Absolute Rings: Examples of Alternative Mice
The computer mouse was shown to the world in 1968, and has since undergone a number of changes. This is a convenient and practical manipulator, but it also has flaws. A number of alternative input devices aimed at replacing the mouse are aimed at combating them.
In 2006-2007, the students of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute WPI made an ultrasonic mouse. A set of sensors tracks the movement of hands in space. The ring on which the device is fixed is its battery.
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In 2011, the Master Kit Company offered the MT6022 finger mouse to the Russian consumer. Now it can be found in the store for about five hundred rubles. But this mouse is a wired one, you have to plug it into a USB connector.
Manipulator from Genius allows you to control the cursor without using the surface of the table. The device is put on the index finger, and with your thumb you drive along the touchpad and press the buttons. The device appeared on the market in 2010.
An updated version of the gadget called Genius Ring Presenter and appeared in 2013.
In 2013, Kickstarter funded the project Mycestro - “Next-generation 3D mouse”. The gadget is mounted on the index finger and controls the cursor when you move your hand, but only if you touch it - this is a protection against false positives. A startup offers to buy a gadget for 99 dollars.
Last year, on Kickstarter, the Ring project three times exceeded the required amount. The “absolute power ring” allows you to control applications and appliances using gestures, recognize text input and notify you of events using a LED backlight and a vibration motor.
Touchside from students of Tomsk Polytechnic University uses an optical method of removing information. The bracelet with a microcontroller, transmitting module and battery is mounted on the forearm. The photosensitive matrix in the plastic case is put on on a finger. Under the pad of the finger - a button that replaces the left mouse button. The image of the reference surface focuses on the matrix, the controller processes the sequence of images and determines the direction of movement.
The main advantages of the project are the low price of the product. Which one is unknown.
Last year's ION Wireless Air Mouse gadget resembles an improved version of the device Tomsk students. The mouse is divided into two parts, one is put on the finger, the other is located on the glove. The connection of the parts with each other is via a wire, and the connection to the computer via bluetooth. The gadget works at a distance of up to ten meters from the computer. Its main advantage is that the surface is not needed for work, it is enough to drive with your hand in the air.
Ring shaped ultrasonic mouse
In 2006-2007, the students of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute WPI made an ultrasonic mouse. A set of sensors tracks the movement of hands in space. The ring on which the device is fixed is its battery.
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Masterkit
In 2011, the Master Kit Company offered the MT6022 finger mouse to the Russian consumer. Now it can be found in the store for about five hundred rubles. But this mouse is a wired one, you have to plug it into a USB connector.
Touchpad on finger
Manipulator from Genius allows you to control the cursor without using the surface of the table. The device is put on the index finger, and with your thumb you drive along the touchpad and press the buttons. The device appeared on the market in 2010.
An updated version of the gadget called Genius Ring Presenter and appeared in 2013.
Mycestro
In 2013, Kickstarter funded the project Mycestro - “Next-generation 3D mouse”. The gadget is mounted on the index finger and controls the cursor when you move your hand, but only if you touch it - this is a protection against false positives. A startup offers to buy a gadget for 99 dollars.
Absolute power ring
Last year, on Kickstarter, the Ring project three times exceeded the required amount. The “absolute power ring” allows you to control applications and appliances using gestures, recognize text input and notify you of events using a LED backlight and a vibration motor.
Tomsk Polytechnic University
Touchside from students of Tomsk Polytechnic University uses an optical method of removing information. The bracelet with a microcontroller, transmitting module and battery is mounted on the forearm. The photosensitive matrix in the plastic case is put on on a finger. Under the pad of the finger - a button that replaces the left mouse button. The image of the reference surface focuses on the matrix, the controller processes the sequence of images and determines the direction of movement.
The main advantages of the project are the low price of the product. Which one is unknown.
Mouse Glove
Last year's ION Wireless Air Mouse gadget resembles an improved version of the device Tomsk students. The mouse is divided into two parts, one is put on the finger, the other is located on the glove. The connection of the parts with each other is via a wire, and the connection to the computer via bluetooth. The gadget works at a distance of up to ten meters from the computer. Its main advantage is that the surface is not needed for work, it is enough to drive with your hand in the air.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/376157/
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