He preferred to google images of a trackball and insert them in the video by editing just so he would't have the trouble to pick it up from the shelf. Indeed a Lazy review. I loved it. Keep up the awesomeness.
It's odd that i'm in 2020 reading this comment wondering why it only have 1 like! in 7 years nobody read this or what?!, crap, odd crap, oddly odd, odd....
This was somewhat big news at the time in Wyoming, where I lived when the product came out, since Wyoming isn't a hotbed of tech startups (or anything else, except JCPenney and Taco John's, woo!) and Altra was based in Laramie, WY, probably some university kids. The writing was already on the wall when it came out, but the intent was to make a compact trackball-sized device that would maximize desk space and minimize repetitive strain -- ergonomics being a giant new fad in the early-mid 90s as it was. By restricting motion to a one inch square, and using a smaller grip, you could use only the fine motor control in your fingers and not strain your wrists. The original style you pictured, you gripped the sides of the puck with your thumb and middle finger, and pressed the top to click. It made more sense than the tiny mouse style you got. The design decision they made is what doomed it. Though you didn't have to move your wrist to use it, it wasn't useful for anything above a 640x480 screen, and even then it took some skill. We were going to be rocketing to 1024x768 in just a few years on commodity machines. Also, with larger screens, you don't have all your windows maximized all the time, so the advantage of an absolute position (whack the puck to the upper left corner and double click to close a window) was less. And as you rightly pointed out, absolute positioning is absolute garbage for games. Still, it was somebody's baby, even if it ended up being as useful as a screen door on a battleship.
Hey, LGR! Long time watcher, first time commenter! I think this was the first video I had ever watched of yours, and it took me a few years to remember how cathartic your channel is. Your new stuff is great, and I often sleep to the sound of your sweet, sultry voice explaining the complexities and simple beauties of near-ancient technology. Thank you, sir. Rip and tear until it is done!
I used one of these for years with my Mac. Loved it and regretted when the company faded away. My model was simpler than the version you use here; it was like the one in the photo -- roughly rectangular in shape and with just one button. Absolute positioning was more natural for me than the relative positioning you get with a mouse. If I recall correctly, the moving bit was called a 'puck'.
Though it looks like a piece of crap I actually do see a potential outlet for something like this, people with motor issues. You know the same people who need text-to-speech devices and use those motorized wheelchairs. Where they have enough motor control that they aren't completely reliant on someone else for help, but are limited enough they might not be able to extend their arms to the full extent of a mouse. I suppose a laptops trackpad works just as well, but it just occurred to me that's one specific situation I could see this thing having potential for.
I think in the case you describe, a trackball would work better than the device in the video. It also seems a laptop trackpad would be a better alternative.
God i love all these videos. It's probably the best channel I've ever found that has reviews of pretty much just PC/DOS games and computers in general. the stuff I enjoy the most.
I just discovered your channel and I'm hooked! Love old computer stuff I grew up in the 80s and 90s so I remember alot of this stuff.. it also makes me sad to think about all the stuff that I've seen get junked because it was the time when the machines were obsolete but not yet vintage..
I always wanted to find an old very 80s looking computer to gut an replace the internals with modern high performance gaming pc hardware. I would use a non functional machine of course as I'd feel like a muderer to kill a working device that old.
Over the last few weeks I found your channel and watched most of your videos in my spare time and enjoyed the crap out of them. Thanks for the enjoyable time. Looking forward to your future videos ;]
I was thinking, maybe this is for disabled people? I've seen people use their faces or elbows to use trackballs and stuff, obviously there are more options now like special hardware and software but back then this was probably designed with disabled users in mind
I've heard that's what it was originally developed for, and I saw trackballs advertised in chiropractors offices and doctors offices, but it also became popular with people who thought it would prevent carpal tunnel syndrome, which was a serious problem with early non-ergonomic computer hardware and desks. I've _also_ heard that it didnt really impact the effects of carpal tunnel and with some trackballs it made it worse since you hand to move your hand in weird ways.
@@arthas640 I don't get thumb trackball mice nowadays. Briefly worked at a place where some of the computers had this and I feel like it was going to make my thumb sore, so I tried to avoid long term use with them. My thumbs get sore enough as is.
