From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] mouse replacement In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:38:50 EST." From: Bakul Shah Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:07:51 -0800 Message-Id: <20061215210751.F09495B49@mail.bitblocks.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: f4e41c76-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > http://www.naturalpoint.com/smartnav/products/basic/basic_overview.html I wonder if it will replace wrist RSI with a neck pain. But this is an interesting and relatively simple idea. A variety of uses and related ideas come to mind. Probably not too hard to implement with a gumstix and a camera.... And may be even build a multi-input device by tracking multiple dots of different colors. But what I really want are these multi-touch devices. Check these links to see the kind of things one can do! http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/ http://oracledmt.blogspot.com/2006/02/multi-touch-screens-next-input-device.html http://edwardhtse.googlepages.com/edwardtse-videos.html The first link requires a quicktime plugin. The other two flashplayer plugin for youtube videos. > And sneezing would be a pretty good > simulation of that thing that happens > when the Plan 9 PS/2 mouse driver > gets confused and the mouse flies all > over the screen.