{"id":72,"date":"2002-06-28T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-28T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=72"},"modified":"2007-12-30T16:56:09","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T00:56:09","slug":"new-optical-pointing-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"New optical pointing device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Researchers at Philips have created <a href=\"http:\/\/optics.org\/articles\/news\/8\/6\/23\/1\" title=\"'Optical mouse saves space', 26 June 2002\">a laser-based optical pointing device<\/a> that would integrate nicely into small electronic devices.  It&#8217;s kind of like a touch-pad, but instead of a &#8220;large&#8221; pad on which you slide your finger around, there&#8217;s a small contact point that you slide your finger over.  A laser tracks how your finger moves.  At first it could replace the &#8220;scroll buttons&#8221; found on most cell phones, or the &#8220;jog dials&#8221; found on some (these mechanical bits are always the first to go).  You could also add it to PDAs for a more mouse-like interface.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/optics.org\/articles\/news\/8\/6\/23\/1\/scrolling\" title=\"Optical scrolling\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/optics.org\/objects\/news\/thumb\/8\/6\/23\/scrolling.jpg\" alt=\"Schematic of optical scrolling\" title=\"Schematic of optical scrolling\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"http:\/\/optics.org\/articles\/news\/8\/6\/23\/1\/scrolling\" title=\"Optical scrolling\">Optical scrolling<\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/optics.org\/articles\/news\/8\/6\/23\/1\/phonedemonstrator\" title=\"Prototype device\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/optics.org\/objects\/news\/thumb\/8\/6\/23\/phonedemonstrator.jpg\" alt=\"Prototype device\" title=\"Prototype device\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"http:\/\/optics.org\/articles\/news\/8\/6\/23\/1\/phonedemonstrator\" title=\"Prototype device\">Prototype device<\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Philips have created a laser-based optical pointing device that would integrate nicely into small electronic devices. It&#8217;s kind of like a touch-pad, but instead of a &#8220;large&#8221; pad on which you slide your finger around, there&#8217;s a small&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=72\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New optical pointing device<\/span><span class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","content-layout-full"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}