News tagged with computer mouse
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 ...
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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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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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 ...
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 ...
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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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 ...
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 ...
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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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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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
Mar 10, 2009 |
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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.
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Robotic Mouse Makes Maze Debut at UCSD (w/Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- An intrepid group of UC San Diego undergraduate engineers designed and built a robotic mouse from scratch as part of the IEEE MicroMouse competition.
May 05, 2009 |
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Washable keyboard, mouse are easy to clean but not very functional
Your toilet is probably cleaner than your computer keyboard. Sad (and disgusting) but true. One researcher at the University of Arizona found that the average desk has 100 times more bacteria than a kitchen ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 13, 2009 |
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Logitech Unveils Mice That Work Where Others Fail -- Glass Surface (w/ Video)
Today, Logitech took the computer mouse where no mouse has gone before. With Logitech Darkfield Laser Tracking, you can use your mouse virtually anywhere you want - including clear glass (that's at least 4 mm thick) and high-gloss ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 19, 2009 |
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