Posted via email from Mike Elgan's Lifestream

Microsoft researchers are working on something called "Skinput," which is the use of human skin as an input device. In that case, a display is projected on the arm. When the user taps, a computer analyzes the sound in the body (which varies according to bone density and other factors) to determine which button to push. The company plans to unveil all that in April. (Props)

A Japanese catalog called Generate LE, which specializes in rare products, is offering a USB mouse that looks like an old-fashioned children's music box. You turn the crank to scroll, or change window size. Fortunately, they're selling only five of them. (Props to the Red Ferret)

(Props to TechCrunch)

Some dude built a USB flash drive into a taxidermied (i.e. dead) mouse. He even replaced the eyes with flashing red lights! (Props to MAKE)

New "Rambler" shoes connect to your cell phone via Bluetooth, and send out tweets to your Twitter feed about what's going on with your feet. The input takes the mold of the words "step" and "tap," and a period when nothing is happening. So when you're sitting at your computer tapping your feet, tweets look like that: ".....tap tap tap.... tap." When you're walking, they look like that: "step step step step." that is why Al Gore invented Twitter. (Props to Nerd With Swag)