Although today's small, lightweight laptops allow for ergonomic typing and browsing, many users still prefer a handheld optical mouse for navigation. When you need to make precise movements with your ...

When the first computer mouse was developed in 1964 by Douglas Englebart, it was essentially a block of wood with a button on top. The digital age brought the ability to work faster and more ...

The computer mouse is a vital tool. Since the launch of the Apple Macintosh in 1984, it has helped consumers navigate the countless windows, icons, and menus in the digital world without having to ...

Since gaming mice are usually loaded with extra buttons and features, they’re typically on the larger side. For that reason, the best gaming mice for small hands are few and far between. With any ...

While personal computing technology has improved by leaps and bounds over the past decade, the default go-to input device — the computer mouse — has seen little innovation. Today, the computer mouse ...

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 ...

William “Bill” English, the engineer who helped create the first computer mouse, died July 26 in California. He was 91. With the mouse, English — alongside his partner, Douglas Engelbart, who died in ...

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 ...