Mice/Trackballs Category - Page 6

Sure, the wireless Magic Trackpad is awesome…but buying batteries for it is a pain of an epic scale. For Mark Bog, though, it was such a pain that he decided he wasn’t having it any more and thus hacked his Trackpad to get it to run on USB power.

While most of the portable world is moving towards touch input with gestural support, the desktop computing world will swear by a good old mouse and keyboard until, well, something better comes along. Until that fateful day, hardware manufacturers will continue to push the limits of what is possible with a traditional [...]

With the expected boom of Internet TV coming, an innovative wireless multimedia has come out. This is perhaps the only wireless computer peripheral which allows consumers to take full control of the keyboard and mouse outside that of being stocked up in the usual desk.

Sometimes, when you talk about gadgets, you’re required to talk about things that don’t make a lot of sense, except under a certain very specific set of terms. This is one of those: the WaterField Designs case for the recently-released Apple Magic Trackpad.

It seems like every time Apple releases a product, a whole slew of companies come forth to mimic what they’ve done and release their own rendition of the hardware. Not only did it happen with the iPad when legions of companies came forth to announce their own tablet offerings (some [...]

On the outside, most of today’s most highly hyped devices are very beautiful. Take Apple’s products for example, on the outside all we see is some aluminum, maybe a port or two but the overall design is quite stunning. Even Apple haters have been known to give the company credit [...]

Pointing devices have changed a great deal over the years but the need for reliable types of such devices has not. The main way we interact with a computer (unless we’re talking touchscreen devices) is with a mouse. It wasn’t until there was the need for a portable mouse solution that the track pad came to fruition. [...]

Apple has had quite the busy morning, they have rolled out a new 27 inch LED Cinema Display, a new Mac Pro lineup, an updated iMac and the fabled Magic Trackpad. And while that may seem like a fairly complete list, they did have one smaller item slip in — [...]

Hold the presses, folks! Just as we told you yesterday, the Apple Store is down. Well we didn’t tell you that the Apple online store would be down today but that’s pretty obvious when suggesting that new iMacs, Mac Pros, Magic Trackpads and Cinema Displays are coming.

Apple has been known to release a new version of a product about once a year. This has been made very apparent with the iPhone as they have released a new version every year ever since its original 2007 launch. Additionally, the same release window generally applies to their other popular lineups [...]