Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcilzb!tedj From: tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: typing Message-ID: <870245@hpcilzb.HP.COM> Date: 25 Sep 88 23:59:05 GMT References: <70047@sun.uucp> Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA Lines: 13 >What I >would really like to see is some way to move a mouse cursor without >having to move your hands from the keyboard. I suppose a track ball >requires moving your hands less distance from the keyboard than a >mouse, but I think we can do better. Someday I'll design a keyboard >arrangment with a track ball operated by the thumbs in such a way In the San Jose Mercury (about 2 months ago) there was a story about a local inventor who did just this. He added a thin rod below the space bar. Supposedly you use it with your thumbs, and can use it to move a cursor around, just like a mouse. -Ted