Trust me, I am not secretive about anything. ;) I'd just like to say that I do like beards, and I would never force someone to part with such an epic piece of facial history! In fact, I'm sad he didn't give me his beard so I could wear it.
Yup, sounds like the reviews are what you want then, since I actually put effort into those. I do Oddware videos when I need a bit of a break, but still want to make a video for people.
I am a Jungle Cruise Skipper at Disneyland and you should be too. You have the perfect sense of humor to be a skipper. " Thats what a mouse does...it curses. Classic pun. Love it. Love the channel too by the way.
Newer Lexus vehicles use this exact method to control the cursor on their navigation/stereo interface. Interesting to see how old the idea actually is!
I've seen the old version demoed on the old PBS show Computer Chronicles for the PC. I have an archive of the episodes, I could go through them to find it if you are interested.
I bought a few of these and used them for years. It was actually quite good and accurate. You hit all 4 corners when starting it up and it calibrates. The death of it was the lack of scroll functionality and lack of USB.
That's a really interesting (and definitely odd) device. I had no idea that such a thing had been created, so thanks for making a video on it :) I love your new microphone as well! and it's too bad that your epic beard is gone, but hey, now we can see more of your face ;)
That's what Oddware videos are: an unscripted, quick look at a piece of odd hardware or software. Always have been, always will be. If you don't like the formula, feel free to not watch them :)
I was a tester for these when they were first introduced. They were kind of odd. I’m not surprised it didn’t catch on. During my testing I had just received it and the top piece had to be replaced already because one of the buttons didn’t work. The concept was that when you move the trackball to the corner it would go to Corresponding corner of your screen of your screen but it had a hard time with a bigger screen sizes.
As somebody who is still rocking a a bit of a neckbeard and long-ish hair, more power to you for finally getting rid of it. I too will one day bid farewell to mine.
The Beard was a Nice Style for awhile. But I come here for the Raw Awesomeness the Well written Reviews and the Great Duke quotes for they never cease to please my ears.
Its 2018 and my wife still uses a trackball "mouse" every day in her job as a graphic designer for anheuser-busch. Do you know how hard it is to find a replacement for one of those things now days? Ive tried converting her but she's been there for 17 years and is a apple "person".
Yes a new vid. Love your work clint but i would so much like to se a lgr review or play on the whole police quest series. No one has done it to my knowlege so it would be super awesome
I had something similar to this. Can't remember the brand, but it was a three button mouse mounted on a stick that moved around on a base, kind of like a weird joystick. I think you could also bend it slightly to get extra movement. I initially got it as tablets were really expensive at the time and I was looking for something that would allow for more precise drawing. It kinda worked for that.
I fricking love these oddware reviews :) I never knew that there were so much odd ware in existance. the oddest thing i own is a pair of EyeScream 3d glasses, of wich i can never find the drivers for
the reason you can turn the thingy might be, that, since it is a business-device, it might be for people working with autocad or some 3d-stuff alike. there are rare 3d-mice nowerdays (like the 3DConnexion Spacenavigator) wich do exactly that. you choose your object and you turn eigther the camera or the object by rotating the "mouse". a normal mouse couldn't do this.
When I worked in a computer store in the 90's we had an even odder pointing device, which was designed for 3D gaming (Descend, spacesims etc.) but I can't remember the name right now. It was some sort of Altra Felix, but the bit you held was on a stick, you could move it around just like the Felix, turn it around like the Felix, plus you could move it up and down. I just can't remember the name of the bloody thing. We never sold any, I do know that.
Fairly new to your videos and I love them, this is the first video of yours where I've seen your face and I'm very disappointed that you are not a hybrid of Duke Nukem and Norm McDonald which is what your voice lead me to believe you would look like.
looking good with the clean shave, and that sure is one strange trackball/mouse combo device, about as strange as 3rd party commodore 64 mice back in the day.
Reminds me of the Suncom Atom Mouse I bought back in the early 2000's on clearance. It was basically a mouse permanantley attached to it's own "mousepad" - this probably uses the same technology. The Suncom came a lot later though, probably this style of pointing device's last hurrah.
