Gyroscopic Mouse

Aron Schatz writes "You've heard of wireless mice, but how about deskless ones? This baby doesn't need a suface of any kind to be used. This one comes direct from Gyration."

Comments

Re:tiredness

[spencerogden]

The article says it has an optical sensor as well. So you can use it as a desk mouse, and then use it in the air if/when you want/need to.

Re:tiredness

[masterkool]

It would make more sense if the mouse could strap to your hand. It seems like that would make using it easier.

Re:These are sooooo last millenium...

[beleg777]

Do you remember the optical mice of that same time period? I ask because you could say the exact same thing about optical mice, provided you hadn't used a new one.

Three Dimensional Mice

[sam_handelman]

If you add another gyroscope (perpendicular to the first one) you have a three dimensional mouse.

Now, the big advantage of a three dimensional mouse doesn't come into play with present technology; the big trick with three dimensional mice would come up if you could map O directly onto the spatial centers of the subject's.... er, user's, brain. This is not as hard as you might hope... er, think. However, experiments with monkey's controlling a pixel notwithstanding, reading someone's nervous system to get I is gonna be pretty quirky and unreliable. Therefore, you want a three dimensional mouse.

Oh, and, also:
You won't notice any problems unless your on the computer straight for 8 hours a day.


Who the hell does he think buys gyroscopic mice?!?!?! Okay, some of the same yuppies who buy Parka's good to -40* Centigrade and never Manhattan. They buy them. Mostly, however, it's people who use their computers all the time! Using your computer for eight hours at a stretch isn't good for you (and ever single person on slashdot should stop doing it!) but I need it as an option, and I don't need to have to replace my mouse at 3 AM in order to keep working.