Ooh, shiny! For some reason, this Razer Diamondback mouse shines with the radiance of a thousand glo-sticks. Shhh – don’t tell anybody that it’s also an excellent high-res, super-responsive gaming mouse.

Acid green! Plasma blue! Who knew that cheese came in all these colors? Yes, color us jaded, because the whole stuff-lighting-up trip just kinda leaves us cold. We always thought that being hypnotized by shiny objects was a mark of low status on the evolutionary totem pole. And in a mouse, all this glo-glo action seems especially weird – you don’t have eyes in your hands, right?

Well, when we look past the cornball flash, we grudgingly admit that this Razer Diamondback Gaming Mouse has more going for it than gimmickry. That 1600dpi resolution, for one thing. The 7 programmable buttons and on-the-fly sensitivity adjustment, for two more. And if the reviews are to believed, it’s as responsive to your movements as a Congressman from Alabama is to James Dobson.

We wanted to laugh at the Razer Diamondback Gaming Mouse, to dismiss it and its luminous peacockery. Turns out the thing actually works pretty well. Now, if only those lights came with an OFF switch…

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