To interact with a computer, you need an intermediary, something that receives data you input and translates it for your computer. This intermediary is an input device. Input devices for communication ...

Your commands, ideas, demands and concepts form the data your system processes and stores. Without user input, a computer simply takes up desktop space and waits for directions, like a lost motorist ...

Input Devices: In today’s digital age, computers have become an essential part of our daily lives. Whether it’s for studying, working, gaming, or entertainment, we constantly use different devices to ...

A peripheral device (hardware) that generates input for the computer such as a keyboard, scanner, mouse or digitizer tablet. Contrast with output device. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All ...

Using ordinary computer keyboard and mice input devices may cause musculoskeletal symptoms [1]. Various new devices, which are marketed with the claim that they will reduce or prevent musculoskeletal ...

As we glide our fingers over the screens of our smartphones and tablets, or chatter to our computer instead of typing at it, it is easy to forget how far input devices have evolved since the first ...

Way before you kids had touch screens and mice, we had to walk uphill both ways to tell a computer where we were pointing at on the screen. I speak, of course, of light pens. When these photodiodes in ...

Over the past few years I’ve seen a couple of different widescreen touchscreen displays that are designed to be used as both a second screen and an input device for a computer. But the UltraBar X ...

From desk-dominating 6K monitors to input devices that rethink how we click, scroll, and type, CES 2026 proved that the unsung heroes of the PC world—peripherals!—are about to have a breakout year. A ...