Optical mice made mouse pads pretty much pointless. Now, infrared technology could make the computer mouse obsolete too. Behold the invisible mouse, aka Mouseless, an invention created by Pranav Mistry SM ’08, a PhD candidate in the MIT Media Lab.
Just move your hand as if a mouse were underneath and mimic gestures you’d normally use to interact with your computer: left and right click, drag, and scroll, and an infrared laser and camera embedded into the computer detect and translate your motions onto the screen.
The working prototype cost about $20 to build and Mistry hopes to improve the algorithms to include more commands, such as zooming, and even perhaps novel gestures.
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Simply amazing…but you knew this technology would be here sooner than later. Next we wont have to even move our hand to make the mouse move. We’ll just have to think about it and it will go.
Really cool post. I can’t believe we have come so far with technology these days. I would definitely get one
If you have to pretend you have a mouse anyway, why not use one? I’d feel clicking the tables.