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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

Pondering getting a pen/tablet type deal going for helping to edit photos. In theory, I wouldn't mind just having both my mouse and this thing hooked up at the same time rather than having to plug in ...

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 ...