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The Mouse Vanishes
countertrolling sends in a clip from Wired that begins "...researchers at MIT have found a method to let users click and scroll exactly the same way they would with a computer mouse, without the device actually being there. Cup your palm, move it around on a table and a cursor on the screen hovers. Tap on the table like you would click a real mouse, and the computer responds. It's one step beyond cordless. It's an invisible mouse. The project, called 'Mouseless,' uses an infrared laser beam and camera to track the movements of the palm and fingers and translate them into computer commands... A working prototype of the Mouseless system costs approximately $20 to build, says Pranav Mistry, who is leading the project."
When can I get an invisible monitor? That's where the 1337 hackers are at!
So what's the DPI on my cupped palm?
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
...they came for my mouse's balls, and I said nothing.
Then they came for my mouse, and there was no one left to squeak up.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
I'd prefer not to be a conductor for 8+ hours a day.
Tapping on a desk with with a fingernail seems tactile enough to me. I just wonder if it can detect motion finely enough to let me "click" without having to "stage-mouse".
Think of the arms you'd have... maybe nerds would finally break the stigma of the target of bullies!
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
Well, yeah, if it's done in Windows...
And my porn keeps scrolling rapidly up and down the screen!
Yeah, fail.
You think you got it bad - I use a chalkboard for a desk.
Your proposal is acceptable.
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
Lift your hand and hold it limp.
Fag...
"I see you are holding a joystick. Starting World of Warcraft with videoconferencing enabled."
If only more of them had a clit...
Story of my life, man.
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Well you can couple this device with the newly invented desks, which provide a resisting force when you try to put your finger through them, that way you have a tactile feedback of when you clicked the button.
I also put my real mouse away when I'm using a text editor...otherwise he craps all over the keyboard.
You must have a smarter mouse though, mine is really bad at selecting any items other than cheese.
Oh, im pretty sure lasers can give tacticle feedback.
The question is if you'd really want that kind of feedback or not.