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I’m a little pressed for time, and I didn’t have the foresight to set up a delayed post last night, so just a little one today:

Hardware giant Logitech has just announced the sale of its one billionth mouse, meaning it has made one mouse for every 6.7 people on the planet.

If a mouse cable is six feet long on average, Logitech’s mice would span 1,820,000 km if you laid them end-to-end — enough to reach around the world 45.4 times, and nearly five times as much as you’d need to reach the moon.

The BBC reports:

“It’s rare in human history that a billionth of anything has been shipped by one company,” said Logitech’s general manager Rory Dooley.

[…] Logitech’s one billionth mouse rolled off the production line in the middle of November.

As part of the fanfare around that, the company has launched a global competition to find the mouse with a reward of $1000 of Logitech products going to the winner. Clues as to its whereabouts will be posted on the company’s blog.

Story via Slashdot.

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