One of the attractive features of early optical computer mice was their lack of moving parts. The idea is that fewer moving parts translate into less mechanical wear and longer life. But even though ...

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Ubiquity, thy name is mouse. There’s Mighty. There’s Mickey. And don’t forget the proverbial girl next door. The stereotype says she’s attractive, but also a tad bit mousey. And then there’s that ...

From the halls of a university research lab to the desks of hundreds of millions of computer users, the computer mouse has come a long way. Douglas Engelbart created the first prototypes of the ...

Mouse modern computer mice feature optical sensors that track the position of your mouse as you move it over a flat surface. But you know what else uses optical sensors? Cameras. So can you use a ...

Forty years ago today — as Sheena Easton’s song 9 to 5 (Morning Train) dominated the music charts, California dealt with the immediate aftermath of the Westmorland earthquakes, and the world’s first ...

Unlike a keyboard that could last for some time, the lifespan of a computer mouse seems to be shorter than that. If this is the case, some users tend to just throw away this peripheral because they ...

He was one of the computing pioneers who “showed what a computer interface could — and should — look like,” a colleague said. By Cade Metz William English, the engineer and researcher who helped build ...