Mouse VJ controller? - Ilyen lehet a Magic Mouse utódja

" Az Egyesült Államok Szabadalmi Hivatala bejegyzett egy szabadalmat, ami az Apple Magic Mouse-ának jövőjére utalhat. A leírás három új érzékelőt és egy hármas-tengelyű giroszkópot tartalmaz, ami érzékeli a forgatást, az előre-hátra és oldalra döntést. Az első a vízszintes, a második a függőleges gördítéssel lenne egyenlő. A harmadikkal például képeket lehetne elforgatni. (Lásd a fenti képet!) Továbbá az egér alja a szabadalom szerint domború lenne, hogy ezeket a dőltéseket könnyebben lehessen megejteni.
A Patently Apple oldalán megnézhetitek a teljes alkalmazást és több képet is találhattok itt.
Persze az Apple levédet sok olyan technológiát is, ami aztán soha nem kerül gyártásba.
A Magic Mouse az első multi-touch egér, ami a tavalyi kiadásával leváltotta a Mighty Mouse-t. Már csak azt kell kivárnunk, hogy ezt a legújabb, még csodásabb egeret egyáltalán gyártani kezdjék. "
(beszeljukmac.com)

" Apple Wants the Magic Mouse to Rock'n Roll!
On February 18, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals one of the next possible chapters for Apple's Magic Mouse. Apple introduced the world's first Multi-Touch Mouse this past October. The Magic Mouse features a seamless touch-sensitive enclosure that allows it to be a single or multi-button mouse with advanced gesture support. Using intuitive gestures, users can easily scroll through long documents, pan across large images or swipe to move forward or backward through a collection of web pages or photos. In January of this year, we were able to see the first installation of technologies related to advancing the Magic Mouse and today, Apple sheds more light on the advances that they're considering. Today's patent focuses on introducing a "rotatable mouse" using new sensors and a triple-axes gyroscope that detects the roll, pitch, and yaw of the mouse. That translates in allowing the user to tilt the mouse one way to cause a horizontal scroll and another way to cause a vertical scroll and yet another to tilt a graphic as shown above. The other change that you'll notice in the graphic above is that the bottom of the mouse is described in terms of it having a convex bottom design so as to make it easier to cause scrolling and other events by simply rocking or rolling the mouse. It's so simple, that it's brilliant.
Patent Overview
Examples of the invention as described herein allow for additional movement of a mouse adapted to operate on a support surface. The examples are described herein primarily in the context of having a rotatable mouse situated on the support surface where a rotation of the mouse relative to a pivot point translates into a particular event.
As an example, such a mouse has a bottom surface with a convex shape. This convex shape allows the mouse to be rotatable on the support surface. This mouse includes a surface tracking sensor that detects translational movement of the mouse along the support surface. Additionally included are one or more orientation sensors that detect the rotational movement of the mouse.
A rotation of the mouse is used for moving content displayed on a processing system, such as a computer. As one example, a rotational movement of the mouse may translate into a scroll event that, when processed by the processing system, scrolls the displayed content. In another example, a rotational movement of the mouse may translate into a yaw event that, when processed by the processing system, rotates the displayed content... "
(patentlyapple.com)