Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!mcnc!ecsvax!utoddl From: utoddl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Todd M. Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Laptop Amiga Summary: alt. mouse input for a laptop Message-ID: <5362@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Date: 20 Sep 88 12:54:59 GMT References: <4107@louie.udel.EDU> <465@forty2.UUCP> Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 17 In article <465@forty2.UUCP>, claudio@forty2.UUCP (Claudio Nieder) writes: > In article <4107@louie.udel.EDU> iphwk%MTSUNIX1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Bill Kinnersley) writes: > >Isn't it going to be just a little awkward rolling a mouse around in your lap?? > > I think it is. What about having a touch screen, where you can point with a > 'pencil' on it to indicate the mouse position ? Should of course have a What about having some gizzmo that watches where you are looking on the screen and makes the mouse pointer follow that. Blinking your left eye sends a left mouse button event, right eye is the right button, and it would ignore (almost) simultanious left- and right-eye events so you could still keep your eye balls from drying out and falling out of your face. <+_*> |^) Todd M. Lewis (utoddl@unc.bitnet) This disclaimer is my employers idea, the rest are mine.