Re:Mouse Box
by jebediah on Thursday January 22, 2015 @10:32PM
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I am okay with the general concept(though I guess it would be a lot better to put a computer on a keyboard, or seriously, on a phone), but I think that claiming this is the future of computing is ridiculous, pretty much the only thing this seems to be good at is being able to procrastinate at work, and once people are aware that you can put a computer on a mouse, that goes away
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Everyone with a Kickstarter thinks he's Steve Fucking Jobs. When Steve said things like "magical" and "revolutionary" every presentation, it was annoying as hell, and he came a lot closer to actually revolutionizing the world than Mousebox ever will.
Re:Mouse Box
by jay_kyburz on Thursday January 22, 2015 @10:55PM
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yeah, why can't I plug my android phone into a large monitor and use it like a trackpad!
Re:Mouse Box
by morganvachon on Friday January 23, 2015 @07:28AM
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The Motorola Photon 4G had an entire Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux distro packed into the ROM image, and they sold a docking station for it that basically turned the phone into a full fledged computer when connected to an HDMI capable monitor. Its cousin, the Atrix, did the same thing using a laptop-style dock.
A company called Cybernet has been putting full computers in keyboards since at least the early 90s (think Commodore 64 but with x86 guts).
In other words, this Mouse-Box is evolutionary, not revolutionary. I like it, but I'm not blown away.
I owned one of those and I never knew that.
If you have something like an Nvidia Shield tablet, you can basically do this. Bonus, it has a stylus so you can use it as a drawing tablet.
There's also things like this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thingsstuf...