Let’s face it: there are files on your PC that are better kept away from prying eyes. Maybe you’re developing a low-cost method of enriching uranium, and Ahmadinejad’s agents have been hanging around outside your apartment. Maybe your roommate is 50 Cent and your hard drive is stocked with MP3s of all The Game’s mixtapes. Or maybe certain files could potentially cause considerable damage to your matrimonial situation. Passwords are nice and all, but there are any number of ways around them. If only your computer had some way to recognize a physical characteristic that’s unique to you…

Well, stop “If only”-ing and start “I Want One”-ing, because the Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer with Fingerprint Reader puts the tickle in optical. A quick poke of the digit and the fingerprint reader logs you into Windows and any of your many web site accounts. And it keeps out anybody without your distinctive whorls, lopps, and arches, which means everybody else on Earth but you. Let’s see you socially engineer your way around that, h4×0r5!

Once you’re in, the Intellimouse Explorer (mouse of choice here at Woot HQ North) will whisk your cursor around on a magic carpet of precision and smoothness. With its tilting scroll wheel, five programmable buttons, and pleasing ergonomic build, it’s a mouse worthy of your fond embrace.

We all have secrets. Some are safely locked away in our minds; others are right out there in byte form for any enterprising gumshoe, racketeer, or blackmailer to uncover. The Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer with Fingerprint Reader won’t prevent some villain from forcing you to log in at gunpoint, but it will dissuade less committed snoops.

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