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Title: Small trackball!
Post by: RayB on November 20, 2006, 07:24:34 pm

The golf game toys with little trackballs keep getting smaller:

http://www.hammacher.com/publish/73310.asp

Title: Re: Small trackball!
Post by: vrf on November 20, 2006, 08:23:47 pm

Could that be hacked into a PC?

I wonder how good the spin factor is on it.

Title: Re: Small trackball!
Post by: leapinlew on November 20, 2006, 10:31:38 pm

Look at the trackball on the Blackberry Pearl:

(http://www.zdnet.co.uk/i/z/rv/2006/09/blackberry-pearl-1.jpg)

I been testing one of these out. Pretty cool.

Title: Re: Small trackball!
Post by: bvicarious on November 20, 2006, 10:49:25 pm

Talk about small!



This one is a half-inch, unfortunately it's not free spinning.. theres a good amount of tension to it  :P

edit: looks like these are the same or similar to whats in the blackberry pearl

Title: Re: Small trackball!
Post by: arcadefever on November 20, 2006, 10:57:10 pm

WOWWWWWW this is really small  :dizzy:

Title: Re: Small trackball!
Post by: RayB on November 21, 2006, 04:28:26 pm

Lots of practice on those and our wives & girlfriends will be very happy...
 ;D

Title: Re: Small trackball!
Post by: leapinlew on November 21, 2006, 05:15:07 pm

Quote from: RayB on November 21, 2006, 04:28:26 pm

Lots of practice on those and our wives & girlfriends will be very happy...
 ;D

I dunno... I've never "lost" a trackball.

Title: Re: Small trackball!
Post by: alexandro98 on November 21, 2006, 05:40:39 pm

Quote from: leapinlew on November 21, 2006, 05:15:07 pm

Quote from: RayB on November 21, 2006, 04:28:26 pm

Lots of practice on those and our wives & girlfriends will be very happy...
 ;D

I dunno... I've never "lost" a trackball.

This thread got weird, lol
And to add to the weirdness..
.. Ive never played a trackball with Tongue!
/rimshot
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