http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/ Engadget Comments for Microsoft Research shows off multitouch mouse prototypes http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/Oct 5th 2009 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/
Seriously, no tactile feedback, no controllers? How do you manage precision that way?

Sorry, not sold yet. ]]>Oct 5th 2009 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/Oct 5th 2009 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/Oct 5th 2009 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/
I know as much as you do at this time.

I'm only asking a valid question; are we ready to game without controllers? How will precision moves, whether in a racing game or a sports game, be properly translated without analog input via controllers, which have tactile feedback. Sounds like a step backwards.

I didn't say anything about hating it. I'm just not prepared to plunk down $100+ to flail around the living room like an idiot playing Bash Ball. Been there, done that, it was call Wii.

Touch Mice for the PC sound cool, I would buy that, if applications supported it. ]]>Oct 5th 2009 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/
As for Natal, itself, so far the people who have used it(although really just a hacked together prototype) say it works extremely well and is very intuitive and easy to use. Also, since there's nothing explicitly saying it has to be used without any controller(and, in fact, evidence to the contrary since it can recognize random objects and use them in game), I'd suggest withholding judgement until we actually see it in its final form.]]>Oct 5th 2009 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/
Microsoft has a prototype of a multi-touch mouse: "Seriously, no tactile feedback, no controllers? How do you manage precision that way? "


Also, if I could only remember the name of the person who was banned, who would label anyone who disagreed with them a psycho. It is just on the tip of my tongue, I think his initials were P and a C.]]>Oct 5th 2009 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/Oct 5th 2009 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/
Also again we have an actual official presentation from MS of a device they are working on.

With Apple we have a rumor, from the same jackasses that clog RSS feeds of tech sites with junk like an iTablet and a camera on the iPod Touch, that Apple is going to have a multi-touch mouse too!

And morons, like the writer of this piece, and several iFanatics, are basically acting peeved that MS dared to show something real and interrupt their iMouse acid trip fantasy.]]>Oct 5th 2009 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/
Exactly!

Apple's mice has nothing but rumors going for it, whereas Microsoft has already developed one and is undoubtedly in the refining stages.

Apple copying Microsoft again.]]>Oct 5th 2009 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/Oct 5th 2009 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/Oct 5th 2009 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/
We're just seeing this today. So from that, one can deduce:

That it was created...... just today
The device went through the concept, design, prototype, and manufacturing stages...... just today
The software needed to make this device work went through its algorithm, debugging, compiling, and packaging stages.....just today

Seriously, there's a reason we call people like you iDiots.
You guys are not the sharpest tools in the shed...I don't think you guys even know where the shed is.

The iMouse is nothing but a rumor at this point, a conceptual design at best.

These mice that Microsoft have demoed have moved beyond that stage a lonnnnnnng time ago.
This stuff doesn't happen overnight, unless you believe in unicorns and magical pixie dust. ]]>Oct 5th 2009 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/
Look here,
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/02/new-apple-bluetooth-keyboard-arrives-at-the-fcc-new-mouse-rumor
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/02/fcc_filings_confirm_apples_new_bluetooth_mouse_keyboard.html

While Microsoft just got their devices in prototype stage, Apple already got it on FCC filings, means that it's ready.
And with the stunt Apple pulled by yanking the early leak images from FCC filings, looks like the release is imminent.

So your argument of "The iMouse is nothing but a rumor at this point, a conceptual design at best" is totally flawed.







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]]>Oct 5th 2009 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/"And so it starts - rumors have been that the recent FCC posting of the Apple mouse is multi-touch. It s going to be great, it will change how we use input devices, it will revolutionize the computer world.

Microsoft has a prototype of a multi-touch mouse: "Seriously, no tactile feedback, no controllers? How do you manage precision that way? "


So what you are saying is that no matter what happens, Windows users will complain about everything?
]]>Oct 5th 2009 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/
What is going on at Microsoft? was everyone working on Windows 7 and Xbox360 only? why are they so late in development on everything else?]]>Oct 5th 2009 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/Oct 5th 2009 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/
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Yeah, like somehow MS was reading Engadget, saw a Apple fanboy rumor of a non-existent Apple product, and just sent them running to make a prototype just so they can add a bullet point to a flamewar on a blog.

Reeeeeeeeeeealy?]]>Oct 5th 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/damn, they work fast up there in washington.]]>Oct 5th 2009 8:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/also means no fingerprints! damn i hate fingerprints on the screen of my htc magic.]]>Oct 5th 2009 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/
stupid.

Apple uses the huge trackpad for that. And this space-age technology came out like....3 years ago]]>Oct 5th 2009 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/Oct 5th 2009 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/Oct 5th 2009 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/Oct 5th 2009 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/Oct 5th 2009 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/Oct 5th 2009 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/Oct 5th 2009 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/Oct 5th 2009 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/A: Way to kill an otherwise great comment thread.
B: Since nothing to that effect has ever happened before...
C: Don't think the fiancee would approve.]]>Oct 5th 2009 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/
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Kind of reminds me of a sybian]]>Oct 5th 2009 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/Oct 5th 2009 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/Oct 5th 2009 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/
So no more talk about R&D. Only Apple does innovation.

Let's talk about how these only copy what Apple has done.]]>Oct 5th 2009 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/microsoft-research-shows-off-multitouch-mouse-prototypes/
Oh wait, yes we did. Like a month ago. What was your point again?]]>Oct 5th 2009 1:37PM