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 ...

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 ...

Over the last year, I've been using Windows 8 in various pre-release versions and since late summer, the release code of Microsoft's latest PC operating system. Like many people who will be ...

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] ...

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 ...

Applied Micro Circuits Corporation announced the company's next-generation SONET/SDH framer/pointer processor devices, Drava (S4809) and Mura (S4819). The level of integration in Drava and Mura ...

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 ...