Since I presume that this will just be running the little pointer on the display, wouldn't this make it even harder to select little links, like the select button below the post as I type?

A little DO NOT WANT is in order.

If I were to use one of these, I would have to shave my palm regularly.

Dont cover your mouth when you cough either.

This actually looks cool...I love gyroscopic remotes, they actually work alot better than one would think.

cursor up, cursor down, cursor up, cursor down...

This could be pretty interesting, so to keep from carpal tunnel, people at work are going to start waving their hands around.... great, someone is going to hit themselves in the face trying to double click on My Computer or something...

@kahri: Damnit... beat me to it.

@kahri: You get my vote for comment of the day.

...so this is not done already by a thousand other companies?

Just checking...

Don't these people learn from past mistakes?
A lot more people use computers than Wiis, and even so, half the world is laughing about broken glass doors, spilled drinks and demolished furniture.

If Microsoft wants to bring to life Minority Report technology, go with the 180 degree screen. Or make a few of those wooden marbles for Woz. Show some support.

@kahri: As illustrated in Figure 2

You know what, I'll be nice today.

That is a great idea, and I for one would be glad to use on my day to day workflow.

MS, if you know someone at Samsung, give them a call and they will gladly share their ideas with you. They've been developing wearable pointing devices since the beginning of the decade.

OK...

...now get the heck outta here with yer little sketches and keep making MS Surface better. KTHNXBAI.

@Hvedhrungr: 108 Degree Display?

WANT!!!

hmm I wonder how this would work if you like umm play games?!?!

Basic browsing and usage seems ok but not for the gamer type

hmmm whens this hitting my 360 :) looks like aooler version of the sensing controller for the 360 that was rumored.

@WD40: I would imagine it looks like this

+ Watch video

Power Glove 2.0?

I think microsoft needs to fire a massive amount of people including engineers, Dam all that money & they can't Hire someone with a Brain??? But they should start with what ever department made that crazy Video, i still can get that crap out of my head, i might sue for going throw that abuse

I wonder if they thought of putting some silicon knobbly bits on the palm?

I'd rather have a ring that applies my hand motions to mouse control when my fingers are pressed together.

Make a fist? Tendinitis much

I want a theremin-controlled cursor. Wave your left hand to move it up and down, wave your right hand to move it left and right.

It doesn't matter whether you can click or not, you won't be able to hit any links anyway...

I tend to be animated when I talk on the phone.. with one of these I'm afraid that I would accidentally end up purchasing some Russian Internet bride.

actually this would be a sight better then the WIImote...I know...Ive basically been using this for several years already.... Its called a gyromouse oooh unlike the wiimote that uses accelerometers to detect an acceleration in a direction a gyro mouse detects changes in its own position directly. Ideally, combining the two would be more dynamic and far less buggy....

gyration has made gyro mice commercially forever...and a day..

The device I use is the first generation twiddler, a single handed cording keyboard...its first gen had a gyration manufactured gyro....so it functions as a one handed keyboard/mouse combo.

So again I hate to say it WOW a patent for a product commercially manufactured for over a decade....SUCH INNOVATION...

All I needed was something that looked like that, only it had a small trackball on top, and with 2 trigger action for the buttons

No need for accelerometers or other sh*t.

I already have a pointer that is almost like what I described... only the put the buttons on the worst possible position, and it is shaped like a remote control.