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There's plenty of wireless standalone scroll knobs out there if this sounds like your cup of tea https://www.amazon.com/Razer-Wireless-Control-Pod-Customizat...
I'd love if my cellphone had a lateral button like old portable radios had to adjust the volume but with the sole purpose of scrolling. Scrolling on the screen is annoying, my finger covers the content and I must be careful not to click something. I really can't believe I'm the only one desiring such a thing.
I always wondered if one could repurpose side-mounted fingerprint sensors (ex. Samsung Galaxy Fold) as a swipe-to-scroll mechanism. There also used to be some lovely touchpad tech called "chiral scroll", which allowed for iPod-like scrolling. No idea where that went, patent hell?
I'd love if my cellphone had a lateral button like old portable radios had to adjust the volume but with the sole purpose of scrolling. Scrolling on the screen is annoying, my finger covers the content and I must be careful not to click something. I really can't believe I'm the only one desiring such a thing.
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Are you the author? I noticed you've been adding additional information in response to many comments, which led me to believe you might be the creator of this doomscroller. However, I didn't see any mention of you being the author. Typically, on Hacker News, when the original poster is not the author and the author discovers that one of their works is trending, they promptly join the discussion, usually starting with…
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> Only works with Android/PC. Sorry iOS If this was implemented as a Bluetooth mouse with just a scroll wheel, wouldn’t you get support on all recent operating systems for free?
From his twitter: (I'll copy and paste the text here, as I don't know how much you see of this text logged out) > Why couldn’t I just emulate a standard mouse and scroll smoothly? Sounds easy. Unfortunately there is a holdover from two decades ago in the way mouse drivers are written into USB. Because mice used to use low resolution encoders, a single “detent” event would be about 22.5 degrees. Hard coded into the ke…
If that's the case, why does audio work so badly? (I'm guessing there's a list of exceptions that BT supports natively, none of which work.)
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A hardware limit would be more funny even
A loud audible ratchet mechanism. Just to add to the annoyance.
Honestly I've always wanted something like this for reading ebooks. After many iterations (and neck injuries) I've found the best position for me is simply laying horizontally with a normal sleeping pillow. Then using a stand with an arm to hold the device at the perfect position/distance (I use progressive glasses). Typically I only lift my arm to scroll to the next page. But sometimes I skim sections of technical b…
Edit: or BT ... scroll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40099700
I'd love if my cellphone had a lateral button like old portable radios had to adjust the volume but with the sole purpose of scrolling. Scrolling on the screen is annoying, my finger covers the content and I must be careful not to click something. I really can't believe I'm the only one desiring such a thing.
Another cool example is Nexus One's trackball. It had advantage of being able to scroll in any direction.