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The Secret Behind the iPod Scroll Wheel

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the didn't-know-there-was-a-secret dept.

Grump sent in a story saying "Ask any iPod user what they like the most about their device, and most will probably mention the scrollwheel. Here is the story behind the company that makes it (hint: it's not Apple). Great not just for the history, but insight as to both how Apple's design process works, and how the scroll wheel itself works."

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  1. Like this is news by das_katz_socrates · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nobody makes their own products anymore. Probably not first post anymore.

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    1. Re:Like this is news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Go back to handling your member then, I'm sure you're a real pro.

  2. Try to skip the commersials. by Lussarn · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I really try to skip the commercials here at slashdot, these are the topics I have excluded.

    Apple
    iMac
    Media (Apple)
    Networking (Apple)
    OS 9
    OS X
    Portables (Apple)
    Technology (Apple)
    Utilities (Apple)
    Wireless (Apple)

    Still they are sipping through. Do I have to pay to skip the ipod commercials ?

    1. Re:Try to skip the commersials. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      listen, sugarpuss, an article saying "check out how great the ipod wheel interface is" is a commercial. The tech is used in other things as well, but you didn't read "check out how interesting touchpad tech is" in the title, right?

      All it does is activate the Pavlovan drolling of "gee, how cool - I WANT ONE TOO!!!" (and the complementary "Look at me, I'm so cool, I have one already!!") Call it unintended side-effect if you like, this is how society TRAINED most people^H^H^H^H^H^H consumers.

  3. Agreed! by brufleth · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If I hadn't already commented I would mod you up.

  4. Re:Summary "borrowed" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Holy fuck! You need to learn how to type.

  5. Re:Still, though... by hellish+products · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    malglico@gmail.com please please please... I really want to use Gmail.

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  6. Re:Summary "borrowed" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    way to skirt the issue.

    I type fine. I think faster then I type, unlike you.

  7. Listen .... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  8. Re:Still, though... by ggy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    invite@lapdog.se - Yes please, altough I was going to wait for the official launch. :)

  9. Scroll skips over the first item by MagPulse · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    When scrolling with my third-generation iPod, it won't move for a good distance, and then suddenly it scrolls by two, and then normally to the third and fourth items. Anyone else have this problem?

  10. Re:Next week on Slashdot by bracher · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    See, you think you're joking. But years ago, supervising computer labs in college, I actually ran into a woman who _insisted_ that it wasn't working, but _she_ hadn't broken it. Turns out she hadn't turned it on...... Commence explanation of how the mac in front of her is a lot like the stereo in her dorm room, it requires electricity to work... :-/

  11. GET A GMAIL ACCOUNT AND AN IPOD FREE! by ellisDtrails · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Not a scam! Read this: http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,64614,00.html ?tw=wn_2culthead All you have to do is complete an offer on http://www.freeiPods.com/default.aspx?referer=8804 376 I will give you a GMAIL invite as well! I will trade them for confirmed referrals on http://www.freeiPods.com/default.aspx?referer=8804 376. If you've completed the referral, I'll send you a GMail invite, simple as that.

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