Coming to us this week for our Forgotten Gadget of the Week is the Mousecaster. This device was the brain child of SmarTech Ltd but never did make it into the mainstream computer users arsenal.

It is a very simple and yet powerful idea, stick a FM Radio tuner in the main accessory of any computer system, the mouse! The problem was you needed to use their one style of mouse and it was not likely to be a fancy gaming mouse with buttons coming out of every surface or precision that can be used to count atoms in your mousepad (I just checked and my pad has just over 4 trillion). A few years, or maybe months, after the Mousecaster came out it was total forgotten. I guess everything Made In California does not become an instant sucess like the iPod!

Amazingly enough the website is still active at MouseCaster.com. So if you are itching to get your hands on one, you might still have a chance.