Just read a post over on Wonderland that competitive gamer Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel has helped develop a new computer mouse. I did a quick google and found a review over on Amped. From the article (Link):

During my visit to the Cyberathlete Winter Championships 2005 this weekend, I attended a party thrown by Jonathan ‘Fatal1ty’ Wendel in which he had on display a “99.9% complete” prototype of the newest piece to grace his hardware line, the Fatal1ty 1010 gaming mouse. Designed by Fatal1ty, Inc. and manufactured at Creative, this black mamba not only looks like a futuristic device but plays the part with a slew of features, and lights. Initially available at Newegg for $49 with a projected date of January 15th, the Fatal1ty 1010 is the first gaming mouse built from scratch from the ground up with a professional gamer’s input.

To be honest, this sounds like a nice product. More importantly to me however is that between a virtual explosion in celebrity design and efforts like those by Lego (see this Link) to turn consumers into product designers (of a sort), the time will soon be on hand for a consumer 3D printer; or at least a prosumer machine. There’s some recent news (via Desktop Engineering) of new blood entering the 3D printer market (Link), but where’s the old guard? Where’s HP?

This is csven’s growing impatience.

Oh well, I’ll be needing a new mouse soon. I might have to give this one a spin.