yeah that's great but sorry I got to go I got to get some work
done ever since that first demo back in the 1960s people have been looking for
ways to improve the mouse and while some
of these Innovations have become standards like scroll Wheels additional
buttons or Optical sensors others have
been trying to solve problems that didn't really exist this mouse phone for
example which yes is exact ly what we're looking at here is one such example but
believe it or not it is far from the weirdest thing in the bin
today what exactly is it that I'm looking at here that is the Sony viom
Mouse talk from 2006 It's a combination Optical Mouse and vo phone ah yes
internet telephone there you go which makes sense because OG Skype got popular
around 2005 as broadband internet cost came down making it a much more
affordable way to talk to friends and family overseas and this is full of lots
of cool features you've got scroll wheel volume
control and it even works as a speaker phone maybe I can use it to tell the
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uh not yet you've got to complete to your challenge first a challenge using
only that Mouse record and play back a message for us okay well I mean
audacities right here on the desktop this couldn't be that hard USB audio
device start monitoring BL BL of course it wasn't going to be that
easy you know I haven't used Windows 98 in a while oh 2,000 sorry excuse me
maybe there's a mode switch oh there's a button oh balls it
only it only works in one mode at a time
that's right I can't use it as a mouse like this and also you I mean that kind
of makes sense look at this thing it's obviously designed for use with a laptop
where you would also have a trackpad but still do we just need some gain just
need them gains hello hello no stereo
maybe it's a different different one hey hello hello I thought you said it works
as a speaker phone too if you open it halfway then it's speaker phone mode oh
my God am I drunk volume the bottom yeah
top option volume control options
properties recording
okay look at that level what
why but I wasn't getting anything are
you for real right now oh this is going to sound awful I'm so sorry everyone's
ears I guess I could talk a little quieter yeah that's not much better
maybe turn your volume down a little bit oh wow this is at minimum though what
happens when we crank up even higher wait I can play back on
this to sound I'm so sorry say it was a
good speaker phone oh yeah Crank It Up that'll help
what happens when we Crank It Up even
higher I'm going to say 60 bucks you are dead on the money oh really yep that's
awesome that would be uh $91 in today's
money what do you think we have actually paid for it oh I hope it's not more than
50 bucks 69 okay nice ooh oh ooh
discover the easy to ous mouse that gives children ages 2 to six a big head
start with computer look at this kid this is a Microsoft product this is a
Microsoft product the easy ball includes
Freddy fish and the case of the missing kelp seeds got to get that kelp man this
does not look easier wow this package is
in great shape oh no way who would have
a complete in box this thing setup disc
wow Humongous Entertainment I have the
following CD ROM titles check all that apply I have putt putt saves the zoo no
way are we going to play Freddy fish we can play Freddy fish oh of course the
real star of the show is this mouse for
ballers Eat Your Heart Out Mac versus PC ad
campaign because this box contains the biggest Zing that I have ever seen
single button design adds to the ease of use there's no confusion about which
button to press oh Checkmate now remember this is a Serial
Mouse so you're going to have to turn off the computer and plug it in yeah
every once in a while they do work hot plug it's worth a shot you break it you bought it and you already bought it so
hey and that's a negatory
yep dang it's the easy ball what do you
think I mean it's a ball Mouse but
bigger uh what do you think you'd pay for that oh no anything for kids is
going to come with a bit of a premium there was obviously some molding cost
and they couldn't have sold that many of this thing this actually won some awards
won a CES best of show and it was just spit at the Smithsonian for an input
device exhibition ient I don't think that makes it worth more money I'm going
to say $99.99 uh you're actually
high 60 bucks uh it was $55 really
that's actually pretty reasonable yep be about5 today since you got Freddy Fisher
Diablo truthfully if all I had to do was line up a cursor for interactive
storybook games and stuff like that it gets done this is kind of awesome I'm
not sure I fully understand the ergonomics of these handles but then
okay I started trying to use them it's was like oh yeah that holds it steady if
you're sitting on the floor you know crisscross applesauce kind of style
maybe know what I kind of like it let's go with
Diablo hey these loading times though I don't think my computer was that fast
when I first played Diablo magic of SSD
oh is this an SSD yeah that explains a
lot it's too big actually impractically
large yeah it's not bad
though oh yeah if you kill anything else these
Fallen ones like take off so just get the other ones for now oh yeah you're
not getting away now we're back in time to Windows
98 just need to hang on hang on hang on you got to plug the mous in first
ooh Mouse pen Pro from a point natural
pen-shaped design great for artist and children perfect for high dexterity
applications saying that you need High dexterity to use your input device
that's uh it's honest oh no like a
ballpoint pen the mouse pen works great on an ordinary pad of paper no mouse pad
required and you can even put your feet up and use the mouse pen on your pant
leg or the cover of your favorite magazine oo wow a magazine remember
magazines barely actually guide to
operations is not what they use this for oh she works but hold on a second I
