When Douglas Engelbart invented the mouse in the mid-1960s, its ability to point and click helped pave the way for the personal computer’s ubiquitous 2D graphical user interface. Now, more than 40 ...

Have you ever felt discomfort or strain while using a standard computer mouse? Imagine creating a mouse that fits your hand perfectly, providing comfort and precision. You can make this a reality by ...

Working with hundreds of time-lapse videos of mouse tissue, a team of biologists joined up with civil engineers to create what is believed to be the first 3D computer model to show precisely how the ...

Once upon a time, a computer was a big metal brick of a thing that sat on or next to your desk. Now, it’s possible to fit decent computing power into a board the size of a stick of gum. [Electo] took ...

In the futuristic movie, Minority Report, Tom Cruise uses gloves to navigate the screen of a computer. But now, if five students at the US-based Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have their way, ...

A new user interface--the "mouse gesture"--is slowly winning converts among software developers who hope to simplify repetitive tasks in computer applications. Department Editor Evan Hansen runs the ...