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The Logitech Cube is one part travel mouse, one part presentation remote, crammed into a pocket-sized little box. It's not for everyone, but if you're a frequent traveler, or do any sort of presenting to groups, the Cube is good at what it does.

Logitech is relying on appealing look of its unique Cube Mouse to justify its price, but it should offer a few more useful navigation or presentation features.

In the Cube, we have an excellent presentation tool and an uncomfortably small mouse. Is it worth 70 bucks? I guess that depends on how big your hand is.

The Cube mouse-plus-PowerPoint-clicker is an ergonomic war crime and peripheral abomination. At least it's small enough to purge from memory.

Its tiny size allows room for only one finger to scroll up and down and left-click. To right-click, you move your index finger lower, and then click. It sounds odd, but it’s actually very intuitive after a bit of practice.

Best for Navy SEAL commanders in the boonies doing on-site mission presentations and maybe a little light mouse-work.

Not that the design and idea isn't worthy of an award, I just think there are a few blemishes in the otherwise stunning looking Cube from Logitech before I could get solidly behind this product.

A critic could argue it lacks ambition in simply forcing a mouse into an arbitrary shape, but it’s churlish to suggest the Cube is not a rather beautiful thing. As a standalone presentation clicker, indeed, it's the most beautiful in its miniature niche.

The Logitech Cube packs a lot of features into a tiny form-factor — aided by a moderate price for what is, after all, a wireless mouse and presentation device combined ($69 retail). It’s well suited for laptop use in cramped spaces and is a good companion for business presentations.

It's most analogous to a scalpel where most other mice are Swiss Army knives. It's considerably smaller and does its particular job better than many others. Even so, for day to day use you might want to get something bulkier that you're inclined to use more often.

The Cube is a great device… provided you understand what it, and what it is not. The Cube will not replace your everyday mouse or track pad and that’s not really what it’s designed for.