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WowMouse turns your smartwatch into a gesture-based Bluetooth mouse


Doublepoint’s new app only works well with Wear OS, though.

That means waving your arm around to move the mouse and pinching your fingers to click (similar to the Double Tap feature on the Apple Watch Series 9). Apple Watches don’t support Bluetooth HID, so Doublepoint writes that it can’t make an app for watchOS. The company has bigger ambitions, though: The announcement pitches manufacturers and developers on licensing its software for doing things like dimming a smart light by rotating your wrist, like in this CNET video:

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