Bluetooth mouse would function up to 20 feet or so but you would have to have some kind of platform from which to use it. You would have to have a bluetooth adapter (as well as the mouse) unless you have a bluetooth antenna built into your system and it won't happen for 20 bucks. Am sure there are other ways but b/t would be a pretty simple way to go, again 20 bucks, not likely.
Insofar as the depths of my ignorance as to what is possible/feasible/perhaps done and disarded-however since this is a forum I'll assume a degree of indulgence.
I would like to read gmail, perhaps even do some simple inyernet browsing while working out on a treadmill/exercise bike inside my home. It would be a convenience if there were a way to read/delete/save email with the help of a remote control from 6" away from my PC.
I haven't seen anyting out there similar to this-I would imagine there are more expensive devices that serve better purposes-like the loss of limb to a Stephen Hawking type device. Obviously, I'm not looking for something like that, rather I'm looking for something under $20 that would free me from the keyboard for some very simple taSKS.
Any ideas. Anybody know of such a device? Thanks for your collective indulgence.
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