It was just another day at the office when we started off the conversation that led to this review. Out of nowhere, well, out of the endless world of the internets, we were messaged on IRC about reviewing a mousepad. Usually when companies approach us with a new mousepad, it is over the phone or through e-mail. When asked what company this mousepad was from, our contact replied with a name none of us had heard before. We have to admit we were skeptical. Having just completed what seemed like our one billionth mousepad review, we had yet to see something so ground-breakingly spectacular that we absolutely could not wait to get our hands on one for ourselves. Sure there were somewhat unique surfaces. Sure there were mousepads that touted certain things that were pretty cool. But no mousepad made us genuinely want to have it sitting on our desk quite like this one would. Why, you ask? How could a mousepad take these stone-cold hardware reviewers and make them putty in its hands? Well, this mousepad was a GotFrag Hardware mousepad.

Before you go clicking the GotGear link at the top of the page in search of this amazingly cool item, no, we do not make mousepads. Futhermore, the two pads we have on our desk right now are the only two in the world. You see, aside from getting our shipping address and contact information, the representative from this company also asked us for a design. This is something we had never been asked for before, so we didn’t really have one on hand. We tasked the former head of GotFrag’s Graphical Arts department, Phil Theiren, with creating a design for GotFrag Hardware that would look good on the surface of a mousepad. We didn’t know what kind of resolution or colors to use in the design – all we had was a size. We submitted this design through email more than three months ago.

Three months is a long time in the hardware world. Suffice to say, we had all but forgotten about our encounter with the representative from Noidpad.com until a package from Estonia arrived on our doorstep one afternoon. Upon opening the package we quickly remembered the mousepad and were very happy to see the fruits of our design efforts three months prior. And oh how sweet it was.