Dream mouse!

[zackepceo]

It should have 3 laser sensors, 12 programmable buttons, a trackpad, a built in hand warmer, an integrated SD card reader, connect via Firewire, have a built-in stapler, automated cleaning, a little LCD to show the CPU load, and a built-in flashlight.

[SamuraiCatJB]

and cleans your desk while you are out shopping, or working.... :o

[Cyker]

Mice and keyboards suck. I want a neurohelmet.

[SamuraiCatJB]

Mice and keyboards suck. I want a neurohelmet.

neuro helmets are bulky and get all sweaty... I'll just take 7 of 9 as my personal user interface. ;)

[Tam Hanna]

I would just like a nice optical mouse...

[neogin]

hope that it can talk while your boss isn't there :D

[Vectorman]

"Oh you have to use you're hands!?! Thats like a baby's toy!" ~Back to the Future

[strider_mt2k]

I've been using Logitec Wireless KB & Mouse combos for a few years now.
When I moved my original setup to work, my boss saw it and I was hooking his up for him by the end of the week!

I love the Cordless MX Duo. The rechargeable mouse is fantastic, (with lots of buttons!)

[athlon64]

It should have 3 laser sensors, 12 programmable buttons, a trackpad, a built in hand warmer, an integrated SD card reader, connect via Firewire, have a built-in stapler, automated cleaning, a little LCD to show the CPU load, and a built-in flashlight.

Why 3 sensors? X and Y is reasonable, but what are you going to do with the 3rd one, track the Z axis?
12 buttons? Use the keyboard. Having that many buttons would make it too messy.
Whats the point of a trackpad if you're going to have optical sensors?
Built in hand warmer would be nice, maybe it could be powered by the heat of all the other stuff in it.
If you have a built in SD reader, you can have an MMC and MS reader as well. Look at the Lexar JumpDrive Trio for example.
The only thing connecting via firewire would do is make people buy a firewire card if they don't have firewire.
Can't look at an LCD if your hand is covering the screen.
You could use the sensor as a flashlight, but incorporating a highpowered LED isn't hard.

[SamuraiCatJB]

Why 3 sensors? X and Y is reasonable, but what are you going to do with the 3rd one, track the Z axis?
12 buttons? Use the keyboard. Having that many buttons would make it too messy.
Whats the point of a trackpad if you're going to have optical sensors?
Built in hand warmer would be nice, maybe it could be powered by the heat of all the other stuff in it.
If you have a built in SD reader, you can have an MMC and MS reader as well. Look at the Lexar JumpDrive Trio for example.
The only thing connecting via firewire would do is make people buy a firewire card if they don't have firewire.
Can't look at an LCD if your hand is covering the screen.
You could use the sensor as a flashlight, but incorporating a highpowered LED isn't hard.


Actually, at work I effectively use 6 axis control on a 6dof mouse. The buttons I will agree with you. I have 12 buttons and still can only effectively use three at a time. the advantage with my cad mouse is that I can "slowly" (i.e. look at the mouse, change a finger) use a different middle button. But I don't consider it that much of an advantage. But 6dof sensors, absotively a blast. :)

[zackepceo]

This was more tongue in cheek than you took it as, athlon64.. but a mouse with 3 laser sensors would improve accuracy. Think error correcting tracking. On my MX1000, I use all of the buttons. I think they're very well placed. The trackpad could, well, it's useless. There are size differences between SD and MS cards that are not easily overcome, and when someone says SD reader nowadays they almost always mean SD/MMC reader. As for Firewire, I have 5 firewire ports and only use 2. I think it would be nice to free up a USB port, of which I have 10 and use all of. The LCD would be presumibly used for battery power, but with a firewire connection I can't justify it. The LED thing is fairly useless, too. And on a laser mouse, you can't see the beam unless you look right at it. It doesn't work for illuminating like a flashlight.

[JackAxe]

Ahhhh, multiple lasers. I would move to that, but I'm at a point, where the mouse is just as accurate as the Wacom, so any limitation is the CPU and software now.

My ideal mouse would have an even longer battery life. The MX1000 is awesome, but I've worked soo much this week, that the battery has gone to red twice. I forgot to charge it this morning, but I was up all night working again.

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[zackepceo]

I forgot to charge my MX1000 for a few days and it got to one green.. that's the lowest I've ever had it. Sadly, I think that battery technology has come to pretty much a halt for the next 3 or 4 years. The only thing that will probably change is cost.

[JackAxe]

Yeah, until something like fuel cells are common in electronics, we're stuck. Mine has gone to red a few times now, but only on weeks like this where as I worked several all nighters. I think I've put in over a hundred hours since Monday. :eek: Freak, I was even up util 5 this morning working. Normally I get about about 36 hours of use, so I usually only charge once a week on average. This has been much nicer then every day like with my MX700.

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[SamuraiCatJB]

Ahhhh, multiple lasers. I would move to that, but I'm at a point, where the mouse is just as accurate as the Wacom, so any limitation is the CPU and software now.



plus you have 3 times the lasers to find by staring into the beam....

lets see... its somewhere around this angle... mmm... somewhe... ACK!

[JackAxe]

I burned my retina and my brain caught on fire the first time I found the beam. :eek: And I was telling all my friends it was an invisible laser.

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