don't think we're using this right because rather than clearing a space on
top of your desk to use the mouse pin you can use it on top of your stuff
stuff so you could just be a slob there
nice it's terrible little bit uh the
switch is for DPI changes
oh oh that's a little faster it's still
terrible but she loses traction sometimes though In fairness I do wonder
if part of this is just due to the plastic saging it might be we found
there's a mous pad there somewhere Mar calling if you want to grab that maybe
she was a little grippier back in the day we're okay on this mous pad PT
Cruiser mous pad wow and I found you to press a little harder than you would
with like a wcom pen still pretty crap they Advocate hard for the pant leg why
don't we try that and I'll show off these prototype LTT cargo
pants awful what do you think people paid for that back in the day there's no
way this was cheaper than like 150 bucks
super specialized Hardware Limited lifetime warranty patented design that
was $99 oh not bad from uh about 1991 and
you get two whole button clicks not to mention that if your software requires
you to press both buttons at the same time you can do that by simply adjusting
the position of your knuckle that's in here it's in the book yeah free Tech tip
wow you ready for your challenge oh no uh open up the uh pen test there if you
could sir need to draw the rest of the
owl no are you kidding me wait is this
serious is this a meme yeah I mean I can't draw it the best of
time oh my goodness oh man it doesn't it
doesn't have good traction on anything no maybe the back side of this hey yeah
that's not bad oh that's quite Square that's a beautiful circle now let's draw
an egg ooh diagonals not good it's kind of
exra sketchy
yeah see I thought it was me at first but I actually don't I think it is I
think it's a good thing we have an art Department look you guys set me up to
failure I gave you an appropriate boing device oh no it what what happened there
when you're going back and forth it doesn't uh oh wait I angled it I angled
it in a natural writing position and I stopped touching the no no you can't do
that it's got to be flat yeah you got to get the branch he's sitting on oh yeah
shoot sorry I think that is actually recognizable as an owl yeah I'm giving
myself a b b minus b as in be
confident this one's not actually a mouse or so they claim neither was the
last one Felix outruns any Mouse wow
great job Felix do it all in one square
inch that's what I tell my wife so this was designed to solve a
problem that didn't exist you know how people would like have trouble finding
the mouse when you're trying to help them with a computer back in the day you know I guess this way wherever the Felix
is on here that's where your cursor is going to be on the screen I see so if I
wanted it to be in the bottom left corner you put it in the bottom left corner I could just go like that that's
where it's going to be and that's so much simpler than if it was just a mouse
that I just moved to the bottom left apparently this is from 1990 so what do
you think you would have paid for it based on how well it works
oh oh wait what oh yeah no way it's
terrible that's a feature are you kidding me right now hear me out this is
set up so it's 640x480 it would be a 1:1
ratio if your screen so if you knock your resolution down to 640x480 then it
won't do that ghosty thing if you get to the edge of the inch that ought to be
enough for anybody and you haven't made it to the end of the screen it
just just goes for it like panning in an
RTS except way harder to control what
does rotation do absolutely nothing how
could they say this is good for ergonomics look at what I'm doing to
myself I'm contorting maintenance free so it never
needs cleaning let me tell you if the setup roasts that we've done are
anything to go by it needs cleaning in its range actually kind of great yeah as
soon as you go outside of the range just don't do that off the rails what are the
other selling points pinpoint Precision
ergonomic handle I've got to give them full points for the Precision handling
when you compare this to a ball Mouse from back in 1990 this crush it and
let's try what you said let's change the resolution to the one you recommended
now I actually don't need the whole inch to make it all the way to the edge oh
yeah maybe they can't do their math very well I mean they can't do ergonomics
very well this would destroy my wrist
yeah I'm pretty sensitive to like non-ergonomic
devices U what's my challenge P up our temp folder here I think I have it in
here oo oh arcade all right here we go we go left button is start hey
actually oh yeah oh civilian shoot not supposed to
kill oh oh I didn't reload reload reload I'm trying I'm trying
jeez oh my poor wrist my poor wrist I'm
so tense right now okay what was your score smart guy like 55,000 somewhere in
there and my wrist up oh dang let's
go no no no no oh I died this is from
1990 what would you have paid what would I have paid nothing cuz 1990 what would
they have asked for it you were four 100 bucks not even close 150 bucks not even
close no stop2 200 this was
$200 in 1990 they had a Mac version and
a PC version so you're looking around 400 bucks in today's money how much
should I pay for it $35 okay good
what's our next Mouse this is an upgrade from the last one the atom Mouse saves
space with every
move oh no this is another one of those
I have my coffee and my notepads and all of my garbage all over my desk Solutions
exactly this is only like four square in they say they need for this one wow it's
just like a regular Mouse except can't move for crap like the kind of fine
motor control they're expecting me to have to cover my whole screen with just
this I mean that's like that's like just having a modern Mouse and having your
sensitivity set like this that's not a good experience I mean maybe it is it's
not nearly accurate enough to do that right like well maybe it is Jordan you
