By Victoria Woollaston The computer mouse has had a good run. But almost 70 years since the design was first patented, it is now under threat from a smart ‘thimble’. The wearable 3D Touch device is fitted with an accelerometer and gyroscope, and lets people control an onscreen mouse using just a wave of their finger. The 3D Touch device (pictured) is fitted with an accelerometer and gyroscope, and lets people control an onscreen mouse using a wave of their finger. The intelligent device was created by Anh Nguyen and Amy Banic from the University of Wyoming in Laramie
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3DTouch is a thimble-style device that sits on the end of a finger
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It is fitted with a 3D accelerometer, magnetometer and gyroscope
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Device uses optical flow sensors to track movement against a 2D surface
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All this data is streamed to a laptop and used to move an onscreen mouse
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It can also be used with touchscreen-style gestures such as tap and press
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