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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“One of my coworkers’ wives was complaining about how cold her hands were when she got to work, and how she couldn’t even control her mouse,” says James Hsu, from his company’s small booth at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...