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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Back in the days before mice and computers were invented, man would navigate his paper-bound notebook with a writing utensil. The Penclic Mouse takes similar cues on the pen and pencils of yore, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q: While shopping for a new computer, I have come across many radical mouse designs. I was prepared to purchase a standard optical mouse, but the abundance of fancier options makes me wonder if a ...

You can now draw virtual lines on your computer screen at the same time as you scribble them on paper. A new smartpen app called Paper Tablet gives the Livescribe Echo smartpen some of the ...

If you worked with computers back in the 1970s, there’s a good chance you used a light pen at some point: a simple input device that you’d point at the CRT screen to highlight text, choose menu ...