Titanium Mouse by Intelligent Design costs $1,200, might be worth a little less
No matter how bad the global economy gets, you can always rely on there being a select few people with (a lot) more money than sense. Exclusively for them, Dutch outfit Intelligent Design has put together this handcrafted Bluetooth laser mouse, which boasts a neodymium scroll wheel, high quality plastic resin and a grade 1 titanium body. We didn’t know you could handcraft titanium and we challenge anyone to explain what neodymium has to do with good input ergonomics, but then maybe that just shows how little we know about luxurious items like this. So, if you have $1,200 (or €800 in Old World money) to spare, why not add this unnamed mouse to your shopping list, just under the Mnemosyne USB drive? More snaps can be found after the break.
[Via HardOCP]
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Titanium Mouse by Intelligent Design costs $1,200, might be worth a little less originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 27th, 2009
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Topics: InputDevice, Laser, LaserMouse, Luxury, bluetooth, expensive, input device, laser mouse, luxurious, mouse, neodymium, peripherals, rich, titanium
Tangible 3D UI being developed in Japan (video)
People have been trying to sell us 3D this and 3D that for ages, but for the most part it’s always been the same flat surface we’re looking at and poking with our fingers. Some restless souls in Japan, however — including Engadget’s very own Kentaro Fukuchi — have begun developing a way for computers to recognize a person’s interactions with real objects and to respond accordingly. The essence of this new technique is to use translucent rubbery objects, whose diffraction of specially polarized light is picked up by a camera. Thus, relatively subtle actions like squeezing and stretching can be picked up by the different light results produced. Still in the early stages of design, the system is hoped to assist in surgery training, though we’ve got video of its more fun potential uses after the break.
[via New Scientist]
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Tangible 3D UI being developed in Japan (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 13th, 2009
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Topics: 3d, 3d ui, 3d user interface, 3dUi, 3dUserInterface, ComputerInterface, InputDevice, InputDevices, Kentaro, Kentaro Fukuchi, KentaroFukuchi, UserInterface, computer interface, input, input device, input devices, interface, japan, plastic, rubber, ui, user interface
