In less than three weeks, consumers will start getting their hands on Windows 8, with its radically new “Modern” (formerly Metro) interface, and forming opinions about it. Some of them will be buying ...

Last week, Brydge, the company that makes my favorite add-on keyboard for the iPad, announced a new iPad Pro accessory that includes both a keyboard and a trackpad. Adding external pointing devices to ...

Here, we introduce analog pointing devices (hereinafter called APDs) that use Hall sensors, to enable free movement of the cursor on screens for portable device, etc. There has been a growing demand ...

A mouse is just two buttons, and a two-dimensional motion tracking system, right? Oh, and a scroll wheel. And a third button. And…now you’re realizing that mice can be pretty complicated. [DIY Yarik] ...

For the last few weeks I’ve casually thrown around phrases like “hover your cursor over,” “press the Command key,” and “swipe to the side on your trackpad.” And while I’m fairly confident that such ...

Apple could enable an iPhone's owner to determine what items should be controlled with gesture detection and determination on-device of what device the user is pointing at. The universal remote ...

I'm having some mouse-related arm problems, and I suspect that switching to a central pointing device might help. However, I haven't found any reviews of them, and they're quite expensive (over $200).

Your commands, ideas, demands and concepts form the data your system processes and stores. Without user input, a computer simply takes up desktop space and waits for directions, like a lost motorist ...

Meet Sphere: Transforming Touchscreen Motion-Sensing Mouse of the Future Despite all of its various reinventions the basic design of the mouse hasn't changed very much--it's still the same old ...