News tagged with computer mouse
Swedish zipper perfecter honored with Google doodle
Google dedicated a doodle Tuesday to the Swedish-American inventor of the modern zipper, Gideon Sundback, on what would have been his 132nd birthday.
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Mouse glove is designed for new comfort zones
(PhysOrg.com) -- Yet another alternative to the conventional computer mouse is being marketed, this time a pull-on glove that behaves as a mouse. The Ion Wireless Air Mouse Glove is from a Cocoa, Florida-base ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 28, 2012 |
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Choreographing dance of electrons offers promise in pursuit of quantum computers
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the basement of Hoyt Laboratory at Princeton University, Alexei Tyryshkin clicked a computer mouse and sent a burst of microwaves washing across a silicon crystal suspended in a frozen ...
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Scientists bring mysterious magnetic process down to earth
With the click of a computer mouse, a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) sends 10,000 volts of electricity into a chamber filled with hydrogen gas. The ...
Oct 25, 2011 |
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Apple alums give home thermostats a new twist
Nest Labs, a startup founded by former Apple engineers, hopes to do for home thermostats what their former employer did for smartphones -- make them hip and intuitive.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Oct 25, 2011 |
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No-borders mouse runs across screens
(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft has announced a free download that lets you work your mouse to navigate across multiple PCs. Mouse Without Borders is the name of the program and it is drawing positive reviews from ...
Sep 13, 2011 |
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Introducing the Amenbo, a five independent finger mouse (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- When you hear the name Amenbo, what do you think of? Is it a computer mouse? Apparently the fine folks over at Double Research & Development Company did think of a mouse because they names ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 23, 2011 |
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Google doodle pays tribute to guitarist Les Paul
Google paid tribute to US guitar legend Les Paul on Thursday by transforming the celebrated logo on its homepage into a guitar which plays when strummed with a computer mouse.
Jun 09, 2011 |
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Free software makes computer mouse easier for people with disabilities
The hand moves the computer mouse, but the cursor doesn't comply. The cursor doesn't go where told.
Apr 08, 2011 |
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Practice more important than age in learning to use computer mouse
Children as young as 5 years old can learn how to use a computer mouse, new research suggests.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 16, 2011 |
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Asus, PrimeSense to bring motion controls to PCs
(AP) -- If you've been wishing you could ditch your clunky computer mouse and control your PC with gestures - the way you can using Microsoft Corp.'s Kinect motion controller for the Xbox 360 gaming console ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 03, 2011 |
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Robotic arm's big flaw: Patients say it's 'too easy'
One touch directs a robotic arm to grab objects in a new computer program designed to give people in wheelchairs more independence.
Sep 23, 2010 |
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Mouse Trail Leads to Online Shoppers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Emory computer scientists Eugene Agichtein and Qi Guo have developed on online tool that helps predict whether a person intends to buy or to browse by tracking the cursor movements.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 03, 2010 |
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Mouseless, the 'invisible' computer mouse (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mouseless is a computer mouse that allows you to interact with a computer with a mouse in the same way as usual - except that there is no mouse hardware. The researchers call it an "invisible ...
Jul 08, 2010 |
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Mobile devices serve as own mice with optical sensing (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The same inexpensive, but high-quality optical sensors employed in the common computer mouse can enable small mobile phones and digital music players to be used as their own pointing and gestural ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 26, 2010 |
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