Multi-touch is a hot topic these days when it comes to user input and while Windows 7 has been built with multi-touch burned into it being able to use it means having to upgrade your monitors to those that support multi-touch. The problem is that not everyone is going to want to go out and buy a new monitor (or more than one for multi-monitor fans) so Microsoft has been approaching this problem from a different perspective.
Enter the multi-touch mouse.
Right now Microsoft is working with five different types of the next generation mice (picture courtesy of CrunchGear)
As well we have two videos showing these little beasties in action. The first is courtesy of Steve Clayton and the guys at Techflash
And the second comes once again from the guys at CrunchGear
I’m kind of preferential to the first one myself although the one with the acrylic front cover looks pretty interesting.
[...] mouse will redeem the company in the eyes of their fans I think actually has a great idea. Granted Microsoft is working on multi-touch for the mouse but from what I can tell they are still some way from bringing one to market. So this leaves Apple [...]
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[...] mouse will redeem the company in the eyes of their fans I think actually has a great idea. Granted Microsoft is working on multi-touch for the mouse but from what I can tell they are still some way from bringing one to market. So this leaves Apple [...]
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[...] mouse will redeem the company in the eyes of their fans I think actually has a great idea. Granted Microsoft is working on multi-touch for the mouse but from what I can tell they are still some way from bringing one to market. So this leaves Apple [...]
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