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 ...

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 ...

With the Logitech MX Anywhere 3 mouse, you almost know exactly what you're going to get before you've even opened the box: Logitech has been making top-quality peripherals like this for years, and ...

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 ...

After a long career in web publishing with stretches of worrisome hand and wrist pain and numbness, I’ve had my trials with weird trackball devices and other mouse alternatives. So my instinct is not ...

TechCrunch reports that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has, as of yesterday granted the trademark "Mighty Mouse" to a computer peripheral company not called Apple, Inc. That means Apple ...

This is surely the easiest part of buying a Mac: picking the mouse to go with it. Except there are also trackpads — and you won't believe the number of choices you've got. AppleInsider talks about ...

If it had been up to Douglas Engelbart, his invention would have been called the "X-Y position indicator for a display system.” That's how the man who designed the mouse described what he'd made in ...