Razer never could Accused of implicit branding. From swinging, RGB-backlit keyboards, laptops and mice to flashy, light-embellished face masks, the gaming hardware company has infused the entire movement with a sense of awe-inspiring sophistication.
Enter Razer’s newest mouse, the Viper Mini Signature Edition. By Razer’s standards, it’s somewhat subdued by the tasteful aesthetics you see on industrial-metal album covers. The rear of the pointer carriage is a triangular and trapezoidal open web made of lightweight magnesium alloy. It currently comes in one color option, which is solid black.
This little gothic thunderbolt looks like it would fit perfectly on the desks of Bond villains and German kinetic sculptors everywhere if they’re willing to pay for it: the mouse costs $280.
Although Viper Mini has a bright appearance, it is actually very small. The magnesium body makes it lighter than other Razer mice. It reportedly weighs around 49 grams (1.7 ounces), which is certainly lighter than Razer’s other beef tenderloins. It connects to your computer via Bluetooth, and the company says the mouse gets 60 hours of battery life.
Razer will accept orders for the Viper Mini mouse on February 11th and should ship shortly thereafter. But then again it’s $280.
Here’s some other consumer tech news for this week.
Twitter twists some arms
Twitter, as you may have noticed, is struggling to make money now that its mercurial new superintendent’s ambitions have scared away many of the site’s advertisers.
In an effort to keep the lights on, Twitter is looking to take some money out of its increasingly dysfunctional platform and turn its formerly free features into a paid service. Twitter says it’s rolling out basic access to its API. Behind the pay wall On February 9. Short for Application Programming Interface, an API is a set of tools that software developers use to access platform data. It is important to build services on Twitter. This means that third-party accounts or services that rely on the platform’s free support tools to automate posts on their feeds will be forced to either pay a monthly fee or bypass the API and post manually.
Twitter currently offers developers Free and paid levels. The company has yet to say how much access to the API will cost once the free tiers are gone.
This may not seem like a big deal to casual users, but it can be a huge headache for accounts that provide unofficial user services. example, Thread reader app It uses Twitter’s API to organize long threads into one readable post on demand. It responds to thousands of user queries per day in seconds. It is almost impossible to do something like this with manual posting.
Twitter and Elon Musk are denying the move, saying it will prevent fraudsters from abusing the platform’s API. The thing is, scammers, all of their money is bilking people out of their money, maybe even handing over some of their stolen money just for fun. Unfortunately, popular and mostly good bot accounts like Thread Reader or remind you Stop scrolling judgment They are less likely to last, and many have suggested that they will be shut down when API restrictions apply.
