Heartbeat Indicator Mouse

Juniper Foo | May 29, 2007

What happens when you build a better mousetrap? Seems designers Chiu Chi Tat & Tsoi Man Hei have a pree-tty good idea. Taking the ubiquitous mouse, they've outfitted it with sensors that detect your health condition while you work. Makes perfect sense when you consider that your thumb and palm are always in touch with your mouse, allowing it to basically tap into the pulse of your lifeblood. For hypochondriacs, this supermouse can apparently send health information to a hospital or caregiver's cellular through the PC network. Given reports that cubicle rats have died without a sound at their workstations, we don't think we're being "kiasu" (Singlish for scared to lose out) when we suggest that Chiu and Tsoi might want to implement an alarm loud enough to wake even the, ah, dead should the owner of the rodent flatline.

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Via Yanko Design

Price: N.A.
Availability: Concept
Device: Mouse

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