I don’t use a mouse. I use the trackpad on my MacBook or a trackball when I’m at the desktop, but Bill Gates thinks all these things are going they way of DOS. He sees a future where waving ones hands over a sensor is the way to interface with your computer. He stops short of saying the keyboard is going away — that’s a Jobs thing — but he claims the days of the mouse are numbered.
And he’s probably right. With multitouch going everywhere, and devices like the touchwall and Surface are about to explode into the mainstream.
Computers will still have use for mouses, though. Gamers in particular are fans, some spending real money for precision mouses for precision sniping in their virtual worlds. For the rest of us, though, you might start seeing them disappear sooner than you’d think.
This is such old hat! Am I the onlyone who demanded my folks by me a Power Glove for the NES after the Wizard hit cinemas?!
Beeing a fairly hardcore gamer myself, i believe that a different way of controll may be fun, may be exciting.
And as for the whole multi-touch technology, i can’t wait untill Microsoft 7, comes out.
I believe in Gates when he says the days of the mouse are numbered.
i would love to see some revolutionalise the mouse.
Geekitblack.
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The one problem with these touch designs is alot of them arnt built for gaming and likely wont even run games properly…. Sensors are good for navigation on a normal screen if you can actually pinpoint and track properly without having to make the people get super close to the screen constantly. You also run into the logistical problem of the entire 2d and 3d graphics community being based around mice and that would be very hard to replace (i mean graphically you could make the thing like a giant wacom thing but you’d need to be able to set how it tracks (IE only one point at a time and it needs to be able to recognize this…) I think there may be a palce for it in computing to a degree but its unlikely that this will ever phase ou the mouse completely