I can see all of those technologies as probably dying soon but not computer mice.

Touchscreen technology doesn't offer anywhere near the precision of a good computer mouse. Even if touchscreen technology can be improved, we would need a 1-pixel stylus pen of some sort.

I despise the imprecision of anything that's touch-based like touchpads or touchscreens. Hey, what about people who have larger fingers? Precision on a screen will never be possible for us.

I like my computer mice. I leave some Swiss cheese out for the rodents each night. :P

They were launching that around christmas last year, and the year before that. Ever wonder why they never get around to releasing the technology, or even properly demoing it, while continuing to suck in donations from the gullible?

It's the Freedom Ship scam all over again.

...and it's not because I use a touchscreen. The number one replacement for mice is the trackpad, because laptops are displacing desktops. (And for me, although I do also still have a desktop, I use a trackball there. But I realize this is not typical.)

I do think #5 & #6 are pretty strange choices... in fact from #5 on are questionable.

Jared, Blu-ray has not been out for 6 years, not even close. What have you been smoking?

Blu-ray launched a few months after HD DVD did in 2006. Please learn math.

What a novel concept?

Come on folks, we all know that [sarcasm]touchscreen is the way go to!![/sarcasm] Sheesh I think touch screen manufacturers must have paid to put that entry on the demise of the mouse. Just imagine, they will make a bundle just in replacements when people throw their frustration @ their monitor as opposed to the mouse. Not to mention can you imagine trying to err hmm double tap in a shooting game or doing a melee attack?

Mouse is dead, HA! Bullocks to that.

Thanks to the previous comments the following was inspired:

They can try to pry my mouse from my cold undead fingers.

Well we have just started shipping a device to get rid of the video cable. HDMI connection running on Ultra Wideband loveliness.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002RL9F38/ref=cm_cd_asin_lnk

Most dangered technologies:

1. Centralized production of electricity
(via steam turbines etc.)

2. Internal Combustion technology in general

REASON ?

STEORN ORBO launch around Christmas Holidays

1. DVD players - Maybe when theres something better thats streaming. It's not Blu-Ray as it's over priced when a DVD upscaling player gives your old disks the 1080p treatment without you replacing all your disks.

2. Fax machine - isn't it already 6ft under?

3. Analogue TV - isn't this also next to the Fax machine long dead?

4. The landline phone - not so long as we need DSL it's not dead...and really we do since most places cant get any 3G or Cable.

5. Mobile phone charger - will be around for a long time as those power mat things are nothing but a gimmick of not use whatsoever.

6. Wii-mote - the Wii was a fad anyhow, to be expected. But I wouldnt count it out just yet, they are releasing the multi coloured ones for Xmas and they will no doubt be up on the tops of the pressy list again.

7. Sat Navs - Urmm replaced with what? can't see many car's getting integrated Jesus phones anytime soon.

8. Dongle - a dongle for what? the crap 3G ones which are useless since the UK has no coverage? it was never born let alone die.

9. The computer mouse - hmm 3200dpi mouse v finger covering the screen while trying to do something. Touch has its uses, as does a mouse. And both will live on for a long time. Now, touchscreens replacing stylus tablets maybe, but yet again the issue is here you can't see what your working on as you can't see through your own arm which is now blocking a huge screeen area. Touch has its uses, but for anything needing precision, or the ability to see what your working on they fail.

10. Chip and pin credit cards - waste of time that they were in the first place!

Long live the track ball. But what people want to do is lay back and read the news paper. Paper has the advantage of not going clunk in the night when one nods off :)

haha, what i find more amusing is the lack of thought put in with people jumpng straight to touch being the alternative to the mouse.

What about neural? or facial expression tracking software? Hell, even devices like minority report? just without the theatrics. Along with the ever present and under utilized voice control.

I'm not saying the mouse is about to go either but its slowly going to be replaced in certain markets. a good neural interface will be a nice replacement in Call of Duty 42...

I'm sick of seeing DVDs (the plural for DVD) written as something that belongs to the DVD!!! You know, DVD's. Even the author made the same, well, stuff up.

But then, I'm not a native English speaker, probably that's why I'm so annoyed. They teach us proper English in school you know... :D

I didn't get the Wiimote, either. Endangered in 2010? Really?

