Hasta La Ideas

Although we found the Microsoft Research technologies demonstrated here mostly uninspiring (unlike last week’s cool multi-touch demonstration by BumpTop), they will be of interest to anyone studying or working on interface design. Microsoft’s five experimental mice use a variety of sensing technologies to translate user gestures into on-screen actions, giving us entirely new ways to develop carpal tunnel.

Oh, and the boys at Microsoft haven’t lost their touch for naming products and technologies–as you’ll see in the vid, one of the mice operates via something called “Frustrated Total Internal Reflection.”

via engadget

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