{"id":182763,"date":"2010-01-15T05:40:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T10:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/15\/puyocon-mouse-reacts-to-being-squeezed-thrown-gyrated-video\/"},"modified":"2010-01-15T05:40:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T10:40:31","slug":"puyocon-mouse-reacts-to-being-squeezed-thrown-gyrated-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/182763","title":{"rendered":"Puyocon mouse reacts to being squeezed, thrown, gyrated (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Puyocon isn’t about to swoop in and replace your trusty old two-dimensional laser pointing mousie just yet, but we’re always suckers for bizarre<\/a> input<\/a> peripherals<\/a>. Demonstrated by Tsukuba University at Siggraph Asia 2009 last month, it is a soft and squeezable ball that offers a quirky new spin on the old airborne controller<\/a> idea. Differing from the Wii Remote<\/a> in the fact that it won’t break your HDTV (or itself) if it slips out of your hand, the spongy ball operates on the basis of a three-way accelerometer and 14 pressure sensors in order to give detailed multidimensional information to the system it’s controlling. That’s probably overkill for the humble computer desktop, but there might be hope for the Puyocon becoming a commercial reality through games that make use of all its input points — after all, if there’s room for the Wiiwaa<\/a>, why not the Puyocon too? See it in action after the break.<\/p>\n

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