The days of the computer mouse are numbered, according to a leading research analyst. The device could be obsolete in as little as three years as touch screens and gesture recognition software are ...

Sci-Fi films such as Minority Report show people controlling computer programmes with expansive hand gestures. And now there's a gadget called Flow that will allow users to do just that, which could ...

Following the death of American inventor Doug Engelbart, we track the history and designs of his most famous invention: the computer mouse Doug Engelbart publicly demonstrated his first mouse, ...

Engelbart died on Tuesday night, according to an email sent from his daughter, Christiana, to The Computer History Museum in California, where Engelbart had been a fellow since 2005. Ms Engelbart did ...

Douglas Engelbart, a Silicon Valley engineer who invented the computer mouse and is credited with many of the concepts that underpin modern computing and the Internet, died on Tuesday at his home in ...

Developing more intuitive and natural ways to interface with technology is a major part of computing, and one of the biggest breakthroughs came in the 1960s at Xero’s PARC facility with the innovation ...

The engineer and inventor was born in 1929 in Kentucky and studied electrical engineering at university before joining the US Navy. He built the first mouse in 1963, using an idea put forward by his ...

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. On 9 December 1968 hi-tech visionary Douglas Engelbart first used one to demonstrate novel ways of ...

Douglas Engelbart was the inventor of the mouse, the simple tool that dramatically changed the way in which humans interact with their computers. Since the first public demonstration of the mouse in ...

The co-creator of the computer mouse, William English, has died aged 91. The engineer and inventor was born in 1929 in Kentucky and studied electrical engineering at university before joining the US ...