Review of Hands Free Mouse

SLDave wrote in to plug his review of NaturalPoint's hands free mouse that covered by Slashdot some time ago. It seems to work as advertised, using a camera to track your head and replace your mouse, but with a lot of caveats. Definitely worth a look for us truly lazy folks.

Hands free web surfing.

[Kenja]

At long last, hands free web surfing. Just think of what you can do now that your not stuck with one hand on the mouse.

On second thought, better not to think about that.

Hindu Plot

[stoolpigeon]

Tell me this thing is not made in India and part of a plot to take over the world.

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This being Slashdot...

[Black Parrot]

This being Slashdot, I'm wondering whether the subject means "Review of a hands-free mouse" or "Review of Hand's free mouse".

it follows the Silver dot

[kuiken]

So my question is how does it work if yoiu are wearing glasses ?
How does it handel background noise (ppl walking past ect ?
de review doesnt seem to mention much of this

I dout this would be usefull for anything except for handsfree porn surfing.
Oh wait a minute euhh where can i order one :)

Looks promising....but

[Sergeant Beavis]

Silver dots?!?

I'm already the geek of my neighborhood, but if I forget to take those things off I'll never hear the end of it I'm sure.

I'll pass since it isn't as precise as a mouse but I'm really taken by the concept. Especially if I can play CounterStrike or UnReal Tourney with it.

dots on the forehead?

[Anonymous Coward]

They're trying to turn us all into hindus! I'll never do that, I'm happy enough with my religion!

Re:Wouldn't it be better to track eye movement?

[Indras]

Actually, it would piss me off. I wouldn't be able to read anything, because the cursor would keep getting in the way!

And let me guess, blink the left eye for a left click, and vice versa? Imagine the look on people's faces while doing a drag and drop!!

Multiprotocol slashdot effect

[sTeF]

whoohoo! slashdoted, but not only the webserver, but i guess also their smtp mail server. go slashdot, go!!!

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Whoops

[Vorro]

Clown just slashdotted HIMSELF. How ballsy is that? =)

Re:Wouldn't it be better to track eye movement?

[ClickNMix]

Do you really want to stick that silver dot into your eye?

It might make sense, but not for a few years yet as technology catches up.

Re:Wouldn't it be better to track eye movement?

[drsoran]

That would really suck for the 30% of the population who can only blink one eye.

Well I guess they'd have to use a Mac.

Re:Warning!

[Bob McCown]

And im combination with force-feedback, you can actually get injured next time you roll in NASCAR...

Re:Wouldn't it be better to track eye movement?

[Havokmon]

Wouldn't it make more sense to track your eye movements, if I could *look* at the link on a page (lets say hold it in focus for one second) and follow the link life would be great.

And how do you FOLLOW that link?

Left Click = left blink Rt Click = rt blick
So next time you're sitting in class trying to double click that icon, be sure your teacher is a least a LITTLE hot..

Great...

[GriffX]

Now I can get carpal neck, as well...