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Airborne Mouse
edpin writes "CNN is reporting this new mouse that works without a surface. You hold the device in your hand and tilt it to where on screen you want it to go. It uses a similar technique to "rock and scroll" developed by Compaq (now HP) a while ago."
This is, in fact, no relation to Mighty Mouse.
Cogito ergo sum in Slashdot.
If it flies it's a bat, not a mouse.
Imagine what a lanparty would look like with a buncha guys throwing their hands up in the air to avoid being railed...
This isn't a good way to get out of that geek stereotype....
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
click it with your tongue. Great for surfing pr0n sites!
I'm not really a web designer, I just play one on the Internet.
A boxing game with one of these in each hand?
A)bort, R)etry or S)elf-destruct?
Giving a slideshow with the mouse, and "talking with your hands" yields a deletion of your presentation...
Geeks begin to have buff right arms from holding their mouse hand up all day...
Grandmothers can no longer accurately point-and-click because of their shaking hands...
Rhythmic up and down hand motions becoming the next gesture-command to surf to persiankitty.com...
Is it just me or does no one else recognize that as the handle of a lightsaber? :)
This can take Jedi Knight II to a whole new level if the game supported it.
How long before we start seeing something like this incorporated into some of the home versions of Dance Dance Revolution....
A few weeks ago, the laptop I gave to my parents packed up (well the win98 installation gave up)... and my Dad; the definate 'luddite' who doesn't like stuff he doesn't understand, had gotten used to the laptop mousepad.
I caught him trying to use another workstation I had set up, and he was stood there moving the mouse through the air, then followed by shaking it violently (while cursing under his breath that is wasn't working) and then he found the ball at the bottom of the mouse actually moved, and started using his finger to move the ball (and cursor) around... I nearly sh*t myself from laughing. So I guess an airboune mouse might have come in handy.
I've since sorted them another workstation up, and decided a mouse might not have survived.. so I got a thumb-trackball mouse from Logitech, which is great, especially considering you don't need half the room needed for a mouse mat and movement room.
Are you local? There's nothing for you here!
We can finally use a true-to-life controller for all those Jedi games now.
My son had a hissy fit the other day and threw my cordless mouse across the room. The kid damn near took out one godawful ugly lamp. My wife would have grounded him for a month if he had broke the lamp.
I on the otherhand would have given him 20 bucks and a high-five.
From excellent karma to terible karma with a single +5 funny post...
You're supposed to have your hand on the other one. If you don't have that figured out by now, no wonder you're spending all your time on Slashdot...
Now repeat after me: "This is my rifle, this is my gun; this is for fighting, this is for fun."
I've got ya beat. I've had flying mice since I started playing Doom. ...of course the flights weren't all that long and they usually shattered upon impact.
Now that I think about it, I'd have to admit I've had a few flying keyboards too...
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
my CS professor loves to use powerpoint presentations as lectures almost as much as he likes to walk around (presumably to keep us awake...?)
he recently purchased one of these mice and initially we were all impressed -- waving his arms through the air with pp slides flying by behind him; it was like magic. pure, hardcore geeky magic.
until the batteries died. then things got frustrating: the cursor, *when* it responded, skittered around the screen like a coked up mosquito, slides would click by at random. I presume he tired of banging the confounded thing against the wall (with no effect) since he eventually retired the bugger.
now we're back in the tech stone-age: actually CLICKING the mouse. oh, the humanity.
and she was born in a bottle-rocket 1929.
"Pinky, you've left the lens cap of your mind on again." - P&TB
"I can see my house from here!" - ST:
Comon, who here won't admit to sending at least a few of the poor bastards airborne to their ultimate demise during a night of Half-Life deathmatch?
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
1. Get a extension cord for your mouse 2. relax on sofa 3. Grap the mouse sidways with middle finger on bottom of the mouse resing on ball, with your thumb (and index if desired) over buttons. 4. Move ball with middle finger, and bush button with thumb. Voila! man go back to the basics!
From the bottom of the article: "With a little experimentation, the reviewer found that he could easily control the cursor by moving his whole arm, or, with the mouse held in both hands, his whole torso." Wow! I'll have to try typing on the keyboard that way too!
looks like an electric shaver to me. ;)
Where do I set it down to type?
Look for the new 'mouse holster' on thinkgeek.com soon.
TK
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