news.cens.com — A micro system technology laboratory recently unveiled a wireless flying mouse, which can be moved and rotated in the air for 3-dimension object manipulation. With the 3D device mounted on wrist, users can play interactive computer games and make presentations wirelessly.
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Closed AccountMay 30, 2006
One of sharps projectors has a device (wireless) like the wii control with a built-in gyroscope that you can use for presentation, I saw that 3 years ago. Why is the Taiwanese thing new?!
cedrickMay 30, 2006
all true. but if they were dumb enough to make the mouse communicate with your machine via wireless router, then it would be wi-fi. RETARDED, i know, but still wi-fi.
idiggMay 30, 2006
i totally agree with the "flying mouse" thing
boycyMay 30, 2006
Yes, I think Madaxe's point was the mobile communication medium GSM is wireless, but NOT Wi-Fi. Some phones have Wi-Fi capability but it's not their primary comm's medium, it's an additional feature.
drigzMay 30, 2006
That's what I was thinking, until I realised that it's not a flying mouse in the sense of like a robot mouse with helicopter blades, but just like a gyromouse...
gr8fuldaneMay 30, 2006
I've been using a Gyro wireless mouse that communicates through RF from Gyration for a few years now. It's great for a media center PC. What is supposed to be the difference? It's a rather vague article.
nahodaMay 30, 2006
How in the world did this get dugg to the front page with no pictures? No digg from me!
machismoMay 31, 2006
This is NOT an invention. The Wii-remote is, at its core, this same device. Even Nintendo did not invent it. It's been around for sometime, but never on the consumer marker.FAIL.
shrimpcrackersJun 2, 2006
The article doesn't even say it was "Invented" it says "unveiled". Thats totally different.The innovation here is the low power consumption. The lab which I used to work at had a ball which you could manipulate to do the same thing, except the base required its own power adapter and had to be plugged in and the ball ran on 4 AA batteries. Blame MSaleem for blowing something totally out of proportion and not reading his source properly.