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From: michaelw@microsoft.UUCP (Michael Winser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mouse cord nuisance from lap (was Re: Monitors: What Next?)
Message-ID: <1227@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 88 22:36:09 GMT
References: <15572@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <16891@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <31811@bbn.COM> <1405@neoucom.UUCP>
Reply-To: michaelw@microsoft.UUCP (Michael Winser)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <1405@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>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

I've that Xerox (or maybe Park Place)  has just such a mouse.  A
friend of mine who once worked there told me about it.
Apparently you could use any surface that had colour changes.  Wooden
table tops, cordoroy trousers, even your jeans!

Does anyone know if this is commercially available?  I tried to find
one about a year ago, but gave up and instead, bought a mouse from
logitech (no complaints).

I do think getting rid of the rodent's tail would be very nice, it's
always getting tangled up with my keyboard and monitors etc.

Mike
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