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A Guy Made a Computer Mouse That is Also a Functional Laptop (vice.com)

Posted by msmash on from the because-why-not dept.

A YouTube user who goes by Electronic Grenade has designed a computer mouse that is also a functional laptop. From a report: As detailed in a video published on Sunday, the computer mouse computer consists of a 3d-printed mouse, a Raspberry Pi microcontroller, a small keyboard, and a handful of components that were taken from a normal computer mouse. "Even though the screen is attached to the mouse, the sensitivity of the mouse makes it not that hard to follow along with what is happening on the screen," Electronic Grenade said in the video. Nevertheless, the mouse does have its faults. According to Electronic Grenade, a few resource intensive applications will occasionally cause the mouse computer to crash.

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  1. Clever but pointless by sjbe · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Old quote. Just because you are different doesn't mean you are useful.

    I'll grant that this is clever but it's hard to see any practical value in it. Obviously done for entertainment. This is what annoys me about a lot of so called Maker culture. They spend huge brainpower on things that are obviously useless. Nothing wrong with entertaining yourself building something just because you can but maybe take a tiny bit of effort to actually solve a real problem while you are at it? This is like the old calculator watches from my youth - got you geek cred to wear one but they were utterly useless to actually try and use.

  2. Lame. A server inside a RJ45 connector was better by itsme1234 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And that was almost 14 years ago:

    https://hardware.slashdot.org/...