CES 2011: Microsoft Unveils Touch Mouse2011-01-06 11:01 by DanielaTags: Microsoft, Touch Mouse
Microsoft Touch Mouse aims at bringing touch input to the desktop user.But can it succeed in making multitouch more widely available? Multitouch is great - as long as you have an input device that supports it. For the desktop machine this is something of a problem. Not many have multitouch enabled monitors and the ones that do aren't exactly natural to use in a vertical mode. Multitouch works best on mobile devices that you tend to hold horizontally. Now Microsoft thinks it has the answer in the form a new mouse - Touch Mouse, that supports gestures. The Touch Mouse was launched at this years CES. It is a development resulting from the Mouse 2 project at Microsoft Research. The mouse works with one, two or three-fingered gestures, all performed on the surface of the mouse which is a capacitive (the best kind) touch sensor. By moving a single finger over the surface you can scroll and pan and a thumb movement gives a back-forward signal. Two fingers moved together produces a snap window left/right command or maximise/restore. Three fingers produces a task switch or show desktop command. Read more -here- Watch video:
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YARDofSTUF - 2011-01-06 13:21
Its cool, but not for me. I always move my fingers around on the mouse, so I'd be scrolling even when I wiouldn't want to be. lol
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