it's pretty cool. it's wireless, naturally. and the mouse connects to the laptop via a device attached to it. this mate impressed upon me that the device's transmission/reception has a rather good physical distance.
since the device is new to us, we were figuring out why there exist such a feature. it crossed our minds to ask; to what purpose would a mouse and a laptop be at such a distance? then, it strucked me that maybe it's not merely enhancing an existing capability. rather, to offer a new feature. so i immediately attempted to relate it to my working experience.
and what i found, was this idea i'm about to share with you. yes. yes. it may not be so new. but i figured it out myself by stretching my imagination to something that resembles a disclosure.
the first scene that unveiled itself is this scenario where a person is giving a presentation from his laptop with that device attached. he's standing beside the screen looking at the audience seated, in a boardroom arrangement. his presentation is interrupted because the ceo interjected him by asking a question about the business projection figures he has up. as the ceo is doing so, several rows in the document are highlighted for all to see. and he continues his comments ending with an expectant pause and a quick look around.
a vp, two rows down to the right in an oval shaped boardroom table, thinking that this is his time to shine; asks permission to have the mouse. the ceo merely slides it to him on the polished mahogany so that it halts gently in his anticipating palm. he takes control. he highlights and unhighlights, he clicks and unclicks; all the while rambling on to the entire room with what he thinks is the most correct response to the ceo's question.
although he is at a distance away from the laptop, he is able to point out the exact evidence to his response from the displayed document. he is does this by using that particular mouse to specifically identify the erroneous figure and demonstrate a correction.
gone are the days of the red laser pointer.
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imagine now, when the same vp is responding to the ceo's question, he doesn't ask for the mouse. yet, he's able to do all the things he did in the first scenario. how?
and lets just say a colleague of his from across the table disagrees with him. and she nonchalantly proceeds to demonstrate her own response to the question. also without asking for the mouse, as she would've needed to do in the first scenario. how?
they both have their own mouse. in fact, all those seated at the oval shaped table, each have their own. and they're all connected via bluetooth to that one, same device attached to the laptop.
not bad, huh?
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stretching our imaginations even further, replace the mouse that they each have with a touchscreen mobile phone. for story's sake, the apple iphone. with the green, pick up button acting as the left click on the mouse and the red, hang up button acts as the right click on the mouse.
and they're all connected via bluetooth or a similar technology.
the phone has a keypad/board right? it can double up as a portable mouse and keyboard.
that would be a sight, huh?
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you can apply such a technology in classrooms, whilst teleconferencing, and a host of other like-activities.
cool.
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