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Pulsar’s $180 mouse puts a Noctua fan on your hand
Pulsar and Noctua built a $180 gaming mouse with a 40mm fan that blows air through its shell to cool your hand while you play.
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Noctua has teamed up with Pulsar on one of the stranger gaming peripherals in recent memory: the Feinmann FO1, a $180 wireless gaming mouse with a built-in 40mm fan aimed at your hand.
According to PCWorld, the fan isn’t there to cool the mouse itself. It uses Noctua’s NF-A4x10 — the smallest fan in the company’s lineup — mounted at an angle to blow air through the mouse’s perforated shell, or “speed holes,” to keep the user’s hand cooler during play.
Beyond the fan, the hardware reads like a high-end modern gaming mouse. PCWorld says it has a standard shooter-style layout with two thumb buttons, a carbon composite body, an aluminum alloy wheel, optical switches, 42,000 DPI, 8,000Hz polling rate, and a weight of 70 grams.
It does not include dedicated DPI and polling-rate buttons on the mouse itself, but those controls are built into the wireless receiver.
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One unusual touch: the fan can be turned on or off manually using a combination of button presses and the scroll wheel, with no extra software required. That kind of novelty comes at a price. At $180 on Pulsar’s site, the Feinmann FO1 sits well above most of the company’s other mouse designs, in line with the premium often attached to Noctua collaborations.
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