Nothing was stirring, not even these mice

Wired’s Gadget Lab points to this great Flickr gallery by raneko of Apple mice throughout the years, from the blocky one-button behemoths of years past up to the smooth and slick Mighty and Magic mice of today. Laid all in a row like that, it’s interesting to see just how much care went into the look of these things, and how the different iterations, across years of work, built upon the basic idea. Wired says that Apple mice have never been its strong point, and they’re pretty right about that — even the current mouse, while beautiful and well-designed, doesn’t have the functionality or ergonomic design that you’ll find in most other brands of mice.

But nevertheless, these still look great, and for the Apple fan, they’ll probably bring back a flood of memories all the way back to the Macintosh. Great gallery.