The materials used to make a functional mouse mat nowadays can be so easily obtained that you can even make one yourself. The main support is provided from the mouse pad’s surface, which is often made to be slightly coarse to be optimal for mouse sensors and lets the computer wireless mouse roll, instead of slide, over it, thus ensuring smooth cursor movement. Regardless, mousepads are still around today and still sought by consumers. That is until around 2004 when Logitech manufactured a laser computer mouse which removed the need for a pad as its MX1000 mouse model managed to work across any kind of surface. Bob McDermand and his company, Mousetrak, helped meet the surge in demand by mass-producing mousepads with the Apple logo on them. When Apple introduced their version of the computer mouse also some time in the 19 80s, which acted as complementing computer accessory to Apple’s Macintosh, the mouse mat became more valuable and, thus, faced increased demand. However, Xerox’s early designs and technology were too costly for the public to purchase. Armando Fernandez, who worked at Xerox at the time, created a rubberized mouse mat that kept it in place when being used. Xerox stepped into the market in the early 80‘s, refining the original mouse design, which was made of a wooden base and two wheels, into one with LEDs and optical sensors, thus also redesigning the pad into one that was grid-printed in order for its unique computer mouse to function.
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