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From: valley@stolaf.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: More keyboard bogosity On the subject of cursor keys, mice & men:
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Date: Thu, 30-Jun-83 01:33:23 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 30 01:33:23 1983
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	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