it's rare that a device makes it into my hands that I have no idea what to expect
and the lunar artifacts pointer instrument is one such device
lunar artifacts is not a company that I'd heard of and that's because their
primary focus is s the ticks and I'm
someone who's more of a practical kind of person so they're Auto Engineering
inspired devices are not usually on my
radar and so I am ecstatic to get my
hands on such a premium device and when I say premium I mean premium and
thankfully they sent us some of the other accessories I was kind of excited
about they have a little grip attachment and they have a mouse pad
they're beautiful full grain leather made from French calves
mouse pad uh is quite a sight to behold
uh it's got equestrian inspired stitching uh it feels quite good
um in terms of you know just a little cushiness but not so much that it would
interfere with your play that being said
this is like the size of a mouse you put
a mouse on here uh there's not much movement but again we're not worried
about performance we're worried about Aesthetics
this looked much more premium on the website I thought it was going to be you
know double quilted very cushy material
cardboard you know folded or pressed to
look much more premium than it is that's fine it looks like the mouse made it
here in one piece inside the box we have our little quick start guide
our tasty snack for later and finally
our three foot long type A to type c
cable okay it's braided which is nice uh but the connectors don't look super
premium although you can plug it in and use the mouse in a wired mode I would
primarily just charge it and use it in one of its Wireless modes that's it for
the Box just like the mouse pad the top of the mouse comes equipped with this
premium full grain leather it's available in this brown or black I
definitely prefer the brown I think if I'm getting a leather Mouse I want it to
be very clear from a distance that I paid for it there's a little accent
Stitch right at the seam of the leather one of the ideas behind this mouse is
that this is the last Mouse you'll ever buy you're gonna keep it for your entire
life and they encourage you to use it and for the leather to build character
as your skin reacts as you scuff it as you use it the color will slightly
change and it'll gain that like Rich deep aged leather look which I think is
actually kind of cool what I don't love but I think a lot of people will is this
uncoated brass bottom you can already see
it's disgusting and thankfully it's only on the bottom so I don't think you'll be
hyper aware of the Grease You're tracking on to it you might notice the
grease on the mouse wheel that is also this uncoated brass
that's a mouse wheel it's just kind of like a dead fish that
you're kind of like pushing up a hill
I don't like that there's no clickiness as you scroll there's a little bit of a
tactile feedback but it feels more like the gentle Whisper of a click in your
ear on a cool summer day that being said the shape of the mouse is quite
comfortable it fits in my hand uh very
naturally I find my pinky finger is kind of a little trapped under it's a very
unique shape that the top is so large and the bottom is quite small like
that's the size of one of those cheap Logitech Bluetooth mice you get for 20
bucks from the photos which they definitely don't have any hands in their
photos because they want to showcase the Aesthetics of the mouse it's certainly not ergonomic and I don't think that
this would be a very comfortable Mouse to use for long periods of time but this
mouse isn't for people that do actual work it's for people you know that order
other people to do work you know the people we're going to eat in a couple years okay so this black thing is just
to guard the leather and the the buttons
these buttons are quite resistant I don't know if it's the extra stretch
from the leather that's making it harder to press but it takes quite a bit of
force to actuate these switches and they feel quite inconsistent especially at
the edges the way I grab my mouse my fingers end up being back here
which takes more Force but feels more consistent and there's only one other
button which is the scroll wheel press on the bottom on the sides there's
nothing else overall not a great button experience so this
is kind of limiting its functionality in a lot of ways but again it's for people
that are not planning on using this for heavy workloads while we're on the topic
of ergonomics we also got the grip
accessory from looter artifacts that just Clips in in a kind of clever way
it's aesthetically very non-pleasing
especially as we have the brown leather the black kind of dark gray plastic just
looks really out of place it's not cheap plastic but I wouldn't call it
particularly premium feeling when I grip
