This Invisible PC Mouse Only Cost $20 to Make

[Lekko]

Well that's great, only it can't click and drag. That's kinda important.

 

[iqvl]

It would become my favorite mouse if it can do at least 1000dpi, because it "fits" everyone's hand extremely well!

 

[bp 4575]

I've invented something like this. Not actually made it mind you, but I should have patented it

 

[loomis86]

Lets see 'em do the keyboard like that now.

 

[christop]

Looks too bulky to me..

 

[athreex]

Hollow Mouse.

 

[buzznut]

Yay! maybe this will ease my carpal tunnel.

 

[emlee0203]

if you have a visible mouse, you blew it...

 

[Guest]

it cost $20 in equipment, but it most likely took tons of hours for the 3 MIT students to design and wrote the drivers.

 

[pythy]

Neat, I'll buy this using my invisible money.

 

[eddieroolz]

First thing I thought was "what, it costs money to grasp air?"

😀

 

[JOSHSKORN]

Tom & Jerry was more entertaining to watch.

 

[Guest]

At least it doesn't look as retarded as Kinekt 😀

 

[gwolfman]

That guy doesn't even know how to use a mouse in Windows correctly/effectively (@ 2:13). After he right-clicks to get the context menu open on the Windows desktop, he double-clicks to get into the 'new' section, then double-clicks again to select the file type. LOLZ! Single-click will do fine buddy.

 

[szalkerous]

[citation][nom]Hargak[/nom]I'm not one of your invisible friends, so no I cannot see.Latency here is killer it would never work. first cpu reads camera through already laggy usb port, then translates signal and processes through software to get movement. this takes about .6 seconds alone. now imagine during a game how much less cpu would be available to process it and add about .5 seconds. .1 seconds is noticeable lag. The early lcd gtv's had a very high latency (time you make a motion on a computer plus the time it takes to display it.) this was bad at 16ms 1000ms equals 1 seconds which means your looking at a latency of at least 600ms.No this is not the future.[/citation]

I disagree, you're not looking at the bigger picture here. All projects start out as a concept and then a proof of design is built. What these students did was prove it's possible, and the software logic is the key point here. If this were to be marketable, they could easily integrate all the components into an independent hardware device with localized data streams and a microcontroller to do all the work at much higher speeds, and translate the data as a HID to the PC's OS. I personally think this was a great project and I'm sure they had a lot of fun building it. Try keeping an open mind.

 

[misry]

[citation][nom]excalibur1814[/nom]"Using no mouse is MAGICAL and anyone using a mouse just doesn't get it"[/citation]

If it's like the "disappearing pencil" you can keep it.

 

[CPfreak]

O see this working out really well with 3D, just imagine grabbing things in front of you, or slashing with your hand to hit a real enemy...

 

[Guest]

Laser eats battery, and what happens if you use it on a laptop in a shaky train or plane? You'll probably find it's very hard to click on an icon.

 

[lurker123]

It's harder to rest your hand on an air mouse.

 

[tinnerdxp]

This won't sell because:
1. It does not provide enough space for Apple logo
2. Apple spies won't be able to steal it (so apple will never release such product).
Hmmm... then again... it's useless, it won't work and it's so "revolutionary" that I'm starting to think... that Apple will actually buy into this... and sell it with a mousepad with massive apple logo...
Oh shit.... Ban that video before SJ sees it!