Apple pop-socket with an optical sensor turns your iPhone into a Magic Mouse! - Yanko Design

It's a pretty smashing thought in theory, and ties well into Apple's ecosystem of creating products that back up each other and add to the collective experience. It'due south besides something fresh that would set Apple tree apart in the hardware space. See the Magic Mouse Mini, a concept created by Yongbin Kim who gave the smartphone pop-socket the ultimate upgrade by too fitting an optical sensor into it!

The Magic Mouse Mini looks and feels like your regular pop-socket. It attaches to the back of your phone, giving you a pop-out grip that you can firmly hold onto between your index and middle finger every bit you apply your phone or click selfies. Given how large and slippery smartphones are nowadays (further factoring in the iPhone'south curved edges). However, a switch on the side turns the pop-out grip into something vastly more functional. Switch the device on, and the optical sensor to a higher place the Apple tree logo powers on, turning your iPhone into a magic mouse!

The iPhone and the socket at the back work in tandem to replicate the Magic Mouse feel. The optical sensor on the socket helps with cursor-tracking, while the iPhone'south touchscreen shoulders the responsibility of providing the control surface, allowing you lot to left-click, right-click, pinch, zoom, scroll, and do a diverseness of other gestures, just like you would on a Magic Mouse.

I'd surmise the Magic Mouse Mini concept would work remarkably well with iMacs and MacBooks, but would even probably do a pretty good job with iPads too! Information technology'southward a small, clever addon that helps your phone (by allowing y'all to grip information technology amend), and helps your MacOS devices as well, by giving you a Magic Mouse experience without having to beat out a hundred bucks for a new Magic Mouse. And yes, the presence of a socket on the back of your phone could requite it an uneven surface, causing the mouse to potentially stone back and forth while you're using it… but think of this less every bit a practicality and usability consequence, and more than as a clever way of turning an existing slice of hardware (your iPhone) into something absolutely new! Later all, it'due south merely a concept, no?

Designer: Yongbin Kim