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astroron
04-12-2008, 12:51 AM
Just seen this on the BBC web site:eyepop:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7751627.stm
Should make for an interesting conversation:P
Ron

h0ughy
04-12-2008, 07:35 AM
if thats logitech then where is microsoft's at?

AstralTraveller
04-12-2008, 11:43 AM
They want to get rid of the mouse??!!:eyepop:

The rats!!!

Ric
04-12-2008, 02:59 PM
Just the odd mouse or two.

vash
04-12-2008, 06:00 PM
I like how they say that the mouse will be fazed out with touchscreens etc.

Let me tell you, at the moment I'm reclined in my chair a good meter away from the screen with my arm resting on the table, I couldn't be bothered raising my arm to use a touchscreen. So that ones out for me.

gary
04-12-2008, 08:44 PM
Hi Ron,

If you think that is a big number, consider the transistor.

In an article I read in the Dec 2007 issue of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic
Engineer's Spectrum Magazine, it quoted an estimate attributed to Gordon Moore,
founder of Intel, that perhaps one quintillion - that's 10 to the power of 18 - transistors
are fabricated within devices annually. Moore goes onto say, "We make
more transistors per year than the number of printed characters in all the newspapers,
magazines, books, photocopies, and computer printouts".

Best Regards

Gary

jjjnettie
04-12-2008, 09:29 PM
That's one plague of mice.

astroron
04-12-2008, 11:28 PM
Gary, that number is mind blowing:eyepop:
I wonder what Carl Sagen would think of it:):):)
Ron

Glenhuon
05-12-2008, 11:50 AM
Think I'll be sticking with the good old mouse for a long time yet. Don't even like using them little touch pads on the lappy. And anyway, who wants a screen covered in fingerprints :)

Bill