In less than three weeks, consumers will start getting their hands on Windows 8, with its radically new “Modern” (formerly Metro) interface, and forming opinions about it. Some of them will be buying ...

So, preamble over, what do you use as your main pointing device? A good old mouse? Built-in trackpad? Anyone switched to a Magic Trackpad with OS X's increasing use of gestures? And perhaps we've got ...

A mouse is just two buttons, and a two-dimensional motion tracking system, right? Oh, and a scroll wheel. And a third button. And…now you’re realizing that mice can be pretty complicated. [DIY Yarik] ...

When Microsoft released its first mouse in 1983, neither Apple’s Macintosh nor Microsoft’s own Windows had yet hit the market, which made the whole concept slightly futuristic–even though computing ...

With the Logitech MX Anywhere 3 mouse, you almost know exactly what you're going to get before you've even opened the box: Logitech has been making top-quality peripherals like this for years, and ...

I am wondering what everyones favorite pointing device is. I know my favorite is a Logitec MarbleMan+ Trackball. Even though I own a logitec dual optical Mouseman, I have yet to see a better mouse ...

Last week, Brydge, the company that makes my favorite add-on keyboard for the iPad, announced a new iPad Pro accessory that includes both a keyboard and a trackpad. Adding external pointing devices to ...

Apple has been researching a new Magic Mouse for the Mac that would detect gestures — not on its surface, but on the table near it. Those rumors, though, have concentrated on the recurring issue that ...

If it had been up to Douglas Engelbart, his invention would have been called the "X-Y position indicator for a display system.” That's how the man who designed the mouse described what he'd made in ...