I didn’t expect a mouse to be the perfect companion to using one of the best drawing tablets. In fact, I’ve not had one on my kit list for almost a decade. I use a laptop, work across touchscreens and stylus displays, and long ago left behind the clutter of external peripherals. But then I saw Melt Mouse, a curious slab of aluminium and glass from Tokyo-based Diver-X, and suddenly the idea of returning to a mouse doesn’t seem so absurd.
Diver-X is best known for ContactGlove, a haptic VR controller that lets you feel virtual objects. Now the team’s trying something far more subtle; it's bringing that same tactile precision to a desktop tool I thought had faded out of fashion, unless you're a die-hard PC gamer.
