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Ill-Fated Input Devices: Wonderfully Strange, But Tragically Flawed [Patents]
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<blockquote data-quote="Geek" data-source="post: 1949242" data-attributes="member: 246624"><p><a href="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/08/FailedInputDevices.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/08/504x_FailedInputDevices.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>Harry McCracken over at Technologizer has put together a fun collection of weird and wonderful mouse patents, most of which fell off the conveyer belt somewhere between the drawing board and better judgment.</p><p></p><p> Original 1967 mouse patent? Check. Crazy virtual reality input methods? Ditto. In addition to abandoned pyramid-shaped and Timex clock mice, highlights include a mouse that has a telephone built into it, and another that's built-into a telephone. [<a href="http://technologizer.com/2009/08/05/mouse-patents/" target="_blank">Technologizer</a>]</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><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9qHt85ii2TO6VEyWTOJfny2YYkw/0/da" target="_blank"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9qHt85ii2TO6VEyWTOJfny2YYkw/0/di" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a></p><p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9qHt85ii2TO6VEyWTOJfny2YYkw/1/da" target="_blank"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9qHt85ii2TO6VEyWTOJfny2YYkw/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=m8UKG-H4VTc:HS0T2dwkU8I: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=m8UKG-H4VTc:HS0T2dwkU8I: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=m8UKG-H4VTc:HS0T2dwkU8I:D7DqB2pKExk" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=m8UKG-H4VTc:HS0T2dwkU8I:D7DqB2pKExk" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=m8UKG-H4VTc:HS0T2dwkU8I:V_sGLiPBpWU" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=m8UKG-H4VTc:HS0T2dwkU8I: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/m8UKG-H4VTc" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
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