A teacup (fine white bone China of course), with optics built into bottom of the cup that lets you move your cup about, and acting as a mouse with a button on the top of the handle, and another on the inside of the handle acting as lefts and rights, with a small pressure pad below the top button to act as a scroller.

Why do you ask, would you require this..well how many times has a good cup of tea gone to waste whilst you were festidiously working away.. you could carry on working while never having taken your hand off the mouse for a slirp of tea...

Obviously it would have to be a remote mouse, otherwise you could have one with a cable which would stop people knocking off your cup...but washing it could be an issue.. and in another 3 to 4 thousand years you could use the heat from the cup to run a small steam turbine to power your mouse...
-- Supercruiser, Dec 09 2003

Of course, there is the chance that most of my tea will end up in the keyboard when I get particularly excited by a game of "Space Invaders"...
-- Micky Dread, Dec 09 2003


Heh, "festidious". Is that when you work scrupulously and meticulously at party planning?
-- half, Dec 09 2003


Tap the spoon twice to double-click?
-- phoenix, Dec 09 2003


Damn. Gotta refill my mouse. Yeah, yeah, I'll have it done in time. Just get me another croissant.
-- Letsbuildafort, Dec 09 2003


Running low on tea ... and the letter S again.
Thanks, bliss
-- Letsbuildafort, Dec 09 2003


Actually, this is one of the few devices that might actually be able to run off of a Peltier junction, since mice use so little power. The wireless optical mouse I have claims to be able to run for half a year on two AA batteries.

Bonus, because when your tea gets cold you have a good excuse to go get a refill.
-- scad mientist, Dec 09 2003


How do you wash it up?

And, [piggywig]. How blatantly self-promoting are you? (go piggy, go piggy). Welcome to the HB.
-- squeak, Dec 09 2003



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