I have not been having the best of luck with tech lately (the whole MacBook Pro saga for example), and now one of my favourite little pieces of tech has decided to keel over. My Logitech NuLOOQ Navigator no longer works 
And to make matters worse, Logitech has discontinued it.
If you don’t know what the Nulooq is, Logitech call called it a “design controller”. You still use a mouse, but with your other free hand you control the Nulooq. It has a moveable ring around the middle that would scroll pages when pushed up/down or left/right, and would zoom in and out when twisted. On the top was a touch sensitive ring that could control other adjustable things like volume, and multiple buttons that you could assign different tasks to.
What was really cool about the Nulooq was that you were able to program the buttons and rings to do different things in different programs. So for example I had some of the buttons control back/forward in Firefox, while the same two buttons then controlled copy/paste in Word. It was especially good in Photoshop and TextMate, where I had the buttons control different shortcuts that I regularly use (much simpler and quicker then holding down multi-key shortcuts on a keyboard), and the zoom and scroll functions I will really miss in Photoshop.
The construction was really nice too. The base is made of a solid piece of machined metal, which makes it look cool and gave it weight so it doesn’t slide across your desk.
I am very sad that Logitech has decided to discontinue the Nulooq as it was a great little product. I only hope that they are working on an even better version to launch in the future.
So R.I.P. little Nulooq, we hardly knew you.