You know, I actually wouldn't mind a mouse that combined both trackball and laser input, perhaps even throw in a mousepad. Take a normal mouse (albeit possibly a bit bulkier), and at the base you have a detachable module. The module can hold a trackball or the components for the LED input, or can have a 'filler' module that simply turns off or negates the bottom of the mouse. The top of the mouse (in addition to the LR mouse buttons, scroll wheel, etc.) can have a detachable panel on top. Normally the top would hold your palm (while you use the mouse), but underneath would be the mouse pad.
I had one of these back in the days of my SE/30 mac. And once I got used to it, I couldn't replace it with anything, I loved it. But once it died I could not find a replacement. And a short time later i could get optical mice. I hated cleaning the ball mice constantly. Mine also had no dead spot, but it did start to develop one after a while, and that is what made it impossible to use.
Ever plotting revenge against wrongdoings against beards across the planet. If ever theres a beard in trouble LGRBeard will be there! Still remembering how LGRBeard too was once treated as mere hair growth.
I guess the spirit of this things is carried over to console controller on cars today, especially the corner-to-corner correspondence between the screen space and the controller constraints.
Heh. I used to have two of these with our first PC back in the 90's. (probably still have it somewhere) From what I remember, the buttons on the first one stopped working maybe 6 months after we got it, and we were sent an (updated) replacement from Altra. Upon taking it apart, the fine wires that went into the "handle" had broken in multiple places. The second one worked until we stopped using it, but it began to get finicky and the cursor movement was erratic (buttons still worked, though!)
I could never get used to such a mouse, and Holy fuck do I HATE trackpads... You, my dear have the patience to use such wack hardware and I raise my glass to you. Cheers.
no, you shouldn't. it's lowest common denominator entertainment for children. are you a child? a tween? if not, you might seek out something more engaging, because he isn't making those videos for you. they're for children.
You should've had another miniscreen in this video in which we can see what you were doing with the Altra. Seeing it in action (and seeing what it does in real time) would've been interesting.
It reminds me of something I remember seeing in amiga magazines in the early 90s, a joystick/mouse hybrid that as far as I could tell was simply an analogue joystick, but the top looked like a classic rounded two button mouse, you basically held the joystick like you'd hold a mouse, except it's on top of an analogue joystick. Searching for it I found the Cheetah Tortoise, which is a similar concept, and also very odd and silly.
Wasn't a fan of the beard myself (though personal preference ofcourse!) but these things are worth trying out I must admit. I had really long hair at one point in life but you do get fed up with it after a while and it's refreshing like you say to go back.
I've gotten used to trackball mice over the past few years and really like them. This one looks a bit awkward to use, but I'm presently using the MX Ergo+ and it's very comfortable.
These Felix mice were tried out by NASA as a pointing device in zero-g, an Apple Macintosh Portable was taken on shuttle flights and they tested various ways of of user input. I don't think it did very well up there.
He preferred to google images of a trackball and insert them in the video by editing just so he would't have the trouble to pick it up from the shelf. Indeed a Lazy review. I loved it. Keep up the awesomeness.
Haha, YEP. Forget trying to find it in the closet.
you would think editing in images would take more effort than just grabbing the actual trackball XD
But was it the same exact model of trackball???
I've been subbed for a couple years now, I just started binge watching everything you uploaded and now I'm scarred I'm going to run out of videos lol
Hehe, well there are still new videos arriving every Monday and Friday, so there's that :)
Ive watched like 30 of your videos today alone...
I'm new-ish and I have watched everything... the fear is real. Moar thrifts and oddware plz.
Scarred?
I'm scared of being scarred.
Back in the "day" I recall setting up a system for someone with a disability (either visual or physical) and this was the required mouse.
Now that you mention it, I can see why it'd be useful for those kinds of situations!
Well sure. People seem to be forgetting that beards grow back, really quite quickly. All I have to do is... nothing.
It's odd that i'm in 2020 reading this comment wondering why it only have 1 like! in 7 years nobody read this or what?!, crap, odd crap, oddly odd, odd....
