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Mouse with LCD screen: perfect for… um, yeah
Ticking "useless mouse enhancement" off our lists for this week is the LogiNoki, a computer mouse modified to sport an LCD screen. Working tirelessly to modify a Logitech G5 mouse, Jani Pönkkö was so inspired by gaming keyboards with screens that he felt the need to add a 132 x 132-pixel, 1-frame-per-second screen to the top of his trusty point-and-click peripheral. And he'd be damned if he was going to let a simple fact like the palm of your hand would cover up the screen most of the time, rendering it useless, get in his way. Then again, if you're a serious keyboard-only gamer, I could see the screen mouse possibly coming in handy, showing some kind of key game stat (rounds left in your warp-plasma bazooka, for example) while you hammer away on the space bar with both hands. The LogiNoki was a one-shot project by Pönkkö, so don't look for it in stores, but his step-by-step account of the process should serve as a decent guide if you feel like giving your own mouse a little screen time.
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By IUFAN417 at 10:24 AM ON 08/03/06
If the mouse control buttons were on the bottom instead of their normal positions, this thing might actually have some practical applications.
By sonicking2004 at 1:30 PM ON 08/03/06
I think I'd have to agree with IUFAN417 in that, with the mouse in it's current configuration, the screen is pretty useless. Now, if the screen was placed ABOVE the mouse buttons or, better still, it was used on a trackball instead, it could be quite useful. For example, if the Silent Scope game series ever made it to the PC, then the zoomed-in scope view could appear in the mouse/trackball screen, rather than a second window that'll likely be in the way.
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