What the world’s fastest brain-typist is telling us about the future of computer interfaces. In a 12-by-20-foot room at a skilled-nursing facility in Menlo Park, California, researchers are testing ...

Since its inception in the mid-'60s, the "mouse," as it came to be known, has morphed and mutated into a diverse assortment of styles to accommodate efficiency, ergonomics and portability. In this ...

On this day, 35 years ago, Xerox released the first commercially available computer intended for use with a mouse. The Star, as it was called, wasn’t a particularly big success, but Xerox’s work ...

U.S. inventor Doug Engelbart, the man known as the father of the computer mouse and a thinker who helped introduce other key innovations, died Wednesday morning at age 88. His death was announced ...

From the halls of a university research lab to the desks of hundreds of millions of computer users, the computer mouse has come a long way. Douglas Engelbart created the first prototypes of the ...

Forty years ago today — as Sheena Easton’s song 9 to 5 (Morning Train) dominated the music charts, California dealt with the immediate aftermath of the Westmorland earthquakes, and the world’s first ...

A very rare piece of computer history is up for grabs at RR Auctions. The early three-button "X-Y" mouse, designed by computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart, is the direct ancestor of today's ubiquitous ...

One of the attractive features of early optical computer mice was their lack of moving parts. The idea is that fewer moving parts translate into less mechanical wear and longer life. But even though ...