Warning: If you are bald, there’s a good chance that you will receive the Male Pattern Baldness Mousepad as some lame office joke. And if that happens, here’s what you do:
Our hats go off to Sam aka SunFish7, inventor of the JediPad, the most original rethinking of a handheld computer interface since the Wiimote. It’s got seven pressure sensitive ThinkPad-style trackpoints plus internal gyros, so you can move the cursor by waving but change the speed and accuracy of the movement as needed, by pressing down on a trackpoint. There’s a more intuitive circular pop-up menu system to go along with it for faster navigation. Sam’s even built a crazy orange gyro hat for additional motion tracking (or else some high-tech form of “big pimpin’”). You can see a video, more pics and some of the JediPad’s backstory from our e-mail interview with Sam after the jump.
In the spring of 2006, Yasuhiro Matsunaga had a dream. It wasn’t complicated, like how to bring about racial harmony or build a rocket ship. Matsunaga had discovered a bunch of mouse pads in a storage locker, and his dream was to toss them all. Not into the trash, though. Matsunaga’s mama had taught him “Waste not, want not.” No, this inspired young man decided to toss the mouse pads like frisbess. Again and again. Until it became an Olympic sport. More »
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The MousEX Glider pad is weird in the sense that most people wouldn’t come up with a pad you rest your mouse on that you slide around with your hand. Why would anybody do this?
Because that same pad holds different add-ons like a navigational wheel, a giant button, or an 18-button pad that you can program macros onto. We’re not sold on the concept, especially since placing your hand flat on a pad and sliding it around is way less ergonomic than using a mouse. However, we love programmable macro buttons dogs love peeing in the grass, so we’re willing to give this a shot. [MousEX] More »
Live it up, pervs. That’s a mousepad. And it has boobies. And you can touch them all you want. But remember, owning such a mousepad dates you back to the ’90s, and this chick looks like she’s from somewhere in the late ’80s. If we do a little more math, you’re groping a chick who is now in her 50s, or even 60s. Not that it’s ever stopped us before…but the “wrist rest” might not be what it used to be. [tokyotimes] More »
