The Microsoft IntelliEye

By Jack October 21, 1999 5:27 PM

The new Microsoft Intellimouse has no moving parts.?Instead it bounces a light off objects, which is then read by a tiny digital camera.?The camera takes 1,500 pictures a second of whatever surface, a wood desktop, a piece of paper, even a shirt sleeve it rests on and translates that movement into cursor movement.?It can track on any type of surface except for glass or a mirror, which have no discernible pattern.?It's not a new idea, but does anyone know how good it's preformance is?.?Check out the review here at CNN.COM .? Thanks to: Geek News

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Posted by cmaster2 (dontspam@or-i.sue) on October 21, 1999 7:25 PM

Ever since I can remember SUN ships Light radient mouses with their machines. We have at least 20 sparcs here, all of which have a light radient mouse.

This is definately not a new technology.

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Posted by wonko (ryan@wonko.com) on October 22, 1999 2:36 AM

Sure, the new Microsoft optical mouse is not a new technology. Duh. Everyone with an ounce of sense knows that. But the point is, it's a massive improvement upon old technology. The Intellimouse Explorer is vastly superior to any other optical mouse available.

I got my Intellimouse Explorer the day it was released, and it's impressed me to no end ever since. Read my review, if you like.

While the mouse does have shortcomings (extremely fast movement causes some weirdness, but this is hardly ever a problem -- not even in Quake/Half-Life), it has far fewer shortcomings than any conventional mouse. The included software is pretty nice, as well.

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Posted by wonko (ryan@wonko.com) on October 22, 1999 2:37 AM

Okay, okay, so hrefs aren't allowed. Urgh. Sorry. Sheesh. Here's the ungarbled link, with apologies: http://wonko.com/wonkoslice/responses.asp?article=446

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Posted by sKillBot (travis@pulley.org) on October 22, 1999 10:05 AM

We haven't gotten around to fixing that because not many comments got posted. Egor's fixing it now.

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Posted by Jack (jack@dtheatre.com) on October 22, 1999 10:10 AM

This is a Test wonko rules It works now yeah!!

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