Microsoft shows off five multitouch computer mouse concepts~

Microsoft may be looking into expanding its multitouch support — as it's doing with Windows 7 — but the user needs a way to take advantage of that technology. I don't know about you, but the monitor I use wouldn't fit the bill, and I don't imagine people are running out to replace their own with expensive multitouch-capable screens. To that end, Microsoft is exploring another avenue to help proliferate multitouch: new computer mice~

The five designs you see in the video aren't final products. They're concepts and show the direction Microsoft is going with the idea. The mice use everything from IR-sensitive cameras to capacitive-sensing electrodes, and look like anything from Microsoft's own Arc mouse (such as the multitouch FTIR concept you see pictured above), to ugly orbs~

Microsoft isn't alone in its pursuit, however. Word on the street is Apple is hard at work on the same. (Coincidence?)~

via : crave