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I always thought they should make a mouse-type device, which was actually a glove- moving your hand would move the mouse, and grabbing would click or whatever. The pointer could even be replaced with a virtual hand. This would be great for games like Black and White.
Also you could have on on the
other hand as well, and use a virtual keyboard- which would cut laptops down to just a screen (and drives, etc.) It might take some getting use to but would be really awesome.
PowerGlove serial interface
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigarch/pgsi/
Baked, thanks to Mattel and some college kids. [bookworm, May 05 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Glove Keyboard
http://www.nytimes....hnology/12PATE.html
Even more half-baked, but someone just patented it. [DrCurry, Aug 12 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Mouse Glove
http://www.mid-wale...da.co.uk/brecon.htm
Another baking version, by a 16 year old in the U.K. [krelnik, Oct 21 2002]
Mouse Glove
http://news.bbc.co....s/wales/2335069.stm
Another baking version, by a 16 year old in the U.K. [krelnik, Oct 04 2004]
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Baked for a while, though the
resolution isn't generally good
enough to replace keyboard and mouse. |
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::::::::trying to figure out all the body parts that PeterSealy might use to point and click:::::::: |
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not a bad idea but there is a prob, if you just have the glove you cant type on your keyboard anymore, ok let's say you have then also a virtual keyboard euhhh well big prob for me i am a big smoker i can't imagine what my mouse or keyboard would do each time i smoke, i guess you will answer stop smoking, good idea but not good enough... sorry |
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Some friends and I have been discussing this... this is what we came up with:
-elastic bands around your wrist and your palm w/velcro
-semiflexible band attaching the two with the computer chip
-semiflexible bands protruding from the back of your hand attached to individual "finger sockets"
-how far out these bands protrude can be changed
-acceleration and tilt sensing chips to detect movement
-twisting your wrist could be another input
-the bands would have stress sensors to detect when a finger is pressed
-a wire prodrudes from the back which goes to the computer usb port |
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-the setup program will let you completly customize it
how far you have to "press" a finger
-what happens when you press groups of fingers (grabbing could be cut and paste...)
-there would also be different setups for different programs (like the FF Sidewinder Controller)
-some people using autocad could zoom in/out by tilting your hand
-other people could tilt their aircraft in a flight sim
-wireless would work much better, but also make it heavier |
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Hope I haven't left anything out... |
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I was really hoping this would be about fingermouse... |
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Having toruble with Black and white? You and me both - do what I did and get a Microsoft Sidewinder Strategic Commander. Feels quite natural, actually.
But I gave up on BW - I just never felt like I could get into it - strange concept and all... |
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because everyone hates microsoft and it must die!!!excuse me got a little carried away there... |
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A kitchen glove and a quickcam. It will
be ready for september 2003 :-) |
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http://dftuz.unizar.es/~rivero/alumnos/vmouse.html |
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