Unlike a mechanical mouse (which uses a ball) or a laser mouse (which uses a laser), an optical mouse uses a reflective LED light in order to track movement, which is why the best mousepads for ...

Unlike an optical mouse (which uses an LED light to track movement closer to the surface), a laser mouse actually penetrates deeply into the material below it while tracking. As a result, the best ...

Over the years, computer mice have gone through several versions. First we had the ball mouse prone to get all gummed up inside with lint. After the ball mouse came the optical mouse, which offered ...

I've been an optical mouse junkie for a long time now. Sadly, I ran out of replacement microswitches for my Intellimouse Explorer after they started to bounce. Left has been replaced five times, ...

[Neumi] wrote in with a sweet robotics hack. It’s a 2D laser distance sensor (YouTube) made with a cheap line laser and an optical mouse’s flow-sensor chip used as a low-resolution camera. In one ...