Can't get around the fact that most people have a DVD player and a collection of DVDs. Actually most people own more than one DVD player, and fairly large collections of DVDs. Blu-Ray has been out for 6 years after it was released for sale, most people do not own a Blu-Ray player, and of the tiny fraction of people worldwide who do own one (vs the overwhelming majority who own DVD players) the majority of the Blu-Ray player owners 'own' them via the player being inside their PS3, not as a stand alone player. Add to this that BR is 6 years old and there are to date only 2500 movie titles on BR available in the USA, Canada and Japan, while there are only half that number available everywhere else. These are not 'winning' numbers.

One last thing on DVDs: the majority of DVD player owners, which is most people on the planet, do not care about Blu-Ray at all and are perfectly happy with what they have. Blu-Ray is the 'Windows Vista' of media formats, and DVD is the Windows XP Pro. DVD will be with us for many years to come

Fax machines are used the world over where computers are just not usable or needed.

A useful technology in many remote and urban places.

Blu-Ray is going down quicker than DVD is.

the 56K modems were called modem/fax for a reason. They (since the early 1990's) have been able to send a fax directly from a computer. Its not difficult. You don't even need to print it out to fax it.

For 2 reasons, touch screens will not make mice obsolete.
1) People prfer to look at vertical not horizontal screens. Touching a vertical screen requires muscular effort most people won't want.
2) A mouse enables a small wrist movement to cover the whole screen area, a touch screen (on a 20" display not your mobile phone) requires the whole arm to move, again too much effort.

I have a go at the burd for getting her greasy fingers on my mouse, no chance in hell she's muckying up my 30" monitor with her slimy mitts, don't know where they've been.

The trouble with this list is that as soon as people see mouse on the list they ignore the whole article. Desktop touch screens are a gimmick and a joke.

Ha, this list is so stupid that can make me LOL...
Touchscreen is far away of substituting the mouse. If you have a smal tablet on you lap or you are surfing on your fridge screen for groceries, it's good. But if you are working with a large panel in front of you, it sucks, and sucks bad. Try play crysis with a touchscreen!!!
No to mention the greasy fingers...
It might be a complement to mouse, but hardly a substitute.
The Wiimote is a breakthrough, that both competidors are trying desperately to copy. I don't see it going out anytime soon. The analist might be refering to XBOX360 "Natal", but this thing has to prove that it really works without you having to wear the ridiculous red dungarees and work with more than one player at time. Even then, it will lack sensorial feedback, that the wii mote provides.
I'd talk about every other "prediction" but it would take too long, but they are sh** as well. Someone is earning more than he/she deservers...

A lot of this has to do with convergence, but others like myself aren't too happy with my mobile doing everything and trying to find the app to do it is getting harder; Not that there aren't any.

Case in point.
Sat-Nav - I like it sitting there on my dash.

Music player (Ipod etc) - I leave my cell at home so I can jog in (relative)peace.

Mouse - Sure it will.
Why is it that every prediction wants to kill the mouse?

Landline - In the west nope.
Sure lets just stop using an infrastructure that we've spent billions and years developing.

The very first touchscreen PC I encountered was back in 1983; when my dad was allowed to borrow a HP-150 PC from work. (He worked at Hewlett-Packard Australia back in the 1980s).

Its 2009, and we're starting to see the first remanents of this same fundamental technology return to the PC.

So over 25yrs, it still hasn't caught on the desktop...Why are they still pushing it?

Desktop and touchscreen won't work. Its a solution looking for a problem.

Touchscreen has its place, just not on the desktop.

The mouse is cheap, responsive, and has become the norm. Good luck with trying to replace it.

I cannot se the mouse being replaced bye touch screen.
I suppose what they mean is that laptops with a nice pad will win the war.
And I find that very possible.

Poking at the screen is such a quaint notion. Perhaps they will have a little touchscreen keyboard too.

Maybe they could make a big DDR (Dance Dance Revolution, not Double Data Rate Dynamic Random Access Memory) pad which hooks to the PC. We could move the cursor around the screen by hopping back and forth on the floor. Yes, so much simpler than a mouse.

Reminds one of the little missed HP 'Personal Access Manager', GEOS for the Commodore 64, and Microsoft Bob.

Nick Farrell, would you please post something scathing about this? I just can't do it justice.

Actually I had a much worse word in my mind, but lets be polite.

-mouse? are you crazy? never

-landline phone? nope. we need one, even if it is over IP.

