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Review of Hands Free Mouse

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the look-ma-no-hands dept.

SLDave wrote in to plug his review of NaturalPoint's hands free mouse that covered by Slashdot some time ago. It seems to work as advertised, using a camera to track your head and replace your mouse, but with a lot of caveats. Definitely worth a look for us truly lazy folks.

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  1. Just use your eyes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Your head will get tired, your eye's won't. Check out this link and look at their tool.

  2. Biometrics and a regular WebCam by TheLoneCabbage · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How hard would it be to figure out (given a fair training cycle) the orientation of a users head?

    The human head isn't THAT iregular of a shape(ok some people).

    couldn't you also track the movement of key color groupings as the head moves?

    This seems cool but:
    1) how do you click the mouse? (it would be cool to do it by blinking one eye or the other)

    2) I am not sticking a dot to my head. I can barely remember to take my head phones off before I leave my desk (CHOKE!!) I dread the idea of going all afternoon not remembering to take that stupid dot off.

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    I would rather be ashes than dust!
  3. I reviewed it too... by Daniel+Rutter · · Score: 3, Interesting
    ...a few months ago, here:

    http://www.dansdata.com/trackir.htm