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This $180 gaming mouse blows air on your hand
Pulsar’s $180 Feinmann FO1 gaming mouse includes a Noctua 40mm fan that blows air onto the user’s hand through its shell.
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Noctua has teamed up with gaming-mouse maker Pulsar on the Feinmann FO1, a $180 wireless mouse with an unusual feature: an integrated fan aimed at cooling the user’s hand.
Noctua is best known for its quiet brown cooling fans for CPUs, GPUs, radiators, and PC cases. The Feinmann FO1 uses the company’s smallest fan, the angled 40mm NF-A4x10, to push air through the mouse’s speed holes and onto the player’s hand. The mouse itself does not require active cooling.
Pulsar Feinmann FO1 specifications
Beyond its cooling system, the mouse follows the high-end gaming peripheral formula, with:
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- A standard shooter layout with two thumb buttons
- A “carbon composite” body and aluminum alloy scroll wheel
- Optical switches
- 42,000 DPI sensitivity
- An 8,000Hz polling rate
- A weight of 70 grams
The mouse does not have dedicated DPI or polling-rate buttons. Those controls are instead built into the wireless receiver.
Users can turn the fan on or off with a combination of button presses and scroll-wheel input, without installing additional software. The mouse is available through Pulsar’s website for $180, putting it at a substantial premium over many of the company’s other designs—though that pricing is consistent with Noctua-branded collaborations.
Michael Crider is a 15-year veteran of technology journalism. He covers everything from Apple to ZTE and is PCWorld’s resident keyboard specialist, with previous bylines at Android Police, Digital Trends, Wired, Lifehacker, and How-To Geek.
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