-wiimote? nope. get your hands of my wii

-Mobile phone charger? nope

-fax? nope

-sat navs? nope

-dvd? not for a few years.

STUPID LISTS!

6. Wii-mote What? Nothing wrong with the wii-mote or the Wii. If there was Sony and Microsoft wouldn't be scrambling around trying to copy it better.
7. Sat Navs How? If you say "durr i use mah phone" then you're crazy. Phone screens are too small and not nearly as useful as a large touchscreen purpse driven mounted device for gps.
9. The computer mouse Sure and Oxygen is going out of style too. There is no sign of the mouse going away any time soon. Hell look at how many damn companies are releasing a gaming grade mouse right now. If anything that industry is BOOMing.

1. DVD players - HD fine. I accept that.
2. Fax machine - The need for signatures on legal documents will prevent this death. Digital won't be good enough for a lot of things.
3. Analogue TV - with the dtv switch in the US this is a given. Like DVDs.
4. The landline phone - some people will keep these forever because they are the only thing that still works in a power outage. Emergency contact is a good thing.
5. Mobile phone charger - Not really. The power pads are a long way off being ubiquitous and are also expensive. With the new universal charger standard that has come out this won't be as much of a problem as it currently is.
6. Wii-mote - why would this die? it's a fun way to control games.
7. Sat Navs - meh.
8. Dongle - we will always need converters of some sort. I don't see dongles going away.
9. The computer mouse - That is asinine. Try playing an FPS with a touch screen. Utterly ridiculous to even consider this dying ever. it's just way to comfortable to use the mouse when surfing the net (so you can sit back in your chair and be lazy) than a touch screen would be. Who wants to have to sit up straight all the time. Not to mention the finger prints. Bleeecch!
10. Chip and pin credit cards - I'm sorry, no one is going to want to give up their pin number. I'm not going to let the only thing between someone making false charges be the mere possession of my card. Not only that, but who is to keep someone from carrying a reader around town hooked to a fake store ID and steal money from people just from having them walk by?

For fears of forgery, many financial institutions will not accept signed documents over e-mail, period. However, they will accept signed, faxed documents. I agree, it's stupid, since you could manipulate the document in the computer, print it out & fax it, but that's how it is. Faxes will be here longer than we.

Agreed, I doubt the mouse is facing obsolescence any time soon. Fax machines and analogue tv -- for definite.

Try working 8 hours with your arm lifted touching a screen and you will have cramps.

1. DVD players
yeah well, all my DVD's are streamed from a central server. the same will happen to my hi-def content when my TV goes pop and i get a flat panel

2. Fax machine
well Duh. only used for contractor's timesheets once a month now...

3. Analogue TV
govmint enforced switch over to digital?

4. The landline phone
need decent broadband, mobile broadband doesn't count. free evening and weekend calls? landline stays.

5. Mobile phone charger
so... whats going to charge the mobile next? a USB cable off my laptop draining its precious battery? i think not.

6. Wii-mote
never had one in the first place, so Meh.

7. Sat Navs
got one in every phone i've owned for the last few years. so never bothered with a dedicated device.

8. Dongle
for what? bluetooth? wifi? gps? mobile broadband? copy protection? superduper floppy disk copying with x-copy on an amiga?

9. The computer mouse
like eff is this going to happen. hey i know, i'll play a game with a touch screen, i'll do some photoshopping with a touchscreen... wait, i have to be within two feet of my 24" lcd monitor to operate the PC it's connected to? yeah, right.

10. Chip and pin credit cards
Visa pay wave? how about eff off with your rfid tags.

all in all, from what i've seen of your "sister site" you'd probably be better off not affiliating yourselves with them too much.
there are only so many "top ten lists of crap we just made up" that people are going to put up with.

OK I'm game - why the hell is the wii-mote (but apparently not the Wii) considered an endangered technology?

I totally disagree with "touchscreens replacing mouses". Maybe what they do not sell is isolated mouses because they come bundled with the computers?

Another possibility is that since laptops are more common than desktop nowadays, people is getting used to trackpads...

Touch screens are inacurate, a nice feature and are good for showing off with but inacurate. They will replace mice when people all sharpen there fingers down to bloody boney points.

My feelings are as above coment : get my mouse from my cold dead fingers if you can.

succeding mice. Yeah. They'll get my mouse when they pry it out of my cold dead fingers.