Laser Gaming Mouse - Mionix Naos 5000 Review

The mouse trumps dual analog, joystick, touch screen, and any other type of peripheral in terms of precision. In online games, most importantly first-person shooters, the precision of a mouse plays a huge role in determining the outcome of the game. A mouse should be able to easily glide across a mousepad and lay dead-on an enemy player's head. The majority of optical mice with sub-par DPI have trouble with this factor, effectively making them useless for any serious gamer. In this review, we take a look at the Mionix Naos 5000.

Mice are rarely sought-after upgrades. Gamers buy new video cards and CPUs, and often forget about the single most important item to increase their performance in-game: a mouse. The Naos 5000 shows that a mouse is able to change a gamers performance entirely.

The Mionix Naos 5000 looks like any standard gaming mouse. An entire rubber exterior coats the body, which provides grip so your hand doesn't slip. The ergonomic design allows endless hours of gaming to be had without cramps or muscle aches.

The Naos 5000 comes included with 8 weights, each weighing 5 grams each. This allows an extra 40 grams of weight to be added. For FPS gamers, no weights are needed, as the mouse is required to glide easily across the mousepad. However, in other genres such as RTS, it may do well to add on some extra weights to prevent the mouse from overshooting your target.

This is a very solid mouse. Instead of focusing on adding brand new features as many other mice are doing at this time, the Naos 5000 goes back to the basics and aims to provide the absolute best basic functionality you can possibly have. A superb ergonomic design, many customizable features such as the LEDs lights, as well as a powerful software backend make this mouse a great gaming tool.

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Colin is one of the staff members at DigiTwo. He writes reviews, articles and tutorials on a regular basis.

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History of Outdoor Laser Tag

"Lazer Tag" was a product created in 1986 by Worlds of Wonder. Don Kingsborough, the WoW founder, built on his success in the mid 1980s with Teddy Ruxpin, a story reading bear.

Playing outdoors with this Lazer Tag equipment, players shot sensors worn by other players to "tag" them. If you're tagged a certain number of times, you're out.

The Worlds of Wonder Lazer Tag equipment uses a 57.6 kHz carrier frequency modulated with a 1.8 kHz signal.

Worlds of Wonder ceased production of its Lazer Tag equipment when it went out of business in 1988.

But the invention spawned a thriving hobby market for second-hand guns. The hobbyists were teens and adults keen to use the gear for live action role plays (known as LARPs). These LARPs often simulated military training exercises, such as patrolling, reconnaissance, or capture a base.

And, the term "laser tag" remained to be used to describe many games of the same kind.

Ten years later, Tiger Electronics licensed the Lazer Tag brand and began producing its own Lazer Tag equipment. Tiger Toys, picked up the license to use the Lazer Tag logo and produce Lazer Tag guns. Unfortunately these new guns were not backwardly compatible.

Other companies started producing tag systems as well. For instance, ToyMax's Laser Challenge line, Playmates/Sega Lock-On, and Tomy's Electronic Survivor Shot, etc.

These, however, these mass produced products were designed for use by children rather than for gamers. A variety of commercial outdoor laser tag manufacturers, such as Battlefield Sports and Pulse Ranger, sprung up in the late 1990s. Since then there have been several copy-cats that have come and gone.

This new breed of laser skirmish equipment focused on providing equipment to suit running LARPs for team building activities or running scenarios like a live video game.

So whether you are old enough to remember the original toy or simply must have the latest innovation, outdoor lasertag is a lot of fun.

Further details and photographs can be obtained via Nicole Lander, Marketing Commanding Officer (+1) 323 205 4335 or nicole@battlefieldsports.com

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