h a l f b a k e r yI like this idea, only I think it should be run by the government.
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A wireless USB mouse, with all of the usual functions you'd expect of a 4-button mouse, with a few additions.
- Little silicone rubber ears, for buttons. Another pressable pad below each "ear", for the 3rd & 4th buttons
- Silky, soft fur so it is soothing, calming and wonderful to touch
When
the mouse is not in use it is free to wander about your desk, collecting paperclips and arranging them into little piles, or rolling a pencil a few inches, then circling your coffee mug. It scuttles back to the end of your keyboard, immediately, when you click your fingers.
It also takes the time, if not being used, to groom some dust and gunk from its fur with tiny, extendible brushes that are mounted where a real mouse's feet would be. It later deposits a tiny pellet of dirt and dust near the edge of the desk so you can sweep it into a bin or knock it to the floor for the cleaners to remove.
Ventricular_20Mouse
ahem...... been there. Check out the original Ventricular Mouse! [xenzag, Oct 07 2009, last modified Oct 11 2009]
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keep the cat out of the room. |
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Don't feed the mouse. (Cheese disappears from office
fridge, mysteriously the day after Bubba and Co.
introduces the new Mouse.) |
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I like the LED eyes bit. I'm not sure what colour I would like to see flooding out from beneath it if it's used at night? Pick the wrong colour and it will need a doof-doof sound system. |
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Maybe it could live in your shirt pocket, [bigsleep]. I thought of that, but no plausible way of it getting in there by itself. |
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Wouldn't the battery drain pretty quickly on a wireless USB
mouse? |
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//battery drain pretty quickly..?//
with a motion-winder you could give it to the cat while you're not on the comp, then snap your fingers and a charged mouse comes running. |
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Why not use a real live mouse, but fit an optical tracking device to its belly? |
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//Wouldn't the battery drain pretty quickly on a wireless USB mouse?// |
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The two I've got seem to go about 4-5 weeks before I swap out the rechargeable battery. |
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It wouldn't run out as fast as my patience with malicious behaviour does, of that I'm certain. |
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//Chill.
[edit: bun and annos withdrawn for being stroppy]
— bigsleep, Oct 05 2009 // |
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Stroppy? I simply detest people who use the voting system here to attempt to control the behaviour of other people. Some people seem determined to use the voting system here in a ham-fisted attempt to modify the behaviour of others. |
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Meanwhile, back at the idea... |
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LED eyes might not be necessary. Make a small hole in the casing, covered with a transparent bead that will pick up the internal reflection of the laser. |
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Perhaps the whiskers could be modified antennae, to give it better range than the expensive USB mice I have? |
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Fill it with "perfumed" liquid that gradually dribbles out, and also black gunk that is extruded in little pellets, for that extra-lifelike touch. |
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If it detects others within wireless range they will either fight or mate. Will make shared desks much more entertaining. |
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UB, a regular wireless mouse lasts as long as it does because you
do all the work. You move it, you push the buttons. To have it
moving itself and pulsating (the heartbeat) will drain the battery
much more quickly. I'm not saying I don't think it's a good idea.
Just pointing out that you'll need to change the batteries pretty
frequently. I didn't vote on this at all. |
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It's redundant. See link. |
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Not quite the same thing, Xen. Yours doesn't move around
autonomously. I'm not saying your idea's not as good, and I
bunned it when you posted it (and I stand by that bun), but this
one is different enough to stand alone... I think. It is quite
similar, though... is there a Moderator in the room? |
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//You move it, you push the buttons. To have it moving itself and pulsating (the heartbeat) will drain the battery much more quickly.// Regenerative braking! |
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I suppose an induction charger in the mousepad might work... |
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Maybe a little dodgem car setup, with the mouse's tail pulling in a small charge from a tiny, electrified net over the top of your mousemat. |
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It could clean up your desk with an oh-so-teeny-weeny vaccum, and compress the dust into pellets to extract. Like the grooming idea, but it means less use for Windex at the desk. |
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Oh, a sort of Vacuumouse... Rumbamouse? |
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Ears, fur, gel, and heat are fine, but I don't have a need for kaka on my mousepad. |
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It shits near the edge of the desk, so you can take care of it, [XSX]. |
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and the "kaka" came from the desk to begin with |
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Or from the body oils, sweat and biscuit crumbs of the user. |
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//Why not use a real live mouse, but fit an optical tracking
device to its belly?// Excellent idea. However, a terrapin
might be easier to modify. Terrapin shells normally grow as
fast as the terrapin itself, but there must be some way (?
inflatable sub-shell implants?) to encourage the shell to
overgrow, leaving space inside for the electronics. |
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This could be very useful for keeping your cat from wandering across the keyboard while you're getting a coffee. [+] |
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I still say it's redundant! (small squeeking voice refers to link) |
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Not exactly redundant, more of a "great minds think alike" situation. |
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True; some ideas are alike, but some are alike prior to others. |
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I've read your idea, [xenzag], and will delete mine or modify it sufficiently to differentiate it. Happy? |
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//Ventricular Mouse is transparent// Not much similarity with this furry one then? |
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//will delete mine or modify it sufficiently to differentiate it. Happy?// You do what you think is right, not in order to make me happy. De rules are de rules. I once deleted an idea with 40+ croissants on it, when a prior version was pointed out. That's how it works here. |
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I'm pretty sure I know how it works here. |
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Ribcage and heartbeat removed. Now it's a spineless, heartless, furry facsimile of its former self. |
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Xenzag, the mouse in this post is opaque, wireless, moves
autonomously, cleans the desktop, and poops! Yours doesn't do
any of that. It's not prior art by any means. By your definition of
prior art, your own idea should be MFD'd because it uses a USB
cable and is moved by hand, which is how most existing mice
work. The only parts of this idea that were similar to yours were
the ribcage and heartbeat, which were only a tiny fraction of the
features mentioned. |
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What if the mouse chews through an electrical cable,like a real mouse? |
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ZZPPPPPTTT *sparks all over, cooked mouseon the desk* |
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Cue the "cat scene" from Griswold's Christmas Vacation... possibly the funniest cinema scene ever made. |
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Cuecat? It's a good thing they're not distributing those any more, or your mousemouse would be in trouble. |
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Cue Cat? You need 22 balls to play snooker. |
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/checks underwear/ Ah, I'm out then |
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