@RUTGERS.ARPA:LAWS@SRI-AI.ARPA (01/23/85)
From: Ken Laws <Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA>
From the CMU bboard:
Thanks to several people who responded to my post about a ball-point mouse;
what I'm looking for is a mouse that LOOKS like a pen (stylus-shaped).
It seems to me that this would be a much better way to input drawings.
Kenneth.Goldberg@CMU-CS-H
kyg@cmu-cs-h.arpa
An SRI group makes a force-sensitive pen that is used for signature
analysis. I believe it measures forces in x, y, and z directions;
I assume that it also measures x-y position. This input device would
allow an artist considerably more freedom in sketching and "brush
stroking" than does a mouse.
-- Ken Laws
-------jbn@wdl1.UUCP (01/26/85)
There is a whole industry that makes such devices; they are called ``digitizer tablets''. Visit any computer store that serves the CAD/CAM market.