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#1 2009-11-05 4:09 pm
How does the magic mouse know...
How does the magic mouse know it's my fingers and not a pencil erasure? 
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#2 2009-11-05 4:13 pm
- sturner
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Re: How does the magic mouse know...
By reason of all things technologically complex,... Magic!
I'm not dead yet.
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#3 2009-11-05 4:18 pm
Re: How does the magic mouse know...
ha!
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#4 2009-11-05 4:55 pm
Re: How does the magic mouse know...
My best hypotheses involves the fact that a pencil eraser doesn't generate heat. Your fingers, unless all bloodflow has been completely cut off, do.
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#6 2009-11-05 10:57 pm
- jerwin
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Re: How does the magic mouse know...
skin capacitance.
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#7 2009-11-06 5:38 am
Re: How does the magic mouse know...
jerwin wrote:
skin capacitance.
Seriously??! If so, that is the awesomest thing I've heard this morning! (Ok, it's only 6:40 am, but still!)
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#8 2009-11-06 5:53 am
- SomeOneOrOther
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Re: How does the magic mouse know...
Magic Mouse only accepts the coefficient of friction for skin.
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#9 2009-11-06 6:57 am
- mrreet2001
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Re: How does the magic mouse know...
satan 667 wrote:
jerwin wrote:
skin capacitance.
Seriously??! If so, that is the awesomest thing I've heard this morning! (Ok, it's only 6:40 am, but still!)
thats how the iphone works 
and most of the ipods for that matter.
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