Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!cwjcc!neoucom!wtm
From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mouse cord nuisance from lap (was Re: Monitors: What Next?)
Summary: Radar operated mouse
Message-ID: <1405@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 88 16:43:24 GMT
References: <15572@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <16891@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <31811@bbn.COM>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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I'd like to see a microwave or infrared operated mouse that used
doppler shift or some form of interferometry for sensing motion
over an arbitrary surface.  I suppose this could be done with an
acoustic wave too.  It would be nice to have the
advantages of a nonmechanical mouse and also eliminate that striped
mosueboard a la Sun worksation too.  Then I could leave the mouse
in my lap and run it over my leg or whatever.  Gee; that sounds
rather R or at least PG rated now that I think about it.  I can see
it now in your bookstore "The Art of Sensual Computing" or some
such rot.  Maybe this isn't a good idea.

--Bill                               "Thermonuclear what?"