Tech Humour: Useless Inventions

You've been watching southpark?

On Feb 4, 6:56=A0pm, John Larkin

Were they fresh out of "Hello Kitty" mouse pads?

On Feb 5, 2:03=A0pm, D from BC wrote: [...]

I just saw a video product review/test of one made for that.

magnetic flow??

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com BC, Canada

IIRC JL's is faux wood (Ikea). This mouse (Logitech MX700) doesn't mind real wood. I use solid core doors for work surfaces. They're cheap, heavy, and are mouse friendly.

Sure, you can find them in scrap warp drives.

On Isle three, next to the obsolete metric Flux Capacitors.

you have two electrodes an permanent magnet and a conductive fluid,

flow of the fluid, magnetic field and axis the electrodes. are all perpendicular, as the fluid flows a voltage proportional to the speed (and magnetic field) is generated,

they use this for speedometers on boats.

for the mouse you'd have the field vertical and the electrodes on the underside in a cross pattern (to measure speed on two axes). (two electrodes for each direction)

The wikipedia page on magnetohydrodynamics has some general info.

Neato..

Somebody got a Nobel prize in 1970 for that.

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com BC, Canada

Mine has a heck of a time on the white porceline tile of my breakfast bar. Have to have something like a towel or paper to run it on to use it there...

Charlie

In my case the replacement keyboard for my laptop used to be $10 from Dell's site. Now they want $40 for it. Found a site selling the same thing for $15 and that's what I'm using now.

Have you seen "Curse of the Were-Rabbit"?

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No, I'll check and see if Netflix has it yet, and add it to my queue.

ftp://jjlarkin.lmi.net/elecdog.jpg

John

I bought the DVD when it first came out, and I've watched it three or four times, so far.

I liked that, too.

Did you see "Chicken Run' by the same studio? I like most of their animation, including the Chevron gasoline commercials they did about 10 years ago.

Another biggie is health care. It doesn't do much good to have the nurses and docs wash their hands between patients if they have to use a grubby germ-infested keybaord/mouse to access the chart...

I didn't like it as much as "A Grand Day Out". I was seriously disappointed with "The Wrong Trousers".

Thanks, Rich

Wasn't that his first one? I liked the Evil Penguin Lodger.

John

Mouse condom!

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com BC, Canada Posted to usenet sci.electronics.design

The highlight of that one was catching the penguin in the milk bottle.