News tagged with computer mouse

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

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 11 | with audio podcast report

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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (15) | comments 26 | with audio podcast report

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 ...

Technology / Software

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 16 | with audio podcast report

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

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 4

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 ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

Google refines searches for pictures and news

Google on Monday unveiled software tools that let people search the Internet using pictures or chronologically organize results of queries for news.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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.

Technology / Software

created Apr 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3 | with audio podcast

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

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast weblog

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.

Technology / Other

created Sep 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

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

created Jan 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 14

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.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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

created Apr 26, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Corky, The Little Brown Mouse That's 100 Percent Green

(PhysOrg.com) -- A computer mouse that’s made from recycled and biodegradable cork and recycled plastic components is one of 18 finalists in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition. But its technology is even ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 12, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

Nanotech coating could lead to better brain implants to treat diseases

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomedical and materials engineers at the University of Michigan have developed a nanotech coating for brain implants that helps the devices operate longer and could improve treatment for ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0