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  2. Optical mouse - Wikipedia

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    An early Xerox optical mouse chip, before the development of the inverted packaging design of Williams and Cherry. The first two optical mice, first demonstrated by two independent inventors in December 1980, had different basic designs: [1] [2] [3] One of these, invented by Steve Kirsch of MIT and Mouse Systems Corporation, [4] [5] used an infrared LED and a four-quadrant infrared sensor to ...

  3. Computer mouse - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. IntelliMouse - Wikipedia

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    IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 Microsoft IntelliMouse with IntelliEye optical sensor mouse. IntelliMouse is a series of computer mice from Microsoft.The IntelliMouse series is credited with a number of innovations; [1] Microsoft was among the first mouse vendors to introduce a scroll wheel, [2] an optical mouse, and dedicated auxiliary buttons on the side of the mouse.

  5. Pointing device - Wikipedia

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    A mouse is a small handheld device pushed over a horizontal surface. A mouse moves the graphical pointer by being slid across a smooth surface. The conventional roller-ball mouse uses a ball to create this action: the ball is in contact with two small shafts that are set at right angles to each other.

  6. Arrow keys - Wikipedia

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    The inverted-T layout was popularized by the Digital Equipment Corporation LK201 keyboard from 1982. Most Commodore 8-bit computers used two cursor keys instead of four, with directions selected using the shift key. The original Macintosh had no arrow keys at the insistence of Steve Jobs, who felt that people should use the mouse instead. [3]

  7. Magic Mouse - Wikipedia

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    The first generation Magic Mouse was released on October 20, 2009, and introduced multi-touch functionality. It connects wirelessly to a Mac computer via Bluetooth. [4] It is powered by two AA batteries, and operates using a solid-state laser tracking sensor like the previous-generation wireless Mighty Mouse. Apple includes two non-rechargeable ...

  8. Apple Mighty Mouse - Wikipedia

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    The Mighty Mouse is made of white plastic and has a recessed Apple logo on the mouse's face. The mouse has four functional controls: a left capacitive sensor, a right capacitive sensor, a trackball with a pressure sensor and side squeeze sensors. The track ball enables users to scroll a page or document in any direction, including diagonally.

  9. Optical rotation - Wikipedia

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    Invert sugar syrup, commercially formed by the hydrolysis of sucrose syrup to a mixture of the component simple sugars, fructose, and glucose, gets its name from the fact that the conversion causes the direction of rotation to "invert" from right to left. In 1849, Louis Pasteur resolved a problem concerning the nature of tartaric acid. [12]