it my fourth finger and my thumb naturally rest on the scoops of the grip
it widens The Stance of the mouse making it feel like a much older type
Mouse it's actually more comfortable because I don't feel like I have to
squeeze my hand as tight but it does accentuate this pinky kind of being
forced to cross under I don't know why they thought this was
okay they're selling this beautiful premium combo and then there's just
cheap plastic piece that just takes away from it like I feel like this could be a
3D printed piece that I made at home another reason I would probably take
that piece off is that this is already exceptionally heavy Mouse The Brass
variant is 200 grams again this is not a
functional Workhorse Mouse this is really an Aesthetics premium thing heavy
things feel more premium you can get the aluminum variant that's a more silver
finish and that's 125 grams a lot closer
to something that I would feel comfortable using every day without getting uh RSI what really shocks me
about this mouse is that considering how premium it is how heavy it is they
compromise so strongly on its specs and
sensor this mouse has the pixart Paw
3805 sensor which doesn't show up on
Flawless sensor lists uh it's a more
efficient sensor but when you compare its specs for specs versus some of the
higher end sensors it starts to be a little bit questionable of a choice it's
CPI is advertised at a Max of 3 000 uh
you know compared to the 26 000 30 000 of the Logitech and Razer high-end mice
it's inches per second tracking is 70.
versus the Razer Viper signature Minis
750 and a max force of 10 G's versus 75
G's that is fine for a mouse that you're
using to answer emails fill out Excel spreadsheets and abuse your workers but
that's kind of disappointing when I look at this mouse and thought it was going
to be a no compromise Mouse it's it's honestly kind of baffling there's 50
mice that have way better sensor technology than this I have never seen
so many buttons on the bottom of a mouse they didn't put any on the side so they
put them all here on the bottom we have our on off switch we have our wireless
mode toggle between 2.4 gigahertz mode and Bluetooth you can also run this
mouse in a wired mode we have our DPI
switch although I'm not switching dpis do I have to hold it oh I do have to
hold it what is going on this button sucks is it already jammed in
this is the worst DPI button I've ever pressed in my life I'm not exaggerating
it's not hyperbole this thing is like mushy and I got caught underneath
finally on the bottom we have our dongle I really appreciate a wireless dongle
spot uh even on a much lighter Mouse I think it's worth the three grams extra
of plastic to engineer a spot for a while strangle to go so you don't lose
it and it's just a little type a dongle you know just some pretty generic thing
besides that on the bottom we have these
very small Glide pads that are sort of misaligned uh this Edge is kind of
coming up I doubt you'll be able to see it on the camera super well you can kind
of see that it's imperfect there kind of
disappointing when you're getting a premium product and they haven't taken
the time to carefully put everything on here it's not a great gliding experience
yeah part of it is that it weighs so much but it does look good on the front we
have our type c Port you can charge through that but there's also Wireless Qi charging which is a pretty neat
feature the battery on the inside is an 850 milliamp battery which is adequate
especially if you're planning on using the Bluetooth modes they don't advertise
a battery life in terms of hours but I imagine it's fine the Pixar 3805 is a
pretty efficient sensor so feel so good okay I take it all back I
love this mouse one thing I've never seen a manufacturer advertise is the
type of connector the battery uses on the inside of the mouse and the reason
they do that is part of the design sensibility is that this mouse is
supposed to last you forever and they've rightfully designed repairability into
the core of this device that's why they advertise the battery connector type
that's just a generic little battery type you can find 850 milliamp batteries
with that connector type on AliExpress so that's great I'm very excited to open
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moments carefully curated catalog of Cam gear the bottom setting is 800 DPI which
is good we go to unusual sensitivities of 1200 2000 and 3000 3000 makes sense
that's the highest sensitivity that this sensor offers but it's usually
increments of 400 or 800 DPI that we're
switching and so this mouse clearly not designed for gamers or
people that are used to gaming settings if you're using this Mouse as a work
Mouse I think it would be decently
adequate although I think you would get very frustrated by this scroll it has