ever think of that boom got him so this is similar ooh you know what you like it
better I don't know what it is it's not
bad oh wait I lied oh I'm overshooting
everything sensitivity is way too high turn it down when I was just moving it
around it feels fine well oh you can turn down well no it's a mouse yeah well
you can't pick it up and go to the edge of the mouse pad again very well can you
well that's fair it's the same idea where it's mapped one to one to your
screen this one can handle higher resolutions
interesting let's play some Starcraft
SCV Good To Go sir you got to provide our soundtrack for us yeah I mean I can
I can do that what do you want
it sucks but not as much in the context of you know random ballos like you said
yeah this is a lot better than that oh it's a Zergling kill it kill it killo
fire I got to say your clicks per second is not amazing look I got to say this is
very hard to click on anything accurately with okay oh man I uh my
wrist is dying here look at this look
what you have to do to move all the way to the top and all the way to the bottom
weird hand exercise it's really awful so this one's from 199 8 what do you think
you would have paid for this I hope I wouldn't pay more than 60 bucks well to
be truthful I have no idea oh okay how about now and now we paid 30 bucks for
it okay that's fine all right well let's move on to the next most
then oh is that an external power supply it
is it uh didn't come with a power brick we improvised
novent Falcon is this a threedimensional
mouse yep I feel like I'm shaking hands
with the machine wait it's got to have force feedback
that's why it needs an external power supply good gravy what are these buttons
plus play or back lightning bolt and
Whirlpool all the normal ones wow look at all these
patents used with no vent supplied power supply only 30 Vol DC 1 amp a 30 W Mouse
yeah oh oh the colors the the front of it is changing colors it's red now does
this thing have RGB kind of blue there you goes
connected that's R and
B R&B yeah oh look at that it zeros
oh it's strong yeah it pushes back with
apparently about two pounds of force maybe a little better cuz that's a thing
I wanted a mouse that fights back exactly this is the novent Falcon from
about 2006 and the point of it is uh it
is a 3D force feedback input device yeah that's I didn't ask what it is I asked
what the point of it is so people used it for like 3D sculpting as well as for
gaming and this uh the ball deal actually came off and you could replace
it with different things I see how do I click the middle button here is your
normal click and this one seems to be is horrendous little bit depends how you
hold if you hold it kind of like this maybe oh okay I could try that
to your no Fen folder there hi computer nice to meet you here you go man fine
control it's a little really hard yeah
very tough especially when it's fighting back like that you got three different
dead zones you're contending with here yeah all right you want me to click here
so you got three motors in there that are basically constantly adjusting themselves to where they want to be up
is up y down is down yep right is right
left is left yep pull toward me is kind
of nothing is and push toward it is kind
of nothing kind of nothing is actually a good example for this is delay here this
is a 3D sculpting program M that is
specifically designed for this sort of input so can you draw yourself a face or
something here not
easily try
grab I think if you hold this button and moove it'll rotate the oh whoa oh e oh
he's off yeah that's it's face like thanks they
face like qualities I appreciate that good work boss I'm going to give him an ear all
right yeah he can do some ears how about a crease ear okay what's that do I don't
know makes a crease presum
oh this must have cost a fortune
surprisingly not 200 bucks yeah MSRP was 175 to 240
depending on your accessories that's a lot for Mouse but not that much for you
know a cad input device for example what
do you think we paid this is got to be collector's item at this point I'm going
to say we paid like 400 bucks for it 150
bucks oh okay that's pretty good power supply was missing and no cables or
anything right that's fine we solved that all right so feel around here okay
just feel the sphere feel the sphere it's a yeah like Ride The Walrus you
know then when we change your texture here it'll feel different in your hand
Oh
weird you could kind of like push into the sphere and it kind of slips around
it and it like bump oh yep yeah it gets
worse it's like putting your hand in the
shoo yeah we'll keep going here
ew oh and the ice is
slippery okay this is a pretty cool demo if I saw this at CES I'd be like dang
that's really cool I'll never buy it see you later yeah
sandpaper wow you can feel and hear the sand gritty right
like wow
magnetic
oh man I don't know this is just weird right yeah
rubber this one you can push against then it'll fight back kind of the other way
oh all right okay I think we can try the
next demo with this one I have to play me some home run how it goes the drivers
all work oh I oh
jeez oh hold on oh okay it's this way
well I could do this with a mouse wa oh
come on Boom it's smoking it's
gone let's go Monkey Sports
Network fireworks fireworks better or worse than wi Sports
oh so much worse Jordan so much worse not
even fa ball oh it's all the way out I hit the
edge of the map Lis top score nice your
score is three I mean if I can play badminton I can play table
tennis oh yeah I tried this WOW
destroyed me hey I got a point what how
what just happened what just happened
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Tech dips if you guys enjoyed this video maybe check out the time we looked at
some weird game controllers for my part I think my favorite today is going to be
oh man they all suck I'm going to go with the kid ball you want to phrase it
differently sure oh well
gee what's it called again easy
ball let's just cut it there yeah