When it comes to environmental protection, technology companies are still very concerned. For example, the iPhone phones listed in the past two years no longer come with chargers, and the upcoming realme GT2 series announced that it will use new environmentally friendly materials. Maybe there is less publicity in normal times, but in fact, Microsoft has invested a lot of energy in environmental protection.
Everyone should still have the impression that at the autumn conference held a few months ago, Microsoft updated a series of Surface devices and launched a very topical mouse - Microsoft Marine Environmental Protection Mouse. As the product name describes, it doesn't emphasize how strong the hardware is, but instead focuses on environmental protection.
The environmental protection of Microsoft Marine Eco Mouse is reflected from the outside to the inside. Let's start with the outer packaging box, and when you get your hands on it, you will find that its outer packaging box does not use any plastic material, but is made of wood and natural sugarcane fiber. Although it feels less ritualistic when unpacking, this environmentally friendly packaging box design is indeed meaningful for reducing the use of plastic materials.
The environmental protection logic of the outer packaging box is to reduce the application of plastic materials as much as possible to prevent damage to the environment, and the mouse part emphasizes waste reuse. Microsoft's approach is to clean process plastics recycled from the ocean and then process them into reusable plastic resin particles. According to officials, each marine eco-friendly mouse shell uses 20% recycled plastic.
In a more understandable way, every Microsoft Marine Eco Mouse consumes almost half the plastic produced by a 450 ml mineral water bottle. Just imagine, if this solution can be promoted in more categories of products in the future, it will be very helpful to solve the environmental pollution problem caused by the difficult degradation of plastics.
Back to the product itself. The first impression of Microsoft Marine Eco Mouse is very similar to "soap", the overall shape is relatively rounded, there are many dot-like particles on the surface, and the actual feel is not much different from conventional plastic. In addition, the roller, foot pad, Microsoft logo are all made of blue paint symbolizing environmental protection, and the left side of the mouse has also deliberately added a logo similar to a water droplet.
The mouse itself is very small, the weight control is also good, counting the battery is only about 84 grams, whether it is out to carry or daily use is very convenient. From the accompanying picture, we should also find that the left and right parts of the Microsoft Marine Environmental Protection Mouse fuselage are symmetrical design, which belongs to a left and right hand universal mouse, and uses an ergonomic design to provide a good grip.
However, in the process of use, we found that although Microsoft intentionally made a certain inclination angle on the left and right sides of the mouse, because the whole is a hard material, sometimes there will still be a situation of not being so followed. To my surprise, its wheel damping tuning is much better than many products of the same price segment, providing more accurate feedback when turning, making it easy to browse the web.
Other aspects are not much different from the conventional wireless Bluetooth mouse, support Bluetooth 5.0 connection, using a No. 5 battery for power supply, the official said that the maximum endurance can reach 12 months. However, it is still that sentence, the actual endurance performance and everyone's use habits have a lot to do with it, and everyone is good as a reference.
From the perspective of use, Microsoft Marine Environmental Protection Mouse belongs to a decent product, with a small body and convenient connectivity, which is enough to meet daily learning and office use. But the environmental protection concept embodied in it is not available in many other similar products. Spending 199 yuan on this mouse, I think it is more of an "attitude", and everyone is responsible for protecting the environment.
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