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 ...

So, preamble over, what do you use as your main pointing device? A good old mouse? Built-in trackpad? Anyone switched to a Magic Trackpad with OS X's increasing use of gestures? And perhaps we've got ...

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 ...

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 ...

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] ...

If you’ve ever used a laser mouse, you know how frustrating it can be to use pointing devices on particularly smooth surfaces when your mouse pad is missing in action. After a few minutes of trying to ...

With its big rolypoly ball and huge hand rest, the venerable trackball mouse looks like a holdover from 1996. Or maybe 1946—that’s the first time a trackball was used as an input device in a computer.