Funeral Planned For Computer Mouse In 5 Years

I am a fan of the computer mouse. If I could, I would let it interact in my world when ever possible. So it saddens me to hear that the demise of this 40 year old innovation will be ending very soon reports the BBC in an interview with Gartner representative, Steve Prentice: 

“The mouse works fine in the desktop environment but for home entertainment or working on a notebook it’s over.”  

 ”You’ve got Panasonic showing forward facing video in the home entertainment environment. Instead of using a conventional remote control you hold up your hand and it recognises you have done that.”

Prentice also mentioned how long it would be till we say goodbye to our dear friend: 3 to 5 years. Facial recognition is also one of the many upcoming alternatives coming to the tech world as early as September this year:

“It also recognises your face and that you are you and it will display on your TV screen your menu. You can move your hand to move around and select what you want… You even have emotive systems where you can wear a headset and control a computer by simply thinking and that’s a device set to hit the market in September.”  

But many people (especially the big guys in the computing mouse business) have stated that this is a bogus report. Here is what Rory Dooley, senior vice president and general manager of Logitech’s control devices unit, had to say: 

“The death of the mouse is greatly exaggerated… This just proves how important a device the mouse is. People have been talking about convergence for years. Today’s TV works as a computer and today’s computer works as a TV.”  

He did happen to mention that the market is becoming more and more open to other ways of interacting with computer, be it via a touch screen or by your voice.So be it. I, nor any blogger will be able to stop the demand for these types of technology… The most we can do is salvage our memories now. RIP the computer mouse. Feel free to comment.

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