"get over it" I am not over it
Eating and many other actions are required. Don't forget about them!
This was somewhat big news at the time in Wyoming, where I lived when the product came out, since Wyoming isn't a hotbed of tech startups (or anything else, except JCPenney and Taco John's, woo!) and Altra was based in Laramie, WY, probably some university kids.
The writing was already on the wall when it came out, but the intent was to make a compact trackball-sized device that would maximize desk space and minimize repetitive strain -- ergonomics being a giant new fad in the early-mid 90s as it was. By restricting motion to a one inch square, and using a smaller grip, you could use only the fine motor control in your fingers and not strain your wrists. The original style you pictured, you gripped the sides of the puck with your thumb and middle finger, and pressed the top to click. It made more sense than the tiny mouse style you got.
The design decision they made is what doomed it. Though you didn't have to move your wrist to use it, it wasn't useful for anything above a 640x480 screen, and even then it took some skill. We were going to be rocketing to 1024x768 in just a few years on commodity machines. Also, with larger screens, you don't have all your windows maximized all the time, so the advantage of an absolute position (whack the puck to the upper left corner and double click to close a window) was less. And as you rightly pointed out, absolute positioning is absolute garbage for games.
Still, it was somebody's baby, even if it ended up being as useful as a screen door on a battleship.
Taco John Woo? Is that like a taco joint where they have like mexican standoffs and slow motion shootouts with white doves flying everywhere?
Hey, LGR! Long time watcher, first time commenter! I think this was the first video I had ever watched of yours, and it took me a few years to remember how cathartic your channel is. Your new stuff is great, and I often sleep to the sound of your sweet, sultry voice explaining the complexities and simple beauties of near-ancient technology. Thank you, sir. Rip and tear until it is done!
I love Oddware. Not sure what would do without this beautiful show.
It is interesting watching these old lgr videos and realizing these pieces of hardware have deteriorated for yet another decade.
WOW you can tell you have really improved the quality of your video's after seeing this one from back in the day! keep up the good work!
I used one of these for years with my Mac. Loved it and regretted when the company faded away. My model was simpler than the version you use here; it was like the one in the photo -- roughly rectangular in shape and with just one button. Absolute positioning was more natural for me than the relative positioning you get with a mouse.
If I recall correctly, the moving bit was called a 'puck'.
Though it looks like a piece of crap I actually do see a potential outlet for something like this, people with motor issues. You know the same people who need text-to-speech devices and use those motorized wheelchairs. Where they have enough motor control that they aren't completely reliant on someone else for help, but are limited enough they might not be able to extend their arms to the full extent of a mouse. I suppose a laptops trackpad works just as well, but it just occurred to me that's one specific situation I could see this thing having potential for.
I think in the case you describe, a trackball would work better than the device in the video. It also seems a laptop trackpad would be a better alternative.
It is also useful for living room set ups. I want a newer version of this
Awesome, glad you're enjoying that much! Lots more planned, so stay tuned.
God i love all these videos. It's probably the best channel I've ever found that has reviews of pretty much just PC/DOS games and computers in general. the stuff I enjoy the most.
I just discovered your channel and I'm hooked! Love old computer stuff I grew up in the 80s and 90s so I remember alot of this stuff.. it also makes me sad to think about all the stuff that I've seen get junked because it was the time when the machines were obsolete but not yet vintage..
I always wanted to find an old very 80s looking computer to gut an replace the internals with modern high performance gaming pc hardware. I would use a non functional machine of course as I'd feel like a muderer to kill a working device that old.
Over the last few weeks I found your channel and watched most of your videos in my spare time and enjoyed the crap out of them.
Thanks for the enjoyable time. Looking forward to your future videos ;]
I was thinking, maybe this is for disabled people? I've seen people use their faces or elbows to use trackballs and stuff, obviously there are more options now like special hardware and software but back then this was probably designed with disabled users in mind
I've heard that's what it was originally developed for, and I saw trackballs advertised in chiropractors offices and doctors offices, but it also became popular with people who thought it would prevent carpal tunnel syndrome, which was a serious problem with early non-ergonomic computer hardware and desks. I've _also_ heard that it didnt really impact the effects of carpal tunnel and with some trackballs it made it worse since you hand to move your hand in weird ways.
