Apple Developing Energy Efficient Mouse

January 5th, 2007 oli Posted in Apple | No Comments »

mightymouse.jpgApple recently filed a patent here in the United States for a “hybrid low power computer mouse According to Apple’s patent, their solution is a “hybrid computer mouse having both a low power accelerometer used in combination with an optical tracking engine to provide velocity or relative positional data with low tracking errors over a wide range of use.”

The patent goes on in detail to describe why there is a need for such a mouse and provides some background on the history of the computer mouse. According to the patent, this new mouse was invented by Steve Hotelling, Joshua Strickon, Brian Huppi and Christoph Krah. This mouse will most likely be wireless using BlueTooth technology and the “low power” modification will allow it to get a longer battery life.

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