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• 2010: The Year of the Tablet Computer? Next year tablet computer hype will become a reality as vendors actually deliver devices.
• Headphone Buying Guide (2009) If you're looking to improve the audio coming from your iPod, iPhone, or Mac, a new set of headphones is probably the most rewarding upgrade you can make...
• Genius MousePen I608 Compared to its better-known competitors from Wacom, Genius' $99 MousePen i608 graphics tablet offers more real estate for less money: Its 8-by-6-inch working...
• Wrap Your Brain Around a Game With Emotiv's Epoc Emotiv's headset designed to let you control video games with your brain is on sale now and ships December 21.
• Steampunk Tech Mods: A 19th-Century Take on 21st-Century PCs and Gadgets If Sherlock Holmes--or Jack the Ripper--had owned our technology, his equipment might have looked like this.
• Researchers Develop 3-D Squeezable Input Device A team of researchers have developed a squeezable mouse-like input device that gives three-dimensional control to its users.
• Holiday Gift Guide: Three Terrific Gizmos and Gadgets We like the clever Gorillatorch flashlight, the well-priced iKeySlim keyboard and Logitech's useful Harmony 700 universal remote.
• Enable Momentum Scrolling for Magic Mouse in 10.5 If you happen to have a new Magic Mouse running on OS X 10.5, you may be disappointed to find that it lacks a feature you get with Snow Leopard: momentum...
• Strike the Right Key Maybe a keyboard doesn't sound like the sort of gift that inspires squeals of delight come holiday time, but at least you know it's something the recipients are...
• All Wound Up When it’s time to plug my earbuds into my iPhone—whether to take a phone call or listen to some tunes—the last thing I want to do is waste time unraveling the...
• Microsoft Surface Draws Interest, if Not Buyers The tabletop computer interface has found some niche uses and continues to mature, Microsoft tells developers.
• Want a Faster Interface? Put a Chip in Your Skull Intel says chips embedded in people's brains will control computers by 2020.
• Next: Control a Computer With Gestures A new technology still in development supports input by motion controls and drawings.
• Parlay Your Photos Into Holiday Cards and Calendars Use image-editing software and Websites to turn your digital photos into handcrafted greeting cards and other holiday gifts.
• Keyboards Buying Guide Is there a more underappreciated part of your desktop computer system than the keyboard? It's the second-most-used component--after the display, of course--and...
• Mice Buying Guide All hail the humble mouse, lowly foot soldier of the productivity wars, pint-size pointer-pushing pawn in service to mighty King Mac. Your mouse is the only...
• Bamboo Fun and Bamboo Pen & Touch For years, Wacom's graphics tablets have let digital artists and others dispense with a mouse in favor of an intuitive, precise pen. Now the company's newly...
• Augmented Reality: Coming to a Device Near You We've all seen augmented reality in the movies: A character puts on a pair of glasses and suddenly data about their surroundings appears within their field of vision. Now this technology is available on a device near you.
• B&W Announces Headphones, Computer Speakers High-end audio vendor Bowers & Wilkins (B&W) this week announced the company's first headphones and first computer speakers.
• Microsoft Wireless Mobile Mouse 6000 I use a MacBook Pro on a daily basis, and I prefer to use a mouse than the trackpad. I find most mobile mice too small or too light, and for a while, I used...
• Top 20 Tech Underdogs A countdown of the top 20 products and technologies that try harder.
• OpenOffice Introduces Multi-Button Confusion With New Mouse WarMouse introduced a new mouse that seems to be aimed specifically at incredibly dexterous OpenOffice users.
• Bugs & Fixes: Magic Mouse Loses Its Way I am now on my second Magic Mouse (Get Best Current Price), having returned the first one within days of getting it. It looks as if I will soon be returning the...
• Are You Neglecting Your Windows Key? A tap of the Windows key takes you to the Start menu, where--in Vista and 7--you can start typing to dynamically search for apps, files, e-mail, and the like.
• A Look at Apple's Multi-Touch Magic Mouse Apple's newest input device, the Magic Mouse, connects through Bluetooth and recognizes multi-touch gestures.