Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. Ever have the urge to run a mouse across ceramic ...

Unlike a mechanical mouse (which uses a ball) or a laser mouse (which uses a laser), an optical mouse uses a reflective LED light in order to track movement, which is why the best mousepads for ...

I've been an optical mouse junkie for a long time now. Sadly, I ran out of replacement microswitches for my Intellimouse Explorer after they started to bounce. Left has been replaced five times, ...

Fact is, PixArt 336x is better than any laser sensor out there and yet it is opticle. And yes, I know very well that a laser sensor is an optical sensor. A laser mouse is a normal LED optical mouse ...

Unlike an optical mouse (which uses an LED light to track movement closer to the surface), a laser mouse actually penetrates deeply into the material below it while tracking. As a result, the best ...

Microsoft released on Tuesday an upgraded version of a wireless optical mouse intended for laptop users and plans to introduce two new desktop mice--one laser and one optical--by this summer. All of ...

Employing the company's laser navigation sensor technology, three versions of what are said to be the industry's first laser-based optical mouse sensors are available: one for cordless mice (ADNS-6030 ...

Chipcon's updated RadioDesk wireless mouse reference design integrates a new laser navigation sensor from Agilent Technologies. Agilent's ADNS-6030 laser sensor offers improved mouse tracking ...