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Subject: Stylus-Shaped Mouse
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Date: Wed, 23-Jan-85 13:00:37 EST
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From: Ken Laws <Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA>

  From the CMU bboard:

    Thanks to several people who responded to my post about a ball-point mouse;
    what I'm looking for is a mouse that LOOKS like a pen (stylus-shaped).
    It seems to me that this would be a much better way to input drawings.

					Kenneth.Goldberg@CMU-CS-H
					kyg@cmu-cs-h.arpa


An SRI group makes a force-sensitive pen that is used for signature
analysis.  I believe it measures forces in x, y, and z directions;
I assume that it also measures x-y position.  This input device would
allow an artist considerably more freedom in sketching and "brush
stroking" than does a mouse.

					-- Ken Laws
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