Your mouse currently measures distance moved.

Add a timing device to the mouse.

d/t calculations galore. Add current speed to your task bar, with associated animal image for pictorial reference.

Add average speed to check if you're a little quicker today than normal.

Have office mousespeedo competitions.
-- jonthegeologist, Sep 17 2003

no, I have no interest whatsoever, and obviously screen resolution will have the greatest impact on the perceived speed.. you're weird.
-- neilp, Sep 17 2003


screen resolution has nothing to do with it. d is derived from physical distance on mousemat or desk. Easy on the insults, bro.
-- jonthegeologist, Sep 17 2003


Mouse already measures speed, as this is used to make the Acceleration work in the MS mouse driver - the faster you move it the more it accelerates, so that a quick movement requires you to only move the mouse a short distance. Ergo, just need it to be represented grpahically or something, don't need any new timing device.
-- goff, Sep 17 2003


How are you gonna train the mice to pose in speedos? And in your office?
-- kevindimie, Sep 17 2003


I'm disappointed; this is neither spandex for rodents nor furry swimsuits for fashion models. Glum.
-- Don Quixote, Sep 17 2003


how can you build up any speed when your mousemat is only 8" long?
-- po, Sep 17 2003


I've seen script snippets to display mouse position and speed, so what you want is out there somewhere.
-- DrCurry, Sep 17 2003


Great idea.
-- andrew76, Jan 22 2004


Nice idea but your speed differs very much depending on what you do. Gaming? or leaving it sit there while you're typing?
-- AliCo, Mar 01 2004


quite right [alico], but this is a olympic-esque vision where the fastest wins. It matters not what you were doing to set a new record or personal best, just that the new high speed was registered.
-- jonthegeologist, Mar 01 2004


I thought this would be a little swimuit to put on your mouse. Hot pink w/yellow polka dots.

Very funny image.

Croissant from me.
-- DesertFox, May 07 2004


I agree it should be a bathing suit for your mouse.

And it should measure mouse speed as a percentage of the speed of light. And show the "red-shift" of the cursor -- you know, highly useful astronomical data.
-- phundug, May 09 2004



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