There are no picture of the invisible computer mouse , because the shiner itself does n’t exist . It ’s just an infrared optical maser beam and an infrared photographic camera tracking your hand from the side of a laptop . Could this be the next Apple mouse ?
If only to be capable to apply the name Invisible Mouse , I can reckon Steve Jobs infix it : “ The next mouse is no black eye ! BOOM ! ” However , Mouseless — the actual name for this equipment — was not developed by anyone at Cupertino , but by a Pranav Mistry , a research helper and Ph.D. campaigner at the Fluid Interfaces Group , MIT Media Lab . Pranav is the same researcher who created theSixth Sensecomputer interface ..
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Unlike Sixth Sense , his new Mouseless does n’t necessitate any special gloves or markings . The IR laser beam of light has a credit line chapiter , and it ’s positioned in such a way that it creates a planer on the table in which the computer is positioned . The plane straighten out your fingers as they make contact with the tabular array surface , and the IR camera trail those contact point . When the user “ clicks ” , the tv camera also detects the move and register it .
It ’s a pretty dim-witted concept , but it seems to work perfectly in the demo . full cost of the prototype : $ 20 . Seems like the kind of twist that could be mass - manufactured and build - in in every electronic computer for peanuts . [ Pranav Mistry ]
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