No part of your PC is more hands-on than your mouse. Here's how to pick the mouse that's right for you. From the laptops on your desk to satellites in space and AI that seems to be everywhere, I cover ...

There isn't much to think about when buying a mouse, but one of the most important aspects is one you can't tell by glancing at the box—how it sounds. Mice have gotten better over the past decade or ...

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 ...

Dr. Douglas Engelbart is perhaps best known as the inventor of the computer mouse, but when he unveiled that device at a computer conference in 1968 he also introduced additional technology that would ...

Your mouse is always there for you, right (or sometimes left) by your side. You might not give much thought to it, but a good mouse can make you more productive, feel more comfortable and help you get ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. inventor Doug Engelbart, the man known as the father of the computer mouse and a thinker who helped introduce other key innovations, died Wednesday morning at age 88. His death was announced ...

Chris Kiick posted about swarm robotics earlier in the week and today publishes his first Hack-A-Day How-To. Old computer mice are being abandoned in droves. They’re tossed out because of dirt, ...

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 ...

U.S. inventor Doug Engelbart, the man known as the father of the computer mouse and a thinker who helped introduce other key innovations, died Wednesday morning at age 88. His death was announced ...