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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

They say to work smarter, not harder, and a huge part of efficient work is having the right tools. Whether it's a comfortable keyboard for faster typing or a good monitor stand to prevent hunching ...