If you’ve ever feverishly performed busy work on your computer that requires you to go from keyboard to mouse, than you know how cumbersome the experience can be.  That’s why I like working on my laptop, because I never have to move my hands too far from the keyboard. The Combimouse is a mouse and a full QWERTY keyboard combined into one.  The left portion of the device is a standard keyboard, with the exception e of a scroll wheel and bar key.  The right portion, though is both the right side of the keyboard as well as a mouse.  It features a contact switch that while touched enables mouse mode, rendering all keys useless accept for  I, O, J, K, L, which double as mouse buttons.  Surprisingly, the Combimouse has been in development since 1999, so I have serious doubts as to whether this thing will come to market.  Nonetheless, I applaud its inventors for their ingenuity.

[Thanks, Dan]

Read