@@arthas640 I don't get thumb trackball mice nowadays. Briefly worked at a place where some of the computers had this and I feel like it was going to make my thumb sore, so I tried to avoid long term use with them. My thumbs get sore enough as is.
Just sitting here in 2019 (June) watching a potato quality LGR video from six years ago.
sitting here in 2020 (January)
@@m-w-y7325 late night rabbit hole that got me to get out old keyboards to see which one I type best with. I found it!
Laying in bed here in february 2020..
It's now March 2020, and here I am.
Greetings to you from the future.
I really like this channel. It's like a podcast but cooler!
People still watch podcasts?!
It's like a newspaper, only with moving images and sound and on the internet and about obscure old computer hardware.
Oddware enthusiasts DO exist and we DO love these vidyas
I love that your voice hasn't changed in 4 years. Also, I love your voice- totally made for radio kind of voice. :) makes these videos even better!
Refreshing and awesome. Less itchy.
Trust me, I am not secretive about anything. ;) I'd just like to say that I do like beards, and I would never force someone to part with such an epic piece of facial history! In fact, I'm sad he didn't give me his beard so I could wear it.
7 years later, but I'd have to say, you'd definitely rock the beard.
Yup, sounds like the reviews are what you want then, since I actually put effort into those. I do Oddware videos when I need a bit of a break, but still want to make a video for people.
When I watch your videos, I feel like an old friend popped round to some me random interesting stuff
I am a Jungle Cruise Skipper at Disneyland and you should be too. You have the perfect sense of humor to be a skipper. " Thats what a mouse does...it curses. Classic pun. Love it. Love the channel too by the way.
I got a pair of new speakers yesterday and man, your lovely deep voice blew away the bass!
its very interesting to see a huge change in format from the old LGR to the new LGR.
I remember seeing this in a pawnshop and thinking "What the hell is that monstrosity" Great video as always!
Was wondering why this video that I'd already seen was suggested to me. Now I know why, happy 4 years to this video!
Well it was marketed to and at a price point appropriate for business users, mainly.
If you take off the... Mouse thing? It looks kinda like it could be a portable CD player.
Newer Lexus vehicles use this exact method to control the cursor on their navigation/stereo interface. Interesting to see how old the idea actually is!
+Chris Groff oddly the nx uses a trackpad like device.....(i confused the two........)
I've seen the old version demoed on the old PBS show Computer Chronicles for the PC. I have an archive of the episodes, I could go through them to find it if you are interested.
Cyrus Bufkin you should have a link for us by now man
I thought this was an old video when I first saw you without the beard and hair. Your videos are still epic, no matter what the hair and beard.
I bought a few of these and used them for years. It was actually quite good and accurate. You hit all 4 corners when starting it up and it calibrates. The death of it was the lack of scroll functionality and lack of USB.
That's a really interesting (and definitely odd) device. I had no idea that such a thing had been created, so thanks for making a video on it :) I love your new microphone as well! and it's too bad that your epic beard is gone, but hey, now we can see more of your face ;)
last time i watched your vids all day (litarally) because they were so entertaining .... yay!
This is one of the funniest videos you ever made I think 😂
LOL, i somehow predicted when i sent you that you'd react exactly like that. glad to see you were intrigued by all the weirdness!
That's what Oddware videos are: an unscripted, quick look at a piece of odd hardware or software. Always have been, always will be. If you don't like the formula, feel free to not watch them :)
I just realized that the "Oddware" sound effect is an extremely slow, reversed burp. Never change, Clint.
I've got a Blue shockmount and dual pop filter on it, mounted to a RODE desk mounted arm.
First time seeing one of your older videos from 9 years ago.
It's been up for a couple days on other places, so I give him the benefit of the doubt.
love every review you post. keep it up.
