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40hz

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Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« on: January 14, 2009, 04:08 PM »
Where does gHacks find these things? 8)

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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2009, 04:19 PM »
Is this based on the same technology that software that was supposed to emulate what the wii did on the PC? I can't remember the name.
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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2009, 04:21 PM »
Where does gHacks find these things? 8)

Serching the DC forum, maybe?

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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2009, 04:32 PM »
Zing! Ouch, another validation to the accusation of Ghacks scraping DC forum contents.  :P
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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2009, 04:37 PM »
ghacks is always finding and reporting cool stuff -- including reporting on programs that come out of DC -- three cheers to martin i say  :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:


martin can't help it if the dc crowd is a bit ahead of the curve sometimes :)

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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2009, 05:37 PM »
Well...it was news to me at least. ;D

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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2009, 12:12 AM »

I don't need a webcam to accomplish this. I can control the mouse perfectly well by pushing it with my nose. The tricky bit comes in trying to watch both monitors while doing so.
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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2009, 02:12 AM »
I don't need a webcam to accomplish this. I can control the mouse perfectly well by pushing it with my nose. The tricky bit comes in trying to watch both monitors while doing so.

You should wear a beaked doctor's mask (a.k.a. plague mask)

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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2009, 03:30 AM »
I knew that medical bills were large, but that is excessive!
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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2009, 09:54 AM »
I don't need a webcam to accomplish this. I can control the mouse perfectly well by pushing it with my nose. The tricky bit comes in trying to watch both monitors while doing so.

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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2009, 10:22 AM »
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I knew that medical bills were large, but that is excessive!



ok chris, it's going to be hard to top that one even with all of 2009 to do it.

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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #11 on: January 15, 2009, 10:41 AM »
I think he deserves a DC award?

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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2009, 03:53 AM »
[it's going to be hard to top that one

To try would make me goggle-eyed.
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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2009, 03:58 AM »
I think he deserves a DC award?

Nincompoop of the year still up for grabs?

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Re: Controlling your mouse with head, eye and mouth movements
« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2009, 07:02 AM »
:Thmbsup: ;D ;D
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