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Closeup of a touchpad on an Acer CB5-311 laptop Closeup of a touchpad on a MacBook 2015 laptop. A touchpad or trackpad is a type of pointing device.Its largest component is a tactile sensor: an electronic device with a flat surface, that detects the motion and position of a user's fingers, and translates them to 2D motion, to control a pointer in a graphical user interface on a computer screen.
The scroll wheel on a mouse has been invented multiple times by different people unaware of the others' work. Other scrolling controls on a mouse, and the use of a wheel for scrolling both precede the combination of wheel and mouse. The earliest known example of the former is the Mighty Mouse prototype developed jointly by NTT, Japan and ETH Zürich, Switzer
The Creative Zen Touch from 2004 has a vertical scroll wheel similar to the iPod's click wheel. [6] That same year, the luxury Nokia 7280 mobile phone also featured a scroll wheel. [7] The Samsung SGH-i300 from 2005, [8] as well as Motorola ROKR E8 from 2007, [9] also have it. In 2007, Nokia created the 'Navi wheel' which debuted on the Nokia ...
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The Zune Pad, which is a squircle, is the primary control mechanism for Zune 4, 8, 16, 80 and 120.The pad lets users of this device scroll through their song list with the use of their finger, then press the button to select tracks or change the volume.
A computer mouse with the most common features: two buttons (left and right) and a scroll wheel (which can also function as a button when pressed inwards) A typical wireless computer mouse. A computer mouse (plural mice, also mouses) [nb 1] is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface.
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A Dell Latitude E4310 laptop with a pointing stick (upper middle) and a touchpad (bottom). They were commonly featured together on Dell Latitude laptops, beginning in the late 1990s. The pointing stick can be used in ultra-compact netbooks [13] where there would be no place for a touchpad.