Can this mouse take Twitch to the next level? (opens in new tab)

Apart from the tired PR effort (gawker media-level headline, samefag comments) this project looks really great. I'd love to have that for the insight alone, even though I don't play competitively anymore it seems like it would allow me to understand myself better.

From a data perspective this really interests me and partly because I am a gamer. As the rise of eSports continues, obtaining metrics of professional players might give us insight into what traits professional players have in common (if any).

We track metrics of olympic athletes to study where they can improve and what makes a good athlete great, so it only makes sense to see if there is a link between heart rate, eye movement and other metrics and a professional gamer who has what it takes to win.

This is surprisingly cool. I probably wouldn't buy one, but it is cool nonetheless.

Come on guys, two green names comments with actually nothing insightful besides a cliche phrase?

It's like you are begging to be flagged =/

Quantified Self for games, I like. Would be fun to implement support in some open source games like quake world.

Or you can buy a heart rate monitor that will actually work for $15-20 dollars, and a real gaming mouse.

Cool to see quantified self in other places!

The heart rate sensor is a gimmick, they need really close contact to work well. You'd need to grip the shit out of your mouse to get a good reading. I don't think anyone can maintain an iron grip on their mouse long enough for the sensor to have any meaning