Mouseless is a project from Pranav Mistry, which basically represents the idea of having the usability of a mouse in your computer but without any physical mouse.
And what you are thinking right now is what you get: Do the exact same movements that you usually perform with a normal mouse, but nothing is in your hand. You don’t believe me? Take a look to this awesome video:
How does it work? Using an infrared laser with line cap, plus another infrared camera; creating an invisible layer where your hand interacts and the motions are captured. Understanding every move you make, including left and right clicks.
Mark Bajramovic, co-founder of Deanmark Ltd., started with a simple idea long time ago: Remove the ergonomic and strange mouse designs so far to introduce a much revolutionary idea in achieving comfort while using your mouse. And AirMouse was born, or at least the idea.
The idea of the AirMouse is still using an optical laser aligning it with your hand and wrist to get a more accurate experience with your computer pointer. But wait right there, I know what you are thinking: “If I have one hand dedicated to point things, how I’m going to use the keyboard efficiently?” The technology involved will understand the moments when you are not pointing and trying to write, by disabling the optical movement at that moment.
The company says that using this device you’ll avoid some of the stressing injuries that are very common with computer geeks that spend several hours a day with mouse and keyboard. The device is a rechargeable wireless gadget that could have an entire week of operational movements without recharging.
We can expect this baby in 6 to 12 months from now, and the price will be around U$S130.
Could the AirMouse be the ultimate and definitive change in pointing devices?
Finally someone created some realistic mouse-cars models. I bet you’ve seen much of those available, that maybe could looked OK to you; but believe me, nothing comparing with the new models from RoadMice.
RoadMice prepared a bunch of really cool mouse-cars, wired and wireless models that include even lights in a real fine design. The car models available: Chevy Corvette, Dodge Charger, Chevy Camaro, and many more. Also some versions from GM, Plymouth, Chrysler, Pontiac and Saturn.
The price goes around from u$s35 and u$s50. Not bad.
Here are some of the models included:
Ford GT
Chrysler Cruiser (this one looks a little bit uncomfortable)
Gaming, especially with MMOs of fast paced shooters is difficult with the PC because of the limitations of the keyboard. Obviously one could go for a better mouse with more buttons – openoffice.org though so too.
They have just released a new mouse with 18 buttons including a thumb controlled joystick. It’s fully compatible with games such as WoW and browsers such as Firefox. And yes, obviously it works with the original Open Office software.
From looking at the picture you can probably tell it’s not the most attractive piece of software. I don’t quite get why they chose those colours and the material looks cheap and very 90s-ish. But hey, I’m sure gamers and power users the world over will love this thing.
what you are thinking: “If I have one hand dedicated to point things, how I’m going to use the keyboard efficiently?” The technology involved will understand the moments when you are not pointing and trying to write, by disabling the optical movement at that moment.
