3Dconnexion mice don't rotate, they are joysticks with twist and push/pull, just shaped like a dial rather than that on a jet fighter. Surface Dial is a scroll

3Dconnexion mice don't rotate, they are joysticks with twist and push/pull, just shaped like a dial rather than that on a jet fighter. Surface Dial is a scroll wheel to replicate and improve on features in Wacom drawing tablets that its host device competes with, so it's completely different.