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Control Your PC With the Puyocon Motion-Sensing Ball [Motion Sensing Input]
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<blockquote data-quote="Geek" data-source="post: 2077340" data-attributes="member: 246624"><p><img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2010/01/500x_puyocon-ball.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Using a mouse is old-hat, if the recent wave of ball-shaped motion-sensing PC remotes is anything to go by. Straight out of Japan, the Puyocon can be squeezed, thrown around or rolled, controlling actions on the computer.</p><p></p><p> The Entertainment Computing Laboratory, at Tsukuba University in Japan, should hook up with <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5416036/suma-rubber-ball-controller-for-3d-pc-gaming-looking-for-manufacturer-to-license-the-fun" target="_blank">Cambridge Consultants, whose Suma controller</a> has been designed especially for PC gaming. Both ideas are very interesting, taking the Wiimote as influence, with 14 pressure sensors, a three-way acceleration sensor and Bluetooth taking up the core parts of the Puyocon. Could these balls wipe out traditional computer mice in the future?</p><p></p><p> Check out the video below for a demo of how the Puyocon is used. [<a href="http://www.entcomp.esys.tsukuba.ac.jp/puyo/" target="_blank">Puyocon</a> via <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/01/12/puyocon-ball-shaped-squeezable-input-interface-videos/" target="_blank">Crunchgear</a>]</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?p=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a><img src="http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2qpzQp7V3hCb9eU94rSFhLUHWBo/0/da" target="_blank"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2qpzQp7V3hCb9eU94rSFhLUHWBo/0/di" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a></p><p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2qpzQp7V3hCb9eU94rSFhLUHWBo/1/da" target="_blank"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2qpzQp7V3hCb9eU94rSFhLUHWBo/1/di" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=8RX3kb6qeSI:gM8R7cRT9vk:H0mrP-F8Qgo" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=8RX3kb6qeSI:gM8R7cRT9vk:yIl2AUoC8zA" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=8RX3kb6qeSI:gM8R7cRT9vk:D7DqB2pKExk" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=8RX3kb6qeSI:gM8R7cRT9vk:D7DqB2pKExk" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=8RX3kb6qeSI:gM8R7cRT9vk:V_sGLiPBpWU" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=8RX3kb6qeSI:gM8R7cRT9vk:V_sGLiPBpWU" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a></p><p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/8RX3kb6qeSI" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
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