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Mouse Uses RFID Instead of Batteries
ValourX writes "NewsForge (part of OSTG, like Slashdot) has a review of a mouse that is powered by RFID (and yes, it works with Linux). It's cordless and uses no batteries -- you just have to keep the mouse within 2 inches of the mousepad for it to work. What else could be powered by RFID?"
> What else could be powered by RFID?
Paranoia.
1984
This is another way of starting a sig with this and ending it with that.
Here is a link to the Cheap Mod, courtesy of Afrotech: http://www.afrotechmods.com/cheap/arnoldpad/arnold pad.htm
w00t!
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
no batteries just charge it once a week
;-)
And, since there's no battery, you're charging... magical gnomes?
You can't take the sky from me...
It's too bad that the mouse pad is corded. The mouse isn't really 'cordless' in a true sense.
Now, if somebody were to take the mouse pad and add batteries to it so that you could truly have a wireless experience, I'd definately buy that.
For a moment, I thought "First they put them in dogs and cats, now they're putting them in mice?" And then wondered why is it news that it's wireless? Was there something about the little critters that made it so you had to run a wire into your pet mouse for a RFID tag to work properly? And really, how often do peoples mice run away and then are picked up by animal control and scanned to find the owner?
Then I read the article and it made more sense.
The Internet is generally stupid
No worries. As usual, they won't sell these mice to the left-handed heathens.
Power to the Peaceful
New /. editors.
I prefer a corded mouse because it's harder to knock it onto the floor by accident I've found, and little hands or a small animal can't make off with it.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
My Wacom mouse pad is about 18" x 18". That's pretty close to your 2'x2' square.
Actually it's not that close. An 18"x18" square has only 56% of the surface area that a 24"x24" square has. Thanks for playing, though. There are some lovely parting gifts on the way out.
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> [...] I figured it was in my best interest to avoid finding out why metal and power-over-RFID don't mesh.
Well there's a sentence that sure didn't end the way I wanted it to... Where's his sense of adventure?
His co-worker was originally assigned to the article, but he met an... unfortunate end and his half-written article was never published. This journalist wasn't about to make the same mistake.