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 ...

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 ...

What do you get when you combine roll-on deodorant containers and a soccer ball with an optical mouse and an obscure 90s Japanese video game about racing armadillos? Well, you get a pretty darn cool ...

TL;DR: Researchers from the University of California developed Mic-E-Mouse, an AI-powered tool that exploits high-DPI optical sensors in gaming mice to eavesdrop on speech by detecting surface ...

The company's upgraded mobile mouse features a new 8,000 DPI optical sensor and its button-clicking sounds have been toned down. Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's ...

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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 ...

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 ...