If you’re using a computer, you’ll almost certainly need to use a mouse at some point. You can do quite a lot by using keyboard shortcuts, but a mouse or some other input device is required for most ...

No offense to [Douglas Engelbart] but the computer mouse has always seemed a bit of a hack to us (and not in the good sense of the word). Sure we’ve all gotten used to them, but unlike a computer ...

I started my career as a newspaper photographer. This was back in the days of film cameras, but I was there for the start of film scanners and then digital photography. I also spent a few years as a ...

Those crazy funsters at Wacom have just released a new pen tablet -- but rather than aiming it at graphic artists, they've pitched it regular Joes, like you. It's called the Bamboo and it's designed ...

I don't often get to review items that have creative purposes, but I relish the opportunity when it comes along. For graphic artists and digital media peeps, the tablet is often a more commonplace ...

Elecom doesn’t think that the dozens of mice populating the shelves of your local PC store are doing a good enough job for you, so its releasing the Scope Node Mouse–a precision pointing device the ...

I can’t count the number of times that I could have used a pen-style pointing device for my computer. Unfortunately the market is pretty limited for choices, focusing primarily on drawing tablets.

Forty years after the first computer mouse saw the light of day, the IT industry still tries its best to reinvent this peripheral. At Gizmag, we've seen our good share of esoteric mice, but what's ...

A new patent awarded to Microsoft on Thursday, February 15, describes an updated Surface Pen packing a U-shaped touch-sensitive retention clip. Its main purpose is to emulate the scroll wheel found on ...

Microsoft has been hawking pen-based tablets since 1991, when it first launched Windows for Pen Computing, a version of Windows with a pen interface layer. In 2002, the company introduced Windows XP ...