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MouthPad – In-Mouth Bluetooth Mouse Uses Tongue Sensitive Trackpad

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post #6

Such a simple, feasible, and useful idea. I'm surprised this hasn't been a thing for a decade already.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221517055_An_Isomet...

1997! Why hasn't this become mainstream?

Re: MouthPad – In-Mouth Bluetooth Mouse Uses Tongue Sensitive Trackpad

#23
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221517055_An_Isomet...

1997! Why hasn't this become mainstream?

Define 'mainstream' ? The market for this thing is pretty limited.

And tongue controlled controllers aren't a novelty, they are used sometimes, but again - they are mostly one-time devices.

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#25
post #18

It seems pretty nifty. I played around with Tobii eye-tracking hardware half a decade ago and was pretty amazed by its precision. I understand now it also has Glasses (vs. the model I tried, a tracker you put below your monitor usually). Marrying eye-tracking glasses with this mouthpad might be a winning combination: eye-tracking being the mouse to navigate in xy-space, and mouthpad for clicks. Kudos to this group fo…

The tongue muscle can be trained. This is also useful for at least one other activity.

Re: MouthPad – In-Mouth Bluetooth Mouse Uses Tongue Sensitive Trackpad

#27
I realise this is intended for accessibility (for which is looks amazing), but I can also see this gaining widespread abled [0] use for things like gaming, and making mobile computing easier.

I can see myself pulling out the iPad on the train, and popping in the mouthpad to make navigation through Mails, Procreate, etc. easier.

[0] I tried "non-disabled" here, but that just seemed too clumsy. Am I missing an obvious term?

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