Your average $5 wired mouse has no batteries. Alternatively, wireless gaming mice are dime a dozen. Well, almost. But what about a mouse with both no wires and no batteries? Say what? Oh, and while we ...

When you flip the optical mouse over, the red and blue lights should turn on. This light has the role of a sensor that recognizes the movement of the mouse, but by applying that sensor and modifying ...

A 3D printing enthusiast has made a cute, functional lo-fi digital camera using an optical sensor salvaged from a discarded ...

If your pointing device is a mouse, turn it over. The chances are you’ll see a red LED light if you’re not seriously old-school and your mouse has a ball, this light serves as the illumination for a ...

Wanting to experiment with using optical mouse sensors but a bit frustrated with the lack of options, [Tom Wiggins] rolled his own breakout board for the ADNS 3050 optical mouse sensor and in the ...

In this video, researchers at Carnegie Mellon show how an unassuming sensor in your smart watch is capable of much more than you’d think. The sensor, an accelerometer, is there to track your arm’s ...

Optimized for LED-based corded mouse applications, the ADNS-5050 optical mouse comes in what is said to be one of the industry’s smallest packages with several built-in features and enhanced tracking ...

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced that its laser navigation sensor technology is now available to mouse manufacturers worldwide. Three versions of the industry's first laser-based optical ...

The way in which humans interact with computers has been dominated by the mouse since it was invented in the 1960s by Doug Engelbert. A mouse uses a flat two-dimensional surface as a proxy for a ...

TL;DR: The Razer Cobra HyperSpeed Gaming Mouse is an ultralight 62-gram wireless mouse featuring the advanced Focus X 26K Optical Sensor, Optical Mouse Switches, and customizable Razer Chroma RGB ...