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| Thread ID: 72272 | 2006-09-06 12:56:00 | "The Demon-Powered Mouse" | Erayd (23) | PC World Chat |
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| 482989 | 2006-09-06 12:56:00 | I recently bought a new wireless mouse - one of the logitech 'invisible optic' ones, and I was wondering how it works. There is no visible light emitted from the optical assembly, but it does have a lens. I tried looking at it with a digital camera (to check for infrared) but that couldn't see anything either. Is it powered by demons perhaps? It's got me really intregued now; anyone have any ideas about how it does its magic? |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 482990 | 2006-09-06 13:21:00 | My guess is demon magic. Is Tierce your own creation?? may have to give it a whirl over the weekend. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 482991 | 2006-09-06 20:37:00 | VooDoo technology..... Any technology sufficiently advanced resembles magic (paraphrased from Arthur C Clarke) |
netchicken (4843) | ||
| 482992 | 2006-09-06 21:52:00 | Is Tierce your own creation?? may have to give it a whirl over the weekend.Yes, Tierce is my own creation. You will need a server running PHP 5.0.0 or greater, and ideally md5sum, tar, gzip, and mod_rewrite. You can do without these utilities, but the lack of them will break some features. Note that KitchenSync has recently been experiencing problems - this is due to timeouts accessing the sourceforge.net web servers, where the main update repository is located. I think the sourceforge people have fixed this now, but I'm not yet completely sure. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 482993 | 2006-09-07 02:38:00 | It could easily be a long wavelength infra-red. I'd be a bit cautious about peering up the spout, in case it's a laser diode, with a narrow beam. The lasers in CD players have a "just" visible red component, but most of the beam energy is invisible and dangerous. I doubt if the sensors of digital cameras go far outside the visible range. It might possibly be UV ... white paper would fluoresce. Or else it's just a ball, with an invisibility cloak. :cool: |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 482994 | 2006-09-07 02:49:00 | Obviously no one in the forum really knows so why not email Logitech and ask them | bonzo29 (2348) | ||
| 482995 | 2006-09-07 07:34:00 | It might possibly be UV ... white paper would fluoresce. It doesn't, so I don't think it is. Might drop logitech an email tomorrow and ask. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 482996 | 2006-09-07 09:08:00 | www.logitech.com | godfather (25) | ||
| 482997 | 2006-09-07 11:53:00 | Thanks for that godfather, although that isn't actually my mouse - this (www.logitech.com) is. The explaination seems pretty plausible though, but I do wonder about the 'almost' invisible part - my one seems to be completely invisible. | Erayd (23) | ||
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