Maighstir: Batteries? Every damned product image shows a cord!
Telika: the creature I had been shortly considering was the
m570 mouse-trackball hybrid monster. It is wireless. But nicely weird. But not recharging by itself, so, screw that.
Oh. All-right. That one has the insane thumb-ball idea though, which would make me say "screw that" regardless. But that's a personal preference, I much prefer designs where the ball's under the fingers (such as the aforementioned Trackball Explorer) rather than the thumb.
HereForTheBeer: I understand the desire to not futz with batteries - I bought a solar keyboard a couple months back and I've had solar calipers for a few years now - but we have a Logitech M705 at the house that has gone 6+ months so far on a single pair of AAs and it has been turned on the entire time. That's a pretty low level of annoyance.
Yeah, the M705 is quite amazing. Mine's been used less heavily, but I haven't switched batteries since I got it a few years ago. My primary mouse at home is the Performance Mouse MX, which can be charged in use (charging cable connects with micro-USB, in the same place the cable would be on a wired mouse) - I haven't tried to see if it can be used fully wired though, or if the USB connector is only for charging.