almost no tactile feedback and that's a bit of a bummer it also has very little
rise when put next to the buttons looks
good not very practical the tracking seems adequate I'm using the 2.4
gigahertz mode all right I guess we'll play a game
every time I have to lift it at a bit of an angle and it reads it and so every
time I swipe it the mouse actually goes back that's not a great experience I'm
gonna do it with this mouse pad for anything other than emails this is
hugely inadequate in size I've heard that before I would highly
recommend getting something larger you know like this Wan desk pad from
lttstore.com you ever seen those videos of strong men pulling trains just like
single-handedly that's what I feel like when I'm moving this mouse I feel like
I'm just like oh oh
God and maybe you know I'll get a really jacked right ARM I'm gonna get to one
encounter just to make sure but there's no way this is a good gaming mouse to be
fair to lunar artifacts they never claimed it was
I don't know if you can tell by the expression on my face but I'm not having
a great time Forum already hurts I've been playing for like two minutes
I just need to hit the gym more you could use this as a mouse but it's not a
good time the tracking is fine uh the liftoff distance issue persists the
clicking is especially frustrating because you have to put so much pressure
to get a full click in a game you don't really want that
I certainly don't this mouse is going to be exceptionally easy to pull apart I'm
quite impressed already this piece is actually replaceable if it gets too
damaged or if the patina becomes a gross human hand-shaped mess you know two
fingers and a bit of palm and then the rest is all fresh baby calf skin once we
get to this level it's just these four screws wow that's a long screw all right
we've taken off the screws this layer goes off this is exactly the type of
battery that I found on AliExpress easily replaceable for like three
dollars that's freaking sweet
so far I've been quite impressed with the repairability of this but you can
hear there's an adhesive layer to this battery that's fine to keep it secured
but there's already this little latch thing that I thought was doing an okay
job I wasn't going to take out this little
PCB but wow did it ever come out so easily we got our little sensor we got
our PCB I still hate this I don't know why they thought this was an acceptable
scroll wheel I wonder if you could easily replace it you can easily replace
these switches they're just Mouse switches you can just easily pull out
and drop in other than that a pretty simple device we have our little
wireless charging pad and then if you take out the dongle it's really just
this big brass piece with molded plastic
in the bottom that you can pop out they're selling some replacement parts
on their site at a bit of a premium like 15 for switches uh is a lot more than
you can find elsewhere but it's nice that they offer it and if you're the
kind of person that is eyeing this mouse paying a little bit of a premium for
convenience and knowing that you're getting the right parts might be worth
it and pay a premium you shall this
mouse costs 250 dollars that's not the most expensive Mouse out there but
considering it's not a good Mouse that's
a lot of money I really like the leather I think the shape is fine I think
overall quite aesthetically pleasing and if that's the priority if you're making
this you know classically masculine workspace I think this could fit in you
know your room has gold accents you can make this quite an attractive little
mouse and mouse pad but if you're someone that does a lot of work at their
desk and you are concerned with you know a
adequate performance this is not
something I can recommend to you if you think of any alternatives
yes I'll give credit to lunar artifacts most
mice kind of have a gamery look to them even you know office ones are starting
to have that tendency you can get Ergo mice that are a little classier I think
the MX Master is a fairly classy looking Mouse but it's still plastic and shiny
metal and it's not aesthetically pleasing in the way that something as
classy as this would be as hard as I've been on this mouse it's kind of hard to
find aesthetically focused mice and I
know for some people that is a priority and so if that's that is a priority to
you and you like the look of this it's an adequate Mouse it does its job it
works it connects the tracking is fine it's not a great Mouse experience but
you're not buying this for that you're buying it for the looks
and that's okay you know what else is okay sticking around to watch another
ShortCircuit why not check out our Razer Viper mini signature edition Mouse
something basically the same price but in my opinion a much more impressive
piece of technology