Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuxa!houxm!ihnp4!stolaf!valley From: valley@stolaf.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: More keyboard bogosity On the subject of cursor keys, mice & men: Message-ID: <1071@stolaf.UUCP> Date: Thu, 30-Jun-83 01:33:23 EDT Article-I.D.: stolaf.1071 Posted: Thu Jun 30 01:33:23 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jul-83 05:15:42 EDT Lines: 43 Why not a FOOT- or KNEE-controlled pointer? You will still be able to keep your hands at the 'home' position, yet move very quickly as needed. Might be good exercise, too! More useful than foot-control would be an eye/optical pointer. Not one that analyzes where you are looking, but one that works on the same principles as light pens: an optical device that detects the scan line that you are looking at , by reflection/refraction from the cornea. Bomber pilots ar rumored to have this type of aiming device now. Can it be filtered down economically? (Ans: Of COURSE it can!) P.S. I'm sick of "REAL" & "ENGLISH" on a MICRO net. Tim Valley WCAL St. Olaf College Northfield, MN References: <2537@sri-arpa.UUCP> On cursor keys, mice & men: How about a FOOT- or KNEE- controlled pointer? I envision something like a plate that rocks in four directions; the harder you push down on the side corresponding to the direction you want to go, the faster it would move (the cursor). Might also be good exercise for the chair-weary. I hope that very soon the technology that now allows bomber pilots to aim at targets by just looking at them will filter down to the mass consumer level. Mightn't this be based on the same principles as ligt pens, detecting position by detecting the crt scan lines? Perhaps a very low- power laser can scan our cornea, much as our groceries are scanned at the check-out counter, to triangulate the screen position that we are gazing at. P.S. I'm tired of REAL and ENGLISH on a MICRO net. Go somewhere else and play. T. Valley WCAL Radio St. Olaf College Northfield, MN