I was a tester for these when they were first introduced. They were kind of odd. I’m not surprised it didn’t catch on. During my testing I had just received it and the top piece had to be replaced already because one of the buttons didn’t work. The concept was that when you move the trackball to the corner it would go to Corresponding corner of your screen of your screen but it had a hard time with a bigger screen sizes.
I am an Oddware enthusiast! Some of my favorite videos of yours are thems.
Once a week as it's always been, and if I feel like doing anything in-between then I do!
All of us do. I rarely comment, But I like every video and favorite the videos that relate to me!
Love your humor and your videos! Keep being awesome!
Ha Ballz,
love the channel LGR long time viewer from down under
I must say, it's refreshing to see your face again!
Here's hoping it sticks around for awhile. c:
As somebody who is still rocking a a bit of a neckbeard and long-ish hair, more power to you for finally getting rid of it. I too will one day bid farewell to mine.
The Beard was a Nice Style for awhile. But I come here for the Raw
Awesomeness the Well written Reviews and the Great Duke quotes for they
never cease to please my ears.
Ahhh. Nothing like a good dose of LGR's oddware :)
Its 2018 and my wife still uses a trackball "mouse" every day in her job as a graphic designer for anheuser-busch. Do you know how hard it is to find a replacement for one of those things now days? Ive tried converting her but she's been there for 17 years and is a apple "person".
As someone that used a trackball mouse at my work comp, I can confirm that you do indeed make odd noises while using it.
Yes a new vid. Love your work clint but i would so much like to se a lgr review or play on the whole police quest series. No one has done it to my knowlege so it would be super awesome
Dee. one of my favourate content creaters.
Not the beard! *sheds a tear* Awesome video all the same.
I had something similar to this. Can't remember the brand, but it was a three button mouse mounted on a stick that moved around on a base, kind of like a weird joystick. I think you could also bend it slightly to get extra movement. I initially got it as tablets were really expensive at the time and I was looking for something that would allow for more precise drawing. It kinda worked for that.
I fricking love these oddware reviews :)
I never knew that there were so much odd ware in existance. the oddest thing i own is a pair of EyeScream 3d glasses, of wich i can never find the drivers for
the reason you can turn the thingy might be, that, since it is a business-device, it might be for people working with autocad or some 3d-stuff alike. there are rare 3d-mice nowerdays (like the 3DConnexion Spacenavigator) wich do exactly that. you choose your object and you turn eigther the camera or the object by rotating the "mouse". a normal mouse couldn't do this.
Wow, you look really good without the beard! And yay more Oddware! :D
When I worked in a computer store in the 90's we had an even odder pointing device, which was designed for 3D gaming (Descend, spacesims etc.) but I can't remember the name right now.
It was some sort of Altra Felix, but the bit you held was on a stick, you could move it around just like the Felix, turn it around like the Felix, plus you could move it up and down.
I just can't remember the name of the bloody thing. We never sold any, I do know that.
The Dark Half in the background.... That book f*cked me up.
I cracked up with this piece of old style clint jokes
Fairly new to your videos and I love them, this is the first video of yours where I've seen your face and I'm very disappointed that you are not a hybrid of Duke Nukem and Norm McDonald which is what your voice lead me to believe you would look like.
Me too. Some self-centering would go a long way.
Thought you had uploaded an older vid for a moment.. As always, great vid
A Steven King novel-based adventure game.
NOOOOOOOOO!! Not the beard!!! :( :( :(
Great review though, really looking forward to your next oddware review! :D
I can't unsee the cute little alien with tiny arms.
"That's what a mouse does - it curses." - Clint, 2013
looking good with the clean shave, and that sure is one strange trackball/mouse combo device, about as strange as 3rd party commodore 64 mice back in the day.
This puts me in mind of a Wacom tablet, in particular the "puck" mouse that you can get for them.
Also the 1-to-1 mapping of screen to device.
You look better without the caveman look, never grow it back! Great video as always LGR!
non-beard and hair2.0 is a definite upgrade there ! Good choice man :)
Wow you look so much younger haha. I will too miss the power of the almighty beard, but this new look is much better
I gave it a proper viking burial with fire and boats, so it's cool. Besides, now there's so much more room for activities!
