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The ball mouse may have a use yet. Inside a standard ball mouse, there are two rollers that track the rotation of the ball for x/y movement.
Simply attach a small motor such as those used in pagers to the rollers, and you have a mouse that's able to move itself. Add some special software drivers,
and it can be fully application controlled. Make it wireless for longer distances.
Great for pranks, but beyond that I see little practical purpose.
(?) Robotic Mice
http://www.harvardm...99/right.touch.html
Brief news article on haptic mouse [tiromancer, Dec 27 2004]
Haptic Mouse
http://diuf.unifr.c...ssi_ICAT_2004_1.pdf
A more detailed paper, with pictures [tiromancer, Dec 27 2004]
"Web Based Applications for Blind People to Create Virtual Graphs"
http://www.dcs.gla....YU_Haptics03_v8.pdf
Surprisingly self explanatory title [tiromancer, Dec 27 2004]
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There are a few, more practical uses |
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Sorry, rounding up links. Map reading, gaming, interface for the blind, faster and more streamlined interfaces/increased productivty etc. It's a pretty big field. |
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Surgery, and remote operation of various types of devices. |
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Ok, surgery might be pushing it. |
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The mouse would appear to be completely normal. It uses the normal sensors already on the mouse for both the cursor and motor movement. |
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You wouldn't be able to tell it from a regular mouse until it starts moving. |
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The inkjet idea gets me thinking. If the mouse had a high quality optic sensor on it as well, it could replace the scanner and webcam. (You have to train it to sit up for the webcam mode:) |
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Using the flash memory idea, it could scan/print directly to it's internal memory without the computer. This however might be too complex for the user without a display. |
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