The Jelfin Mouse is a desktop blob, a ball-shaped mouse with a soft gel covering. It is also “designed to fit your hand perfectly”, and “the World’s first ball-shaped computer mouse covered in gel”*.

Although it has gotten us through the last 50 years of computer history, the computer mouse has one big, contemporary design problem: It only works well with 2-D interfaces. That’s fine for a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There isn't much about computers that is warm and fuzzy. But now there's something kind of squishy. A startup company is selling a $35 ...

In just a few decades, the humble computer mouse has gone from cutting-edge technology to a rather ubiquitous device — and, in fact, one that seems a little outdated in an era of holograms and ...

On Dec. 9, 1968, Douglas Engelbart gave the first public demonstration of a computer mouse. Today we look at the device’s history, as well as futuristic concepts for computer interfaces. Douglas ...

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 ...

Ever wondered how the computer mouse got its name? Back in 1963, Douglas Engelbart of Stanford Research Institute gave this nomenclature to a computer pointing device that had a cord attached to its ...