It's amazing to think that we once all gamed with a rollerball mouse. Then most of us transitioned through optical, eventually ending up utilising either infrared or laser based rodents. Today I'm looking at one of the latter, a new gaming peipheral from Steelseries, the Sensei.

Incredibly sensitive; Very accurate; Software is clean and allows incredible fine tuning; Very comfortable; Built in hardware driver; Feature set is impressively large

Looks a bit 1950s future with silver shell; Expensive; Underside display feels redundant

The SteelSeries Sensei is crazy cool, amazingly comfortable and just downright fun to use and play with. I think I spent an hour changing the colors on the LEDs until I settled on a configuration.

What could you possibly do with a 32-bit ARM processor in your mouse? Plenty of fun stuff, as it turns out.

What could you possibly do with a 32-bit ARM processor in your mouse? Plenty of fun stuff, as it turns out. SteelSeries's Sensei high-end gaming mouse puts slick design and powerful hardware and software at your disposal, but the £60 price tag means it's not for the casual gamer.

If you take your PC gaming as seriously as a sport then you want the best equipment to give you a competitive edge. A high-quality gaming mouse is as important to a professional gamer as an expensive racquet is to a tennis player.

Now that we've got through all of the software we get to test out the Sensei!  This is the fun part as I get to play ~cough~  I mean test it out.  When it comes to testing, we here at BCCHardware pride ourselves by being very thorough when we test gaming products and being a gamer myself I'll take...

Software isn't intuitive; Sensitivity settings won't change automatically when you're in game and then wanting to choose classes and menu items; No grip siding

Having a SteelSeries Sensei doesn't mean that you will automatically become a great gamer but you can game better. A great tennis player can fully utilise a high quality racket and unlock his/her potential.

+ Sexy; sexy; sexy; + Well-built; high quality material; + Comfortable; + Has 8 buttons in total that can be re-programmed; + Braided cable with gold-plated USB connector; + Supports up to 11,400 CPI; + Illumination in 3 areas; + ExactTech settings are fully customisable; + Advanced macros; +

I was a bit skeptical at first about the new metal coating because I totally loved SteelSeries Xai and I never hold a mouse with a metal coating before; Would it feel soft? Would it be comfortable? Would it be cool to the touch?

Not by the Sensei's cool bronze exterior, nor by its surprisingly good performance. No, what has seriously boggled our mind, indeed, baked our brain, is the fact that the Sensei has a 32-bit ARM processor in its verminy little body.

The Sensei is really a top of the line gaming-grade mouse thanks to three factors: the ExactTech, the high level of resolution, and great configuration features. We do think it's worth noting that the software isn't user-friendly, and two of the side buttons are virtually unreachable due to the...

Your best bet is to get another unnamed mouse with 17 buttons made by a company that closely resembles shaving utensils. Skip this mouse unless you are used to this stuff.