If you’re using a computer, you’ll almost certainly need to use a mouse at some point. You can do quite a lot by using keyboard shortcuts, but a mouse or some other input device is required for most ...

No offense to [Douglas Engelbart] but the computer mouse has always seemed a bit of a hack to us (and not in the good sense of the word). Sure we’ve all gotten used to them, but unlike a computer ...

A normal computer mouse is an innovation many of us take for granted, especially those of us who use one all day, every day. This also means we may ignore the limitations of this device which has been ...

The mouse is the computer world’s most popular pointing device, but there’s more than one way to point and click. The trackball--a rotating ball within a stationary housing--is a popular alternative ...

I can’t count the number of times that I could have used a pen-style pointing device for my computer. Unfortunately the market is pretty limited for choices, focusing primarily on drawing tablets.

Q: While shopping for a new computer, I have come across many radical mouse designs. I was prepared to purchase a standard optical mouse, but the abundance of fancier options makes me wonder if a ...

I started my career as a newspaper photographer. This was back in the days of film cameras, but I was there for the start of film scanners and then digital photography. I also spent a few years as a ...

Forty years after the first computer mouse saw the light of day, the IT industry still tries its best to reinvent this peripheral. At Gizmag, we've seen our good share of esoteric mice, but what's ...

Genius has been making the Pen Mouse for a while now. This mouse looks like a fountain pen. The company has announced a new updated version of the mouse under the official name the Wireless ...

Should Bill keep taking the tablets? IS PEN computing, a promising technology that foundered in the 1990s, about to stage a comeback? Emboldened by the popularity of pen-driven handheld computers, ...