Bill English, builder of Engelbart’s original mouse, created a ball mouse in 1972 while working for Xerox PARC. The plural for a computer mouse is either “mice” or “mouses” according to most dictionaries, with “mice” being more common. The first …
Based on another invention by Jack Hawley, proprietor of the Mouse House, Honeywell produced another type of mechanical mouse. Due to their similarity to the WIMP desktop metaphor interface for which mice were originally designed, and to their own tabletop …
In 1964, Bill English joined ARC, where he helped Engelbart build the first mouse prototype. They christened the device the mouse as early models had a cord attached to the rear part of the device which looked like a tail, …
“Logitech is pushing out a 25,600 DPI software update to several gaming mice
In addition to moving a cursor, computer mice have one or more buttons to allow operations such as the selection of a menu item on a display. …
Perpendicular chopper wheels housed inside the mouse’s body chopped beams of light on the way to light sensors, thus detecting in their turn the motion of the ball. This variant of the mouse resembled an inverted trackball and became the …
Operating systems sometimes apply acceleration, referred to as “ballistics”, to the motion reported by the mouse. For example, versions of Windows prior to Windows XP doubled reported values above a configurable threshold, and then optionally doubled them again above a …
Weighting 465 g, the device with a total height of about 7 cm came in a c. 12 cm diameter hemispherical injection-molded thermoplastic casing featuring one central push button. Since around the late 1990s, the three-button scrollmouse has become the …
The driver software in the system converts the signals into motion of the mouse cursor along X and Y axes on the computer screen. Players can use a scroll wheel for changing weapons (or for controlling scope-zoom magnification, in older …