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back to article YES YES YES! Apple patents mousy, pressure-sensing iVibrator

Apple has been granted a patent for a vibrating mouse which will respond to fanbois' hamfisted affections using advanced pressure sensing technology. Sadly, the "Force Sensing Mouse" will not turn Appleytes into Jedi knights, but it may allow them to navigate their computers into hitherto unfamiliar ways. Currently, the Apple …

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      A very poorly written comment.

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  2. Velv
    FAIL

    Prior Art

    The Heart Of Gold spaceship had motion sensing controls, and that's simply all this device does - detect motion through changes in pressure.

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  3. Darryl

    Those suckers will eat a pair of AA batteries in record time, judging by how fast the current ones go through them.

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  4. Pez92

    I see they're taking the "design first, justify later" approach to inventing. I guess brute force will yield a good idea if applied enough times.

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  5. Paul Hovnanian Silver badge
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    Sigh

    One more thing that is going to generate error messages if I handle it the wrong way.

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  7. Crazy Operations Guy

    A mouse that gves you dozens of ways to interact with the machine

    But you still have to hold down a key on the keyboard to right-click...

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