If you had been being attentive to CES this 12 months, you’ll have come throughout the Asus Adol 14 Air Fragrance Edition’s curious gimmick: a magnetically-attached oil diffuser within the lid that emits the aroma of important oils as soon as the laptop computer heats up. Asus has now introduced particulars a few “Fragrance Mouse” to go together with it. Mentioned together with the corporate’s Copilot Plus PCs at CES 2025, it’s coming to the US “round late April, early May,” firm spokesperson Anthony Spence informed The Verge in an e-mail.
The Fragrance Mouse has a light-duty mousing structure of two buttons and a scroll wheel. Its trick is on the underside, the place a small compartment holds a refillable vial you may load with important oils of your selecting. It’s an in any other case commonplace affair — the mouse connects wirelessly over Bluetooth or a 2.4GHz wi-fi USB dongle, affords adjustable DPI (1200dpi, 1600dpi, and 2400dpi), and is powered by a single AA battery. Asus says it’s “out there in distinctive Iridescent White or Rose Clay finishes.”
You might not be capable to get a whole smelly laptop computer and mouse set, for the reason that Adol 14 Air Fragrance Edition has solely been launched in China since being launched in July 2024, as Ars Technica notes. Spence was unable to substantiate pricing particulars for the Fragrance Mouse in his e-mail to The Verge.
Update February twenty second: Added that Asus had beforehand talked about the Fragrance Mouse in January.
