To interact with a computer, you need an intermediary, something that receives data you input and translates it for your computer. This intermediary is an input device. Input devices for communication ...

After applying an update to your computer, you may experience problems with various peripheral devices, such as keyboards and input devices either not being recognized or not fully recognized (eg, the ...

A team of researchers has developed a squeezable mouse-like input device that gives three-dimensional control to its users. The device is called Suma, short for satsuma or the mandarin fruit, said ...

Pen input has never really taken off in the computing mainstream, though it’s had somewhat of a renaissance in the last decade or so. Various smartphones and tablets are shipping with the technology, ...

Generating keyboard and mouse control codes using only one hand is the main concept of this open-source portable Arduino/AVR-powered glove. Generating keyboard and mouse control codes using only one ...

Over the past few years I’ve seen a couple of different widescreen touchscreen displays that are designed to be used as both a second screen and an input device for a computer. But the UltraBar X ...

Facebook announced today plans to acquire CTRL-Labs, a brain-computer interface startup developing hardware and software for decoding electrical activity from the brain to be used for computer input.

Such devices can be operated to provide inputs that are received and acted upon by the external device. The inputs can be provided as rotating, tilting, and/or sliding at least a portion of the ring ...

Apple has filed for a patent (number US 20240152218 A1) for a “Mountable Tool Computer Input” that hints that the Touch Bar could be revived as a Mac laptop strip that supports the Apple Pencil. Apple ...

Apple is researching a finger-mounted device with an array of sensors and haptic feedback, to be used as a control device for a mixed-reality headset, according to patent filings. The patent ...

In October, I wrote about force-sensitive touch surface technology from Sentons. The company, though, is not the only one that has developed such tech. In 2015, Sunnyvale-based Sensel debuted its ...