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# I've got a laptop
(I helped save b3ta! mnb098mnb used to be here, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:56, archived)
# No cursor control, or
a nipple mouse, or
a synaptics pad?
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Blackwolf is sucking diesel on, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:57, archived)
# I don't know the technical term
but it looks nothing like any mouse I've ever seen!
(I helped save b3ta! mnb098mnb used to be here, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:58, archived)
# How rare.
is it a nipple in the middle of the keyboard, a la Toshiba, or a pad you move your finger around on?

Or something else?

sorry, nosey
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Blackwolf is sucking diesel on, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:59, archived)
# It's a pad
I move my finger eroticly over....
(I helped save b3ta! mnb098mnb used to be here, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:01, archived)
# Yeah,
I'm using one of those on my laptop at the moment.

It is generally called a Synaptics pad after the company that developed them, and hold 90% of the pad-type HMI devices market, Synaptics Corp.

/geek
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Blackwolf is sucking diesel on, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:03, archived)
# no
it's generally called a touchpad, 'cause no-one cares who invented them, and you touch them a lot

:P
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:04, archived)
# touchpad sounds about right
i agree with you justhere, knower of all knowledge.
(I helped save b3ta! mnb098mnb used to be here, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:06, archived)
# Oh, well
thats what most people who work for the Dixons group call them because they can't pronounce Synaptics :D

I mainly hear them called Synaptics, but then I work with a lot of computer geeks...
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Blackwolf is sucking diesel on, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:07, archived)
# I hate those things
I keep getting other fingers in the way so that the cursor suddenly jumps to the other side of the screen.

Hence getting the posh mouse that could do loads of great things, but only has one functional button.
(I helped save b3ta! Ijon Tichy, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:05, archived)
# ah
it's all done with bailing wire and guesswork then
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:57, archived)
# Our department had a forcefeedback mouse
it was fun, if a little pointless.

They were working on mounting a tactile array on one last time i looked.
(I helped save b3ta! Lethe is carrying a spade. SPANG., Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:59, archived)