the market. Within its hollowed-out, ace lightweight achromatic chassis is simply a magnetic artillery that tin beryllium popped retired and swapped successful seconds. A spare is kept charged and astatine the fresh connected the mouse’s 2.4GHz receiver. This functionality gives the rodent its name, arsenic Angry Miao claims hot-swapping equals “infinite” battery. Just for illustration really my fridge has infinite crystal cubes, obviously.

The Infinity Mouse’s much accepted features see an 8,000Hz polling complaint for minimal input latency, moreover pinch high-refresh monitors. Its PixArt PAW3950 optical sensor is tin of 30,000 DPI truthful you tin make the rodent arsenic ridiculously delicate arsenic you want. And its caller TTC Orange Dot Optical V2 micro switches person a bully tactile click, delicate capable to confidently registry erstwhile pressing anyplace connected the near and correct rodent buttons (even up adjacent the mouse’s center). Its guardant and backmost buttons connected the near broadside are see-through bluish successful this pre-production model, but Angry Miao says they’ll beryllium achromatic connected last units expected to vessel successful June.

In summation to the 2.4GHz connectivity enabled done its RGB-illuminated dongle / artillery charger, the rodent besides supports Bluetooth and wired USB-C. (In wired mode without a battery, it’s conscionable 39 grams). Angry Miao claims that erstwhile utilizing 8,000Hz polling complete 2.4GHz wireless you tin get up to 17 hours of continuous usage earlier having to switch its 340mAh battery. That’s ample clip for it to recharge connected the receiver. And if you bump the rodent down to 1,000Hz the estimated artillery life extends to 43 hours.

I expect the astir polarizing aspects of the AM Infinity Mouse to beryllium the aesthetics and the ergonomics of its unfastened design. The unfastened look whitethorn not beryllium to everyone’s liking, particularly if you don’t want to woody pinch particulate buildup connected your mouse’s circuitry. While plentifulness of different mice person had cutouts for the liking of weight savings, they’re usually overmuch much blimpish honeycomb patterns. The Infinity Mouse leaves conscionable the bare-minimum of metal. Angry Miao claims it pursued this creation upon inspiration from the Lotus Evanora conception and late-1970s Lotus Type 79 F1 car, and it does look for illustration a mini sampling of automotive creation connected your desk.

But for illustration a title car, the Infinity Mouse and its monolithic cutouts whitethorn not comfortably accommodate everyone. My mean hands consciousness perfectly good gripping the Infinity Mouse, but nary of my fingers aliases thenar touch points autumn straight connected an edge. If you person mini hands and remainder your thenar harder connected the guidelines of your mouse, you whitethorn consciousness otherwise astir this one’s comfort.

I emotion this thing. Like Angry Miao’s keyboards, it’s a striking creation portion to person connected your desk. But dissimilar its boutique mechs, the Infinity Mouse is priced overmuch much logically. I’m nary esports competitor, but I’ve utilized my stock of value gaming mice from the likes of Logitech, Razer, and SteelSeries — and I regularly usage an older Logitech G Pro Wireless.

The Infinity Mouse has awesome tactile click sounds, it feels snappy and solid, and its movements connected a table mat are bully and smooth. It makes my 80g Logitech consciousness a small hefty by comparison, and its swappable batteries are a treat. I ne'er person to interest astir pulling a cablegram retired to clutter up my table while the rodent charges.

I cognize you tin free yourself of rodent charging woes pinch thing for illustration a Logitech G Powerplay (of which my rodent is really compatible). But that Qi-based charging pad unsocial costs complete $100 and still requires a cablegram stretching crossed your desk. The Infinity Mouse’s receiver tin conscionable discreetly bent retired astatine the perimeter of your table (even much truthful if you move disconnected its RGB lights) and person your caller complaint fresh for you successful a snap. A rodent that uses AA aliases AAA batteries is arguably conscionable arsenic hot-swappable arsenic the Infinity Mouse and costs as small arsenic $30. But immoderate aged rodent for illustration that is not going to look this cool aliases consciousness this smooth. And dealing pinch disposable batteries is simply a wasteful nuisance that I personally, powerfully dislike.

There’s a batch of trading hype astir high-performance mice being tuned for esports-level capacity and giving you a competitory edge. The reality is, astir group are not capable to return afloat advantage of a rodent aliases different peripheral to make overmuch of a quality successful their KDR aliases really often they onshore the dub. But let’s beryllium honest, it’s nosy to dress our devices alteration america to execute our best, moreover erstwhile we cognize it’s overkill. The Infinity Mouse has those fancy specs for illustration a batch of different mice retired there, but it’s besides sewage a genuinely unsocial creation and immoderate useful functionality benefits.

Photography by Antonio G. Di Benedetto