The biggest Apple USB mouse in the world

TUAW reader Kim, who runs the Danish blog Kinablog,dk, sent us this piece he wrote about what he calls the world's biggest Apple USB mouse (a.k.a. the iMac mouse, a.k.a. the hockey puck). It's actually a building in China that houses the National Centre for the Performing Arts, with room for 6,500 people in three halls inside 2,000 square meters, designed by Paul Adreu. And he's right-- it bears a striking (though not quite exact) resemblance to the round little early iMac peripheral. Considering that construction started on the building in 2001, and the mouse was released before that, it's a little less of a stretch (though still a stretch) to think that one inspired the other.

But Kim is thinking even bigger-- not only does he dare us to imagine the sound of a click on a mouse that big, but he asks what an iMac that size would look like. Stop bending my mind like that, man! Apple is going thinner, not bigger.

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Source: http://kinablog.dk/2008/02/05/nyt-operahus-i-beijing-verdens…

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Anonymous

I LOVE this mouse! It's so cool! I'm using it with my WINDOWS computer I like it so much! And that building looks so cool! What's next, an apartment building that looks like a G3?

March 08 2008 at 9:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sam Williams

Three performance halls seating 6,500 people? That building must be close to 200,000 square metres than 2,000.

February 09 2008 at 3:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

albi

was the mouse round? so we cant make anything round without crediting apple for the idea?

February 08 2008 at 5:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

albi

was the mouse round? so we cant make anything round without crediting apple for the idea?

February 08 2008 at 5:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Many more great photos of the place, aka The National Grand Theater in Beijing:

http://www.fotegrafik.com/search.php?terms=National+Grand+Theater&search=Search

February 08 2008 at 11:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Martin

From above it looks more like a mighty mouse than the puck.

http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=39.902872,116.384171&spn=0.008066,0.007489&z=17&om=0

February 07 2008 at 10:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tomahawk

Where's the Google's Map satellite imagery of this building?

February 07 2008 at 10:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

robogobo

This has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever read here.

February 07 2008 at 4:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

superpixel

I know I'm in the minority, but I liked the puck mouse. My kids love it too, because their little hands can't really manage the Mighty Mouse (I still don't understand why Apple stores don't disable right click on the kid iMacs-- although maybe it's only MY Apple store that is so ignorant?).

To each their own. Some people prefer licorice over chocolate, go figure.

February 07 2008 at 4:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Amit

Nice.....!!!

Can I have one...? I promise I will buy a laptop of equivalent size.

bookmarked @ http://livbit.com

February 07 2008 at 3:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply