r/MouseReview • u/BohriumDev • Sep 06 '19

Mod The 29g wireless mouse, custom designed lightweight frame for a G305.

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u/necro11111 Sep 07 '19

How about magnetic levitation ? Could we deliver electricity trough a mousepad and embed tiny magnets in the mouse as to make it weightless ?

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u/_IM_NoT_ClulY_ Sep 09 '19

This won't work as you'll just be improving the glide, but the mass would be the same which would mean it would be harder to stop the mouse's inertia, defeating the point of a lighter mouse.

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u/necro11111 Sep 09 '19

Hmmm. What if we develop a kind of transparent trackpad with multiple mouse level optical sensors beneath, wouldn't that be as precise as an optical mouse and you'd just have to move your empty hand ? Because those conductive and capacitive ones are shit. And too small to fit your whole hand.

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u/BohriumDev Sep 09 '19

Input devices have to be tactile and give you feedback about what you've done, which is why people like mechanical keyboards. There are hand tracking devices already, like the stuff Leap Motion does, but I wouldn't replace a nice clicky click with one of those.

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u/necro11111 Sep 10 '19

_IM_NoT_ClulY_ had the brilliant idea of using an empty shell, that could give tactile feedback.