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This is what an old-fashioned mouse looks like from the inside. It's from our article on how computer mice work.
Compare with our photo of the parts inside an optical mouse.
See also this photo of the same mouse taken from a different angle, showing how the light-beam detector works.
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I wish I had time to take better pictures of this order! Part of an order for 3 dozen cupcakes for a multimedia communications firm. The cupcakes are topped with handcrafted fondant Mac Books, computer mice, globes, iPhones, airplanes, and the company's logo.
Imacs with Microsoft mice live happily together in this computer lab at Christ's College in Christchurch that is being used for ULearn10 breakout sessions.
These two are destined for New York state to celebrate the wedding of a computer developer and a medical researcher. I managed to find an old style computer mouse which wasn't too domed on top.
Inventor of computer mouse and pioneer of human computer interaction.
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Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart is an American inventor and early computer pioneert. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse, as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs; and as a committed and vocal proponent of the development and use of computers and networks to help cope with the world’s increasingly urgent and complex problems.
His lab at SRI was responsible for more breakthrough innovation than possibly any other lab before or since. Engelbart had embedded in his lab a set of organizing principles, which he termed his "bootstrapping strategy", which he specifically designed to bootstrap and accelerate the rate of innovation achievable.
- an old mouse which had to be retired. A green one now goes with the blue imac
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It is impossible to read this article, over half a century since it was written, and not feel that one is contemplating a blueprint for the Web. There is, in truth, little that is really new under the sun.
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The Life edition of the piece appeared early in September 1945 with a subtitle: 'A Top U.S. Scientist Forsees a Possible Future World in Which Man-Made Machines Will Start to Think'. ...
By consenting to republication in Life, Bush was not only reaching the movers and shakers whose attention he craved, but a lot of other people besides. One of them was a young radar technician named Douglas C. Engelbart, who was stationed in a godforsaken island in the Philippines, awaiting a ship to take him home. 'I was a little navy boy,' Engelbart recalled many years later,
'an electronics technician in World War II out in the Philippines, and getting moved from one place to another. They stuck you on an island to wait to get you assigned to somebody else. Somebody said there was a library there. It was a Red Cross library up on stilts in a native hut, really neat, nobody there. I was poking around and found this article in Lifemagazine about his memex, and it just thrilled the hell out of me that people were thinking about something like that.'
Bush's ideas stuck in Engelbart's mind and remained there for five years, during which time he did research on wind tunnels for the agency which eventually became NASA. It was a job with great prospects at the time, but after five years, he decided to give it up to pursue the dream which was to dominate the rest of his professional life - and which was to inspire successive generations of computer scientists. He decided, that instead of solving a particular problem, he would devote his life to a crusade (a word he often used later) to use computer power to aument human capabilities.
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Engelbart was that most elusive of creatures - a dreamer who got things done. He didn't just fantasise about his 'augmentation' technologies -in five years he constructed working systems which actually embodied them. There is a famous film, for example, of him addressing a large audience at a Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco in which he showed how a mouse and a special keypad could be used to manipulate structured documents and how people in different physical locations could work collaboratively on shared documents, online. It was, wrote one of those present, 'the mother of all demonstrations. As windows open and shut, and their contents reshuffled, the audience stared into the maw of cyberspace. Englebart, with a no-hands mike, talked them through, a calming voice from Mission Control as the truly final frontier whizzed before their eyes.' The coup de grace came when the 'control of the system was passed, like some digital football, to the Augmentation team at SRI, forty miles down the peninsula. Amazingly, nothing went wrong. Not only was the future explained, it was there, as Engelbart piloted through cyberspace at hyperspeed.'
And the date of this demonstration? Why, 1968. Bil Gates was twelve at the time; Steve Jobs was thirteen,
There are good grounds for saying that Engelbart is the patron saint of personal computing, and yet there is an inescapable poignancy about his career. Unlike many of the other pioneering hackers and engineers who created the computer industry he did not become rich (despite the twenty-odd patents he holds) and his fame extended only to those who understood the significance of what he had achieved. Most people today would recognise his name - if they recognised it at all - only in connection with his invention of the mouse.
--- John Naughton, A Brief History of the Future: The origins of the internet, published 1999.
The humble and simple mousetrap keeps up with modern technology by re-inventing itself for the computer age!
one caucasian business man afraid of computer mouse silhouette Full length in studio isolated on white background
Table top flat lay shot. Magazine stack with blank white cover and blank screen phone with copy space on table with everyday objects. Laptop, coffee mug, magazine stack, smart phone, watch, wallet, camera, camera lens, flowers in a pot on wooden table.
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The first prototype computer mouse, developed by Bill English and famously used by Douglas Engelbart in "The Mother of All Demos", a demonstration of the oN-Line System in 1968.
The bride has a test tube filled with green goo, and is wearing a white lab coat. The veil makes it look a bit more like a wedding!
God's view of Mr Baxi's desk.
PS: We don't really think God is watching - he's far too busy to check in on the Design Community.
This cunning plastic gizmo lies at the heart of an optical mouse. It takes the light from an LED, reflects it through ~90 degrees, and bounces it down onto your desk, from where it bounces back up into a light sensing microchip.
This photo is from our article on how computer mice work.
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www.optimumarc.com/3dmice - Compact and ultra-light, SpaceNavigator for Notebooks is the perfect travel companion for 3D designers and enthusiasts. SpaceNavigator for Notebooks is two thirds the size and half the weight of its desktop counterpart, making it ideal for mobile 3D users or as a second device for those with a SpacePilot PRO, SpacePilot or SpaceExplorer in the office.
7m tall sculpture made from 3.3 tonnes of electrical waste - apparently the average amount consumed by an individual in their lifetime. I especially like the computer mice for teeth.