Dvice recently published a visual history of the computer ... 5-pin bowling ball and an array of mechanical encoders that tracked the ball’s movement. As time went on, other mouse-type devices ...

From the halls of a university research lab to the desks of hundreds of millions of computer ... the first mouse ball, a metal ball bearing pressed against two rollers to track movement.

1. That’s the first mouse pictured there to the left. It's almost kind of steampunk before we even knew what steampunk was. 2. The trackball preceded the rest of the mouse by more than 10 years ...

Computer mice ... by a rolling ball on the base of the mouse and a sensor that read that ball’s movement. Now, most mice are optical, using a low-level laser to track changes in space.

But for $2 a drawing, maybe it's worth another try? You can let a computer make a quick pick ... dozen states (complete list here). Every white ball has rolled out in the 100-plus drawings ...

The first Macintosh Mouse, model M0100, featured a rubber ball ... other computer mice still adhere to the same concept first invented by Engelbart in 1964. Modern mice have replaced track balls ...

a ball-shaped mouse with a soft gel covering. It is also “designed to fit your hand perfectly”, and “the World’s first ball-shaped computer mouse covered in gel”*. It is, in short ...

The co-creator of the computer mouse ... There, he replaced the wheels on his first mouse design with a rolling ball - the design that became familiar to most end users over the next decades.