Motion sensors in high-performance mice can be used as a microphone to spy on users, thanks to AI — Mic-E-Mouse technique harnesses mouse sensors, converts acoustic vibrations into speech
Motion sensors in high-performance mice can be used as a microphone to spy on users, thanks to AI — Mic-E-Mouse technique harnesses mouse sensors, converts acoustic vibrations into speech
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Motion sensors in high-performance mice can be used as a microphone to spy on users, thanks to AI — Mic-E-Mouse technique harnesses mouse sensors, converts acoustic vibrations into speech
This mouse has ears.
Full paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13581
That requires a mouse with an 8kHz polling rate. With a 1kHz polling rate, this trick will be limited to sounds under 500Hz.
Cool, cool. So what hertz range would you say a woman moaning or a particularly loud fart fall around ? Just out of curiosity...
Human speech is between about 130-300Hz, so even with a lower poling rate it can pick it up. And assuming she sound like a mosquito, it’ll pick things up.
Huh you know from a music perspective I know we can get a lot higher than 500hz but most speech is apparently around 1-300hz.
I only speak in infrasound...
Well now I kind of want to mic up a kick drum with my gaming mouse for fun lol
I wonder if it would sound better taped on, in the drum itself, or on the floor in front. Seems like there would be minimal bleed too haha, might be a cool lo-fi thing
And probably only works when configured to use the the highest DPI settings.