The computer mouse was one of those ideas that changed the world. It was such an intuitive and easy way to instruct a computer, that widespread global adoption followed and the impact of the humble ...

On this day, 35 years ago, Xerox released the first commercially available computer intended for use with a mouse. The Star, as it was called, wasn’t a particularly big success, but Xerox’s work ...

Researchers built two prototype mice, one with a squeezable body and another with a hinged A-frame, in an ergonomic overhaul of the desktop PC staple.

A very rare piece of computer history is up for grabs at RR Auctions. The early three-button "X-Y" mouse, designed by computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart, is the direct ancestor of today's ubiquitous ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they ...

What the world’s fastest brain-typist is telling us about the future of computer interfaces. In a 12-by-20-foot room at a skilled-nursing facility in Menlo Park, California, researchers are testing ...

Douglas Engelbart, heralded as one of the earliest inventors of the computer mouse, has passed away at age 88. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make ...

The computer mouse is a device that many of us take for granted. The mouse has become so ubiquitous that even old-timers like me, who can remember lumbering around an old monochrome monitor furiously ...

In the olden days, computer mice traced movement with built-in rubber trackballs. While these balls were a nifty way to control movement, the fact that they were made of rubber meant that they picked ...

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 ...