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

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Post by tornato7 » Wed, Apr 26, 2023, 6:10 AM UTC

blowski wrote: post #44

ycombinete wrote: post #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…

Yes, while we all tend to jump to permanent disabilities as the justification for accessibility, one can have situationally or otherwise temporarily reduced ability. Examples that jump to mind: * broken fingers * wearing gloves at a cold station * a parent holding a bottle while feeding a newborn baby * a chef working with busy/messy hands * a computer with a dodgy mouse and no trackpad

I bet the CIA could make nice use of this too - imagine spies sending messages completely undetected even when standing a foot away from someone.

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

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Post by spcebar » Wed, Apr 26, 2023, 2:42 PM UTC

I love this. This is an awesome idea for accessibility and, presumably for ergonomics. I don't have any accessibility requirements that would warrant this, but it seems like it would be really convenient and ergonomic to be able to keep your hands on the keyboard all the time. I have three questions.

1. How do you clean this? As someone who uses a mouth guard at night, they can get pretty grody if you're not meticulous with them. Can you use denture cleaner or similar on the product?

2. Are you consulting with dentists on this? It seems like you're putting an invisalign analog in your mouth and that could be potentially harmful to one's bite. Presumably if you're using this as an accessibility device the pros outweigh the cons there, but I am curious.

3. How is tongue fatigue with this? Have you found people's tongues get tired after using it for a while or has that been a non-issue?

Again, love this idea and wish you all the success.

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

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Post by Aachen » Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 7:56 PM UTC

kelnos wrote: post #165

Aachen wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

I feel like there's a lot of room for accidents here, though. If you aren't expecting a dialog to come up, but are using the mouse, you might accidentally click to accept something you didn't want to do. And I'm glad web pages can't make use of this; that's just ripe for abuse. Though I suppose what might be acceptable would be a more limited protocol where a webpage is allowed to ask the web browser to move the poin…

Definitely. It has been a decade and my memory isn't perfect, but I think this was about as rare as focus sealers today, like where you get a pop up just as you were tapping somewhere else and thus either dismiss it or push a button that you didn't intend. The first example that comes to mind is Spotify pushing something like a year overview 0.2 seconds after the app opens when your finger was just coming down on the "my library" button and so you dismiss it and there's no way to open it again. Pretty sure this happens to me 2 out of 3 years.