This Design Idea utilizes an optical computer mouse's sensor for measuring rotation of a disk which can be mechanically connected to any sort of rotating apparatus. One feature is to allow adjustment ...

Readers with long memories will remember the days when mice and other similar pointing devices relied upon a hard rubber ball in contact with your desk or other surface, that transmitted any motion to ...

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 ...

Lunar Artefacts is a London based product design and development company, aspiring to redefine conventional gadgets into imaginative, high-quality masterpieces and bridge the gap between eloquent ...

Mouse modern computer mice feature optical sensors that track the position of your mouse as you move it over a flat surface. But you know what else uses optical sensors? Cameras. So can you use a ...

The conventional computer mouse isn’t done evolving — in fact, it may have a role in securing our future computer systems. A network security engineer from Raytheon has found inspiration in smart guns ...

A new soft sensing system could help humanoid robots move their hands with far greater precision in delicate, human-like ...