Reminds me of the Suncom Atom Mouse I bought back in the early 2000's on clearance. It was basically a mouse permanantley attached to it's own "mousepad" - this probably uses the same technology. The Suncom came a lot later though, probably this style of pointing device's last hurrah.
Love that microphone.
finally a commentator that looks like how i imagined them
You know, I actually wouldn't mind a mouse that combined both trackball and laser input, perhaps even throw in a mousepad.
Take a normal mouse (albeit possibly a bit bulkier), and at the base you have a detachable module. The module can hold a trackball or the components for the LED input, or can have a 'filler' module that simply turns off or negates the bottom of the mouse. The top of the mouse (in addition to the LR mouse buttons, scroll wheel, etc.) can have a detachable panel on top. Normally the top would hold your palm (while you use the mouse), but underneath would be the mouse pad.
1:05 - Ah.. the pure unscripted-ness of LGR.
Keep up the good work!
I had one of these back in the days of my SE/30 mac. And once I got used to it, I couldn't replace it with anything, I loved it. But once it died I could not find a replacement. And a short time later i could get optical mice. I hated cleaning the ball mice constantly. Mine also had no dead spot, but it did start to develop one after a while, and that is what made it impossible to use.
Ever plotting revenge against wrongdoings against beards across the planet.
If ever theres a beard in trouble LGRBeard will be there!
Still remembering how LGRBeard too was once treated as mere hair growth.
I guess the spirit of this things is carried over to console controller on cars today, especially the corner-to-corner correspondence between the screen space and the controller constraints.
Heh. I used to have two of these with our first PC back in the 90's. (probably still have it somewhere) From what I remember, the buttons on the first one stopped working maybe 6 months after we got it, and we were sent an (updated) replacement from Altra. Upon taking it apart, the fine wires that went into the "handle" had broken in multiple places. The second one worked until we stopped using it, but it began to get finicky and the cursor movement was erratic (buttons still worked, though!)
I could never get used to such a mouse, and Holy fuck do I HATE trackpads...
You, my dear have the patience to use such wack hardware and I raise my glass to you. Cheers.
"Felix its not you, its me. But actually it is you"
said the exact same thing when I stopped watching Pewdiepie
My exact same feelings regarding Game Grumps
you should watch pewdiepie again
no, you shouldn't. it's lowest common denominator entertainment for children. are you a child? a tween? if not, you might seek out something more engaging, because he isn't making those videos for you. they're for children.
Exigentable god forbid someone likes something you dont
Exigentable You got, like, way more upset about that than was necessary.
RIP Beard 2011-2013 :( It will be sorely missed.
You should've had another miniscreen in this video in which we can see what you were doing with the Altra. Seeing it in action (and seeing what it does in real time) would've been interesting.
at the start of the vid... i want your portrait, 1950's aperture science!
It reminds me of something I remember seeing in amiga magazines in the early 90s, a joystick/mouse hybrid that as far as I could tell was simply an analogue joystick, but the top looked like a classic rounded two button mouse, you basically held the joystick like you'd hold a mouse, except it's on top of an analogue joystick.
Searching for it I found the Cheetah Tortoise, which is a similar concept, and also very odd and silly.
The Logitech trackball at 1:46 looks like a mouse with a bunion.
Whatever it is, it looks painful.
The Dollar Guy Oh I wasn't talking about ergonomics or functionality. I thought the trackball looked like a blister or something.
The Dollar Guy Thanks for the suggestion! I'll try one when I get the chance to!
Wasn't a fan of the beard myself (though personal preference ofcourse!) but these things are worth trying out I must admit. I had really long hair at one point in life but you do get fed up with it after a while and it's refreshing like you say to go back.
I've gotten used to trackball mice over the past few years and really like them. This one looks a bit awkward to use, but I'm presently using the MX Ergo+ and it's very comfortable.
These Felix mice were tried out by NASA as a pointing device in zero-g, an Apple Macintosh Portable was taken on shuttle flights and they tested various ways of of user input. I don't think it did very well up there.
The look on your face at 1:25-1:35 is priceless
New Oddware and less scary presenter. A good combo.