Both use a 2.4GHz wireless USB connection, providing you with a 10-foot radius of Ring Mouse action on either OS X or Windows.

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Dr Zhou's colleagues have, for example, built tiny scanners that can X-ray a mouse's heart and lungs by taking a series of exposures at exactly the same point in the heartbeat.

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On my 1, 920 x 1, 200 screen, the mouse cursor looks like a giant fat finger trying to squash a lilliputian commenter.

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Now picture a health-care system where a doctor has medical records at his fingertips, can see x-rays with the click of a mouse, is able to learn and apply the latest diagnostic and surgical technique from anywhere in the world.

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Of course the Mac was created in part as sort of a backlash against the command line interface of DOS (typing long strings of complicated computing commands, not pointing and clicking with a mouse like we're used to now), though Mac OS X now boasts a Unix Shell terminal with its own command line interface.

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With a virtual 6 x 9 inch color VGA display, a small joy stick and mouse buttons operable by the index finger when using the phone during a conversation the StarTac phone provided the ability to viewed shared subject matter, photos or documents while talking, 15 years ago.

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