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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Recent technology developments confirm that pentop computing is set to make its mark in K-12 education. IN 1991, PenTop magazine (long since defunct) quoted Greg Slyngstad, then general manager of ...

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 ...

Any of you who have tried to bash out a Botticelli using a £5 ball mouse from your local computer store will know the frustration of trying to emulate strokes you know perfectly well had you been ...

A new patent awarded to Microsoft on Thursday, February 15, describes an updated Surface Pen packing a U-shaped touch-sensitive retention clip. Its main purpose is to emulate the scroll wheel found on ...

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 ...