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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If we’re going to have to sit in an office for the best part of our working lives, let’s agree that we should at least be comfortable. So that’s why we put a stand-up desk to the test a couple of ...

Back in the days before mice and computers were invented, man would navigate his paper-bound notebook with a writing utensil. The Penclic Mouse takes similar cues on the pen and pencils of yore, and ...

Those crazy funsters at Wacom have just released a new pen tablet -- but rather than aiming it at graphic artists, they've pitched it regular Joes, like you. It's called the Bamboo and it's designed ...

MICROSOFT wants to kill off your computer mouse with a smart pen replacement. The tech giant has nabbed a patent that enables the stylus for its Surface tablet (known simply as the Surface Pen) to act ...

Researchers at Sony's Computer Science Laboratories in Tokyo believe they have figured out how to do just that. Today, laptops, mobile phones and PDAs are everywhere and we digitally swap or access an ...