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Offline MacHeadCase

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« Reply #15 on: July 27, 2006, 07:51:17 PM »
New Mouse on the block... Shake Hands with the Zero Tension Mouse, a review.
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« Reply #16 on: July 27, 2006, 08:16:50 PM »
Forget the mouse!  Just use your BRAIN!
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« Reply #17 on: July 28, 2006, 05:23:04 AM »
Liz - There's a lot of talk about that on the web as part of a coming "human/computer singularity" or "technological singularity":

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/mi...ingularity.html

Is anyone else ready to have a jack installed like in the Matrix movies?  (cue the spooky theremin music)

MHC - I finally got it, although the pictures are stinky, this is an extension of the little force sticks that IBM put on their Thinkpads.  It's a circuit element that changes voltage as mechanical force is applied (a strain gauge?).  Kind of neat if you have one of the old Bondi Blue iMAC's!
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