When asked to picture a computer, here is possibly nobody who will do so without including the ubiquitous keyboard and mouse. In fact, many of us would probably recall the peripheral first and the ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have devised a prototype input technology that brings mouse control and optical motion tracking to very small mobile devices. Harrison, whose Skinput device ...

Thanks to creative minds that build assistive technology devices, physically challenged people do not have to give up computing. Computers work by accepting input from people and providing output in a ...

William English, one of the creators of the mouse back in the 60s, passed away last week. And that got me thinking of how amazing it would have been to be in the place that was inventing what would ...

Using ordinary computer keyboard and mice input devices may cause musculoskeletal symptoms [1]. Various new devices, which are marketed with the claim that they will reduce or prevent musculoskeletal ...

Silicon Valley scientist Doug Englebart created the mouse input device more than 40 years ago and it’s proved to have a lasting presence. But now, an analyst from Gartner has read the technology tea ...

As we glide our fingers over the screens of our smartphones and tablets, or chatter to our computer instead of typing at it, it is easy to forget how far input devices have evolved since the first ...

For the last few weeks I’ve casually thrown around phrases like “hover your cursor over,” “press the Command key,” and “swipe to the side on your trackpad.” And while I’m fairly confident that such ...

Around here, we love it when someone identifies a need and creates their own solution. In this case, [Engineer Bo] was tired of endless and imprecise scrolling with a mouse wheel. No off-the-shelf ...