Gyroscopic Wireless Mouse

An anonymous reader writes "This is a must for any game player. Gyration has introduced a working wireless gyroscopic mouse. The $119.95 price tag is a little steep but it works with Linux and it doubles for an optical mouse if placed on the desktop. There is an article about it at Linux Journal." We mentioned an earlier version a year or two ago.

Comments

FOR GAMING?

[way2trivial]

my hands shake enough in two dimensions thank you very much....

seriously, if it moves based on tilting, that would suck for games.

Re:FOR GAMING?

[Metallic Matty]

seriously, if it moves based on tilting, that would suck for games.

Unless you attached it to your head and used mouse-look in a first-person shooter.

Re:FOR GAMING?

[nacturation]

Unless you attached it to your head and used mouse-look in a first-person shooter.

Does this mean you already have the monitor strapped to your head?

iXMicro?

[BWJones]

iXMicro had a wireless gyroscopic mouse, what, about seven or eight years ago? It was called the Gyropoint and was absolutely perfect for presentations on my Powerbook. Unfortunately it ran about $200 as I recall, but was well worth it if you presented often allowing one to stand away from the laptop. It also had the additional benefit of working out well for RSI issues, but ate batteries too quick to use it routinely. However, this version doubling as an optical mouse is pretty cool. So, why has it taken so long to get these out to a wider audience?

old ?

[upil]

I tought this is an old product. Friend of mine has it. Fry's electronics carries it.

Re:old ?

[El Pollo Loco]

This is a newer version. Apparently the older version had a range of 25 ft. Although this version only had a 30 ft range, but hey, that extra 5 feet could be good. Also, there's a 100 ft version as well. It'll set ya back $180 bucks though.

Lag time?

[wedding]

I thought one of the main complaints of hardcore gamers was the millisecond lag in wireless would get them killed.
Did I miss something that changes all this? Every rig from Alien, etc all use wired mice.

Cool, but you still need to type...

[gringo_john]

Looking at the photo of the guy in the ad. It looks like he's pretty happy using the mouse.

But he'll still have to put his feet down before he can type, unless of course he can type with his keyboard in his lap.

He's got pretty good eyes too because the monitor is far enough away that the text on the page could be difficult to read.

As a bonus, it looks like he'll get a good forearm workout using the mouse.

Excellent

[Kelz]

Now I can have a purpose for waving my hands in the air for no apparent reason!

And they said I was mad....

He's not kidding =)

[Andorion]

You don't realize how much the edges of your palm resting on the desktop help you move your mouse where you want to move it - a little downward pressure and your hand stops immediately, a little anchored rotation and you can navigate pixel by pixel. The muscle memory is in many joints in your hand, wrist, and arm.

Holding the mouse in the air eliminates the benefits of resting your hand on the table.

~Berj

Re:He's not kidding =)

[Tackhead]

> Of course any decent Occ. Health and Safety expert will tell you not to rest your wrist on the table when using a mouse.

Any decent occupational health and safety professional will also tell you stuff like "go outside and exercise, rather than spend all night gaming."

...so now you know why we're not about to take gaming advice from one.

Mice are so 20th Century

[Proneax]

I want to see a 'pointer' device that is a glove with a gyroscope, and it has sensors on each finger as well so you can map complex hand and finger movements to different operations.

For Example:

1. Grab an icon and crush it to delete
2. Twist an icon to open it
3. Flick my finger to minimize the window
4. Like mouse gestures in mozilla? Try hand gestures
5. Think two handed manipulation
6. Possibly integrate keyboard function into them for mobile apps
7. Think application-specific like photoshop functions, word processing etc.
8. Think 3d cad manipulation with your hands
9. Drawback: probably not good for gaming, but as the technology matures who knows? /me runs to USPTO to file.

Use ducktape

[after]

Unless you attached it to your head and used mouse-look in a first-person shooter.

Uh... you move your head to turn? What is the point of that? It doesnt make anything more real... I mean, its still you sitting there in your underwear playing games on your computer all day/night.

If do that kind of crazy shit, then you might as well make yourself a portable computer to enchance your gaming expereance.

Line of Sight?

[theraccoon]

Extra long 30 foot radio range. Line of sight not required!

Cause you just know that's a useful feature for your mouse!

And..

[kgayer]

you get to look like your whackin off... Great!

Re:6 degrees of freedom?

[Jaysyn]

This had 6 degrees of freedom waaaay back in `98. Didn't sell real well, bout the only game I could actually sit thru the learning curve on was Mechwarrior III. It could have been nice for another input device (3D CAD) but I could never get it working how I thought it should, & there was very little support for Win2k & up.

Jaysyn