You can use a trackpad — also known as a touchpad or glide pad — to click, scroll, zoom in and out, switch between tabs, and more on your computer. Trackpads are commonly found on laptops, but they ...

Apple released its Magic Trackpad in July 2010 but it wasn't until the release of Lion a year later with its support for multi-touch gestures borrowed from iOS that the device really came into its own ...

When I’m sitting on the couch or lying in bed, fussing around with a keyboard and mouse can be a pain. Certainly you might have the talents to manage such contraptions on your cushions, but I don’t ...

ASUS was rather cryptic about this little peripheral with its "It'll move you" teaser, but now we get it. Dubbed the VivoMouse, ASUS claims this to be the world's first mouse-and-touchpad hybrid, and ...

Took them a while, but Apple has finally released their long-rumored and longer-anticipated Magic Trackpad, a Bluetooth-enabled multi-touch input device that’s basically a Macbook touchpad for Mac ...

Apple's newly released Magic Trackpad offers all the functionality of a MacBook clickpad in a stand-alone Bluetooth device. Will iMac owners make this their new mouse? I started with CNET reviewing ...

Synaptics has been a serious roll of late, first introducing those luscious multitouch gestures to older trackpads, and last month extending its Gesture Suite to Linux and Chrome OS. Here at Computex, ...

And holy crap. There it is, in all of its giant TouchPad’ness. This seems like the most ridiculous use of an iPad ever, but trust me when I say you could comfortably (with your definition of ...

Apple has unveiled a sleek, glass-topped touch pad to work with its desktop computers. The Magic Trackpad costs £59 and connects to Apple computers using Bluetooth. It lets users control what happens ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. I’m typing this story on a keyboard that is also a mouse and also a touchpad ... all in ...

You might be one of those people who find the old mouse and keyboard standbys inadequate. Quaint, even! Maybe you embrace touch as the future of computer interfaces. You might envy the Magic Trackpad, ...