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MouthPad – In-Mouth Bluetooth Mouse Uses Tongue Sensitive Trackpad

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

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Post by eimrine »

I want to repeat this in USB2 version and use it for reading books. What kind of moving sensor might be a good choice? I want something like a stylophone with tongue-controlled five buttons (traditional joystick approach) plus tooth-controlled ctrl as a regular button. Buttons might be sensed like licking AG4 battery (the least 1.5V battery I ever seen) - but I do not understand an electronic design which is going to sense the tongue.

5 hours of active use with no ability to change the battery is a shit, let's be honest. It will be 4 hours after 100 full recharges, you know this process. Also Bluetooth HID devices will never be acceptable for shooters while non-Bluetooth tongue controller may be a pivot point in cyber-sport industry because of less lag between the brain and the HID.

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Post by Aachen »

dmd wrote: post #140

A lot of people - especially people with impairments whom it would help a lot if they know about it - are unaware of the fantastic pointer-accessibility stuff that's built into MacOS: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/move-the-pointer-us... You can control the pointer with head movements, and click with things like blinks and smiles. All built into the OS, no 3rd party software.

A feature nobody knows about which I loved back when using Windows was the cursor defaulting to the confirmation button in dialogs. Nowadays where everything is web it's less useful I suppose, but makes clicking through those dialogs nicely faster also as someone who doesn't have a mouse-related impairment!

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Post by RulerOf »

overthrow wrote: post #134
codethief wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm curious, what are the advantages to using this over a regular mouse? The advantages are probably similar to those of any vertical mouse: There's much less stress on the wrist, which is important if you're suffering from e.g. RSI. But since in this case the mouse is also ambidextrous, you can switch hands, too. (-> Useful for ambidextrous people and, also, even less stress on the individual wrist.)

For a cheaper setup, I have a right-handed vertical mouse (Amazon $20 special) to the right of my keyboard, and a second left-handed mouse on the left, and I switch between them throughout the day. It makes my desk look a little silly, but it works great!

I've adopted a similarly-inspired setup with a tradtional mouse on the right and a touchpad on the left. I initially added the touchpad to assist with vertical scrolling on Mac OS, but now I move between the two depending on the task and it keeps my wrists happier.

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

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Post by eimrine »

Aachen wrote: post #144
dmd wrote: post #140

A lot of people - especially people with impairments whom it would help a lot if they know about it - are unaware of the fantastic pointer-accessibility stuff that's built into MacOS: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/move-the-pointer-us... You can control the pointer with head movements, and click with things like blinks and smiles. All built into the OS, no 3rd party software.

A feature nobody knows about which I loved back when using Windows was the cursor defaulting to the confirmation button in dialogs. Nowadays where everything is web it's less useful I suppose, but makes clicking through those dialogs nicely faster also as someone who doesn't have a mouse-related impairment!

> Nowadays where everything is web it's less useful I suppose

Implementation of cursor defaulting to the declination button in web is waiting for its hero. Also I need to iterate between the all possible Nos on a webpage by pressing Tab/Shift+Tab key on my keyboard since no one uses this key on a web-browser any more.

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Post by kayge »

dmd wrote: post #140

A lot of people - especially people with impairments whom it would help a lot if they know about it - are unaware of the fantastic pointer-accessibility stuff that's built into MacOS: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/move-the-pointer-us... You can control the pointer with head movements, and click with things like blinks and smiles. All built into the OS, no 3rd party software.

I've been looking for settings like this on my iPhone -- I'm probably in the minority here but I'd love to be able to do a couple of simple gesture-based commands on my phone. E.g. when I'm driving and my phone is mounted just slightly out of reach, and I no longer need my screen on and displaying Maps, it would be great if I could do some kind of hand wave to lock the screen. Sure I could mount my phone closer, or just lean over a bit and hit the button, or probably even ask Siri to do it... but dammit a [Jedi | Minority Report | Tony Stark ] hand-wave would be much cooler :) Pixel phones have some similar abilities: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/9517454

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Post by goguy »

kayge wrote: post #147
dmd wrote: post #140

A lot of people - especially people with impairments whom it would help a lot if they know about it - are unaware of the fantastic pointer-accessibility stuff that's built into MacOS: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/move-the-pointer-us... You can control the pointer with head movements, and click with things like blinks and smiles. All built into the OS, no 3rd party software.

I've been looking for settings like this on my iPhone -- I'm probably in the minority here but I'd love to be able to do a couple of simple gesture-based commands on my phone. E.g. when I'm driving and my phone is mounted just slightly out of reach, and I no longer need my screen on and displaying Maps, it would be great if I could do some kind of hand wave to lock the screen. Sure I could mount my phone closer, or j…

If quick gestures aren’t working: Turn off your phone, then turn it back on.

Some tricks never die.

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Post by jlundberg »

molasses wrote: post #85

I'm able bodied, but years back suffered tremendous pain, that led to me having to lie down on my back and use the computer with a keyboard. And TBH even that was a pain. I got quite far under OSX tiger, and browse the web. Use a terminal etc. But at the time it led me into thinking about alternative interfaces. And the one thing that did catch my eye was 'dasher' for text entry. Which could be controlled with a simp…

Dasher is really fun!

Remember playing a lot with it back when it was released. Left a lasting impression and broadend my view on input mechanisms.

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